Grade-specific Titles
for Primary Grades

All grade-specific titles consist of three books, each containing 40+ hours of differentiated curriculum. The books in each series focus on the academic standards for that grade level, and allow students to delve more deeply into each subject area.

We offer both grade-specific and multiage curricula for primary students.

Kindergarten—Wonders

Childhood is full of wonders. The Wonders curriculum builds on the questions children ask, creating more opportunities for learning. Students consider sap and other sticky things, trees that never change, and being a part of a community. They examine the questions that arise from living in space and the life cycles of insects. Kindergarteners participate in hands-on experiments related to seed scattering and their bodies. By allowing Kindergarteners to discover the wonders around them, we help instill a life-long desire to learn.

This series focuses on introducing and developing basic gifted and talented skills such as brainstorming and classification. Teachers can use the activities in Wonders to help narrow the numbers of students recommended for testing and entry into a district’s gifted and talented program. While content will be basic and suitable for all kindergarten students, extensions and rubrics for assessments will be provided to help teachers discover students who may have higher learning potential.

Each book contains the following subtopics:
Wonders Book 1: Nature, Space, and Community
Wonders Book 2: Plants, Insects, and Dinosaurs
Wonders Book 3: Machines, My Body, and Physical Fitness

First Grade—Patterns

Patterns help organize our lives. Students participating in the Patterns series will experience activities that will help organize their thought processes throughout life. Students become pattern detectives, pattern creators, and pattern solvers in this three-part series. They will discover patterns in architecture, mathematics, and history. Patterns in nature and literature will be examined. Students will unlock the patterns in the business cycle, weekly routines, and the calendar. Once students learn to recognize and unlock the patterns around them, they will blaze the trail for unique patterns and trends in the future.

Each book contains the following subtopics:
Patterns Book 1: Literature, Arts, and Science
Patterns Book 2: Body, Cycles, and Graphs
Patterns Book 3: Economics, Biographies, and Citizenship

Second Grade—Changes

Seasons, babies, and values…what do these three words have in common? They are all things that change. These topics and many others will be the focus of this three-part series as students consider changes in weather and weather patterns, changes in history, and personal change. Students are asked to evaluate whether change is generally good or bad and if it is a good idea for a person to change based on a certain situation. Students participate in experiments involving changing sounds and chemical changes. By participating in this wide variety of activities, students will learn to identify, examine, and accept changes in the world.

Each book contains the following subtopics:
Changes Book 1: Rights, Resources, and the Weather
Changes Book 2: Progress, Reactions, and History
Changes Book 3: Honesty, Communication, and Investigations

Third Grade—Relationships

What are relationships? How are we connected to our environment? How can relationships be both good and bad? Students will examine these and many other topics as they consider the concept of relationships. Students will appreciate the delicate relationships they discover between one another, in nature, and in history. Fairness, laws, and patterns in history will be noted as students explore a popular novel set during World War II. Through their study of relationships, students learn that their uniqueness helps them build and be a part of many different kinds of relationships.

Each book contains the following subtopics:
Relationships Book 1: Ecosystems, Comparisons, and Courage
Relationships Book 2: Environment, Cause and Effect, and Citizenship
Relationships Book 3: Economics, Opposites, and Social Action

Supplemental Materials for Grade Specific Curricula

Did you ever wonder how to incorporate great ideas into a universal concept such as wonders, patterns, changes, or relationships? We now have supplementary materials that model this process. Check out the Thinking Outside the Bean kit featuring a bilingual connection and Mexican jumping beans!