October Curriculum

Kindergarten

  • Reading: Early Literacy Behaviors
  • Writing: Establishing the Writing Community
  • Math: Count, Write, Compare Numbers 1-10
  • Science: Animals Grow and Change
  • Social Studies: Neighborhood Communities & Citizenship
  • Phonics & Phonemic Awareness: Letters O,G,A,D

1st grade

  • Reading: Recognizing a Variety of Genres: Realistic Fiction, Fiction & Informational texts
  • Writing: Narrative Procedure
  • Math: Subtraction
  • Science: Living Things Grow & Change
  • Social Studies: Family Unit
  • Phonics: Review Initial & Final Consonants

2nd grade

  • Reading: Non-Fiction (Informational Texts)
  • Writing: Personal Narratives
  • Math: Numbers to 1,000
  • Science: Forces in Motion
  • Social Studies: Geography of New York City (An Urban Community)

3rd grade

  • Reading: Realistic Fiction, Personal Narrative, Memoirs
  • Writing: Personal Narratives
  • Math: Represent and Interpret Data, Understanding Multiplication Facts and Strategies
  • Science: Matter
  • Social Studies: Describe and compare Urban, Rural and Suburban communities

4th grade

  • Reading: Close Reading Study of Memoir and Realistic Fiction
  • Writing: Personal Narrative
  • Math: Multiplication of 1 and 2 Digit Numbers
  • Science: Animals and Plants in the Environment
  • Social Studies: Native Americans and Early New York

5th grade

  • Reading: Infer Meaning
  • Writing: Personal Narrative
  • Math: Dividing Whole Numbers
  • Science: The Nature of Science
  • Social Studies: Geography and Early Peoples