8 Curriculum Overviews

Kindergarten
Math
Students explore Math by
learning about fractions, money,
shapes, time, and simple
addition and subtraction.
Language Arts
This phonics-based approach
uses colorful, read-aloud phonics
storybooks and poetry to introduce
and reinforce short vowel and
consonant sounds, sequencing,
auditory and visual discrimination,
classifying, and rhyming.
Science
Students study topics such as
the seasons, weather, the human
body, plants, and space.
Hands-on,
active learning
Social Studies
Students discuss community,
transportation, and significant
people and events.
Technology
Word processing and graphics
applications are introduced.
Music
Students learn traditional children’s
songs and finger plays.
Art
Students paint, draw with crayons
and chalk, and complete craft
activities to foster creativity and
develop fine-motor skills.
INSIDE YOUR BOX
Lesson Manual
• Teacher
• Letters &Aids
Words
• 19EarlyPhonicsStorybooks
• TheMusicBreakCDs(2)
• Calvert Math Lesson Manual
• Calvert Math Textbook
• Calvert Math Workbook
• Activity Pages
• Poems & Prose
• LittleBigBooks–Setof20
• ReadAloudBooks–Setof10
• Word and Picture Book
• Phonics Library
• Practice Book, Volume 1 & 2
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OnlineLessonManual
Game-basedMathPractice
InteractiveComputerLessons
CurriculumCheckpoints
Calverti-Library
BrainPOP OnlineInteractiveActivities
DiscoveryEducationSTREAMING
CalvertParentCommunity
Course content subject to change based on curriculum updates.
Children enjoy a full-day program featuring
a phonics-based learning approach that
gives them a solid foundation for reading.
Hands-on, interactive activities make
learning fun as students are introduced to
Technology, Science, handwriting, and the
fundamentals of music.
Grade 1
The joy of
reading and writing
INSIDE YOUR BOX
• Lesson Manual
• Here We Go!
• Let’s Be Friends
• Surprises
• Treasures
• Wonders
• Red Robin, Fly Up!
• Reading Work Pages
• Reading Word Cards
• Calvert Speller
• Phonics Library
• Explore Your World I
• Maps, Globes, Graphs: Level A
• Stories and Longer Verses
• Writing Fun
SingaporeMathMethodOption:
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CalvertMathOption:
Lesson Manual, Calvert Math Textbook,
Calvert Math Practice and Enrichment Workbook
Science: A Closer Look
Activity Pages
Tests
Science Kit
Math Kit
Supplies
ONLINE RESOURCES
• Online Lesson Manual
• Game-based Math Practice
• Interactive Computer Skills
• Curriculum Checkpoints
• Calvert i-Library
• BrainPOP Online Interactive Activities
• Discovery Education STREAMING
• e-Textbooks
• Answer Keys
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Math Manipulatives
Advisory Teaching Service
Calvert’s spelling and
reading are integrated
so your child learns and
retains phonics basics,
the building blocks
of language.
Math Options
Singapore Math Method – Students
build a strong foundation in math
skills and concepts. They study
two- and three-digit numbers,
addition and subtraction with and
without regrouping, skip counting,
measurements, telling time,
and graphs.
Calvert Math – Students work with
two- and three-digit numbers, skip
counting, measurements, addition
and subtraction of two-digit numbers
without regrouping, telling time,
and graphs.
Social Studies
Students are inspired by biographies
of famous explorers, political figures,
inventors, and American leaders.
They explore the five themes of
geography and learn basic map skills.
Language Arts
Through activities that develop
phonemic awareness, phonics,
comprehension, vocabulary, and
fluency skills, students build on
printing skills and begin to use
the distinctive Calvert script. The
formal spelling program overlaps
with phonics instruction in reading.
Students learn to compose
sentences on a given topic, lines
of poetry, and thank-you notes.
Science
An exploration of living things,
Earth, weather, matter, motion, and
energy excites the imagination.
