Reading/Writing

The student will:

• Demonstrate decoding/encoding skills including

-all vowel patterns

-digraphs and dipthongs

-beginning and ending blends

• Identify and use

-contractions and compound words

-nouns, verbs, adjectives

-synonyms, antonyms, homophones

• Use a variety of reading strategies to gain meaning (phonics, illustrations, structural analysis, syntax, context)

• Increase sight vocabulary and level of oral reading fluency and expression

• Identify characters, setting and events in a story

• Retell sequence and main idea of a story

• Predict and draw conclusions

• Make appropriate independent reading choices

• Use pre-writing/brainstorming activities to organize ideas

• Use appropriate punctuation, capitalization, spelling, and grammar when writing sentences

• Maintain a focus when writing

• Write legibly

Listening/Speaking

The student will:

• Listen/respond respectfully and appropriately to the speaker

• Speak clearly and with appropriate volume

The student will:

• Recognize and begin to use/record various strategies when solving problems

• Work towards mastery of addition and subtraction facts up to 18

• Read and write numerals to 999

• Be familiar with 2 and 3 digit regrouping in addition and subtraction

• Tell time to 5-minute intervals

• Identify the value of coin combinations up to $1.00

• Use fractions of whole – 1/2,1/3,1/4

• Identify attributes of two and three-D shapes

• Use various means of measurement

• Understand multiplication as “repeated addition”

• Record and/or interpret information on a variety of graphs

• Make reasonable estimates

The student will:

• Learn about communities

• Learn basic map skills

• Learn about holidays and prominent U.S. historical figures

The student will use the scientific method to increase his/her knowledge of the following topics:

• Life cycle (plants and animals)

• Simple machines

• Recycling/Composting

• Water cycle

• Importance of healthy habits

• Weather