Second Nine Week's Curriculum:
Reading strategies :
- using prior knowledge
- making predictions
- making connections
- asking questions
- summarizing or retelling
- making inferences
- using context clues
Writing a response to literature:
- Writing the VIP (Very Important Parts) title, author's name, characters, setting, problem, solution
- Creates a summary
- Gives their opinion and recommends the book to other kids
- Uses transition words: First, Then, Next, After, and Finally, etc...
- Writes legibly
- Uses the writing process
Math:
- Adding & Subtracting 2-Digit Numbers with regrouping
- Telling Time to the nearest 5 minutes
- Making change and Counting back money
- Identifying and classifying plane shapes
- Comparing larger numbers
- Graphing using different scales & analyzing data
Science:
- Energy (Heat, Light & Motion)
Social Studies:
- James Oglethorpe, Tomochichi, Mary Musgrove
- Goods & Services
First Nine Week's Curriculum:
Reading strategies to help us decode and comprehend:
- rereading
- segmenting words
- making connections and predictions
- asking questions
- summarizing or retelling
Writing a personal narrative
- Writing in sequence
- Using transition words: First, Then, Next, After, and Finally, etc...
- Writing legibly
- Using the writing process
Three States of Matter: Solids, Liquids, and Gases
Spelling: Long and Short Vowel patterns
Addition Strategies and Math Facts
- Count on, Commutative Property (2+3=5 and 3+2=5),Doubles, Doubles +1, and the Identity Property(anything plus zero equals itself)
- Adding 2 digit numbers with regrouping
Time and Money
- How many seconds in a minute? ...minutes in an hour?...hours in a day?...days in a week?
- Writing dollars and cents correctly
- Counting money
Georgia's 5 regions
- Piedmont
- Blue Ridge Mountains
- Appalachian Plateau
- Valley and Ridge
- Coastal Plain
Georgia's Rivers
- Chattahoochee River
- Oconee River
- Ocmulgee River
- Altamaha River
- St. Mary's River
- Savannah River
- Flint River