Our Curriculum

We cover a good variety of skills during this year!  Here are some of the skills that we will be learning or reviewing in each subject.

Treasures Reading Series

This year we will be using the Treasures Reading Series as a curriculum guide. Each week there will be a sound that we will study, vocabulary words, a grammar concept, and comprehension strategy that will be introduced.  We will also continue to have guided reading, which consists of meeting in small groups to meet their individual needs

 Daily Five

During small group time, the students will be using the structure from the Daily 5.  There are five main components to the daily five:  Read to self, Read to someone, Work on Writing, Listen to a Book, and Working with Words. While the students are rotating amongst those five centers, I will be meeting will small groups or individuals to help them with their reading skills.  For more information on the Daily Five, you can go to http://www.the2sisters.com/the_daily_5.html at we will study, vocabulary words, a grammar coept, and comprehension strategy that will be introduced. There will also be a guided reading component to assist the learning in smaller group

Math

I will be teaching these mathematical concepts.  However, if your child has these concepts mastered, then he/she will go to Mrs. Orris's classroom for instruction.

Exploring numbers and patterns; understanding addition and subtraction; money (pennies, nickels, dimes); introduction to basic fact strategies; geometry; fractions; patterns and numbers to 100; time and probability; measurement; adding and subtraciton to 10; fact families; graphs.

                                            Science/Social Studies: 

We will use three different kits from the Grantwood AEA as part of our science curriculum.  They are: Life Cycle of a Butterfly, Soils, and Balance and Motion.  Along with the kits, the students will also look at a variety of habitats and study different insects and animals.

Our social studies curriculum is partially integrated into our reading. We will be looking at famous americans, important facts about our state and country, see how other countries celebrate holidays, maps and globes, slavery and civic rights and about elections and presidency. 

Writing  

We will be working on writing during the Daily Five but also during a separate time of day to work on specific skills such as:  working left to right, top to bottom; using correct spacing between words; using sight words and phonetic spelling; writing complete sentences; following the writing process: Idea development; conventions; voice; organization; sentence fluency; word choice;