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Kindergarten Yearly Curriculum
LANGUAGE ARTS
Book Open Court Exploring Sounds and Letters
Pickled Peppers
- Communication skills - speaking clearly and correctly, following directions.
- Listening, oral blending, print awareness, rhyming
- Writing - printing name and letters
- Compose and write simple sentences using knowledge of phonics and sight words for spelling
MATH
Book Scott Foresman Exploring Mathematics
- Counting 0 - 31, recognize and write numerals 0 - 12 and relationship to sets
- Understanding ordinals, addition and subtraction sums to 10 and differences to 9
- Basic identification of coins - pennies, nickels, and dimes and time to hour and half hour
- Spacial relationships - up, over, on
- Shapes, graphing, measurements, fractions, estimating, problem solving, skip counting, classifying, recognizing and extending patterns
- Integration of Math Their Way and manipulatives
READING
Book Open Court Exploring Letters and Sounds
Pickled Peppers
We teach letter and sound recognition through hands on, visual, auditory, and kinesthetic activities. We expand on blending consonants and vowels in preparation for reading. We introduce both long and short vowel sounds, sight words, and word families.
We also use listening curriculum, stories read by teacher, and show and tell.
SCIENCE
Book No Formal Curriculum
Seasons, animals, wind, insects, pond life, plants, seeds, sea life, weather, various simple experiments
SOCIAL STUDIES
Book No Formal Curriculum
Seasonal units, holidays, famous people and places; unit studies on Community Helpers, America, All About Me, school, farm, fire safety, Native Americans
BIBLE
Book Biblical Choices for a New Generation The God of Creation
Biblical characters are presented to serve as role models to help the children see how Biblical choices are implemented today.
Enrichment classes in computer, music, art, P.E., dance, and Spanish.
UNITS TAUGHT BY MONTH:
August- All About Me, Manners
September - School, Colors, Fall, Farm, Johnny Appleseed
October - Fire Prevention, Community Helpers, Christopher Columbus
November - Thanksgiving, Pilgrims, Native Americans, Harvest
December - Christmas/Arts & Crafts
January - Winter, Animals
February - Valentine's Day, Presidents, Martin Luther King, Jr., America, Groundhog Day
March - (Testing), Spring, Insects, Wind
April - Spring, Easter, Butterflies, Pond Life
May - Under The Sea (Marine), Plants, Seeds, Mother’s Day
DEVELOPMENTAL SKILLS FOR KINDERGARTEN
- Know the basic colors
- Say or sing ABC's in order
- Should obey authority figures
- Knows first, middle, and last name
- Can listen attentively when spoken to for three or more minutes
- Will listen attentively when read to for five or more minutes
- Will listen to and sing songs for five or more minutes
- Can follow a two- or three- step direction
- Follows directions promptly
- Asks questions if confused
- Can speak in sentences
- Can hold pencil comfortably
- Can use crayons without breaking them
- Can use round-tipped scissors effectively
- Can print first and last name by spring
- Can use paste or glue without too much mess
- Be able to count to 20
MATH
Book Houghton-Mifflin Mathematics
Rote counting; computation (+ & -); geometry, time/money; place value; measurement; fractions; skip counting; graphing; calendar activities
READING/LANGUAGE ARTS
Book Open Court Collections for Young Scholars
Developing phonics, fluency, and comprehension skills; vowels (short/long); consonant blends; clusters (ie, oy, ur, ar, ou); word families (cup, pup, up); ABC order; compound words; contractions; synonyms/antonyms; sight words; sentence structure; punctuation; capitalization; spelling phonetically, writing practice including, journaling, narrative, friendly letter, and response writings
SCIENCE
Book Christian Schools International Science
Concepts & Content: Living and nonliving things; plants; animals; water and air; weather; how we grow; simple machines
Skills: Classifying; measuring; observing; predicting; experimenting; hypothesizing
SOCIAL STUDIES
Book MacMillan/McGraw Hill My World
Concepts & Content: American flag; symbols; freedoms; great people of America; Pilgrims and Indians; Presidents; national holidays; landforms; early U.S. history, customs and traditions
Skills: Map skills, Pledge of Allegiance
BIBLE
Book Standard Publishing Co. Biblical Choices for a New Generation
Character development; establish students in the Word of God so they begin to find answers for themselves; locating Scriptures in the Bible; memorizing Bible verses.