Technology
Computer studies include
word processing, computer
navigation, graphics skills, and
visual mapping basics.
Course content subject to change
based on curriculum updates.
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Grade 2
Math Options
Singapore Math Method – Students
build a strong foundation in math skills
and concepts through the Singapore
math method. Students perform
complex addition and subtraction
and are introduced to multiplication
and division. They work with numbers
up to a thousand, manipulate and
measure geometric figures, develop
skills with money and measurement,
and represent data.
Calvert Math – Students perform
complex addition and subtraction,
manipulate and measure geometric
figures, develop skills with money and
measurement, represent data, and
work with numbers up to a thousand.
Language Arts
Phonics storybooks and reading
anthologies reinforce word
analysis techniques and develop
comprehension skills. Simultaneously,
students begin writing dictated words
and sentences, learn punctuation and
spelling rules, and start to express
ideas in original compositions.
Integration and application
across content areas
Science
Students study heat, light, forces, the
properties of rocks, the heart and
lungs, plants, animals, and habitats.
Social Studies
Biographies of old-world figures,
inventors, and leaders in American life
expand an understanding of the world.
Geography
Students learn about exact and
relative location, boundaries,
and regions while continuing
to build basic map skills.
Technology
Typing, spreadsheets, internet,
and e-mail skills are used.
Art
Students develop skills in drawing
and studying famous paintings.
Course content subject to change
based on curriculum updates.
INSIDE YOUR BOX
• Lesson Manual
• Adventures
• Delights
• Phonics Library
• Reading Workbook
• Rhymes and Verses
• Explore Your World II
• Maps, Globes, Graphs: Level B
• Calvert Writer with Spelling
SingaporeMathMethodOption:
• Lesson
Manual, Math in Focus Textbook A+B,
Math in Focus Workbook A+B
• CalvertMathOption:
Lesson Manual, Calvert Math Textbook,
Calvert Math Practice and Enrichment Workbook
• Science: A Closer Look
• Activity Pages
• Art Pictures
• Tests
• Science Kit
• Math Kit
• Supplies
ONLINE RESOURCES
• Online Lesson Manual
• Game-based Math Practice
• Interactive Computer Skills
• Curriculum Checkpoints
• Calvert i-Library
• e-Textbooks
• BrainPOP Online Interactive Activities
• Discovery Education STREAMING
• Answer Keys
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES
Math Manipulatives
Advisory Teaching Service
Students create a postcard from a character
in one story to send to a character in another
story. They illustrate the postcard and include
flora and fauna seen in the setting, which
connects to the study of plants and animals in
the Science Lessons.
Grade 3
INSIDE YOUR BOX
• Lesson Manual
• Smiling Hill Farm
• Tales From Far and Near, Tales of Long Ago
• Rewards
• Horizons
• Reading Word Cards
• Child’s Study of Famous Americans
• Gods of Greece
• Let’s Read a Poem
• Everyday Spelling
• Reading Work Pages
• Steck-Vaughn Phonics: Level C
• Writing and Grammar Workbook
• Maps, Globes, Graphs: Level C
• Scott Foresman Communities
• McGraw-Hill Science: A Closer Look
• Art Cards
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Math in Focus Workbook A+B
CalvertMathOption: Lesson Manual,
Calvert Math Textbook, Calvert Math Practice
and Enrichment Workbook
Tests
Activity Pages
Science Kit
Supplies
ONLINE RESOURCES
• Online Lesson Manual
• Game-based Math Practice
• Interactive Computer Skills
• Curriculum Checkpoints
• Calvert i-Library
• BrainPOP Online Interactive Activities
• Discovery Education STREAMING
• e-Textbooks
• Calvert Mastery Series: Spelling
• Answer Keys
ADDITIONAL SERVICES AND RESOURCES
Math Manipulatives
Advisory Teaching Service
Verticy Learning program for struggling readers
Course content subject to change
based on curriculum updates.
