Curriculum

Phonics

• Phonics is the study of how letters and sounds work together to make words. Learning phonics helps us become better readers and writers.
• We use the Orton Gillingham method of teaching phonics.

Reading

• Identify main idea and details in non-fiction texts
• Identify lesson or moral of a fiction story
• Use evidence from the text to infer character traits

Science

• Forces and Interactions
• Inheritance and variation of traits
• Weather and Climate
• Ecosystems

Social Studies

• First Americans: Cultural regions and interactions.
• Change over Time
• Economics
• Citizenship

Math

• Adding and subtracting 3 digit numbers within 1,000
• Multiplication and Division within 100
• Measuring liquid volume and mass, length to the nearest 1/4 inch, time to the minute, elapsed time and creating and reading graphs
• Solving 2 step word problems
• Polygons, area and perimeter
• Fractions

Writing

• Stories about myself
• Fiction stories
• Explanatory
• Opinion
• Non-fiction/research
• Edit own writing for correct capitalization, punctuation, organization and spelling