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English-Language Arts

The English-Language Arts curriculum is literature based.  It emphasizes the integration of reading, writing, spelling, listening and speaking.

Priority in use of materials is as follows:

• Core Literature:  World of Language/New Beginnings/My Time to Shine

• Alternates:  Garden Gates and Going Places

• Literacy reader and workbooks

Reading Skills:

• Phonics-vowels (long and short), blends, digraphs, inflected endings, dipthongs, possessives, prefixes, suffixes, syllable patterns, and comparative endings

• Comprehension - reading a story and answering questions, retelling the story, identifying characters, main ideas, settings and sequencing

• Structure - mechanics and usage

• Reference and Study Skills - reading a newspaper, graphs, tables, diagrams, and maps

Writing::

• D'Nealian printing and cursive

• Neatness

Language:

• Sentences:  parts and the 4 kinds

• Nouns and Pronouns

• Verbs:  subject-verb agreement

• Adjectives:  how many and what kind

• Vocabulary:  synonyms, compounds, prefixes, suffixes, words that sound alike, contractions, antonyms, and clues to word meaning

• Sequence

• Writing Skills:  persuading, classifying, imagining, creating, informing, narrating, describing, and researching

• Reports, letters and messages

• Grammar, capital letters, and punctuation

Spelling:

• Lists, phonetic relationship

• Dictation

• Applied spelling (use words in sentences)

• Weekly spelling words are reinforced with the Orchard Program during Computer class

Listening:

• Listen attentively

• Listen for auditory discrimination and sound-symbol correspondence

• Listen to and receive instruction and gain information

Speaking:

• Sharing, "Show and Tell"

• Oral Reports

• Readers' Theatres, reading books to classmates

Social-Studies

We learn in Many Ways

• Families

• Five senses

• School

• Groups

Learning About Communities

• Types of communities, likes and differences

Living in Groups

• Learning rules and laws

• City government

• Elected officials

Working in Communities

• Needs and Wants

• Spending and earning money, Budget plan

• Community workers

Communities of Long Ago

• First Americans

• Settlements

• Schools of long ago

Communities Around the World

• Japan, Brazil , Liberia, and other countries other than the United States; likes and differences

Our Country Today

• Country government

• Symbols

Holidays People Celebrate

• Thanksgiving

• Martin Luther King, Jr.

• Presidents' Day

• Independence Day

Map Skills

• Cardinal directions

• Land forms

• Map keys

• Seven continents and four oceans

• Time lines

Skill Builders

• Picture glossary

• Reading a map

• Following written directions

• Finding main ideas

• Compare and contrast

• Reading bar graphs

• Identifying seasons

Mathematics

Addition and Subtraction

• Counting on and counting back

• Adding and subtracting doubles

• Facts 0-18

• Timed 100 fact tests

• Adding and subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers with and without regrouping

• Column addition and subtraction

Patterns and Numbers to 100

• Place value:  ones, tens, hundreds, thousands

• Patterns, skip counting:  2's, 3's, 4's, 5's, and 10's

• Odd and even numbers

• Ordering numbers

• Ordinal numbers

Money

• Identify and count pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, half dollars, dollars

Time

• Tell time to the hour, half hour, quarter hour, five minute intervals, and exact minute

• Elapsed time

• Schedules

• Recognize time on digital and standard clocks

Measurement

• Understanding length and height (inches, feet, yards, centimeters, and meters)

• Understanding weight (pounds, grams, and kilograms)

• Understanding capacity (cups, pints, quarts, and liters)

• Temperature

Geometry

• Space shapes

• Plane shapes

• Corners and sides

• Perimeter

Fractions

• Symmetry

• Equal parts

• Fractions:  1/2, 1/3, 1/4, and 1 whole

Probability:

• Recording data from a survey

Exploring Early Multiplication and Division

• Facts 0-5

Problem Solving

• Missing addends

• Write a number sentence

• Make a graph

• Choose an operation

• Guess and check

• Make a list

• Use data from picture

• Find a pattern

• Getting date from a table

• Use logical reasoning

• Using a calendar

• Use number patterns

• Make predictions

• Act it out

• Too much information

• Draw a picture

• Using pictographs

Science

Life Science

• Grouping animals

• Grouping plants

• Living things of long ago

Physical Science

• Learning about matter

• Energy in your life

Earth Science

• Sun

• Air and water

• Looking at weather

Human Body

• How your body works

• Keeping your body safe