Language Arts
Shurley Grammar
Arithmetic
- Place value up to hundred millions
- Addition facts through 18, column addition, carrying, checking
- Subtraction facts through 18, borrowing, checking
- Multiplication 0-12 Tables, multi-digit factors with carrying, checking
- Division 1-12 Tables, long division with remainders, checking
- Story problems
- Rounding to nearest ten, hundred, and dollar
- Estimation of sums, differences, products
- Averaging numbers
- Roman numerals
- English and metric measures
- Converting measures, solving measurement equations and story problems
- Drawing and measuring lines to the nearest half inch and centimeter
- Telling time to nearest minute, solving elapsed-time problems
- Counting and combining coins and bills; addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division money problems; determining change
- Solving multi-process combinations using parentheses to determine order of operations
- Geometric plane and solid shapes, terms, perimeter, area
- Interpreting and constructing bar graphs, line graphs, and pictographs
- Finding the unknown number in an equation
- Comparing values using greater than (>), less than
History & Geography
- Map reading skills/activities
- States of the United States by region
- Topographical study of the United States
- Study of our American heritage through the lives of great people
- Founding of America, including: Miles Standish, William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Banneker, Dolly Madison
- Expanding of America (plus Civil War era), including: Daniel Boone, Lewis and Clark, Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, DL Moody
- Modernization of America, including: Alexander Graham Bell, Theodore Roosevelt, George Washington Carver, Amelia Earhart, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump
Science
- Being a Scientist
- Scientific method
- How/where scientists work
- Tools, graphing, safety
- How creation works
- Energy sources/types
- Force/movement/machines
- Structures/magnetism/matter
- Earth’s Atmosphere
- Weather/water cycle/climates
- Earth’s surface
- Shape/structure/soil
- Landforms/weathering/ surface changes/rock
- Stewardship
- Plant world
- Seeds/structures/other ways plants sprout
- Forest types/decomposers/plants that grow from spores
- Solar system
- Sun/planets/stars/moon
- Time/space science/our home
- Animal world & habitat
- Vertebrates/invertebrates
- Prairie/desert/rainforest/arctic/ coral reef/stream
- Food Chains
- Human body systems
- Cells/tissue/organs
- Nervous system/sense organs
- Heart & circulatory system
- Lungs & respiratory system
- Teeth & digestive system
- Bones & skeletal system
- Muscles & muscular system
Health Safety & Manners
Health
- Posture, exercise
- Nutrition, diet
- Cleanliness
- Preventative care
- Spiritual, mental, social health
Manners
- Showing courtesy through politeness (includes proper introductions), kindness, respect, helpfulness (includes dealing with bullying), obedience (includes refusal techniques), gratitude, phone etiquette, and putting others first
Safety
- Public safety (includes street and personal safety)
- Recreational safety (includes bicycle and water safety)
- Home safety (includes fire and Internet safety)
Bible
Lessons: Salvation Series, Samuel, David, Elijah, Elisha, Thanksgiving, Christmas, Daniel, Ezra/Nehemiah, Esther, Crucifixion and Resurrection, Parables (includes memory verses, hymns /choruses, and Bible doctrine)
Music Arts & Crafts
- Music theory/flutophone Traditional, patriotic, fun songs
- Development of art concepts and techniques in multiple types of media featuring charcoal and water colors