Course Description
Reading emerges from writing, and observations of animals and nature become the subject of poems, writing, and stories. The rhythmic nature of rhyming poems becomes a natural and playful means of working with phonetic letter sounds as students develop their independent reading skills. In Social Studies, students continue to develop their understanding of history, geography, economics, and civics. Fables and folktales provide the backdrop for learning about ancient cultures, and universal human themes. Students explore the themes of good citizenship by learning about the lives of inspiring individuals. In Math, students are developing a growing understanding of mathematics and confidence in manipulating numbers leads to work with the multiplication tables and gaining skill with the four processes. In Science, students continue to develop their observation skills as they explore the world of animals. Themes such as interdependence, natural rhythms, and classification provide the foundation for close-up investigations into the plant and animal kingdoms. Through hands-on and investigative activities in Art, Crafts, Music, and Health, students engage in explorations of color and craft, develop their recorder playing skills, and conduct inquiries into topics related to their healthy development.
Major Concepts
Language Arts
Major Concepts
Language Arts
- Independent reading
- Writing and reading own writing
- Consonant blends and word families
- Poetry
- Fables and other classic stories
- Summarizing
- Animal stories and fables
- Letter sounds
- Summarizing
- Vowel combinations
- Vowel/consonant combinations
- Increased writing output
- Folklore of Ancient China
- Ancient Mali and Sundiata
- Ancient Celts and St. Bridget
- Family customs and traditions
- Parts of a map
- African geography
- Continents
- Bartering
- Community and natural resources
- Using money and making choices
- Value of kindness
- Honesty
- Aesop's Fables and tall tales
- Inspiring Individuals: Rosa Parks and Susan B. Anthony
- The Five Senses
- Animals
- Natural rhythms
- Identifying trees
- Nature stories
- Life of bees
- Animal homes and habitats
- Vertebrates and invertebrates
- Animal tracks
- Food chain
- Interdependence
- Communication
- Scientific research
- Life of a frog
- Numbers 1 - 10
- Story problems
- Radicial division sign
- Numbers 1 - 700
- Simple graphs
- Money
- Multiplication tables: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10
- Place value
- Numbers 701 - 999
- Patterns and sequences
- Recorder playing
- Crocheting, working with clay, basic crafts