Overview of Concepts for the year:
*MATH-
Students will build an understanding of:
– Counting Coins and Combinations
– Shapes, Blocks, and Symmetry
– Stickers, Number Strings, Story Problems
– Pockets, Teeth, and Favorite Things
– How Many Floors? How Many Rooms?
– How Many Tens? How Many Ones?
– Parts of a Whole, Parts of a Group
– Partners, Teams, and Paperclips
– Measuring Length and Time
*IMAGINE IT! -
Students will:
–develop and apply enabling strategies and skills to read and write.
–develop and apply strategies and skills to comprehend text that is read, heard, and viewed.
–make connections through the use of oral language, written language, and media and technology.
of:
–apply strategies and skills to create oral, written, and visual texts.
–apply grammar and language conventions to communicate effectively.
*SCIENCE-
Students will build an understanding
-Plant and Animal Life Cycles
-Changes in Weather
-Changes in Properties
-Concepts of Sound
*SOC. STUD. –
Students will build an understanding of:
•Citizenship
•Communities
–Similarities/differences, roles of people
•Responsibilities in Society
–Relationships between people and government
•History
–Change in neighborhoods, different cultural traditions
•Geography
–Apply basic concepts and themes to neighborhoods
•Economics
–Apply basic concepts to neighborhoods and uses of economic resources in different neighborhoods