Kindergarten:

First Nine Weeks-

     Perceiving and Reasoning:  identifying attributes, classifying, spatial reasoning, and the process of elimination.

Second Nine Weeks-

     Reasoning and Connecting:  spatial reasoning, identifying patterns, creating patterns, and convergent reasoning.

Third Nine Weeks-

     Connecting and Creating:  cooperative problem solving, spatial reasoning, and cooperative logic.

Fourth Nine Weeks-

    Creating, Evaluating, and Perceiving:  perspective, decision-making grid, considerations and criteria.

1^st Grade:

First Nine Weeks-

     Perceiving and Reasoning:  spatial reasoning, attributes, classification, and patterns.

Second Nine Weeks-

     Reasoning and Connecting:  cooperative logic, oral and visual, past and present, analogies, matrices, and equivalence.

Third Nine Weeks-

     Connecting and Creating:  convergent and divergent thinking, originality, fluency, flexibility, and elaboration.

Fourth Nine Weeks-

      Evaluation:  cause and effect, decision-making, defending decisions and opinions.

Second Grade:

First Nine Weeks-

     Perceiving and Reasoning:  spatial problem solving, non-verbal cooperative logic, and spatial reasoning.

Second Nine Weeks-

     Reasoning and Connecting:  cooperative logic, spatial logic, matrices, oral analogies, written analogies, visual analogies, algebraic thinking, and equivalence.

Third Nine Weeks-

     Connecting and Creating:  Divergent thinking, creativity in oral expression, creativity in written expression, creativity in visual products, and creative problem solving.

Fourth Nine Weeks-

     Evaluating and Perceiving:  cause and effect, decision making, defending decisions, judging.

Third Grade:

First Nine Weeks-

     Perceiving and Reasoning:  spatial awareness and reasoning, cooperative problem solving, geometry, design.

Second Nine Weeks-

     Reasoning and Connecting: classification, spatial and numeric logic, writing analogies, cooperative logic, algebraic thinking.

  Third Nine Weeks-

     Connecting and Creating:  divergent thinking, creative problem solving, originality, flexibility, fluency, and elaboration in oral products, elaboration in written products, elaboration in visual products.

Fourth Nine Weeks-

     Evaluating and Perceiving:  planning, goal setting, rubrics, decision-making, defending decisions, cause/effect, and judging.