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In-depth exposure to
social studies and literature
Students are exposed to fairy
tales and folk tales. They explore
how these tales reflect the
culture of origin. Students then
write their own fairy tale.
Math Options
Singapore Math Method – Students
use problem-solving and visual
representations to perform addition
and subtraction with and without
regrouping, develop skills in fractions,
multiply, divide with and without
regrouping, work with metric and
customary measurements, and
calculate area and perimeter of twodimensional shapes.
Calvert Math – Students are
challenged by multiplication and
division, estimation, improper
fractions and mixed numbers,
decimals, geometric figures, and
simple equations.
Science
Life cycles, ecosystems, matter,
force, motion, and astronomy,
health, and mineralogy are studied.
Social Studies
Students begin a more
formal study of social studies,
focusing on communities.
Language Arts
Composition lessons help students
further develop writing and reinforce
spelling skills. Students are introduced
to ancient mythology to foster
literature appreciation. Smiling Hill
Farm, a classic, but rare, children’s
book reprinted exclusively for Calvert,
is the first novel students read on
their own. It is supplemented by story
anthologies. Students are introduced
to a more structured interactive,
web-based spelling program.
Geography
Students learn to identify hemispheres,
continents, and oceans. They gain an
understanding of longitude, latitude,
and symbols on maps and graphs.
Technology
Spreadsheets, graphing, and
presentation skills are employed
throughout subjects.
Art
Students learn techniques in
drawing, perspective, and color.
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Grade 4
Math Options
Singapore Math Method – Students
use problem-solving and visual
representations to interpret data,
create tables and graphs, add and
subtract like and unlike fractions and
mixed numbers, express decimals
as fractions and mixed numbers,
measure angles, and find area
and perimeter.
Calvert Math – Skills in mathematical
processes, logical reasoning, and
problem solving are taught as
students explore addition and
subtraction of decimals and fractions,
functions, statistics, data analysis,
and probability.
Science
Students study life science,
physical science, and earth science.
Idea expression and
scientific discovery
Language Arts
A focus on reading strategies
helps students become better
readers and connect more deeply
with both fiction and nonfiction.
Students use the writing process
to develop original compositions.
Social Studies
Students study regions of the
United States and basic geography
using maps, globes, and graphs.
Technology
Spreadsheets, tables, charts, and
graphs are integrated
throughout the curriculum.
Art
Students improve skills using
lines, light sources, and motion.
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Lesson Manual
Famous Legends
Identities: An Anthology
In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson
Jackie Robinson: Strong Inside and Out
Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH
Thomas Edison: The Great Inventor
Steck-Vaughn Phonics: Level D
Everyday Spelling
Grammar & Usage
Art Cards and Art Pictures
Maps, Globes, Graphs: Level D
Regions -OR- A Child’s History of the World
Social Studies -OR- History Workbook
McGraw-Hill Science: A Closer Look
SingaporeMathMethodOption:
Lesson Manual, Math in Focus Textbook A+B,
Math in Focus Workbook A+B
CalvertMathOption:
Lesson Manual, Calvert Math Textbook,
Calvert Math Practice and Enrichment Workbook
Tests
Activity Pages
Science Kit
Supplies
ONLINE RESOURCES
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Online Lesson Manual
Game-based Math Practice
Interactive Computer Skills
Curriculum Checkpoints
Calvert i-Library
Calvert Instructional Videos
BrainPOP Online Interactive Activities
Discovery Education STREAMING
e-Textbooks
Calvert Mastery Series: Spelling
Answer Keys
ADDITIONAL SERVICES AND RESOURCES
Math Manipulatives
Encourage your young scientist
through hands-on experiments.
Calvert includes science
materials with each grade,
providing hard-to-find materials
needed to conduct science
activities. Online resources show
real-world application.
Advisory Teaching Service
Verticy Learning program for struggling readers
Course content subject to change
based on curriculum updates.
