In grades Kindergarten through Fifth Grade, instructional areas of study include the following:
Arts Education
- Visual Arts
- General Music
English Language Arts
- Communication and Multimodal Literacies
- Reading
- Writing
- Research
Health Education
- Essential Health Concepts
- Healthy Decisions
- Advocacy and Health Promotion
Mathematics
- Number and Number Sense
- Computation and Estimation
- Measurement and Geometry
- Probability and Statistics
- Patterns, Functions, and Algebra
Physical Education
- Motor Skill Development
- Anatomical Basis of Movement
- Fitness Planning
- Social and Emotional Development
- Energy Balance
Science
- Scientific and Engineering Practices
- Central Ideas to Investigate and Understand
Social Studies
- History
- Geography
- Economics
- Civics
The skills and content which children are expected to learn at each of the elementary grade level are outlined by the Virginia Department of Education’s Standards of Learning.
To review the full range of grade level instructional areas or objectives, please visit the APS Elementary Curriculum site.