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Reading/Language Arts: We use the Harcourt basal reader for reading. Students are busy everyday with a variety of literacy skills. Each day is filled with many opportunities to read: shared reading, poems, big books, guided reading in a small group setting, and Accelerated Reading. One of my goals is to develop a love of reading in all children! In language, we will focus on sentence writing and the traits of writing at first and then eventually creating paragraphs. We teach the kids to use graphic organizers as they write in paragraph form. We will also learn about nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns. We use the Saxon Phonics program and Harcourt for spelling and phonics. A big part of our school day is devoted to Reading/Language Arts. Click here for reading strategies. Click here for helpful reading tips. |
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Math:
We use the Macmillan/McGraw-Hill text book along with many
hands-on activities. Each day, we will begin our lesson using the
bulletin board math followed by problem solving. We will teach
counting, addition, subtraction, solid and plane geometric figures,
location and movement, patterns, place value, comparing and ordering
numbers, money, calendar skills, telling time, meausing length, mass,
capacity, and temperature, fractions, organizing data, graphing, and
grouping.
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Social Studies: We use the Harcourt Horizons "About my World" textbook. Our units for the year are: Going to School, Good Citizens, The Land Around Us, All About People, Looking Back, and Jobs People Do. We alternate units between Social Studies and Science making sure to cover one unit of each per six weeks. |
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Science: We use the Harcourt Life Science textbook. Our units for the year are: Plants and Animals All Around, Living Together, About our Earth (Land, Air, and Water), Weather and Seasons, Matter (Solids, Liquids, and Gases) and Energy (Heat and Light), Energy (Pushes and Pulls) and Forces (Magnets). We alternate units between Social Studies and Science making sure to cover one unit of each per six weeks. |
