Curriculum Overview at a Glance

Reading:

• Shift changes to reading to learn
• Focus on vocabulary & comprehension
• Comprehension skills:  main idea, author’s purpose, narrative elements, compare/contrast, sequence, predict outcomes, fact & fiction, inferences, summarizing, multi-meaning words
• Reading strategies:  decoding, rereading aloud, self-correcting, creating mental images, predicting, sequencing & summarizing, looking for word parts, reading ahead, using context
• Grammar component
• Fluency and expression

Writing:

• Correct capitalization & punctuation
• Correct form for friendly letters
• Informational paragraphs
• Beginning, Middle, End Narratives
• 5 step process:  Pre-write, 1st Draft, Revise, Edit, Publish
• Legible printing

Science:

• Plants & Seeds
• Environmental Change on Living Things
• Changes in Matter
• Changes in Weather Patterns
• Class experiments

Spelling:

• Spell common, phonetically regular grade level words in daily writing
• Spell frequently used, irregular words correctly in daily writing

Speaking & Listening:

• Speak clearly
• Eye contact
• Appropriate volume & grammar
• Stay on topic
• Sit quietly without interrupting
• Respond appropriately

Research & Study Skills:

• Alphabetizing to the second letter to locate information in reference materials
• Interpret visual organizers
• Use strategies to select best answer

Social Studies:

• Democratic principles & Good Citizenship
• Historical awareness (Colonists, Martin Luther King, Jr., Thanksgiving, Native Americans, Pledge of Allegiance, National Anthem)
• Geography
• Effects of Culture on self & others
• Economic principles

Math:

• Problem solving strategies
• Order & Round numbers to 100
• Interpret & create tables, charts, and graphs
• Label & identify fractions (1/2, 1/3, 1/4)
• Immediate recall of Addition & Subtraction facts to 18
• 2 and 3 digit Addition/Subtraction problems with & without regrouping
• Multiplication facts for 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
• Tell time to 5-minute interval
• Measurement
• Value of money to $4.99
• Plane shapes & Solid shapes and their properties
• Symmetry & perimeter
• Patterns & Fact Families
• Missing Addends