Reading & Literature
- Develop reading comprehension strategies and vocabulary
- Practice fluency, expression, accuracy, and decoding strategies
- Predict, summarize, infer, and find the main idea in texts
- Use mentor texts as models for writing
- Identify non-fiction text features
- Identify character traits
- Build stamina with daily independent reading
- Use evidence to support responses to literature
Writing & Language Arts
- Use the Writer’s Workshop model to complete personal narratives, informational writing, poetry, and journal entries for reflection and responses to reading
- Follow the steps of the writing process: prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing
- Study paragraph writing
- Practice parts of speech, capitalization, and basic sentence punctuation
- Practice manuscript letter formation using Handwriting Without Tears
- Develop presentation skills through chapel presentations, publishing parties, and sharing at morning meeting
Social Studies
- People Power Skills development
- Change Makers: historical examples who inspire us
- Immigration: causes, challenges, and contributions
- Lakota People and American Pioneers
Mathematics
- Using multiple strategies to solve problems, such as open number lines and splitting according to - place value
- Posing and solving word problems
- Single and double digit addition and subtraction
- Place value to 1,000
- Measurement: time and length
- Adding coins within a dollar
- Geometry: shape attributes and vocabulary
- Sorting, graphing, and interpreting data
Science
- Plants and seeds
- Penguins and Antarctica
- Geology
- Buddy projects with seventh grade science buddies
Spanish
- Reinforce and expand vocabulary: numbers, family, food, animals, shapes, colors, classroom objects, and feelings
- Use music, art, and games to organically acquire new vocabulary
- Develop listening and speaking skills through guided conversations with peers using phrases, formulaic language, learned words, and greetings
STEAM
- What is Technology?
- Digital Citizenship: online safety and unique usernames and passwords
- Learn parts of a computer, use of a mouse and trackpad
- iPad - acceptable use, resilience, and persistence
- Programming: unplugged activities about loops
Music
- Kindergarten, first, and second grade chorus
- Rhythm work with hand percussion and movement games
- Introduction to world folk music
- Performing Arts program, including dance and drama
Physical Education
- Chasing, fleeing, and dodging
- Supporting body weight for climbing and hanging
- Identifying feelings related to challenges and successes
- Swimming: exploration and confidence
Service Learning
Help seniors at the weekly Food Co-op by assisting with restocking, purchasing, weighing, and bagging fresh produce and bread