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Grade 5
In-depth review of history
and classic literature
INSIDE YOUR BOX
• Core Lesson Manual
• Grammar/Composition/Spelling
Manual – Includes Activities and Tests
• The Secret Garden
• Sing Down the Moon
• Number the Stars
• Shiloh
• The Sign of the Beaver
• Call It Courage
• Reading Comprehension: Level E
• Critical Thinking: Level E
• Everyday Spelling
• Grammar & Usage
• Science: A Closer Look
• American Tall Tales
• Build Our Nation
• Student Atlas
• A Child’s History of Art: Painting
• PaintingArtCards
• Singapore Math Method Option:
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A+B, Math in Focus Workbook A+B
Calvert Math Option: Lesson Manual,
Calvert Math Textbook, Calvert Math
Practice and Enrichment Workbook
Core Tests
Core Activity Pages
ScienceKit
Supplies
ONLINE RESOURCES
•OnlineLessonManual
• Game-basedMathPractice
• InteractiveComputerLessons
• CurriculumCheckpoints
• Calverti-Library
• BrainPOP OnlineInteractiveActivities
• DiscoveryEducationSTREAMING
• e-Textbooks
• CalvertInstructionalVideos
• CalvertMasterySeries:
Online Spelling Program
• AnswerKeysforDailyWork
ADDITIONAL SERVICES AND RESOURCES
Math Manipulatives
Advisory Teaching Service
Calvert Academy
Verticy Learning program for
struggling readers
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Your child learns and processes information, then uses
presentation software to share newfound knowledge.
Calvert students develop age-appropriate computer skills
and apply those skills in various subjects.
Math Options
Singapore Math Method – Students
use problem solving and visual
representations to multiply and
divide fractions, simplify algebraic
expressions, represent ratios in fraction
form, multiply and divide decimals, and
classify polygons.
Calvert Math – Math study advances
as students learn about multiplication
and division of fractions and decimals,
percents, ratios, transformations
and integers.
Language Arts
Students explore connections
among American history, literature,
and geography by reading classic
historical novels such as Sing Down
the Moon and Sign of the Beaver.
Students also continue their studies
in grammar and learn how to write
different kinds of compositions.
Science
Animal and plant kingdoms, weather,
ecosystems, physics of matter,
forces, and energy are explored.
History
Students continue to learn about
American history, from colonial times
through the twenty-first century.
Geography
Students study the regions of the
United States, the countries of
Latin America, and Canada.
Technology
Research and basic HTML
skills are introduced.
Art
Students learn different art
techniques including contour,
naturalism, and linear perspectives.
Art History
Using A Child’s History of Art: Painting
by Virgil Hillyer, students study
paintings from ancient
Egypt through the modern
art movement.
Course content subject to change
based on curriculum updates.
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Grade 6
Math Options
Singapore Math Method – Students
draw on problem-solving skills
and prior knowledge to develop
an understanding of ratios and
proportions, summarize data
distributions, compare numbers with
percents and ratios, write and evaluate
algebraic expressions, and express and
compute rates.
Calvert Math – Problem-solving
and critical-thinking skills continue
to be developed as students solve
proportions, graph functions, work
with metric measurement, and perform
operations with integers, decimals,
and fractions.
Language Arts
Students develop skills of literary
analysis while enjoying poetry,
drama, novels, and nonfiction.
Grammar study is intensified as
students learn how to diagram
sentences. Composition skills are
honed through various assignments,
including a research report.
An emphasis on
independent learning
History
From the birth of Western
civilization through the fall of Rome,
students are awed by the past.
Geography
Students study the Eastern Hemisphere.
Technology
URLs, web searches, and
presentations are critical skills
used for study across subjects.
Art
Students study Egyptian line drawing,
soft-dough sculpture, relief sculpture,
and symmetry design. Lessons are
coordinated with Art History study.
Art History
A Child’s History of Art: Sculpture
offers the study of great sculpture from
ancient times to the present.
Course content subject to change
based on curriculum updates.
