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READING: Increase
understanding of fiction and non-fiction selections
 | Increase and refine using phonics skills
for decoding words |
| Expand non-phonetic tools for reading
(using context clues, re-reading, etc) |
| Recall details and determine main ideas by
summarizing and retell |
| Make inferences, drawing conclusions and
making predictions based upon facts |
| Adjust reading speed for purpose (pleasure
reading is faster and studying is slower) |
| ADOPTED AND SUPPLEMENTAL RESOURCES: Basal,
Accelerated Reading
Practice
Reading Comprehension resource
Help your student get un-stuck |
MATH: Improve on basic calculation and
life skills (telling time, money, etc) and develop abilities to apply skills
to problem-solving. Develop ability to
EXPLAIN strategies and thinking process that lead to solutions.
| Commit to
memory addition,
subtraction, multiplication and division facts |
| Understand our number place system (name
larger numbers, round numbers to estimate, know
values of places to million, etc) |
| Add and subtract with and without
regrouping (borrowing) |
| Build on skills to tell time, measure, work
with money, geometry, fractions |
| Use a variety of strategies to solve
problems and explain their ideas justifying strategies. |
| ADOPTED AND SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES:
Investigations (TERC), and text book |
LANGUAGE ARTS: Communicate in writing
effectively using the writing process to
create fiction and non-fiction reflecting the six traits of writing.
Content, organization, style and
conventions)
| Write appropriately for their purpose (
expository, narrative, persuasive) |
| Develop a well-organized paragraph
containing topic and concluding sentences, details and explanations. |
| Use convention skills ( capitalization,
punctuation, grammar usage, spelling) in DAILY work |
| ADOPTED AND SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES:
Step Up to Writing
and Write on Track |
STUDY SKILLS AND SOCIAL STUDIES: Develop the
"habits of mind" that prepare the student's for life in the 21st Century as
a Lifelong Learner and Thinker.
| Organization |
Deliberativeness |
Inquisitiveness |
| Goal Setting |
Persistence |
Collaboration |
| Problem Solving |
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ADOPTED AND SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES:
Tahoma Integrated Social Studies Curriculum- Puget Sound Communities
| Identifying "Habits of Mind" and Problem Solving Skills |
| Comparing the development and characteristics of an urban
(Seattle) and rural (Carnation/Duvall) communities. |
| Develop map skills |
SCIENCE: Learn science skills of investigation and content through
research and experimentation. Make
inquiry,
research, set up experiments and experience tests while recording results.
Interpret qualitative and quantitative data.
| Plant Growth and Development (SYSTEM- interrelationship between
insects and flowering plants for the benefit of both) |
| Sound (SYSTEM- relationship of the parts of sound makers to change
pitch, volume, tone etc.) |
| Rocks and Minerals (Classification of rocks and minerals by their
properties) |
| ADOPTED AND SUPPLEMENTARY RESOURCES:
Science And
Technology for Children |
| I encourage student follow their own
inquiry about related or non-related topics. I am limited by
the restraints of time and the scope of the basic curriculum, but am
available as a resource and a facilitator. |
TECHNOLOGY: Develop the skills to use technology appropriately to
develop and communicate skills.
| Use of internet for research , practice of skill, and
communication. |
| Word processing, Power Point |
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