Enrichment classes in computer, music, art, P.E., dance, and Spanish.
Revised 1/02EXPECTED DEVELOPMENTAL LEVELS FOR BEGINNING 1ST GRADE STUDENTS
- Fine Motor Skills - prints first name; builds a 12-block tower; draws a person with neck, hands, mouth; cuts 5" curving line within 1/4".
- General Knowledge - knows shapes and colors; names of upper case and lowercase letters; recites alphabet; counts by rote to 20.
- Plays cooperatively with one or two children for at least 20 minutes.
- Speech & Language: Average number of words used in sentences - 6 words
Second Grade Yearly Curriculum
We attempt to meet each child where the child is, and we encourage each child to be the best that Jesus would have that child be. The following list is a yearly overview:
LANGUAGE ARTS
Book(s): MacMillan/McGraw-Hill Language Arts Today
Open Court Publishing Collections for Young Scholars
Vocabulary, phonics sounds, comprehension, study skills, communication skills, language mechanics and use, creative writing, reference skills, spelling, handwriting, reading.
MATH
Book: Scott Foresman Exploring Mathematics
Addition and subtraction with basic facts, regrouping and renaming, place value, fractions, geometry, graphs, money, time, some measurement, problem solving.
SCIENCE
Book(s): Christian Schools International Science
God as our Creator through life and physical science - plants, animals, rocks and soil, states of matter, water cycle, magnets, discovering light, heat and sound, and discovering how to stay healthy and safe.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Book: MacMillan/McGraw-Hill People Together - Adventures in Time & Place
Book: Steck-Vaughn Maps, Globes, Graphs
God's hand throughout time - knowledge of some local, state, and national government, sense of community and helpers, laws and rules, map and globe skills, time lines, some major American historical events through Bible.
BIBLE
Book: Standard Publishing Co. Biblical Choices/ The God of Freedom
God frees His people, Freedom with Rules (10 Commandments), Jesus sets us free to obey the great commandment, Jesus sets us free to serve
Enrichment classes in computer, music, art, P.E., dance, and Spanish.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Book MacMillan/McGraw-Hill Language Arts Today
Grammar: Types of sentences, subjects, predicates, nouns, verbs (action and be), adjectives, pronouns, and adverbs
Writing: Topic sentences, detail sentences, quotation marks, using references, proofreading, etc.
MATH
Book Scott Foresman Exploring Mathematics
- Place value; addition with trading; subtraction with trading
- Multiplication tables through 12
- Division through 9's, remainders
- Fractions - visual, comparing like denominators, ordering small to large
- Solving story problems with add, subtract, multiply, divide
- Charts & Graphs; Money
- Geometry (plane and space figures, area, perimeter, volume)
- Measurement (metric) and time
HANDWRITING
Book Concerned Communications Words to Live By
Cursive handwriting
READING
Book Open Court Publishing Collections for Young Scholars
Volume 3 Books 1 & 2
Units: Friendship, Imagination, Country Life, Story Telling, City Wildlife, Money
Reading silent and oral for comprehension
Reading skills include the following: recalling facts & details, context clues, drawing inferences, writing stories, learning genres of stories, vocabulary words for each story
SCIENCE
Book Christian Schools International Science
Planets, Animals & Plants, Five Human Senses
Biomes - desert, grassland, rain forest, temperate deciduous forests, taiga and tundra water; animal habitats
SOCIAL STUDIES
Book MacMillan/McGraw Hill Communities
- Map Skills and Communities
- U.S. Government/Civics/Patriotic Symbols
- Early American History (Colonial/Pioneers)
- Citizenship
- U. S. States & Capitals
BIBLE
Book Standard Publishing Co. Biblical Choices for a New Generation
4 units
- Important People Make Important Choices
- Kingly Choices in the New Land
- The Choice of Jesus
- The Young Church Tells the Good News
Enrichment classes in computer, music, art, P.E., dance, and Spanish.
