January Curriculum

Kindergarten

• Reading: Realistic Fiction

• Writing: Personal Narratives

• Math: Subtraction

• Science: Landforms

• Social Studies: The Family Structure

• Character Development: Choosing a Peaceful approach to Problem Solving

 

1st grade

• Reading:  Realistic Fiction

• Writing: Realistic Fiction Stories

• Math: Chapter 5

• Science: Weather and Seasons

• Social Studies: The Community

• Phonics: Long vowels

 

2nd grade

• Reading: Realistic Fiction

• Writing: Realistic Fiction Stories

• Math: 2-Digit Subtraction

• Science: Fossils and Dinosaurs

• Social Studies: Colonies to States in the 1700s

 

3rd Grade

• Reading: Non-Fiction, Persuasive texts and Poetry: Students will infer meaning and demonstrate understandings of text.

• Writing: Persuasive Writing – Students will introduce a topic/book directly and state an opinion relative to the topic.

• Math:  Unit 7-Division Facts and Strategies and Unit 8 Understanding Fractions

• Science: Simple Machines

• Social Studies:  Unit study of Asia

 

4th Grade

• Reading: Non-Fiction Genre Unit of Study Determining Importance

• Writing: Persuasive Opinion and Point View

• Math: Fractions – Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication

• Science: Properties of Water

• Social Studies: Colonial and Revolutionary Period

 

5th Grade

• Reading: Close reading of nonfiction scientific texts

• Writing: Persuasive writing: feature article

• Math: Add and subtract fractions with unlike denominators

• Science: Food and nutrition

• Social Studies: Latin America