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Fall
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Winter
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Spring
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Language Arts
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Reading and Writing Stories: Friends; harvest/farm; begin handwriting with review of upper and lower case letters, begin phonics and spelling programs, alphabetizing, compound words, capitalization. |
Reading and Writing Stories: Light and giving;biographies and historical fiction; syllables, punctuation, singular and plural, complete and incomplete sentences nouns and verbs, contractions. |
Reading and Writing Stories: Machines; comparative folk tales; continue biographies; fiction and non-fiction; adjectives; editing stories to publish. |
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Math
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Investigation Units: “Coins, Coupons & Combinations” (number patterns & relationships, doubling, strategies for solving addition & subtraction problems, coins, 100 chart); “How Many
Pockets?..” (collecting, organizing, & representing data). |
Investigations Units: “Putting Together & Taking Apart” (skip counting, place value, continued work with numbers up to and in the 100’s, strategies for regrouping using addition and subtraction, continued problem solving); “Does it Walk, Crawl or Swim (attributes); Number facts, time (5 minute intervals, elapsed time, calendar). |
Investigations Unit: “Shapes, Halves & Symmetry” (attributes, 2-D geometry, fractions); Measurement (length, width, height, distance,& perimeter using non-standard and standard units of measure). |
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Social Studies
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Rules, friends, self-esteem, academic and personal goals, geography using the “Rand McNally Beginner’s Classroom Atlas.” |
People Who Make a Difference-- a history unit using biographies and historical fiction to study ordinary and extraordinary people who have shaped our nation. |
Global studies, multicultural Red Riding Hood stories, Flat Stanley project, conflict resolution: learn skills to solve and de-escalate conflict. |
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Science
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Magnets
This physical science unit explores the properties and uses of magnets incl. magnetic poles, attraction, repulsion, and an intro. of the electromagnet.
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Simple Machines
This physical science unit introduces some simple machines that are present in hand tools (lever, inclined plane, pulley). |
Spiders
This life science unit introduces the concept of the life cycle through a study of the behavior and characteristics of the common New England spider. |
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Health
The Great Body Shop |
“Let’s Stay Safe”
“How You Think”
“The Wide World of Food” |
“Your Heart, Small But Strong”
“When I Feel Afraid”
“Babies...And How You Grew” |
“Drugs Are Dangerous”
“Germs! They Make You Sick”
“Me And My Skin”
“Muscles In Motion” |
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Field Trips/ School Events
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Trip to Topsfield Fair |
Trip to Museum of Fine Arts
Audubon Ark visits |
Bay Colony visits
Historical Perspective
for Children visits
Trip to North End of Boston |
