Lincoln School Curriculum - KindergartenKindergarten | First Grade | Second Grade | Third Grade | Fourth Grade | Fifth Grade

Language Arts

  • Through the literary elements of fiction, traditional literature, poetry, biography and non-fiction, children will experience a wide range of instructional activities in listening, reading, writing, discussing and/or speaking.
Reading
  • Construct meaning from pictures
  • Make connections to themselves, their experiences and books
  • Recognize association between spoken and written words (concept of word)
  • Identify character and setting in a story
  • Expand vocabulary
  • Make predictions
  • Develop reading strategies
  • Illustrate idea from a story
  • Experience concepts of print, graphonic analysis, print structures, and structural analysis
Listening and Speaking
  • Retell and react to stories
  • Follow simple directions
  • Express feelings
  • Ask questions
  • Develop and expand vocabulary by speaking and listening
Writing
  • Begin to use phonetic spelling
  • Use pictures or words to develop ideas
  • Dictate/write
Mathematics
  • Recognize, count orally, demonstrate 1-to-1 correspondence and write numbers to 20
  • Recognize, copy and extend patterns
  • Explain and be able to recognize common two-dimensional shapes: circle, square, rectangle, triangle, oval
  • Explore the concepts of length, weight, capacity, temperature, time and money
  • Explore collecting data and organize, group, and sort objects by various attributes
Science
  • Identify and sequence life cycle changes of organisms
  • Identify the sense organs and their functions
  • Identify properties of materials such as size, weight, and color
  • Identify and predict patterns of change in seasons/weather
  • Ask questions, make observations and describe patterns using scientific method
  • Name tools and explain how tools help us do work
Social Studies
  • Understand your place in the world
  • Develop basic understanding of citizenship
  • Study holidays and famous Americans
  • Learn about the calendar including seasons of the year
  • Begin to use maps and globes
World Languages
By the end of second grade, students will:
  • Recognize basic language patterns (e.g., forms of address, questions, case)
  • Respond appropriately to simple commands and ask simple questions with prompts
  • Imitate pronunciation, intonation and inflection including sounds unique to the target language
  • Recognize the written form of familiar spoken language
  • Infer meaning of cognates from context
  • Copy/write words, phrases and simple sentences
  • Describe people, activities and objects from school and home
  • Use common forms of courtesy, greetings and leave-takings
  • Identify and demonstrate one or more art forms (e.g., Japanese origami, Spanish flamenco)
  • representative of areas where the target language is spoken
Physical Education/Wellness
Students will have instructional and physical activities in:
  • Movement skills
  • Low organized games
  • Rhythmic activities
  • Manipulative activities and eye -hand coordination
  • Gymnastics and tumbling
  • Sport related activities
  • Fitness education
  • Social/emotional growth
Health
By the end of second grade, students will:
  • Know that major body parts work together
  • Understand the importance of exercise
  • Identify the components of wellness
  • Recognize the importance of safety
  • Learn appropriate steps to ensure their safety and health
General Music
Students will have instructional and experiential activities in:
  • Interactive listening process involving music perception, cognition, analysis, and evaluation resulting in aesthetic awareness
  • Personal experiential interaction with music through singing, playing, performing, and moving
  • Creative composition/arranging for organized sound designed to express feelings
  • Spontaneous creation of original music
  • Formal/constructive elements of music theory, vocabulary, syntax, and symbolic representations  of music
  • Historical, social and cultural context for musical insight
Fine Arts
  • Recognize, identify, and demonstrate an understanding of the sensory elements and organizational principles of design as well as the expressive qualities of the visual arts
  • Recognize, identify, and demonstrate the basic use of materials and tools in order to understand
  • how works of art are produced
  • Create individual works of visual art
  • Understand that works of art shape, reflect and play a role in societies, cultures, and civilizations, past and present