INSIDE YOUR BOX
• Core Lesson Manual
• Grammar/Composition/Spelling
– Includes Activities and Tests
• Theras and His Town
• The Phantom Tollbooth
• Explorations: An Anthology
• City: A Story of Roman Planning and
Construction
• The Master Puppeteer
• One Hundred Years of Poetry for Children
• Gifted Hands: The Ben Carson Story
• Esperanza Rising
• Everyday Spelling
• Elements of Language
• Inside Earth
• Chemical Building Blocks
• Chemical Interactions
• Earth’s Waters
• Weather and Climate
• A Message of Ancient Days
• Geography - The World and Its People,
Eastern Hemisphere
• A Child’s History of Art: Sculpture
• Sculpture Art Cards
• Singapore Math Method Option:
Lesson Manual, Math in Focus Textbook A+B
• Calvert Math Option: Lesson Manual, Calvert
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Science
Earth science, the environment,
weather and climate, and chemical
properties and interactions are studied.
Math Textbook, Calvert Math Practice and
Enrichment Workbook
Core Tests
Core Activity Pages
Science Kit
Supplies
ONLINE RESOURCES
When students study Russia,
they are introduced to Leo
Tolstoy and how his writing
reflects not only the culture of
Russia but explores universal
qualities such as helpfulness,
compassion, mercy, and justice.
• Online Lesson Manual
• Interactive Computer Lessons
• Curriculum Checkpoints
• Calverti-Library
• BrainPOP Online Interactive Activities
• Discovery Education STREAMING
• Calvert Instructional Videos
• Calvert Mastery Series:
Online Spelling Program
• Answer Keys for Daily Work
• e-Textbooks
• Learning Strategies
How to Diagram a Sentence
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ADDITIONAL SERVICES AND RESOURCES
Math Manipulatives
Advisory Teaching Service
Calvert Academy Middle School
Verticy Learning program for
struggling readers
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Grade 7
Inspired and integrated
art and history
INSIDE YOUR BOX
• Core Lesson Manual
• Grammar/Composition/Spelling
Manual – Includes Activities and Tests
• Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
• The Door in the Wall
• Out of the Dust
• Across America on an Emigrant Train
• A Single Shard
• Classic Poems to Read Aloud
• Everyday Spelling
• Elements of Language
• From Bacteria to Plants
• Animals
• Human Biology and Health
• Motion, Forces, and Energy
• Sound and Light
• Across the Centuries
• Geography - The World and Its People,
Western Hemisphere
• A Child’s History of Art: Architecture
• Architecture Art Cards
• SingaporeMathMethodOption:Lesson
Manual, Math in Focus Textbook A+B
CalvertMathOption:
Lesson Manual, Calvert
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Enrichment Workbook
• Core Tests
• Core Activity Pages
• Science Kit
• Supplies
ONLINE RESOURCES
• Online Lesson Manual
• Interactive Computer Lessons
• Curriculum Checkpoints
• Calvert i-Library
• BrainPOP Online Interactive Activities
• Discovery Education STREAMING
• Calvert Instructional Videos
• Calvert Mastery Series: Spelling Program
• Answer Keys for Daily Work
• e-Textbooks
• Learning Strategies
• How to Diagram a Sentence
ADDITIONAL SERVICES AND RESOURCES
Math Manipulatives
Advisory Teaching Service
Calvert Academy Middle School
Verticy Learning program for
struggling readers
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Students are immersed in a world
of art and architecture as history
and art converge. A rich palette
of resources including picture
cards, online resources, and handson art activities combine for a
whirlwind virtual tour of the world’s
most impressive structures.
Math Options
Singapore Math Method – Students
develop a strong conceptual
understanding of math skills and
concepts. They draw on problem-solving
skills and prior knowledge to develop
an understanding of proportional
relationships, add and subtract integers,
perform operations with rational and
irrational numbers, simplify algebraic
expressions, approximate probability
and relative frequency, and construct
different geometric figures.
