- 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
- Guided creative writing
- Creative writing journal
- Daily seatwork practice in all academic areas
- Introduction to 3/4-space writing
- Spelling and Poetry
- Weekly phonics-based word list
- Vocabulary words and definitions second semester
- Weekly test
- Reinforcement activities
- Spelling glossary
- Seven poems committed to memory
- Language
- Capitalization of first word in a sentence, days of the week, months of the year, special holidays, people, and places
- Correct punctuation at the ends of sentences
- Complete sentences, questions, and exclamations
- Words using suffixes, prefixes, abbreviations, compound words, rhyming words, opposite words, same-meaning words, singular and plural words, singular possessive words, and contractions
- Alphabetizing words and other dictionary skills
- Word usage rules
- Writing of complete sentences, questions, exclamations, and short stories
- Writing letters and thank-you notes
- Creative writing
- Plants: Enjoying the Plant World
- Animals: Enjoying the Animal World
- Health and Human Biology: Enjoying Myself and Others
- Earth and Space: Enjoying the Stars and Planets, Enjoying Planet Earth
- Matter: Enjoying the Air Around Us
- Energy: Enjoying the Air Around Us, Enjoying Things That Move
- Conservation: Enjoying Things That Work Together
- Health: Posture, Nutrition, Exercise, Rest, Cleanliness, Diseases
- Safety: At home and away from home, on streets, around water, during bad weather
- Manners: Politeness, Thoughtfulness, Kindness, Thankfulness, Cheerfulness, Patience, Respect, Table and Telephone Manners
- Number recognition, counting, and writing 1–10,000 and beyond
- Numbers greatest and least 1–1,000
- Counting and writing to hundred thousands, threes to 36, fours to 48
- Ordinal numbers
- Addition facts through 18, column addition, four-digit addition with carrying
- Subtraction facts through 18, four-digit subtraction
- with borrowing
- Multiplication facts 0–5
- Division facts 1–5
- Story problems
- Multiple combinations
- Estimation
- Rounding
- Community Helpers
- Children of the World
- America: Our Great Country (map studies, famous Americans and places)
- Hymns/choruses
- Memory verses
- Bible doctrine
- Lessons such as Salvation Series, Genesis, Life of Christ
Our Flag, Our Patriotic Holidays, Our Songs
The Separatists, America's Indians, The Colonists, America's Pioneers, America's Cowboys, The New Americans
