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Age 5-7 Year at a Glance

The Age 5-7 level of Beyond the Page is structured around four 9-week concepts. Each of these concepts is made up of three language arts units and three science and social studies units. Each unit contains about 10 lessons and a final project.

You will do two lessons each day: one in science and social studies and one in language arts. Start with the first concept. When you finish it move on to the second.

Here is a list of the concepts in the order you will complete them along with the associated books.

Science and Social Studies Units

Language Arts Units

Concept 1: Environment

Summary of Skills | Table of Contents
Unit 1: Habitats and Homes
Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing Animal Habitats by Jim Arnosky
Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney
The Salamander Room by Anne Mazer, Steve Johnson and Lou Fancher
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
Unit 2: Weather
Crinkleroot's Guide to Knowing Animal Habitats by Jim Arnosky
Oh Say Can You Say What's the Weather Today? by Tish Rabe
Whatever the Weather by Karen Wallace
Unit 3: Community
Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney
On the Town by Judith Caseley

Concept 2: Similarities and Differences

Summary of Skills | Table of Contents
Unit 1: Amazing Attributes
Over and Under the Pond
Up in the Garden and Down in the Dirt
Unit 2: Senses
My Five Senses by Aliki
The Magic School Bus Explores the Senses by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degan
Unit 3: We're the Same, We're Different
A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World by DK Publishing
Shapesville by Andy Mills, Becky Osborn and Erica Neitz

Concept 3: Patterns

Summary of Skills | Table of Contents
Unit 1: Identifying and Creating Visual Patterns
Busy Bugs: A Book About Patterns by Jayne Harvey and Bernard Adnet
Unit 2: Patterns in Sounds, Words, and Actions
Bear Hugs by Karma Wilson and Suzanne Watts
Unit 3: Patterns in Your World
Pattern by Henry Pluckrose

Concept 4: Change

Summary of Skills | Table of Contents
Unit 1: Changes on Planet Earth
Changes Happen All Around You by Beyond the Page
Seed to Plant
Zoom! Zip! Whoosh!
Unit 2: Characters Change
The Raft
What Do You Do With a Problem?
Unit 3: A First Look at History - Change Over Time
Telling Time
The House on Maple Street by Bonnie Pryor and Beth Peck
The Usborne Time Traveler by Judy Hindley

Math

Summary of Skills | Table of Contents
Unit 1: Number Sense 1-20
10 Little Hot Dogs
Ten Black Dots
Unit 2: Geometry
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes
Unit 3: Addition and Subtraction to 10
Animals on Board
If You Were a Minus Sign
Unit 4: Data and Graphing
[none]
Unit 5: Addition and Subtraction to 20
If You Were a Minus Sign
If You Were a Plus Sign
Unit 6: Time
It's About Time
Telling Time
Unit 7: Place Value
A Fair Bear Share
Unit 8: Measurement
[none]
Unit 9: Addition to 100
[none]
Unit 10: Skills Review
[none]

Reading

Summary of Skills | Table of Contents
Unit 1: Semester 1
[none]
Unit 2: Semester 2
[none]