Reading

• Continue to develop phonics skills as part of an integrated system for the identification of unknown words.
• Continue to expand sight vocabulary.
• Develop greater reading fluency with more challenging texts.
• Expand basic understanding of story plot and character development.
• Make a variety of meaningful connections to text including using  background knowledge.
• Analyze texts and respond with higher levels of thinking about a story.
• Read independently for enjoyment.

   Language Arts 

• Use the writing process for friendly letters, personal stories, informational pieces, and creative pieces.
• Show logical sequencing of ideas in written pieces.
• Expand simple sentences with descriptive words and phrases.
• Reduce and use uniform size and spacing of letters in printing.
• Begin formal spelling study, moving from phonetic to conventional spelling.
• Use the word-study technique for spelling words.
• Express self clearly in complete sentences while retelling a story, stating directions, or participating in discussions.
• Use elementary research strategies to gather, organize, and present information.
• Use capital letters in proper names, places, months, days of the week, and holidays.
• Be introduced to commas, apostrophes, and exclamation marks.
• Write sentences as complete thoughts.
• Recognize parts of speech - words that name, describe, or tell action.
• Apply correct usage, capitalization, spelling, and punctuation in final drafts of compositions.
• Reduce sentence errors such as fragments and run-ons.
• Use commas correctly in dates and addresses, for items in a series, and greeting/closing of friendly letters.
• Identify nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns.
• Write to a narrative prompt.

  Mathematics

  Science

  Social Studies

• Locate four oceans and seven continents.
• Describe various landforms.
• Demonstrate the understanding of symbols, legends, scale, and directions on a map.
• Analyze similarities and differences between Woodland and Plains Native American Indians.
• Discuss the contributions of the Native American Indians to U.S. culture.
• Recognize the need for authority, rules, and laws.
• Make informed decisions about needs and wants, goods and services.
• Use communication, negotiation, and decision-making processes.
• Cooperate with others in group projects.
• Discuss current events.

  Health

• Learn to appreciate and develop relationships with family and friends.
• self-esteem.
• Develop good sportsmanship.
• Discuss study rules dealing with emergencies such as “dangerous strangers” and child abuse.
• Discuss definition of drugs, their use and abuse and ways to prevent accidental poisoning caused by ingesting household substances.

  Phys Ed

The Physically Educated Person:

• Has learned skills necessary to perform a variety of physical activities.
• physically fit.
• Does participate regularly in physical activity.
• Knows the implications of and benefits from involvement in physical activity.
• Values physical activity and its contribution to a healthful lifestyle.

  Library

• Select appropriate materials from various collections in the library.
• Follow circulation procedures.
• Use the electronic catalog to locate materials.
• Produce an answer to a simple research question. Write a basic bibliography.
• Demonstrate appropriate behavior with print and electronic resources.
• Enjoy fiction and non-fiction by a variety of authors and illustrators, drawn from various cultures and experiences.

  Art 

• Identify visual and tactile textures; natural and man-made shapes.
• Have opinions about art.
• Combine the same assortment of lines, shapes, colors, and textures in several ways to express a variety of ideas.
• Explore basic relief printmaking techniques using the elements of texture and shape.
• Identify different types of media used to create artwork.
• Differentiate among the functional and decorative arts of European American and Native American craftspeople.
• Analyze and describe how the elements of line, shape, color and texture are used in artwork.
• Explore a three-dimensional craft process using the subtractive method.
• Use puppetry processes to create interesting characters.

  Music 

• Recognize and sing melodic patterns using the pentatonic scale: do, re, mi, so, la.
• Perform rhythms that include half notes, half rests, whole notes and whole rests.
• Recognize separated eighth notes and the eighth rest.
• Perform rhythmic and melodic ostinato patterns.
• Awareness of bar line and meter (duple/quadruple).
• Experience musical concepts through signing, playing instruments and song games.
• Recognition of two- and three-part form (AB/ABA).