Language Arts
Reading/Writing
The student will:
- Demonstrate decoding/encoding skills including
- all vowel patterns
- digraphs and dipthongs
- beginning and ending blends
- Identify and use
- contractions and compound words
- nouns, verbs, adjectives
- synonyms, antonyms, homophones
- Use a variety of reading strategies to gain meaning (phonics, illustrations, structural analysis, syntax, context)
- Increase sight vocabulary and level of oral reading fluency and expression
- Identify characters, setting and events in a story
- Retell sequence and main idea of a story
- Predict and draw conclusions
- Make appropriate independent reading choices
- Use pre-writing/brainstorming activities to organize ideas
- Use appropriate punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar when writing sentences
- Maintain a focus when writing
- Write legibly
Listening/Speaking
The student will:
- Listen/respond respectfully and appropriately to the speaker
- Speak clearly and with appropriate volume
Math
The student will:
- Recognize and begin to use/record various strategies when solving problems
- Work towards mastery of addition and subtraction facts up to 18
- Read and write numerals to 999
- Be familiar with 2 and 3 digit regrouping in addition and subtraction
- Tell time to 5-minute intervals
- Identify the value of coin combinations up to $1.00
- Use fractions of whole - 1/2,1/3,1/4
- Identify attributes of two and three-D shapes
- Use various means of measurement
- Understand multiplication as "repeated addition"
- Record and/or interpret information on a variety of graphs
- Make reasonable estimates
Social Studies
The student will:
- Learn about communities
- Learn basic map skills
- Learn about holidays and prominent U.S. historical figures
Science
The student will use the scientific method to increase his/her knowledge of the following topics:
- Life cycle (plants and animals)
- Simple machines
- Recycling/Composting
- Water cycle
- Importance of healthy habits
- Weather