Calvert Math – Students are introduced
to advanced topics such as exponents,
scientific notation, inequalities,
constructions, volume, and surface area,
as well as prerequisite algebra concepts.
Language Arts
Students continue to build strong
grammar and composition skills through
descriptive narrative, expository writing,
and poetry. Students enjoy novels,
poems, and works of nonfiction.
Science
Life and physical sciences, characteristics
of living things, and sound, light,
motion, forces, and energy provide
understanding of how things work.
History
Students are captivated by the past as
they study the fall of Rome through the
Enlightenment.
Geography
A study of thematic maps
and the Western Hemisphere
expands world knowledge.
Technology
More sophisticated topics such
as networks, web research and
validation, desktop publishing,
and databases are introduced.
Art
Students apply concepts from
Art History, including creating
trilithons and step pyramids and
designing various buildings.
Art History
A Child’s History of Art: Architecture
is explored with applied lessons
about designing structures.
Course content subject to change
based on curriculum updates.
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Grade 8
Math Options
Singapore Math Method – Students
draw on problem-solving skills
and prior knowledge to develop
a deep understanding of algebra
through statistical applications
and representing and comparing
functions. Students will also add and
subtract using scientific notation, use
exponential notation, graph linear
equations, analyze data, and apply
geometric transformations.
Calvert Math – Students learn
problem solving, algebra, scientific
notation, rational and irrational
numbers, and graphing functions.
Optional Algebra I track – For
advanced students.
(Please call us for details.)
Language Arts
Narrative poetry and prose
correspond to American History.
Students are immersed in the
country’s intellectual, physical, and
political identities. Vocabulary,
grammar skills, and reading
comprehension are built through
poetry reading, speeches, sonnets,
plays, and award-winning novels.
High school preparation
and confidence building
Science
Physical, life, and earth sciences
such as electricity, magnetism,
the structure of plant and animal
cells, genetics, space, topography,
and erosion are studied.
History
Students study American
History from the discovery of
America to modern America.
Geography
Students review geographic themes,
such as spatial growth, demographic
patterns, and climatic issues, in
the historical context of the U.S.
Technology
Students master presentation
skills, desktop publishing,
spreadsheets, and HTML.
Learning Strategies
Students master study skills,
organizing, test taking, note-taking,
and research needed for high school.
Course content subject to change
based on curriculum updates.
INSIDE YOUR BOX
• Core Lesson Manual
• Grammar/Composition/Spelling
Manual – Includes Activities and Tests
• The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
• The Pearl
• The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
• Reflections: An Anthology
• Stories in Verse
• Elements of Language
• The Growing Vocabulary
• Cells and Heredity
• Earth’s Changing Surface
• Astronomy
• Electricity and Magnetism
• Environmental Science
• America: History of Our Nation
• History and Geography Workbook
• Nystrom Atlas of United States History
• SingaporeMathMethodOption:
Lesson Manual, Math in Focus Textbook A+B
• CalvertMathOption: Lesson Manual,
Calvert Math Textbook, Calvert Math
Practice and Enrichment Workbook
• Core Activity Pages
• Core Tests
• Learning Strategies
• Science Kit
• Supplies
ONLINE RESOURCES
Students study American History
and read American historical
novels as well as speeches by
historically significant American
figures. For a History assignment,
students use writing skills to
write a speech to address a
constitutional problem.
• Online Lesson Manual
• Interactive Computer Skills
• Curriculum Checkpoints
• Calvert i-Library
• BrainPOP Online Interactive Activities
• Discovery Education STREAMING
• Calvert Instructional Videos
• Calvert Mastery Series: Spelling Program
• Answer Keys for Daily Work
• e-Textbooks
• Learning Strategies
• How to Diagram a Sentence
ADDITIONAL SERVICES AND RESOURCES
Math Manipulatives
Advisory Teaching Service
Calvert Academy Middle School
Verticy Learning program for
struggling readers
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