Phonics and Word Recognition: The students will learn to recognize and distinguish between long and short vowel sounds when reading and writing c-v-c and silent -e one syllable words. The students will continue to build on their sight vocabulary, adding words and increasing recall when reading and writing new sight words.
Character Study and Narrative Writing: In this unit, students will learn to pay close attention to how characters interact within a story and how they drive the actions. They will begin to ask and answer who, what, when, where, how, and why questions to further their understanding and to identify key details within a text to support their understanding. The students will learn to participate in collaborative conversations, beginning to identify and use appropriate grammar and punctuation when writing and speaking, specifically while discussing characters’ thoughts, feelings, and actions, and how they respond to major events within a text. The students will begin to listen to others perspectives and notice how others thoughts reinforce or contradict their own thoughts and understandings. Students will write a personal narrative where they will begin to apply what they have learned in reading to their own writing. The students will begin to develop fluency to aid in comprehension.
Number Sense and Place Value: Students will develop an understanding of place value through 100s. Students will learn to compare values of up to three digit numbers. Students will develop fluency with adding and subtracting within 20.
Earth’s Systems: Processes That Shape The Earth: Students learn about short and long term events/processes that shape our land. They explore the varied shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water found on Earth.
Students study their local community and learn about characteristics that define urban, suburban, and rural communities. Democratic principles and participation in government are introduced. Interaction with the environment and changes to the environment and their effects are examined. The concept of change over time and examining cause and effect are introduced. Students will examine the availability of resources and the interdependence within and across communities.
Place Value, Addition and Subtraction: Students will deepen their understandings of place value by investigating numbers up to 1,000,000. Students will explore the values of digits and the relationships between digits. Students will also compare, round, add, and subtract numbers using strategies based on place value.
Earth’s Systems: Processes That Shape The Earth: Students learn about short and long term events/processes that shape our land. They explore the varied shapes and kinds of land and bodies of water found on Earth.
students will develop a beginning understanding that New York State has a diverse geography and that various maps can be used to represent and examine the geography of New York State.They will also examine how New York State can be represented using a political map that shows cities, capitals, and boundaries.
Earth Science – Human Impacts: Students explore natural hazards, and how human activities have both a negative and positive impact on Earth Systems.
Earth Science – Earth’s Systems: Students explore Earth’s materials and systems, the roles of water in Earth’s surface processes, and how humans depend on and use Earth’s natural resources.
