SUBJECT | CONTENTS |
Math | Mental calculations and troubleshooting including the four operations and measurements. Relative value of quantities up to one million. Composition and decomposition of amounts. Carrying over sums. Lending in subtraction. Road to division. Roman numbers Extension of the four basic operations. Series and multiplication tables up to number 12. Writing, reading and recognition of numbers up to 1,000. Square numbers. Measurements of time, length and weight. Estimates of quantities and measures. Terms of basic operations. Half, a third and a fourth. |
Spanish | The four skills of the language. Basic grammar. Types of words. Types of sentences. Construction of sentences and paragraphs. Orthographic rules. Introduction to cursive writing. History of writing. Writing with ancient material. Materials used in ancient times for writing. Reading comprehension and summaries. The Book, the dictionary. |
Social Sciences | Traditional and current trades. The history of construction (history of housing). Construction-related trades. Practical part: the creation of a group house and an individual one. Materials provided by nature for construction. Biblical histories. |
Natural Sciences | The history of agriculture and tools. Seed growth and its relationship with the elements of nature. Animals that help plants: the worm-root, the cow-leaf and the bee-flower. History of cereals, their importance in our diet. Practical work. |
Handwork | Crochet and Loom. |
Form drawing | Preparation exercises for cursive writing, rhythmic or dynamic exercises. Exercises in a circle, symmetries and mirrors. Exercises in Metamorphosis. |
English | Listen, speak and write. Narrate and communicate. Themes of the passage of time: seasons, months, colors. Agriculture topics: Animals, elements, needs for planting. Construction, words related to the house and what is in it. Spelling of words through games. Vocabulary of everyday conversations. |
Music | Musical notation (staff) is introduced. Sense of high and low notes, rhythms … A new flute is introduced, the diatonic flute. Singing in canon. |
Literature | Norms for use of the library, mental and group reading, book management. Stories of animals, agriculture, construction. Mental reading, listening to reading and making sentences. |
Sculpting | Modeling with beeswax, related to the main lesson. Experiences with clay with themes of construction, history of writing, history of agriculture and trades. |
Painting | Combining colors, obtaining primary and tertiary colors. Expression of feelings from the contents of the main lesson: agriculture, construction and trades. |
Movement: Gymnastics, games and eurythmy | Group gymnastics. Rhythmic games and imitation of series of movement. Games that enable the development of bodily skills. Contraction-expansion exercises. Concentration exercises. Poems and narratives about creation and the four elements. Music with different rhythms and intervals. |
Gardening | Life in the garden, the farmer’s work. Animals that help the farmer. Tale of the seed. Caring for and the needs of the seed, the harvest and the preservation of crops. Planting the garden, soil preparation. Cereals. |