Language Arts: ABeka Book 

Phonics and Reading

• Review of vowels, consonants, blends, one- and two-vowel words, consonant blends
• Recognition and use of all phonics special sounds in reading
• Spelling rules: doubling consonants, dropping silent e, changing y to i
• Oral reading

•  Review of letter formation
• Daily seatwork practice in all academic areas
• proper spacing

•  Weekly phonics-based word list
• Weekly test with phonics
• Reinforcement activities
• Eight poems committed to memory

• Sentences with subject and a predicate  
• Capitals of proper nouns, pronoun I, first word in a sentence, capitals of places and dates
• Periods at the end of sentences, (?), (!), commas in a series, and periods in abbreviations
• Use of conventional spelling and grade level phonetic skills
• Use of spelling resources
• Edit for capitalization and punctuation, and grade level spelling words with teacher assistance
• Writing paragraphs and short stories
• Words using suffixes, prefixes, syllables, compound words, rhyming words, opposite words, same meaning words, and contractions
• Alphabetizing of words

History and Geography: ABeka Book 

This Is My America

• My America’s Flag
• My America’s Freedoms
• Symbols of My America
• Great People of America
• My America Grows
• My America Talks
• My America Travels
• My America Is Beautiful
• My America Sings
• National Holidays

• Folk tales and true stories from around the world

Science: Purposeful Design 

Life Science-Human Body

• Teeth
• Bones and Muscles
• Heart and Blood
• Lungs and Air
• Stomach and Food

Earth Science & Space Science 

• Seasons
• Space
• Observable Properties
• Water, rocks, soil, organisms

Numbers and Number Concepts

• Number recognition, counting,and writing 1–1,000
• Greatest and least
• Counting and writing by tens,fives, twos, and threes
• Number sequences
• Ordinal numbers
• Numbers before and after by ones, twos, tens
• Recognizing odd and even numbers
• Place value in ones, tens, and hundreds
• Unit fractions
• Roman numerals

Computation

• Addition facts through 13 and
• three-digit addition with carrying
• Subtraction facts through 13 and two-digit subtraction
• Story problems
• Concept of multiplication

Time, Money, and Measurement

•  Counting and combining coins
• Telling time to the nearest five minutes
• English and some metric measures
• Reading a thermometer
• Using a ruler
• Calendars
• Reading pictographs and bar graphs

Bible: Biblical Choices for a New Generation 

God’s New World

• God Created the Perfect World
• Adam and Eve
• God’s Perfect World Is Spoiled by Sin
• God Tells Noah to Build the Ark
• God Saves the Animals and Noah’s Family
• God Makes a New “Covenant” with Noah
• The Tower of Babel

God’s Covenant with Abraham’s Family 

• God Makes an Agreement With Abraham
• Isaac: God Keeps His Promise
• Abraham Puts God First
• God Gives Isaac a Family
• Joseph’s Family Makes Bad Choices
• God is Faithful to Joseph
• Joseph Forgives His Brothers

Jesus the Son of God 

• Jesus Grows Up
• Jesus Is Baptized by John
• Jesus Is Tempted
• Jesus Chooses His Disciples
• Jesus Teaches on the Mountain
• Jesus Tells Us How to Live
• Jesus Proves He is God: He Forgives Sin
• Jesus Has Power Over Nature
• Jesus Has Power Over Our Bodies
• Jesus Has Power Over Life and Death
• Jesus Has Power to Heal Our Minds
• People Worship Jesus
• People Thank Jesus