The Polyxo.com Curriculum
Pre-Academic and Academic Skills
Ahh, the stuff of school. Included here are those skills that can help build readiness for school, as well as some skills that your kids might typcially be working on during their first few years in school.
Matching
- Generic matching activities (can be adapted for a number of matching concepts)
- Matching identical objects
- Matching objects to identical pictures
- Matching identical pictures
- Matching non-identical objects
- Matching objects to non-identical pictures
- Matching non-identical pictures
- Matching associative pairs
- Targets
- Matching number to quantity
- Matching uppercase and lowercase letters
Sorting
- Generic sorting activities (can be adapted for a number of sorting concepts)
- Sorting by color
- Sorting by size
- Big/large and little/small
- Big/large, medium, and little/small
- Sorting by shape
- Sorting by texture
- Sorting by two attributes
- Targets
- Sorting by common function
- Targets
- Sorting by common feature
- Targets
- Sorting by common class/category
- Targets
Sequencing
- Generic sequencing activities (can be adapted for a number of sequencing concepts)
- Sequencing by size
- Sequencing numbers
- Sequencing the alphabet
- Sequencing by hue
- Patterning
- Logical Sequences
- Sequencing a story
Alphabet
- The Alphabet Song
- Identifying uppercase letters in a single typeface
- Identifying lowercase letters in a single typeface
- Identifying letters in multiple typefaces
- Matching letters of varying typefaces
- Matching uppercase and lowercase letters
- Sequence of the alphabet
- See generic sequencing activities for tasks that can be modified for this topic
Numbers
- Identifying numbers in a single typeface
- Identifying numbers in multiple typefaces
- Matching numbers of varying typefaces
- Sequencing numbers
Counting and Quantity
- Counting by rote
- Counting objects with 1-to-1 correspondence
- Counting on fingers
- Matching numerals with quantities
- Giving a requested quantity
- Quantitative vocabulary
- More
- Less
- All
- Some
- None
- Most
- Least
Mathematics
- Binary comparisons
- Big / Small
- Tall / Short
- Full / Empty
- Relative comparisons
- More / Less
- Bigger / Smaller
- Taller / Shorter
- Fuller / Emptier
- Patterning
- Addition
- Subtraction
Reading
- Letter sounds
- Teaching sight words
- Words that should be taught by sight
- Dolch sight words
- Suggested literature
- Suggested resources
