Specific grade level content

Kindergarten

The reading program provides cross-curricular opportunities for science at this level. Some topics to be discovered are as follows:

• All about me and my five senses
• Feeling good, being healthy (our bodies and our brain), eating right
• Animals (farm and zoo)
• Machines, things on wheels
• Water ( the beach, sea creatures, the pond)
• Seasons and weather, growing things, earth day
• Butterflies, bees, beetles, worms, snakes, and snails

Grade 1

• Living and Nonliving Things
• Keeping Fit and Healthy
• Earth, Land, and Water
• Weather and Seasons

Grade 2

• Earth Through Time
• The Human Body
• Solids, Liquids, and Gases
• Interactions of Living Things

Grade 3

• Life Cycles: Animals and plants
• Roles of Animals: food chains and adaptations
• Energy
• Sun, moon, and earth

Grade 4

• Animals
• Matter
• Weather
• Body Delivery Systems
• Magnetism and Electricity

Grade 5

• Light and Sound
• Movement and Control
• The Solar System and Beyond
• Plants

Grade 6

• Cells and Microbes
• Growing Up Healthy
• The Changing Earth
• The Nature of Matter