• Finding sums on the addition strip board
• Finding essntial combinations on addition strip board
• Adding with zero on addition strip board
• Doubling addends on the addition strip board
• Using addition chart 3
• Using addtion chart 5
• Playing bingo game with chart 6
• Playing games to memorize addition facts
• Learning about the basic formats of addition

• Using the subtraction strip board
• Using subtraction chart 2
• Playing a bingo game with chart 3
• Playing games to memorize subtraction facts
• Learning about the basic formats of subtraction
• Subtraction snake game

• Demonstration: multiplication bead board
• Finding combination of numbers on multiplication bead board
• Using multiplication chart 3
• Using multiplication chart 4
• Using multiplication chart 5
• Playing games to memorize multiplication facts
• Learning about the basic formats of multiplication
• Skip counting using the short bead chains
• Skip counting using the long bead chains
• Building the decanomial
• Building the decanomial diagonally
• Multiplying by 10

• Using the unit division board
• using division chart 1
• Using division chart 2
• Playing games to memorize division facts
• Learning about the basic formats of division

Multiples and Factors

• Finding multiples using coloured bead bars
• Learning about multiples using the algebraic pegboard
• Finding the lowerst common multiple using the algebraic begboad
• Graphing multiples on the chart of multiples
• Learning about multiples using the multiples tables
• Learning about prime numbers using multiples table c
• Learning about factors using the algebraic pegboard
• Identifying prime factors
• Idendifying prime factors using algebraci pegboard
• Building lowerst common multiples from prime factors using the algebraic pegboard
• Using prime factors to find the lowest commom multiples and greatest common factors

Hierarchies

• Understaning the hierarchy of numbers
• Learning about geomentric representation to 1,000,000
• Learning about numbers to 1,000,000

Division with golden bead material and the Stamp Game

• Dividing with the stamp game
• Doing group division with the golden beads
• Practicing group division with the golden bead material
• Dividing a 3-digit dividend by a 2-digit divisor with the golden bead material
• Performing group division with the stamp game

Place value multiplication

• Exploring the checkerboard
• Multiplying by a 1-digit multiplyer using the checkerboard
• Multiplying by a 2-digit multiplyer using the checkerboard
• Drawing using the checkerboard
• Multiplying a 4 – digit number by a 1-digit number by a 1-digit multiplier using the bank game

Long Division

• Exploring the long division material
• Dividing by 1-digit numbers without remainders
• Dividing by 1-digit numbers with remainders
• Dividing by 2-digit numbers with remainders

Bead Frames

• Exploring small bead frames
• Using small bead frame and the notation paper
• Adding with the small bead frame
• Adding with exchanging, using the small bead frame
• Subtracting using small bead frame
• Subtracting with exchanging, using the small bead frame
• Multiplying with the small bead frame
• Exploring the large bead frame
• Using the large bead frame and the notation paper
• Multiplying with the large bead frame
• Exploring the flat bead frame
• Multiplying by a 1-digit multiplier using the flat bead frame
• multiplying by a 2-digit multiplier using the flat bead frame

Fractions

• Understanding what fractions are
• Understanding the concept of fractions
• Introducing fractions using the fraction skittles
• Introducing fractions using the fraction circles
• Putting fractions in order from a whole to tenths
• Matching fractions from a whole to one tenth
• Understanding the parts of fractions

Angles

• Learning about an angle and its parts
• Learning five types of angles
• Learning to measure angles

Introduction to Closed Figures

• Making open and closed figures
• Learning the different between closed curved figures and polygons
• Studying regular polygons
• Studying the irregular polygons

Circles and other closed curved figures

• Learning some closed curved figures
• Learning the parts of the circle

Quadrilaterals

• Learning the types of quadrilaterals
• Making quadrilaterals with geometry sticks
• Learning that triangles combine to make quadrilaterals
• Seeing how many quadrilaterals the various triangles can form
• Making figures using the reverse sides of triangles

