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Math Concepts Covered this Year:
Building Number Sense
Addition
Subtraction Numbers to 120
Addition with Three Addends
Place Value
2D & 3D Shapes
Measurement
Telling Time
Data & Graphing
Fractions
Money
Reading Concepts Covered this Year:
Adventures of the Superkids
Students learn more complex letter-sound relationships, such as digraphs and long-vowel sounds. They continue to develop their decoding and encoding skills and read longer stories where comprehension and fluency are emphasized. They also gain a growing awareness of the structure and function of words and learn to spell phonetically irregular words, which aids reading and writing fluency.
More Adventures of the Superkids
Students continue to develop skills in all the language arts while learning a greater number of phonetic variables, such as-ow in bow and snow. Children also learn strategies for using context to identify words. By the end of this level, students can read and spell all 220 words on the Dolch Basic Word List. Most children will be confident readers and competent writers capable of spelling phonetically regular words with accuracy.
- whole and small group instruction
- read alouds
- shared, partner, choral, and silent reading
- guided reading
- fluency activities including poetry
- vocabulary development
- word building and making words
- phonemic awareness; segmentation;
- phonographix skills; phonics
- block-style handwriting
- Kid Writing
Science Concepts Covered This Year:
Foss – Air & Weather, Solids & Liquids
Social Studies Concepts Covered This Year:
- The importance of having rules
- The importance of learning from each other
- Helpers at school
- Map skills
- School long ago vs. today
- Family traditions