Fourth Grade Yearly Curriculum
LANGUAGE ARTS
Book MacMillan/McGraw Hill Language Arts Today
- Sentences: 4 types, subjects, predicates, punctuation
- Nouns: singular, plural, common, proper, possessives, abbreviations
- Verbs: action and linking, tenses, subject-verb agreement, irregular
- Prefixes; suffixes; adjectives; adverbs; contractions; pronouns;
- Dictionary & Thesaurus skills; Beginning research & report writing
SPELLING
Book SRA Spelling
Sound-letter relationships; visual memory; meanings
MATH
Book Scott Foresman Exploring Mathematics
- Review of basic addition, subtraction and multiplication facts
- Place values, rounding, Problem-solving
- 1-digit and 2-digit multiplication and division
- Fractions: equivalents
- Measurement: metric and customary, time
- Geometry: space and plane figures, symmetry, congruency, decimals
READING
Book Open Court Publishing Collections for Young Scholars Volume 4 Books 1 & 2
- Comprehension, following directions, language mechanics
- Fiction vs. Nonfiction, identifying cause-effect relationships
- Recognize sequencing, time line development
SCIENCE
Book Christian Schools International Science
The Scientific Method, electricity, birds, fresh water ecology, oceans, weather, skeletal system and circulatory system
Science Fair Bi-Annually
SOCIAL STUDIES
Book Houghton Mifflin This is My Country
Geography - Map skills, continents, oceans, major countries, the states and capitals of U.S.
N.C. - History, geography, and points of interest
U.S. - 5 regions: their development and characteristics, fifty states
BIBLE
Book Biblical Choices for a New Generation The God of History
- God’s leaders act in history
- God’s purposes in history
- Paul’s Mission to Spread the Good News-Parts 1 & 2
Enrichment classes in computer, music, art, P.E., dance, and Spanish.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Book McGraw-Hill Language Arts Today
- Grammar/Usage/Mechanics: Sentence structure, sentence parts, eight parts of speech, usage, punctuation, capitalization
- Reference skills: Using dictionaries and thesaurus, atlases and encyclopedias, outlining
- Writing: Poetry, paragraphs, book reports, letters, personal writing, journals, writing process, kinds of writing (narrative, descriptive, expository, persuasive)
SPELLING
Book Christian Schools International Spelling
Spelling/Vocabulary: spelling rules, plurals, prefixes, suffixes, roots, topical words, vocabulary related to fifth grade curriculum.
MATH
Book Scott Foresman Exploring Math
Place Value: Billions, rounding to nearest million.
Multiplication: By 3 digit numbers
Division: 1 and 2 digit divisor
- Fractions: addition, subtraction, multiplication, comparing and ordering, finding equivalent fractions, changing improper fractions to mixed numbers.
- Decimals: To thousandths, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
- Ratio & Percent: Compare 2 quantities, write comparisons as ratios, percents, decimals or fractions
- Measurement: Perimeter, area, volume, circumference, customary and metric measures
- Geometry: polygons, angles, using protractor, polyhedrons, congruent figures and symmetry
- Additional Skills: Estimation, consumer math, problem solving, patterns, and coordinate graphing, probability, prime and composite numbers, using logic, using calculator, journaling, link to algebra
READING
Book Open Court Publishing Co. Accelerated Reader
Vocabulary: antonyms, comparatives, superlatives, compound words, context clues, homophones, homonyms, inflectional endings, irregular plurals, multiple meaning words, prefixes, root words, selection Vocabulary suffixes, synonyms, word families
Accelerated Reader is an individualized reading program in which students choose library books on given independent reading levels. Upon completion of sustained silently reading of a book, students answer comprehension questions on a computer. Each grading period an individualized reading goal is set.
Comprehension: author’s point of view, author’s purpose, cause and effect, classify, categorize, compare and contrast, draw conclusions, facts, opinion, main idea and details, making inferences, sequencing.
SCIENCE AND HEALTH
Book Christian Schools International Science
Matter (atoms, acids and bases, physical and chemical changes), cells and heredity (reproduction of cells, chromosomes, genes), plants (photosynthesis, angiosperms and gymnosperms, monocots, and dicots, reproduction, life cycles), environmental factors (non-living and living factors and how they affect organisms) and structures (strengths, shapes, arches, bridges, towers), insects, geology, light
SOCIAL STUDIES
Book Houghton Mifflin Co. America Will Be
U.S. History and Geography: (concept oriented) country of many races and cultures (strengths and challenges), map and global skills, early Spanish, French, English colonization, beliefs and values of early colonists, early government system, slavery, wars (Independence, 1812, etc.), challenges and policies for a new nation ending with a nation in conflict (Civil War)
BIBLE
Book Biblical Choices for a New Generation God of Faith
Old and New Testament studies
God’s faithful people in new surroundings, instructions for God’s faithful people, knowing the basis of your faith, how to live out your faith and tell about your faith
Enrichment classes in computer, music, art, P.E., dance, and Spanish.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Book McMillan/McGraw Hill Language Arts Today
Students will be introduced to the eight parts of speech. They will review skills in grammar and punctuation as well as creative writing, book reports, short stories and letter writing, comparative papers, and short stories papers.
