What Each Grade Covers

Phonics & handwriting

1. Letters and sounds: s a t p i n
2. Letters and sounds: m d g o c k
3. Letters and sounds: e u r h b f l
4. Letters and sounds: j v w x y z q
5. Blending and reading CVC words
6. Digraphs: sh ch th ng wh
7. Blends at the start and end
8. Tricky words and reading sentences

Reading & writing

1. Nursery rhymes and how books work
2. Fables and their lessons
3. Stories: characters, settings, what happens
4. Reading to learn: nonfiction
5. Kings, queens and fairy tales
6. Writing our ideas
7. Poems and songs
8. Retelling and opinions

Math

1. Numbers to 5
2. Numbers to 10
3. Shapes around us
4. Patterns and sorting
5. Measuring and comparing
6. Putting together and taking apart
7. Teen numbers and on to 30
8. Counting to 100 and the calendar
9. Shapes, data and review

Science

1. Being a scientist: my five senses
2. Pushes and pulls
3. What things are made of: properties
4. Water
5. Living and nonliving
6. What plants and animals need
7. Sun, light and shadows
8. Patterns in nature and change over time
9. People use resources

History

1. Being a good citizen
2. Maps and globes
3. Where things are: location words
4. Holidays and traditions
5. Patriotism and our symbols
6. Virginia's earliest communities
7. What makes a community special
8. Wants, needs and jobs

Bible (optional)

1. Creation and beginnings
2. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph
3. Moses and the Exodus
4. Advent and Christmas: the promised Savior
5. Joshua, Ruth, Samuel and David
6. Prophets: Elijah, Daniel and Jonah
7. Jesus: his life, his teaching, Easter
8. The early church: Acts

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Open Kindergarten lessons

Phonics & handwriting

1. Review: short vowels, digraphs and blends
2. Harder blends and compound words
3. Silent e and long vowels
4. Open syllables
5. Vowel teams: ai ay ee ea oa ow igh
6. R-controlled vowels: ar or er ir ur
7. Two-syllable and compound words
8. Fluency and the reading celebration

Reading & writing

1. Fables and stories, retold in order
2. Reading to learn: main idea and text features
3. Fairy tales here and around the world
4. Writing to recount and inform
5. Poems, rhymes and read-alouds
6. Stories and their lessons, written with care
7. Research: finding out and sharing
8. Opinions and the year's stories

Math

1. Counting and place value to 120
2. Tens and ones
3. Addition and subtraction facts within 10
4. Addition and subtraction strategies within 20
5. Coins and money
6. Shapes and equal shares
7. Measuring with nonstandard units
8. Time and the calendar
9. Patterns, data and review

Science

1. How things move
2. What objects are made of
3. What plants need to survive
4. What animals need to survive
5. The sun and the sky
6. Weather and the seasons
7. Using resources wisely
8. Being a scientist
9. Review and the year's big ideas

History

1. Rules, rights and being a citizen
2. Map skills
3. Geography and Virginia's story
4. Holidays and traditions we honor
5. Symbols and patriotism
6. Virginia's early history: Werowocomoco to Jamestown
7. Changemakers: explorers, presidents and barrier breakers
8. Goods, services and making choices

Bible (optional)

1. God made it all: creation songs and the first families
2. Abraham's family, the stories in between
3. Moses and God's people in the wilderness
4. Advent and Christmas: the names of Jesus
5. Judges and kings, the stories in between
6. Elisha, brave queens and rebuilding
7. Jesus: signs, friends and Easter
8. The church grows: Acts and the letters

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Open 1st grade lessons

Phonics & handwriting

1. Review: short vowels, blends and digraphs
2. Silent e words
3. Vowel teams: ai ay ee ea oa ow igh ie ue ew oo
4. R-controlled vowels: ar or er ir ur
5. Diphthongs: oi oy ou ow au aw
6. Soft c and g, silent letters, -dge and -tch
7. Endings: -s -es -ed -ing and doubling
8. Syllables, two-syllable words and prefixes

Reading & writing

1. Fairy tales and tall tales
2. Greek myths
3. Nonfiction: text features and main idea
4. Writing narratives
5. Poetry and word play
6. Research and informational writing
7. Opinion writing and mechanics
8. Chapter books: characters who change

Math

1. Fluency within 20
2. Place value to 200 and beyond
3. Measuring length
4. Adding and subtracting two- and three-digit numbers
5. Money
6. Time
7. Data, patterns and equal groups
8. Shapes and fractions
9. Problem solving and review

Science

1. Being a scientist
2. Forces and motion
3. Matter: solids, liquids and gases
4. Life cycles
5. Habitats and food chains
6. Weather
7. Seasons and living things
8. Plants as resources

History

1. Rights, responsibilities and citizenship
2. Maps of the world
3. American Indians: Powhatan, Lakota and Pueblo
4. Holidays, traditions and symbols
5. Revolutionaries and American democracy
6. Key events in United States history
7. Changemakers
8. Producers, consumers and money

Bible (optional)

1. Creation and beginnings
2. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph
3. Moses and the Exodus
4. Advent and Christmas: the promised Savior
5. Joshua, Ruth, Samuel and David
6. Prophets: Elijah, Daniel and Jonah
7. Jesus: his life, his teaching, Easter
8. The early church: Acts

