Ages 6–7 — Growing your skills
Explore bigger numbers and new ideas!
Discover living things and forces!
Build better writing and reading skills!
Ones, tens, and hundreds!
The ones place is the first digit on the right.
The tens place is the second digit from the right.
27 = 2 tens + 7 ones
The hundreds place is the third digit.
247 = 2 hundreds + 4 tens + 7 ones
Put numbers in order from smallest to biggest:
Write numbers and identify the place value!
Groups and repeated addition!
Multiplication is about groups:
An array shows rows and columns:
3 rows × 4 columns = 12
Practice the times tables every day!
Count by 2s, 5s, and 10s!
Clocks, calendars, and coins!
Digital and analog clocks show time.
Days, weeks, and months.
Penny (1¢), Nickel (5¢), Dime (10¢), Quarter (25¢)
Count coins to buy things!
Practice counting coins!
Halves and quarters!
One half (1/2) is when you split something into 2 equal parts.
One quarter (1/4) is when you split something into 4 equal parts.
Share pizza or pie into fair pieces!
Draw circles and shade half or a quarter!
Find fractions in real life!
Plants, animals, and life cycles!
Living things grow, eat, and move!
All living things grow bigger!
Plants need sun and water. Animals need food!
Birth, growth, and change!
Observe living things around you!
Homes of different creatures!
A habitat is a home for animals and plants!
Trees, squirrels, deer, and birds!
Fish, dolphins, and whales!
Camels, snakes, and lizards!
Find different habitats!
Natural and man-made materials!
Come from nature: wood, stone, clay!
Created by people: plastic, glass, metal!
Heat, cold, and mixing change materials!
Use materials again and again!
Sort materials into groups!
Forces, motion, and magnets!
Push and pull make things move!
Things move when pushed or pulled!
Magnets attract metal!
Things fall down to the ground!
Push and pull different things!
Build sentences with punctuation!
Sentences need: subject + verb
Statements, questions, commands!
. ? ! help sentences.
Start with a capital letter!
Create your own sentences!
Characters, settings, and plots!
Who is in the story?
Where and when does the story happen?
What happens in the story?
Create your own story!
Draw pictures for your story!
Spelling patterns and rules!
Words follow patterns!
i before e except after c!
Some words are hard to spell!
Practice spelling every day!
Spell words out loud!
Understand what you read!
Think about what you're reading!
Ask yourself: Who? What? Where? When?
Look for clues in the text!
Tell the main idea in your own words!
Read and discuss stories!