A Developmental Curriculum• Time to be active and explore the environment

• Opportunities to experiment, solve problems and make fruitful mistakes

• Thoughtful questions perhaps having more than one answer

• Choices• Respect and caring• Ideas, creations and discoveries are valued and

displayed• Observation of children during independent work• Exploration of feelings, dreams and conflicts• Work measured and evaluated against developmental

milestones

Components of

READING

Exploring literature (including a substantial variety of genre), oral language, word identification, vocabulary, comprehension and writing development are our goals.

100 BOOK CHALLENEGE“The more you read, the

better you read”

• Self-selected books• Independent reading

level20 minutes in school• 20-30 minutes at

home• Books color-coded by

reading level

LANGUAGE ARTS

English• Sentence structure• Parts of Speech• Conventions• Fundations

Writing• The Writing Process• Writer’s Workshop• Writing to Learn• Response Writing

FundationsPhonics and word analysis•Distinguish long and short vowels•Read and spell words with short vowels•Read and spell words with vowel teams•Identify parts of words (syllables, base words, suffixes, prefixes)•Read and spell r-controlled words•Read and spell high-frequency words•Divide multisyllabic words

Vocabulary•Use synonyms•Understand multiple meaning words•Apply dictionary skills

Accuracy•Write clear, legible manuscript at an appropriate rate•Conventions (punctuation, capitalization)•Produce complete sentences

TECHNOLOGY• Computer Lab (Tuesday 10:30)• I-Pads/ Laptops/Flash Drives• Research• Independent Study• PowerPoint/MS PhotoStory 3• Digital Camera/Flip Digital Video• Karaoke machine/Document Camera/Student Response System• Websites for independent practice (National Library of Virtual Manipulatives)

• Concord Elementary Website

enVision MathCommon Core

Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley

Common Core Standards identify a limited number of topics at each grade level, allowing enough time for students to achieve mastery of these concepts, rather than a spiral curriculum in which students revisit numerous topics from one to the next.

enVision MathCommon

CoreScott Foresman-Addison Wesley

Core Principals of Math Instruction include:•Conceptual Understanding•Computational Fluency•Problem-Solving Skills National Mathematics Advisory Panel

Standards for Mathematical

Practice• Make sense of problems and

persevere in solving them• Reason abstractly and quantitatively• Construct viable arguments and

critique the reasoning of others• Model with mathematics• Use appropriate tools strategically• Attend to precision• Look for and make use of structure• Look for and express regularity in repeated

reasoning

SCIENCE

• Changes• Balancing & Weighing• Life Cycle of a Butterfly• Energy

SOCIAL STUDIESSocial Studies

AliveTCI (Teachers’ Curriculum

Institute)

• Community• Maps/Geography• Leaders/Citizenship• Goods and Services• Environment

Olweus

“Bullying is when someone repeatedly and on purpose says or does mean or hurtful things to another person who has a hard time defending himself or herself.”

• School Policy• Classroom Meetings• Intervention Strategies• Reporting