SPELLING
Book Christian Schools International Spelling
Students will review commonly misspelled words and build vocabulary.
MATH
Book Scott Foresman Exploring Mathematics
Students review/learn addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of whole numbers, decimals, and fractions. We also study ratio, proportions, percents, simple geometry, graphs and graphing. Additionally, we also learn measurement skills including metrics, customary units and units of time. Some algebraic concepts are introduced.
READING
Book Open Court Publishing Company Open Court Reading
Students will read the selected stories from their text, and independent reading from The Door in the Wall. Study will be directed toward expansion of vocabulary, character analysis, and elements of a story.
SCIENCE
Book Christian School International Science
Students will study life sciences including classification and ecology the first semester. Second semester students will study physical science including motion, forces, electricity and magnetism. They will also explore sources of energy and outer space. The students will have experience with microscopes, measurements, and various scientific laboratory techniques.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Book Prentice Hall The Pageant of World History
Students will develop an understanding of the development of Western civilization beginning with The Cradle of Civilization and ending with Renaissance. Students will study current events that have a parallel connection to their historic settings of the past. Topics such as ancient Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Rome, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance will be developed.
BIBLE
Book Christian Academic Publications Character Quest Vol. 1
Students will investigate their personal relationship to the Lord, making application to their life. Students will study the power of God in their lives through His Word, the person of His Son, and the power of the Holy Spirit. They will study relating Scriptures throughout the Old and New Testament.
Enrichment classes in computer, music, art, P.E., dance, and Spanish.
Seventh Grade Yearly Curriculum
LANGUAGE ARTS
Book MacMillan/McGraw-Hill Language Arts Today
Students review punctuation, grammar, and the eight parts of speech with a concentration on conjunctions, adverbs, and prepositions. They study various sentence structure and practice these in writing narratives, short stories, creative writing, biographical sketches, and essays.
SPELLING
Book A Beka
Students Review the most common misspelled words along with a generated list of vocabulary words from reading.
MATH
Book Prentice Hall Pre-Algebra A or A/B
The students learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of positive and negative integers. They learn to translate word phrases into algebraic expressions and solve for an unknown variable using positive and negative whole numbers and decimals. Students also learn about number properties and number theory including such concepts as prime and composite numbers, prime factorization, factors, multiples, exponent, and square roots. Additionally, students learn ratio, proportion, per cents, and graphing involving slope and y-intercept, as well as some geometry, working with area and volume formulas and monomials and polynomials.
This class may be taken over two years.
READING
Book Bob Jones Press Explorations in Literature
A Beka Of People
Students read and study The Hiding Place along with numerous poems and variety of short stories from another text. They study various figures of speech and literary devices such as simile, metaphor, personification, f SCIENCE
SCIENCE
Book A Beka and Prentice Hall Science Order and Reality
Physical: Properties of matter, physical, and chemical changes, mixtures, elements, compounds, classification of elements.
Earth: Atmosphere, weather, waves, wind, light, physical and chemical processes that cause weather. Soil and nutrient cycles.
Biological: Review of plants and cell classification. Comporting. Evolution vs. Creation. Introduction to the microscope.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Book Prentice Hall The Pageant of World History
Students will develop an understanding of the history, culture, and geographic settings of the peoples of western Europe from the Protestant Reformation through World War II. Students will study current events that parallel their historic settings throughout the year.
BIBLE
Book Christian Academic Publication Character Quest 1
Enrichment classes in computer, music, art, P.E., dance, and Spanish.
