Curriculum
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The standards and objectives that your child is learning at school come from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the North Carolina Essential Standards (NCES). These standards define what students should know and be able to do in order to be college and career-ready. In addition to these standards, English language learner students are also learning the WIDA Standards. The WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards represent the social, instructional, and academic language that students need in order to engage with peers, educators, and the curriculum in schools.
The standards and objectives that your child is learning at school come from the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and the North Carolina Essential Standards (NCES). These standards define what students should know and be able to do in order to be college and career-ready. In addition to these standards, English language learner students are also learning the WIDA Standards. The WIDA English Language Development (ELD) Standards represent the social, instructional, and academic language that students need in order to engage with peers, educators, and the curriculum in schools.
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (Kindergarten - Spanish Link)
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (Kindergarten - Spanish Link)
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (First Grade Link)
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (First Grade Link)
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (First Grade - Spanish Link)
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (First Grade - Spanish Link)
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (Second Grade Link)
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (Second Grade Link)
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (Second Grade - Spanish Link)
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (Second Grade - Spanish Link)
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (Fifth Grade Link)
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (Fifth Grade Link)
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (Fifth Grade - Spanish Link)
What You Can Expect Your Child to Learn (Fifth Grade - Spanish Link)
Kindergarten:
- Language Arts:
- Understand features of print: left to right, top to bottom
- ID parts of a book
- Name and write upper and lowercase letters and sounds
- Rhyme identification and production
- Break words into syllables
- Isolate and substitute beginning, middle, and ending sounds in words
- Long and short vowel sounds
- Read high frequency words
- Read emergent level text for purpose and understanding
- Answer questions about and retell stores
- ID character, setting, and major events in a story
- ID author and illustrator roles
- Compare stories
- Spell words phonetically
- Write a variety of stories ranging from research papers to personal narratives
- Write multiple sentences with proper spacing, capitalization, punctuation, and meaningful content
- Recognize appropriate uses for nouns and verbs and use singular and plural correctly
- Use inflections and affixes correctly (-ed, -ing, un-, -pre)
First Grade:
- Literacy: Unit One: Readers Build Good Habits. a. Shopping for “Just Right” Books b. Practicing Partner Reading and Private Reading. c. Reviewing why it is important to reread.
- Phonics: Short & Long Vowel Sounds in Words (C-V-C)
- Phonemic Awareness: Blending Sounds to Form Words (C-V-C)
- Word Structure: Compound Words
- Spelling & Writing: Beginning Small Moment and Narrative Writing. a. Adding details with dialogue b. Speech bubbles c. Action words d. Specific names of people and places
- Grammar: Nouns and Pronouns
- High Frequency Words: is, and, the, my, me, I, can, little, be, was, for
- Science: Ecosystems; Earth Systems; Earth in the Universe; Force and Motion
- Social Studies: Neighborhoods and Communities a. Leaders at Home, School and the Community b. Geography c. Culture d. Economics
Second Grade:
- Literacy: Reading Units:
- Unit 1: Taking Charge of Reading
- Unit 2: Reading Information Books, Reading the World
- Unit 3: Getting to Know Characters and their Stories
- Unit 4: Shoring Up on Foundational Skills-Reading Harder, Vocabulary-Rich Books with Accuracy, Fluency, and Meaning
- Unit 5: Series Reading and Cross-Genre Reading Clubs
- Unit 6: Nonfiction Reading Clubs
- Unit 7: Reading and Role Playing: Fiction, Folktales, and Fairytales
- Social Studies: Citizenship & Character; Geography & Environmental Literacy
- Writing: Unit 1: Lessons from the Masters, Improving Narrative Writing
- Unit 2: Informational Writing
- Unit 3: Writing Gripping Fictional Stories
- Unit 4: Poetry-Big Thoughts in Small Packages
- Unit 5: Writing About Reading-Opinion Writing
- Unit 6: Lab Reports and Science Books
- Unit 7: Writers, Make Your Case! Argumentative Writing
- Complete Sentences; Statements & Questions; Punctuation & Capitalization; Write to Narrate: Sentences that tell a true story; friendly letters; Sentences that describe; true story; Writing to Inform: Informational Paragraph; Summary Paragraph, Instructions
Language Arts:
- Subjects & Predicates
- Complete Sentences
- Statements & Questions
- Multiple-Meaning Words
- What is a noun?
- Context Clues
- Singular & Plural Nouns
- Proper Nouns
- Homophones
- What is a verb?
- Compound Words
- Present-Tense Verbs
- Synonyms
- Verbs: Past, Present, & Future
- Spelling: Short vowels: a, i, o, u, e; Long Vowels: a, e, i, o, u; Consonant Blends r, l, s; Common final blends (nd, ng, nk, nt, ft, xt, mp); Double Consonant and ck; Words with th, sh, wh, ch, tch; Base words with endings (-ed, -ing); Contractions
Fifth Grade:
- Science: Science Inquiry; Intro. to Matter; The Water Cycle
- Academic Key Vocabulary - Matter; Solid; Liquid; Gas; Freezing Point; Melting Point; Boiling Point; Condensation; Evaporation; Energy; Physical Change; Chemical Change; Volume; Mass
- Literacy: Throughout the 1st quarter, students will learn about the components of reading and writing workshop. This will consist of reading, stopping and jotting, turning and talking, conferencing, and recording our reading. This quarter in writing, students will strengthen their knowledge of the writing process by writing a personal narrative.
- Reading and Writing Objectives:
- RL.5.1 Quote accurately from the text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.
- RL.5.3 Compare and contrast two or more characters, settings, or events in a story or drama, drawing on specific details in the text (e.g. how characters interact).
- W.5.3 Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences.