Curriculum guide

Ten-week order

1. Week 1How We Learn · Talk and Listen · Feelings · Move and Play
2. Week 2Letters and Print · Count and Cardinality · Senses and Inquiry · Process Art
3. Week 3Words and Syllables · Count and Cardinality · Care and Safety · Music Play
4. Week 4Words and Syllables · Subitize and Compare · Living Things · Friends
5. Week 5Story Listen · Join and Separate · Self and Rules · Name and Marks
6. Week 6Words We Use · Patterns · Earth and Weather · Tools and Devices
7. Week 7Story Listen · Shapes and Measure · Places and Helpers · Process Art
8. Week 8Letters and Print · Join and Separate · Motion and Tools · Music Play
9. Week 9Words and Syllables · Shapes and Measure · Senses and Inquiry · Friends
10. Week 10Name and Marks · Count and Cardinality · Families and Time · Move and Play

Approaches to Learning

Approaches to Learning is FELDS Domain II: curiosity, sticking with a short task, inventing a use for a material, and a simple plan. Grade 1 has no ATL crate. Do not recode this as computer science.

How We Learn · set VPK-ATL1 · 4 words

How a child approaches a task — curiosity, attention, inventiveness, a bit of planning — is its own Florida domain. Cited: FELDS II.A, FELDS II.B, FELDS II.C, FELDS II.D.

Language and Literacy

Oral language and emergent literacy. Cards stay in listening, vocabulary, print, letters, and syllable/onset-rime play. Kindergarten teaches phonemes and CVC. Grade 1 ELA1 teaches digraphs and decodable text.

Words and Syllables · set VPK-ELA1 · 7 words

Spoken language can be taken apart into words, syllables, and first-sound chunks before letters do that work. Cited: FELDS IV.F.2, ELA.K.F.1.2.

Letters and Print · set VPK-ELA2 · 7 words

Print carries meaning; letters have names; some letters have a sound we are starting to notice. Cited: FELDS IV.F.3, FELDS IV.F.1, ELA.K.F.1.1.

Talk and Listen · set VPK-ELA3 · 6 words

Children learn by taking turns talking and by following more than one spoken step. Cited: FELDS IV.A, FELDS IV.B, FELDS IV.E, ELA.K.C.2.1.

Words We Use · set VPK-ELA4 · 6 words

Children understand more words than they say; they use complete spoken sentences and ask what a new word means. Cited: FELDS IV.C, FELDS IV.D, ELA.K.V.1.1.

Story Listen · set VPK-ELA5 · 5 words

After a read-aloud, children retell and ask what happened, what might happen next, and how a character feels. Cited: FELDS IV.F.1, FELDS IV.F.4, ELA.K.R.1.1.

Name and Marks · set VPK-ELA6 · 5 words

Scribbles, letter-like shapes, and a written name are writing when the child intends meaning. Cited: FELDS IV.G.1, ELA.K.C.1.1.

Mathematical Thinking

Number sense with objects. Count, match, and join or separate in play. Kindergarten writes numerals to 20 and adds within 10. Grade 1 MATH1 adds within 20.

Count and Cardinality · set VPK-MATH1 · 4 words

Each object gets one number word; the last number said is how many. Cited: FELDS V.A.2, FELDS V.A.3, FELDS V.A.4, MA.K.NSO.1.1.

Subitize and Compare · set VPK-MATH2 · 5 words

Small amounts can be seen without counting; groups can be more, less, or the same. Cited: FELDS V.A.1, FELDS V.A.6, MA.K.NSO.1.4.

Join and Separate · set VPK-MATH3 · 5 words

Stories about joining and separating can be acted with objects and fingers, up to eight. Cited: FELDS V.B.1, FELDS V.B.2, MA.K.NSO.3.1.

Patterns · set VPK-MATH4 · 5 words

A pattern has a unit that repeats; we can copy it and keep it going. Cited: FELDS V.C.1, FELDS V.C.2, FELDS V.C.3.