Geometric solid shapes

• Reviewing the geometric solids

Writing Fractions and Finding Equivalences

• Understanding written fractions
• Matching fraction tickets to fraction circles
• Constructing fractions to match fraction tickets
• Finding equivalences of fractions

Adding and Subtracting Fractions

• Adding fractions with the same denominator that add up to one or less
• Adding fractions with the same denominator that add up to more than one
• Introduction to adding fractions with different denominators
• Subtractions fractions with the same denominator
• Introduction to subtraction fractions with different denominators

Triangles

• Learning the parts of a triangle
• Classifying triangle by their shapes
• Classifying triangle by their angles
• Building equilateral, isosceles, and scalene triangles
• Building right, obtuse, and acute triangles
• Classifying triangles by sides and angles
• The seven types of triangles in the world
• Studying the sides of a right triangle
• Combining triangles to make stars
• Combining triangles to make diagrams

Polygons with five or more sides

• Learning about regular many-sided polygons
• Forming regular many-sided polygons

Multiplying and Dividing Fractions

• Multiplying fractions by whole numbers
• Dividing fractions by whole numbers
• Dividing fractions by whole numbers when equivalent fractions must be made first

Geometry

• Reviewing shapes with the demonstration tray
• Working with the geometric cabinet
• Exploring shapes with the geometric form cards
• Reviewing shapes with the constructive triangles
• Introducing similar, congruent, and equivalent shapes with the constructive triangles

Points, Lines, Planes, and Solids

• Learning the concept of point, line, plane, and solid
• Reviewing concepts of point, line, plane, and solid
• Learning about straight and curved lines
• Studying the parts of the line
• Learning about the horizontal, vertical, and oblique lines
• Understanding relationships between lines: intersecting, perpendicular, and oblique lines

Penmanship

• Starting penmanship

Reading

• The great books' foundations

Word Study

• Compound words
• Prefixes
• Suffixes
• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Homonyms, homophones, and homographs

The Mechanics of Writing

• Introduction capitalization
• Capitalizing names
• Capitalizing proper nouns
• Capitalizing the word “i”
• Capitalizing days of the week and months of the year
• Capitalizing geographical locations
• Using capitalization for brand names

Punctuation

• Introducing periods
• Identifying sentences and phrases
• Abbreviating the months of the year
• Abbreviating the days of the week
• Introducing the question mark
• Identifying the question marks and statements
• Introducing the exclamation mark
• Working with the exclamation mark
• Identifying statements, commands, questions and exclamations

Quotation Marks

• Introducing quotation marks and direct speech
• Using quotation marks in certain titles

The Comma

• Introducing the comma
• Using comma in addresses
• Using comma between day and year
• introducing appositives

The Apostrophe

• Working with apostrophes and contractions
• Identifying singular possessives
• Logical matching of singular possessives
• Identifying plural possessives
• Logical matching of the plural possessive

Grammar (parts of speech)

• Getting to know nouns
• Identifying nouns in a small environment
• Defining a noun as a person, place or thing
• Getting to know common or proper nouns
• Getting to know singular and plural nouns
• Identifying singular and plural nouns
• Getting to know more complex singular and plural nouns
• Identifying more complex singular and plural nouns
• Identifying masculine and feminine nouns
• Getting to know concrete and abstract nouns

Verbs

• Getting to know verbs
• Learning about simple command verbs
• Identifying verbs in a small environment
• Matching nouns and verbs logically
• Getting to know past and present tenses
• Getting to know verbs with internal energy
• Using linking verbs

Prepositions

• Getting to know propositions
• Understanding the placement of prepositions
• Identifying prepositions in a small environment
• Working with compound prepositions
• Learning about prepositions using the grammar boxes

Articles

• Getting to know articles
• Identifying the definite article and nouns
• Identifying articles in a small environment
• Understanding the different between “a” and “an”
• Identifying definite and indefinite articles
• Using the correct articles and nouns: “a” and “an”