Eighth Grade Yearly Curriculum
LANGUAGE ARTS
Book MacMillan/McGraw-Hill Language Arts Today
Students review the eight parts of speech, learn correct grammar, and improve punctuation skills. They have a concentration on verbals and complex sentences in their writing. Papers include comparative and creative writing, persuasive papers, narratives, and research papers.
SPELLING
Book A Beka Spelling
Students review the most common misspelled words along with a generated list of vocabulary words from reading.
ALGEBRA I AND PRE ALGEBRA
Book (I) Prentice Hall
Algebra I students will develop an understanding of the concepts relating to Algebra I. They will be introduced to topics ranging from simplifying and solving algebraic equations to graphing equations and inequalities, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing and factoring polynomials, and some statistics.
Pre Algebra students learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of positive and negative integers. They learn to translate word phrases into algebraic expressions and solve for an unknown variable using positive and negative whole numbers and decimals. Students also learn about number properties and number theory including such concepts as prime and composite numbers, prime factorization, factors, multiples, exponent, and square roots. Additionally, students learn ratio, proportion, per cents, and graphing involving slope and y-intercept, as well as some geometry, working with area and volume formulas and monomials and polynomials
READING
Book Bob Jones Press Excursions in Literature
Students will read and study The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Johnny Tremain, Across Five Aprils, and North to Freedom. They concentrate their study in these novels and short stories from their text on the parts of a story, characterization, themes, and figurative language.
SCIENCE
Book Prentice Hall Human Biology, Matter, Heredity,Cells
Physical: Properties of matter, study of the Periodic Chart, atomic theories from Democritus to Modern Times, atoms, bonding, chemical reactions, balancing equations, radio-active elements.
Biological: Genetics, chromosomes, DNA, inheritance, breeding, genetic engineering. Human Biology with concentration of skeletal, muscular, circulator, digestive and reproductive systems.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Book Prentice Hall The American Nation
Students will develop a working knowledge of the U.S. from its conception through Reconstruction. N.C. History will be taught in a parallel manner connecting corresponding historic events. Current Events Studies will focus on state and national developments.
BIBLE
Book Christian Academic Publications Character Quest II
Students study an overview of scriptures from Old Testament through New Testament.
Enrichment classes in computer, music, art, P.E., dance, and Spanish.
LANGUAGE ARTS
Book MacMillan/McGraw-Hill Language Arts Today
Students review the eight parts of speech, learn correct grammar, and improve punctuation skills. They have a concentration on verbals and complex sentences in their writing. Papers include comparative and creative writing, persuasive papers, narratives, and research papers.
SPELLING
Book A Beka Spelling
Students review the most common misspelled words along with a generated list of vocabulary words from reading.
ALGEBRA I AND PRE ALGEBRA
Book (I) Prentice Hall
Algebra I students will develop an understanding of the concepts relating to Algebra I. They will be introduced to topics ranging from simplifying and solving algebraic equations to graphing equations and inequalities, adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing and factoring polynomials, and some statistics.
Pre Algebra students learn addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of positive and negative integers. They learn to translate word phrases into algebraic expressions and solve for an unknown variable using positive and negative whole numbers and decimals. Students also learn about number properties and number theory including such concepts as prime and composite numbers, prime factorization, factors, multiples, exponent, and square roots. Additionally, students learn ratio, proportion, per cents, and graphing involving slope and y-intercept, as well as some geometry, working with area and volume formulas and monomials and polynomials
READING
Book Bob Jones Press Excursions in Literature
Students will read and study The Witch of Blackbird Pond, Johnny Tremain, Across Five Aprils, and North to Freedom. They concentrate their study in these novels and short stories from their text on the parts of a story, characterization, themes, and figurative language.
SCIENCE
Book Prentice Hall Human Biology, Matter, Heredity,Cells
Physical: Properties of matter, study of the Periodic Chart, atomic theories from Democritus to Modern Times, atoms, bonding, chemical reactions, balancing equations, radio-active
SOCIAL STUDIES
Book Prentice Hall The American Nation
Students will develop a working knowledge of the U.S. from its conception through Reconstruction. N.C. History will be taught in a parallel manner connecting corresponding historic events. Current Events Studies will focus on state and national developments.
BIBLE
Book Christian Academic Publications Character Quest II
Students study an overview of scriptures from Old Testament through New Testament.
Enrichment classes in computer, music, art, P.E., dance, and Spanish.