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