LITERACY
We have started a new curriculum through EL Education.
More details will be posted here soon.
MATH
We use the Investigations math program. It is a comprehensive program focusing on skills students need to know as they grow older. These activities encourage math conversations, sharing ideas between students, and explanations of their solving (right or not) so we can understand what their math thinking is and to build it or enhance it.
Students will focus on:
solving word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division in one or two steps
multiplying and dividing up to 10x10 quickly and accurately, knowing times by memory
multiply numbers with more than one digit
fractions
measuring and estimating weights and volumes, with in problem solving
areas and perimeters of shapes
interpreting and representing data
making sense of problems and persevering to solve them
precision while working
using tools strategically
SCIENCE
Evolving Minds - How do species change over time?
Mag Lev trains
Amphibians and Animal Classification - life cycles are different for different organisms and living things can be grouped in many ways
SOCIAL STUDIES
What is history?
Massachusetts Geography focusing on our state, landforms, and water ways of MA.
Wampanoag people and the impact of the arrival of English settlers
Pilgrims
Colonial newton and Boston