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Reading
Goal:
To develop effective lifetime listeners, speakers, and writers by establishing
early skills in order to transmit information, express thoughts and ideas
understandable to others.
To offer
successful reading experiences to students and help develop the skills to
unlock the world.
An assortment
of big books, along with leveled readers and Accelerated Reader books, are
used to instruct the standards, comprehension, and strategies for reading.
As the student’s reading ability is assessed, the student accelerates through
text levels.
Writing
The
teacher models writing using thinking maps and strategies from "Write from
the Beginning". Students write stories of their choice or on topics
generated by the teacher in journals using invented spelling and word wall
words when necessary. Students correct mistakes in Daily Oral Language
sentences to provide instruction and practice in writing. Spelling
words are practiced each week, chosen from high frequency words.
Math
Goal:
To develop lifelong skills such as: number concepts, problem-solving, geometry,
measurement, and probability, necessary for children to build the foundations
of mathematical understanding.
Math
skills are taught using Harcourt Math curriculum. Calendar activities
use the day’s date to teach and practice skills; equations with the
day’s date as the answer; counting money for the day’s date; odd/even numbers;
days in school (place value); telling time; measuring in inches/centimeters;
naming day for tomorrow, today, yesterday; naming months; shapes; patterning
symbols on calendar pieces, and a problem for the day. Larson's Math
during Computer Lab is used for enrichment.
Science/Health
Goal:
To develop lifetime concepts and processing skills necessary for children
to understand the world in which they live.
To develop concepts and skills that foster personal health and safety and
encourage students to behave in healthful ways throughout their lives.
FOSS
kits (New Plants; Solids, Liquids, and Gases; Pebbles, Silt, and Sand; Balance
and Motion), HBJ “Being Healthy” big books, and chapters from Scott Foresman
Science, also with “hands-on” activities, are used to present the science
standards.
Social
Studies
Goal:
To help children know people and events, past and present, and help them
gain understanding and confidence to become effective citizens in a complex,
changing world.
Harcourt
Brace Social Studies, Weekly Reader, and monthly themes are used to instruct
the social studies standards.
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