Shapes and Measure · set VPK-MATH5 · 8 words

Shapes have names; objects have position and size; we can line things up and talk about a chart. Cited: FELDS V.D, FELDS V.E, FELDS V.F, MA.K.GR.1.1.

Scientific Inquiry

Five senses, living and nonliving, earth materials, motion, and weather. This is FELDS Scientific Inquiry, not OpenSciEd, not NGSS, not Grade 1 SC.1.

Senses and Inquiry · set VPK-SCI1 · 7 words

We learn about the world with five senses, simple tools, and a drawing of what we noticed. Cited: FELDS VI.A, SC.K.N.1.2, SC.K.L.14.1.

Living Things · set VPK-SCI2 · 6 words

Living things grow and have needs; they are not all the same; some things are not alive. Cited: FELDS VI.B, SC.K.L.14.3.

Earth and Weather · set VPK-SCI3 · 9 words

Water changes; ground has rocks and soil; day and night repeat; weather tells us what to wear. Cited: FELDS VI.D, FELDS VI.E, SC.K.E.5.2.

Motion and Tools · set VPK-SCI4 · 6 words

Pushes and pulls change motion; stuff can change shape; simple tools help us solve a play problem. Cited: FELDS VI.C, FELDS VI.F, SC.K.P.12.1.

Social Studies

Self, family, classroom rules, helpers, simple maps, needs and wants. Not SS.1.CG.

Self and Rules · set VPK-SOC1 · 6 words

Each child is a person in a family and a class; groups need rules; children can help make a class decision. Cited: FELDS VII.B, FELDS VII.C, FELDS VII.F, SS.K.CG.1.1.

Places and Helpers · set VPK-SOC2 · 5 words

Our classroom is a place; maps and globes are pictures of places; people in a community do jobs. Cited: FELDS VII.D, FELDS VII.G.2.

Families and Time · set VPK-SOC3 · 7 words

Families have cultures; people need food and care; events happen in order; some things change. Cited: FELDS VII.A, FELDS VII.E, FELDS VII.G.1.

Social and Emotional Development

Name a feeling, notice a friend, take a turn, try one fair solution. Younger grain than Grade 1 SEL.

Feelings · set VPK-SEL1 · 6 words

Children name their own feelings, notice a friend’s feelings, and begin to manage big feelings with or without an adult. Cited: FELDS III.A, FELDS III.B.

Friends · set VPK-SEL2 · 5 words

Coordinated play, turn-taking, and a simple offered solution are the VPK social target. Cited: FELDS III.C, FELDS III.D.

Creative Expression

Process art: many materials, intention, and talk about what we made. Not a Grade 1 elements-of-art stack.

Process Art · set VPK-ART1 · 5 words

Art in VPK is process: many materials, intention, and talk about what we made. Cited: FELDS VIII.A.1, FELDS VIII.E.

Music

Songs, beat, and moving together. Not Grade 1 melody composition.

Music Play · set VPK-MUS1 · 6 words

Music is something we do together with voice, body, and simple instruments. Cited: FELDS VIII.B, FELDS VIII.C.

Physical Development

Balance, hop, run, personal space, and a safety rule. Not a Grade 1 locomotor test list.

Move and Play · set VPK-PE1 · 6 words

Four-year-olds get better at balance, hopping, running, and using more than two movements at once, with safety rules. Cited: FELDS I.A, FELDS I.B, PE.K.C.2.1.

Health and Care

Familiar hygiene, helping with snack, and a safety rule. Not a Grade 1 911 unit.

Care and Safety · set VPK-HLT1 · 4 words

Children start and finish familiar hygiene; they help with simple food; they follow safety rules. Cited: FELDS I.A.b, FELDS I.A.c, HE.K.C.1.

Tools and Devices

Tools and devices with an adult. Unplugged first-then-next. Not algorithms, loops, or digital footprint.

Tools and Devices · set VPK-CSP1 · 5 words

People use tools and devices; young children use them with an adult and treat them as objects in a community, not as coding class. Cited: FELDS VII.H.1, FELDS VI.F.1.