Monthly Academic Focus

'Monthly Academic Focus' will contain information about what we are currently learning and discovering within each subject. This will constantly be changing as we move throughout our curriculum. We will be integrating subjects into each other (working cross-curricular) as a way to delve deeper into each subject and explore the real-world applications (e.g., health topics in drama, science in language, math in science). 

Global Participation:  

• United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (Global Goals) 

Math:
We will be exploring math using Big Ideas rather than going unit by unit. This allows the students to dig deeper into each concept, explore real-world connections, and have multiple opportunities to practice throughout the year. 

• Number Representation and Relationships

• Mental Math strategies

• Operations in Context

• Problem Solving skills

• Communication (making our thinking visible)

• Monthly Focus: What comes first? What comes next?

  • Time:

    • Use analog and digital clocks and timers to tell time in hours, minutes, and seconds

  • Create and translate patterns that have repeating elements, movements, or operations using various representations, including shapes, numbers, and tables of values

  • Determine pattern rules and use them to extend patterns, make and justify predictions, and identify missing elements in patterns that have repeating elements, movements, or operations

Language:

• Reading: Reading comprehension strategies, including parts of speech

• Writing: Paragraph writing, including sentence structure

Physical Education: 

• Movement skills, game structure, rules and guidelines, conventions of fair play and etiquette for basketball

Health: Mme. Day 

• Personal Safety and Injury Prevention 

Visual Art: Ms. Calleja

• Element of Design: 

  • Line: Variety of line (e.g., thin, thick, dotted)

Science: Ms. Calleja

• Scientists and the Scientific Process

Social Studies: Ms. Chen

• Settlers and Indigenous Groups

Music: Ms. Chen

• Elflandia performace

• Singing