Adverbs

• Getting to know adverbs
• Using adverbs
• Matching verbs and adverbs logically
• Randomly pairing verbs and adverbs
• Learning about adverbs using grammar boxes
• Working with further with adverbs

Conjunctions

• Getting to know the conjunctions “and,” “or”
• Getting to know the conjunctions “but”
• Learning about conjunctions using grammar boxes

Interjections

• Getting to know interjections
• Working more with interjections
• Learning about interjections using grammar boxes

Spelling

• Working with spelling word lists
• Having spelling dictation

Adjectives

• Getting to know adjectives
• Getting to know grammar symbols: the noun family
• Matching nouns and adjectives
• Randomly combining nouns and adjectives
• Logical agreement of multiple adjectives and nouns
• Playing the detective triangle game
• Using adjective in a small environment
• learning about adjective using the grammar boxes and using the adjective common card

Simple Sentence Analysis

• Using chart 1 and box a1 for reading analysis
• Understanding subject and predicates that contain direct object
• Practicing with the subject and a predicate that contains a direct object
• Understanding subjects and predicates that contain direct and indirect objects
• Working with simple sentences with adverbial extensions part 1
• Working with simple sentences with adverbial extensions part 2
• Construction sentences

Pronouns

• Getting to know pronouns
• Learning about pronouns
• Working with personal pronouns
• Working with singular and plural pronouns

Literary Elements

• Recognizing literary elements
• Identifying themes
• Identifying the plot
• Identifying setting
• Identifying characters

Writing Letters

• Writing to a pen pal

Creative Writing

• Writing about pictures in a basket
• Using language mystery bag
• Building vocabulary

Writing Poetry

• Preparing to write poetry with metaphors and similes

Paragraphs

• Understanding and writing paragraphs
• Organizing parts of the paragraph

Writing Stories

• Writing a short story

Identification

• Reviewing the parts of a plant
• Identifying common flowering plants
• Common woody plants –parts of a tree of shrub
• Illustrating trees and shrubs
• Main characteristics of a plant
• Comparing the 5 main characteristics of plants and animals
• Learning which organism are plants

Flowers

• Relating the parts of the flower to flower function

Basic needs of plants

• Demonstrating that plants need water and warmth to grow
• Demonstrating that most plants need soil to grow
• Demonstrating that plants require nutrients for growth
• Exploring the properties of different soils
• Demonstrating that soil is a mixture of different particles

Roots

• Identifying roots and their functions
• Learning how root hairs contribute to root function

Leaves

• Demonstrating that leaves transpire
• Demonstrating that plants need light to make food and to stay healthy
• Identifying the parts of the leaf
• Defining leaf shapes

Humans and Plants

• Exploring staple foods around the world
• Exploring fruits and vegetables
• Exploring herbs and spices
• Investigating plant-derived fabrics and dyes
• Investigating forestry and logging
• Investigating how people use plants
• Growing common garden flowers
• Growing bulbs
• Caring for indoor plants

Stems

• Demonstrating circulation in plant stems
• Identifying the parts of the stem
• Demonstrating the age of a tree by counting its rings

Seeds and Fruits

• Learning the functions of fruits and seeds

Microscopic Organisms

• Investigating microscopic organisms as spoilers
• Investigating microscopic organisms in bread baking

Living Things

• Distinguishing between living and non-living
• Identifying what makes plants and animal organisms
• Discovering the basic differences between plants and animals

Anatomy of Invertebrates

• Anatomy of an insect: class insecta
• Identifying and naming the parts of an insect (butterfly)
• Anatomy of a spider: class arachnida
• Identifying and naming the parts of an arachnida
• Anatomy of a crab: sub-phylumcrustacea, class: malacostraca
• Identifying and naming the parts of a mollusk

Reproduction

• Studying the life cycle of the butterfly
• Studying courtship behaviours in animals

