LANGUAGE ARTS

Reading

• Ask and answer questions about a story!

• Retell a story!

• Identify character, settings, and events in a story!

• Identify words and phrases that suggest feelings!

• Explain major differences between fiction and non-fiction books!

• Identify who is telling the story in different parts of the text!

• Use illustrations and details to describe characters, settings, and events!

• Compare/contrast adventures and experiences of characters!

• Read prose and poetry!

• Ask and answer questions about key details of a story!

• Identify the main idea and recall key details!

• Describe the connection between people, events, ideas, or information in a story!

• Determine and clarify the meaning of words and phrases in a story!

• Use text features to find new information in a text!

• Distinguish between information given by illustrations and information given by the written text!

• Use the illustrations and details to describe key ideas!

• Identify the reasons an author gives to support the text!

• Identify similarities and differences between two texts that are about the same topic!

• Read informational texts!

• Recognize the features of a sentence!

• Distinguish long and short vowels!

• Produce single syllable words by blending sounds!

• Isolate and produce initial, medial and ending sounds!

• Break a word into individual sounds!

• Recognize common consonant digraphs!

• Decode one-syllable words!

• Use final e and common vowel teams for long vowel sounds!

• Understand that every syllable must contain a vowel!

• Decode two-syllable words!

• Read words with inflectional endings!

• Recognize and read irregularly spelled words!

• Read with accuracy and fluency!

Writing

• Write about an opinion!

• Write about a topic!

• Write a narrative!

• Work with others to strengthen my writing!

• Work with others and use digital tools to create writing projects!

• Work with others to research for writing projects!

• Answer questions from what I know or from new resources!

Speaking/Listening~

• Work in a group following proper listening and speaking rules!

• Ask and answer questions about important details!

• Ask and answer questions when I don't understand!

• Describe people, places, things and ideas!

• Use pictures to help my description!

• Speak clearly to express my thoughts!

Oral Language

• Print all uppercase and lowercase letters!

• Use common, proper and possessive nouns!

• Use personal, possessive and indefinite pronouns!

• Use past, present and future tense verbs!

• Use frequently occurring adjectives!

• Use determiners!

• Use frequently occurring prepositions!

• Write complete simple sentences!

• Write complete compound sentences!

• Capitalize dates and names of people!

• Use commas in dates and to separate a series of words!

• Spell words correctly!

• Spell unknown words phonetically!

• Determine and clarify the meaning of unknown words!

• Understand figurative language, word relationships and nuances in word meanings!

• Use new words and phrases that I have learned from listening and reading!

MATH

• Answer word problems.

• Answer word problems that add three numbers.

• Understand how addition and subtraction is related.

• Use subtraction to answer an addition problem.

• Count on to any number.

• Solve addition problems.

• Solve subtraction problems.

• Say my addition facts to 10.

• Say my subtraction facts to 10.

• Explain what an equal sign means.

• Recognize true and false equations.

• Find the unknown number.

• Count to 120 beginning from any number my teacher says.

• Compare numbers to answer greater than, less than, and equal to questions.

• Understand place value. (Tens and Ones)

• Add tens and ones.

• Find 10 more.

• Find 10 less.

• Explain and subtract multiples of 10.

• Compare objects by length.

• Measure lengths of objects using other smaller objects.

• Write the time. (digital)

• Write the time. (analog)

• Read a graph.

• Create a graph.

• Describe shapes.

• Build shapes.

• Draw shapes.

• Create 2-dimensional shapes.

• Create 3-dimensional shapes.

• Divide shapes into equal parts.

• Understand and explain halves.

• Understand and explain fourths.

• Understand and explain quarters.

Authors

• eric-carle.com - Eric Carle

• janbrett.com - Jan Brett

• scholastic.com/clifford - Norman Bridwell

• seussville.com - Dr. Seuss

• robertmunsch.com - Robert Munsch

• memfox.com - Mem Fox

Reading

• pbskids.org

• wordplays.com

• readwritethink.org

• kidsdomain.com

• starfall.com

Math

• mathfactcafe.com

• funbrain.com

• coolmath.com

SCIENCE

Life Science

Plants

• Identify the parts of seeds and plants.

• Distinguish between living and nonliving things.

Butterflies

• Identify the four stages of butterfly development.

• Discuss animal habitats.

Physical Science

• Force and Magnets

• Experiment with how things move and work.

• Investigate how magnets push and pull.

Earth Science

Weather and Seasons

• Investigate the effects of weathering on air, land, and water.

• Identify how weather changes from season to season.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Political Systems

• Basic principles of the U.S. government.

• Election processes and responsibility of citizens, elected officials, civic leaders.

Economics

• Needs vs. wants.

• Roles of consumers and producers.

History

• Significance of historical events in community, country, and world.

• Effects of change in the economy and environment.

Geography

• Use maps, globes, charts, pictures to understand information.

• Physical components of the Earth's ecosystems.

Social Systems

• Relationships of groups in society (employer/employee, student, community member).

• Apply PeaceBuilder skills to contribute to society.

HEALTH

Growing Up Well

• Healthy practices

• Recognition of healthy foods

• Making good choices

• Feelings

• Accepting differences

• Self-esteem

• Learning to say "no"

• Peer pressure

• Dental health

• Personal hygiene