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Open 2nd grade lessons

Phonics & handwriting

1. Entry checks, vowel patterns, and handwriting
2. Syllable types and division strategies
3. Vowel choices in longer words
4. Inflectional endings and sentence dictation
5. Prefixes, suffixes, and meaning
6. Multisyllabic word analysis and word families
7. Word study across the curriculum
8. Reading, spelling, and handwriting transfer

Reading & writing

1. Stories, fables, and evidence
2. Informational reading and text features
3. Tales across cultures and paired texts
4. Narratives and developed paragraphs
5. Poetry, language, and oral presentation
6. Research and explanatory writing
7. Opinion writing, reasons, and revision
8. Serial narrative, nonfiction, and presentation

Math

1. Place value and whole-number comparison
2. Addition, subtraction, and estimation
3. Multiplication and division models
4. Fact strategies, recall, and equations
5. Fractions, mixed numbers, and comparison
6. Measurement, area, perimeter, and polygons
7. Time and money applications
8. Data investigations and changing patterns
9. Cumulative applications and readiness checks

Science

1. Investigations, measurement, and engineering
2. Forces and simple and compound machines
3. Materials interacting with water
4. Adaptations and fossil evidence
5. Aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems
6. Soil components and plant growth
7. Water reservoirs and the water cycle
8. Ecosystem changes and conservation

History

1. Citizenship, rights, responsibilities, and sources
2. World geography, maps, and settlement
3. Ancient Egypt
4. Ancient China
5. Ancient Greece
6. Ancient Rome
7. The historical empire of Mali
8. Economics, government, and comparative inquiry

Bible (optional)

1. Beginnings and Bible narratives
2. Covenant family stories
3. Exodus: rescue, provision, and worship
4. Advent and Gospel accounts
5. Judges, kings, and wisdom
6. Prophets and return
7. Jesus' ministry and resurrection
8. Acts, letters, and service

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Open 3rd grade lessons

Phonics & handwriting

1. Base words and prefixes and applied word study
2. Doubling after a short vowel and applied word study
3. Syllable types in longer words and applied word study
4. Irregular frequent words and applied word study
5. Adjective endings and applied word study
6. Compound meaning and spelling and applied word study
7. Greek tele and scope and applied word study
8. Soft c and g and applied word study

Reading & writing

1. Character, conflict, and reading evidence
2. Informational structure and accountable claims
3. Tales, viewpoint, and cultural/source context
4. Narratives and developed composition
5. Poetry, drama, sound, and performance
6. Research questions and source synthesis
7. Persuasion, media, and competing perspectives
8. Sustained narrative and final presentation

Math

1. Whole numbers and precise reasoning
2. Multiplication, division and factors
3. Fraction reasoning and computation
4. Decimals and equivalence
5. Applied computation and measurement
6. Area, time and geometric language
7. Figures and the data cycle
8. Chance and patterns
9. Cumulative transfer and readiness

Science

1. Scientific questions and designs
2. Solar system comparisons
3. Earth, Moon, and Sun models
4. Living structures and reproduction
5. Ecosystem relationships
6. Weather evidence and climate
7. Ocean systems
8. Virginia resources and stewardship

History

1. Virginia geography
2. Virginia Indian nations past and present
3. Jamestown and colonial Virginia
4. Revolution, founding, and movement
5. Civil War in Virginia
6. Reconstruction and economic change
7. Wartime and civil rights Virginia
8. Leadership, economy, and evidence

Bible (optional)

1. Creation and responsibility and connected readings
2. Rebekah at the well and connected readings
3. Enough for each household and connected readings
4. Ruth gathers grain and connected readings
5. Visitors and another route and connected readings
6. A shepherd psalm and connected readings
7. Naaman learns to listen and connected readings
8. The empty tomb and connected readings

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Open 4th grade lessons

Phonics & handwriting

1. Morphology and precise meaning and applied word study
2. Latin bene and mal and applied word study
3. Greek bio and geo and applied word study
4. Greek meter and symmetry and applied word study
5. Suffixes ity and ness and applied word study
6. Latin ceive and cept and applied word study
7. E boundaries and soft sounds and applied word study
8. Precision in word choice and applied word study

Reading & writing

1. Character, conflict, and reading evidence
2. Informational structure and accountable claims
3. Tales, viewpoint, and cultural/source context
4. Narratives and developed composition
5. Poetry, drama, sound, and performance
6. Research questions and source synthesis
7. Persuasion, media, and competing perspectives
8. Sustained narrative and final presentation

Math

1. Rational-number names and whole-number foundations
2. Algorithms, order and remainders
3. Common units and fraction computation
4. Decimal computation
5. Division, precision and metric measurement
6. Area, volume and angles
7. Representations, center and spread
8. Counting and patterns
9. Variables, transfer and readiness

Science

1. Investigations and engineering
2. Energy forms and conservation
3. Force and motion
4. Electricity and magnetism
5. Sound and vibration
6. Light and radiant energy
7. Matter and phase changes
8. Changing Earth and energy resources

History

1. North America and Indigenous histories
2. Exploration and African histories
3. Colonial regions and perspectives
4. Revolution and independence
5. Constitution and government
6. Expansion, removal, technology, and reform
7. Sectional conflict and Civil War
8. 1865, documents, and historical synthesis

Bible (optional)

1. The Word and the witness and connected readings
2. The wilderness testing and connected readings
3. Building on rock and connected readings
4. A storm and a question and connected readings
5. Light in Simeon's words and connected readings
6. The returning son and connected readings
7. A garden prayer and connected readings
8. Thomas and the assembled disciples and connected readings

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Open 5th grade lessons