Curriculum Maps by Month
Curriculum Maps for Grades PK to 5
Get a sense of what your child will be learning over the course of the year.
March/April
Early Childhood Curriculum March/April
GRADE | Math | Reading | Writing | SEL |
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Pre-K |
Building Blocks: Shape Matching and Identification, Adding and Subtracting Small Numbers, Exploring Patterns (recognize, duplicate and extend repeating patterns), Counting Beyond 10 Integrated Units: Light (Feb), Water (March), Plants (April) Please read aloud to your child at home! Research tells us that the more we read books to children, and the more we talk to them about the books and about mathematics using complex language, the more likely they will become good readers themselves. |
Early Literacy: Making Books, learning letters and their sounds, reading books (Star Books or “Look Books” - pre-conventional reading, practicing writing our names and doing more “Name Study” work SEL: Making Friends, Expressing our Ideas (Communication) and Problem Solving |
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March: Compose/Decompose Numbers to 10 April: Starting Numbers Within 20 |
March: Becoming Avid Readers April: Starting Growing Expertise in Little NF Books |
March: Persuasive Writing of All Kinds April: Starting All About Books |
Sanford Harmony: Problem Solving |
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March: Adding Within 100 April: starting Measuring Length |
March: Readers Have Big Jobs to Do April: Meeting Characters and Learning Lessons |
March: Reviews (Opinion Writing) April: From Scenes to Series (Realistic Fiction) |
Grade 2-3 Curriculum March/April
GRADE | Math | Reading | Writing | SEL |
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March/April: Numbers to 1,000 This unit extends students understanding of the base-ten system to include numbers to 1,000. In this unit, students will learn that 10 tens make a unit called a hundred, and three-digit numbers are formed using hundreds, tens, and ones. Students will be working with base-ten blocks, base-ten drawings, number lines, expressions and equations. |
Series Book Clubs: This unit is designed to help students to fall in love with favorite characters. They will not only become experts on characters- but also authors themselves. In this unit, readers will be working on orientating, envisioning and predicting, monitoring for sese, determining importance, part to whole, and inferring about characters. |
Lessons from the Masters: This unit builds upon work done in previous units (especially Small Moments). Throughout this unit, our writers will study the work that our favorite authors do to use craft to convey meaning. |
Problem Solving
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March: Relating Multiplication and Division Students will be using the relationship between multiplication and division to continue to develop fluency with single-digit multiplication and division facts. April: Fractions as Numbers In this unit, students are introduced to fractions as numbers. Throughout the unit, students will be introduced to increasingly abstract representations of fractions. |
March: Test Prep Mid-Late April: Social Issues Book Clubs This unit aims to emphasize even more about how students can read books to teach them how to live their lives and also to support students in reading across multiple genre picture books, chapter books, poetry, and nonfiction |
March: Test Prep Mid-Late April: Once Upon a Time (Fairy Tales) Students will be writing adaptations and original fairy tales. One of the major goals of the unit is to teach writers how to craft well-structured narratives. Another major goal of the unit is to support writers in using precise language to capture a moment, an image, or an emotion. |
Grade 4 Curriculum March/April
*We are awaiting guidance on whether or not state exams will take place
Math | Reading | Writing | SEL |
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Fraction Equivalence and Comparison Students use visual representations or a numerical process to generate and reason about equivalent fractions, and compare and order fractions with the following denominators: 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, and 100. Test Taking Strategies |
Test Taking Strategies Power and Perspective: This unit supports fourth graders as they experience what it can mean to read a text with a specific lens, and it will help them to read with two lenses - power and perspective - that play a particularly important role in critical reading. Kids begin to look at books to grow not just ideas about characters, settings, and themes but also begin to look at issues of fairness and unfairness; what makes some people stronger and who gets to make the rules. |
Test Taking Strategies Graphic Novels: This unit asks kids to think: How can I use words and pictures to craft writing that makes it irresistible for the reader to turn the page? Students create a comic book for younger readers, draft graphic novels with clear story arcs, and study comic craft of mentor writers to incorporate their techniques |
Problem Solving
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Grade 5 Curriculum March/April
*We are awaiting guidance on whether or not state exams will take place
Math | Reading | Writing | SEL |
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Fraction Multiplication and Division Students use area concepts to represent and solve problems involving the multiplication of two fractions. They also reason about the relationship between multiplication and division to divide a whole number by a unit fraction and a unit fraction by a whole number. Test Taking Strategies |
