LANGUAGE ARTS

Weeks 1-12

Introduction to Writer’s Workshop/Narrative Writing

Writing Process

·       Prewrites to generate ideas

·       Uses ideas to produce a rough draft

·       Rereads writing

·       Revises to add details

·       Edits to make corrections

Content

·       Self selects ideas

·       Writes text of appropriate length

·       Uses chronological order

·       Uses transition words

·       Practices author’s craft

·       Writes clear coherent text

·       Describes an experience

·       Uses legible handwriting

·       Shows evidence of a plan

·       Creates a believable world (setting)

·       Develops internal and external events

Conventions

·       Uses common rules of spelling

·       Uses capital letters

·       Uses ending punctuation

·       Begins to use commas

·       Begins to use subject-verb agreement

·       Review and reinforce the elements from previous nine weeks

·       Uses nouns (singular, plural and possessive)

·       Uses personal pronouns (singular and plural)

·       Uses singular possessive pronouns

·       Uses subject-verb agreement

·       Begins to recognize and use quotation marks

MATH

Represent and Compare Numbers to 100

·     Represent numbers using models, drawings, and number sentences

·     Create number sentences to represent number quantities (e.g. 76 represented as 70+6)

·     Represent 2-digit numbers with base tens and drawings of tens and ones

·     Use boxes, letters, or ___  to represent a missing value

·     Use symbols ( =, ≠, >, < ) to show relationships in mathematical expressions

·     Understand numbers using 10 and 100 as a unit

·     Use strategies such as benchmark numbers to solve problems

Data

·     Organize and display data using picture graphs and simple charts or tables to record results

·     Know how to interpret picture graphs and bar graphs

2 Digit Addition

·     Understand addition is the opposite of subtraction

·     Review basic addition facts to 18

·     Add 2 digit numbers with and without regrouping

·     Use properties to simplify problems i.e. 98 + 17 = 100 + 15

·     Use boxes, letters, or ___  to represent a missing value

·     Use symbols ( =, ≠, >, < ) to show relationships in mathematical expressions

·     Use properties of addition (commutative, associative, and identity) to simplify problems

·     Estimate to determine whether the solution is reasonable for addition 

Money

·     Count collections of coins and currency

·     Use decimal notation when writing money

·     Use the symbols for dollars ($) and cents (¢)

SCIENCE

Ongoing throughout the year

Summer

·       Observe and record the changes in trees that are familiar to students. 

·       Match the tree to the season.

·       Apply prior knowledge of seasonal changes to why trees change throughout the year.

·       Predict how the tree will change during the next season.  

Fall

·       Observe and record the changes in trees that are familiar to students. 

·       Match the tree to the season.

·       Apply prior knowledge of seasonal changes to why trees change throughout the year. 

·       Predict how the tree will change during the next season.  

Winter

·       Observe and record the changes in trees that are familiar to students. 

·       Match the tree to the season.

·       Apply prior knowledge of seasonal changes to why trees change throughout the year. 

·       Predict how the tree will change during the next season.  

Spring

·       Observe and record the changes in trees that are familiar to students. 

·       Match the tree to the season.

·       Apply prior knowledge of seasonal changes to why trees change throughout the year. 

·       Predict how the tree will change during the next season.  

Three States of Matter

·       Identify, describe, and classify the three states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases according to their
         properties.

·       All matter takes up space and has mass.

Physical Changes of Matter

·       That all matter does not change in the same way.

·       Identify how change affects the properties of matter.

·       Observe, predict, and describe the changes that were applied to matter

Changes in Surroundings

·       Weather, people, animals, and plants cause changes that affect the earth’s surface.

·       Things change in some ways and stay the same in other ways.

·       Sometimes changing one thing causes changes in something else.

·       Some changes are predictable and some are not.

SOCIAL STUDIES