Animal Defense

• Acting out how animals defend themselves

Relationship between Humans and Animals

• Uses for animals
• Identifying animals that humans eat
• Investigating other uses for animals
• Animal care: exploring the tasks involves in caring for captive animals
• Animal stories: writing descriptive animal stories

Animal Study

• Domesticated animals – identifying and naming
• Aquatic animals – identifying and naming
• Forest animal - identifying and naming
• Birds –identifying and naming
• Wild animals in the world- identifying and naming
• Animal young- matching animal of young and adult animals
• Investigating how some young animals are born or hatched

Anatomy of Vertebrates

• Anatomy of a fish: class: osteichthyes
• Identifying and naming the parts of a fish
• Anatomy of a frog: class:  amphibia
• Identifying and naming the parts of the frog
• Anatomy of a tortoise: class: reptillia
• Identifying and naming the parts of a tortoise
• Anatomy of a bird: class: aves
• Identifying and naming the parts of a bird
• Studying feathers
• Anatomy of a guinea pig: class mammalia
• Identifying and naming the parts of a guinea pig

Adaptation

• Basic needs – food chains: creating a food chain
• Investigating a food chain in more detail
• Animal homes – identifying and naming animal homes
• Take a field trip to find animal home

Classification and Anatomy

• Examining a classification chart
• Practicing basic classification

Physiology

• • Organ systems – studying the organs of human body

Adapting to different climates

• How animals survive in cold winters
• Acting out how animals survive winter
• How animals adapt to the arctic environment
• Studying examples of arctic animals
• Investigating ways arctic animals adapt
• How animals adapt to grassland environments
• Studying examples of grassland animals
• investigating ways grassland animals adapt
• How animals adapt to hot desert environments
• Studying examples of desert animals
• Investigating ways desert animals adapt

The Concept of Time

• Personal history – making a timeline of days
• Constructing a personal timeline
• Constructing a family chart representing age
• Representing personal history with pictures and words

The Age of the Earth

• Examining the timeline of the Earth

Timeline of Life

• Examining the clocks of eras
• Examining the timeline of life

Timeline of People

• Timeline of people - an overview
• Becoming familiar with the timeline of people
• Studying the timeline of people in detail

Introduction to Civilizations

• Primitive people
• Ancient Egyptians
• Ancient Greeks and Romans
• Medieval period
• Renaissance civilization
• Modern civilization

Days and Weeks

• Matching picture and definition cards for months
• Examining the grouping of days on a calendar
• Dividing a year into parts

The Age of the Universe

• Examining the timeline of the universe

Fossils

• Examining fossils

Common Needs of People

• Exploring common needs of the people
• Food – studying the foods people ate over the ages
• Clothing – studying the clothing people wore over the ages
• Shelter - studying the shelters people built over the ages
• Transportation – studying the transportation people used over the ages
• Medicine – studying the medicine people practiced over the ages
• Defense –studying the defense people used over the ages
• Art – studying the art people made over the ages
• Religion – studying the religions people practiced over the ages

Past, Present, and Future

• Linking language to time and history
• Using verbs to show past, present, and future

BCE and CE (or BC and AD)

• Describing time in terms of BCE, BC, CE, and ad
• Distinguishing between centuries

Precambrian Era

• Examining the precambrian era

Paleozoic Era

• Exploring the paleozoic era

Mesozoic Era

• Exploring the mesozoic era

Cenozoic Era

• Exploring the cenozoic era

Asia

• Locating the country of Asia
• Finding the capital cities of Asian countries

Antarctica

• Locating and studying Antarctica

Flags, Models, and Maps

• Flags – discovering your country’s flag
• Learning the parts of the flag

The Flat Pin Maps

• Using the flat pin maps of South America

Africa

• Learning the countries of Africa
• Finding the capital cities of African countries

Focus on the United States

• Locating and labeling the US states
• Locating and labeling the US capital cities
• Creating the map of US