Test Taking Strategies Reading in the Content Areas: Civil Rights This a unit that aims to support students in strengthening their reading research skills, it is also a unit that has big goals around helping students access complicated content. After experiencing this unit, the hope is that students have a more complex understanding of the Civil Rights Movement beyond the commonly told narratives. *Reading and writing go hand in hand |
Test Taking Strategies The Lens of History: Writing Research Reports This unit is designed to support students with writing information texts within a content-area study, including pieces on a larger topic and a more focused subtopic within the content-area study ex. Civil Rights Movement *Reading and writing go hand in hand |
Problem Solving
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May/June
Early Childhood Curriculum May/June
GRADE | Math | Reading | Writing | SEL |
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Pre-K |
Building Blocks: Addition, Counting, Ordinal Numbers (understanding numbers that do not emphasize how many but, instead, in what position, including the words, first, second, third, and up to tenth). ~Shape Recognition, shape composition, shape parts and shape attributes. Integrated Units: Plants (April/May), Babies (May), Transformation (June) Please read aloud to your child at home! |
Early Literacy: Making Books, learning letters and their sounds, reading books (Star Books or “Look Books”) and pre-conventional reading, practicing writing our names and doing more “Name Study” work |
Sanford Harmony: Peer Relationships (Problem Solving cont) | |
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May: Solid Shapes All Around Us June: Putting it All Together |
May: Non-Fiction: Growing Expertise in Little Books! June: Giving the Gift of Reading |
May: All About Books (NF) / Vowel Power June: Crafting True Stories |
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May: Geometry and Time June: Putting It All Together |
May: Reading NF Cover to Cover June: Independent R / W Projects |
May: From Scenes to Series June: Independent R/ W Projects |
Grade 2 Curriculum May/June
Math | Reading | Writing | SEL |
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Unit 7: Add and Subtract within 1,000: In this unit, students will add and subtract with and without decomposition. Students will use strategies based on the relationship between addition and subtraction and the properties of operations to add and subtract without composing or composting a 10 or hundred. Unit 8: Equal Groups: Students will develop an understanding of equal groups as the foundation of multiplication and division. |
Reading Nonfiction Cover to Cover: In this unit, readers will work on their nonfiction reading skill, and work on their speaking and listening skills. Students will learn how to really read nonfiction instead of just collecting facts. They will work to deepen their understanding of main ideas and supporting details. |
Nonfiction Writing Projects This unit provides students the opportunity to choose from a wide variety of nonfiction structures to write new nonfiction pieces. This is an opportunity to bring all they know about nonfiction writing and the writing process to write independently. |
Peer Relationships
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Grade 3 Curriculum May/June
Math | Reading | Writing | SEL |
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Social Issues Book Clubs
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Once Upon a Time: Adapting and Writing Fairy Tales
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Unit 5: Peer Relationships This unit is designed to help students learn peer relationships skills:
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Grade 4 Curriculum May/June
Math | Reading | Writing | SEL |
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Angles and Angle Measurement
Properties of Two-Dimensional Shapes
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Power and Perspective
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Graphic Novels This unit asks writers:
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Unit 5: Peer Relationships This unit is designed to help students learn peer relationships skills:
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Grade 5 Curriculum May/June
Math | Reading | Writing | SEL |
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Fractions Operations
Coordinate Grid and Classifying Shapes
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Reading in the Content Area
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Lens of History: Research Reports (connected to Reading Unit content)
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Unit 5: Peer Relationships This unit is designed to help students learn peer relationships skills:
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Teacher's College Family Videos
GRADE | Reading | Writing |
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K | Writing For Readers | |
1 | Nonfiction Reading | Nonfiction Chapter Books |
2 | Becoming Experts |
Poetry (January) - This unit will not use videos |
3 | Character Studies Research Clubs | Baby Literary Essay |
4 | Historical Fiction Clubs | Informational Writing |
5 | Argument & Advocacy: Researching Debatable Issues | Research Based Argument Essay |