The Farm

• Making and mapping a model farm

The Town

• Building a model town

Europe

• Locating the countries of Europe
• Finding the capital cities of European countries

Australia

• Locating Australia
• Finding the capital cities of Australia

Focus on Canada

• Locating your home province or territory and capital city
• Locating and naming the Canadian provinces and territories
• Locating and labeling the Canadian capital cities
• Creating a map of Canada

The School

• Mapping around the school

Atoms

• Learning about the part of atoms
• Investigating the size of atoms
• Exploring the structure of atoms

The States of Matter

• Changing a solid to a liquid to a gas
• Demonstrating changes in states of matter
• Demonstrating how solids, liquids and gases exert pressure
• Investigation the expansion of a gas through change in temperature

Molecules

• Learning about molecules
• Making models of water molecules
• Investigating the attraction of water molecules

Changes in Matter

• Investigating physical changes in matter
• Demonstrating chemical changes in matter
• Experiment 2: investigating chemical changes in reactions
• Experiment 3: investigating a reaction with a compound

Chemical Elements

• Learning about the periodic table of the elements: part 1
• Learning about the periodic table of the elements: part 2
• Learning about the elements in common materials

Combination of Matter

• Activity 1: demonstrating elements, compounds, and mixtures
• Experiment 1: investigating the nature of the mixture

Astronomy Introduction

• Exploring creation myths
• Demonstrating how creation myths develop
• Discovering the shape of earth
• Understanding the modern scientific theory of creation

Earth and the Sun

• Demonstrating the cycle of day and night
• Examining the tilt and orbit of the earth
• Showing how the seasons arise
• Investigating a second cause of the seasons
• Investigating the causes of solar and lunar eclipses

The Life Cycle of Stars

• Making a model showing the formation of a protostar
• Exploring how a protostar becomes a star
• Exploring the life cycle of an average star
• Exploring the brightness of stars
• Exploring the life cycle of a giant star

The Solar System

• Exploring the sizes of the sun and the planets
• Exploring the orbits of the planets
• Exploring the planets
• Exploring the planetary day of each planet
• Exploring the planetary year of each planet

Health Sciences

• Getting to know each other
• Making “a star is born” poster
• Creating a getting to know me booklet

Inside the Human Body

• Investigating the nervous system
• Investigating the skeletal system
• Investigating the respiratory system
• Investigating the cardiovascular system
• Investigating the digestive system
• Identifying the senses of taste and smell

Physical Education

• Participating the last one standing
• Participating in hoppers
• Participating in survivor tag
• Participating in beanbag run
• Participating in scarf circus
• Participating in shuffle steps
• Participating in underhand toss and catch
• Participating in side fielders
• Participating in straight shooter
• Participating in basketball dribble
• Participating in soccer dribble
• Participating in beach ball floaters
• Participating in rope jumpers

Nutrition

• Discovering the nutrients in food
• Exploring the national food guide
• Discovering the calories in food
• Reading the nutrition labels
• Building the food vocabulary
• Building a cooking vocabulary

Art

• Art movements – discovering primary, secondary, and tertiary colours
• Investigating whether colours are warm or cold
• Painting an expressionist portrait of a friend
• Creating an old stone age cave painting

Making Music

• Exploring the world of musical instruments
• Making rhythm sticks
• Making kazoos and maracas
• Making handbells and tambourines
• Making tin-can drums and sandpaper blocks
• Making rain sticks
• Conducting and playing in a classroom orchestra

Light and Shade

• Discovering light and shade in drawing

Proportion

• Exploring the proportions of the human figure
• Exploring the proportions of the human face
• Sculpting the human figure

Music

• Feeling music - drawing while hearing classical music
• Playing mirror, mirror, follow me
• Hand clapping to different rhythms
• Jumping rope to rhymes

Lines

• Making line drawings

Shapes

• Creating art from shapes

Perspective

• Drawing a one-point perspective

Art from Cultures Around the World

• Examining art from around the world