Curriculum SPOT

Grading Scale for K-2:

Correlation between 1-4 and number grades:

1 = 59 and below

2 = 60-74

3 = 75-94

4 = 95 and above

Sister Country: Germany

Quarter 1 Curriculum:

Language Arts: 

• Text-to-World connections
• Compare/contrast texts
• Determine the purpose of a text (Author's Purpose)
• Retell stories and determine the message they convey
• Describe story structure
• Know and use text and graphic features
• Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions

Writing: 

• Write a narrative which recalls and event using details, thoughts, feelings, order words, and closing
• Write an informative/expository using facts and information and a conclusion

Math:

• Solve +/- problems
• Add and subtract within 20 fluently
• Determine odd/even numbers
• Use addition to find the total number of objects in a rectangular array
• Use symbols to represent unknown quantities
• Write number sentences

Science: 

• Matter: solids, liquids, gases; physical and chemical changes

Social Studies: 

• Roles and responsibilities of citizens
• Purpose of governments
• Various cultural influences on communities

Quarter 2 Curriculum: 

Language Arts: 

• Text-to-World Connections
• Compare and contrast texts
• Determine the purpose of a text
• Retell stories and determine the message they convey
• Describe story structure
• Know and use text features
• Know and use graphic features
• Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why, and how questions
• Verbs and tenses
• Base words and suffixes (es, s, ed, ing, er, est, ly)
• Synonyms
• Contractions
• Fact and Opinion
• Kinds of sentences and punctuation
• Prefixes (pre, mis)
• Vowel digraphs (ai, ay, ee, ea)
• Proper nouns
• Idioms/figurative language
• Quotation marks
• Long vowel o (o, oa, ow)
• Abbreviations
• Dictionary skills

Writing:

• Write a narrative that recounts and event using details, thoughts, feelings, order words, and closing
• Write an informative/expository piece using facts, information, and conclusions
• Write persuasive and opinion essays

Math:

• Show how to solve addition and subtraction problems
• Add and subtract within 20 fluently
• Determine odd or even numbers
• Use addition to find the total number of objects in a rectangular array
• Use symbols to represent unknown quantities
• Write number sentences
• Fractional parts of a whole
• Counting coins (pennies, dimes, nickels)
• Bar graphs
• Line plots
• Tally marks
• Symmetrical and congruent shapes
• Number lines
• Add 2 digit numbers
• Polygons and geoboards
• Read a thermometer to the nearest 2 degrees Fahrenheit 

Science: Sound

• Understand the relationship between sound and vibrating objects
• Summarize the relationship between sound and objects of the body that vibrate - ear drum and vocal cords

Social Studies: Geography

• Interpret maps of the school and community that contain symbols, legends, and cardinal directions
• Interpret the meaning of symbols and the locations of physical and human features on a map
• Give examples of ways people depend on the environment and natural resources to meet basic needs
• Explain how people positively and negatively affect the environment

Quarter 3 Curriculum: 

Language Arts: 

• Make text-to-world connections.
• Compare and contrast texts.
• Determine the purpose of a text.       
• Retell stories and determine the message they convey.
• Describe story structure.
• Know and use text features.
• Know and use graphic features.
• Ask and answer who, what, where, when, why and how questions.
• Verbs and their tenses
• Base words and suffixes (-es, -s, -ed, -ing, -er, -est, -ly)
• Synonyms / Antonyms
• Contractions
• Fact and Opinion
• Kinds of sentences and punctuation
• Prefixes (pre-, mis-, over-)
• Vowel digraphs  (ai, ay, ee, ea)
• Proper Nouns
• Idioms / figurative language
• Quotation Marks
• Long vowel o (o, oa, ow)
• Abbreviations
• Dictionary Skills
• The Schwa Vowel Sound
• Compound Words
• Homographs
• Subject-Verb Agreement
• Long i (i, igh, ie, y)
• Changing y and i
• Words with ar
• Words with or, ore
• Commas in a series

Writing:

• Write a narrative which recounts an event using details, thoughts feelings, order words and closing.        
• Write informative/expository using facts and information and conclusion.
• Writing persuasive and opinion essays.

Math

• Counting dimes, nickels, pennies
• Identifying a Line of symmetry
• Creating a Symmetrical Design
• Adding 2-digit numbers using dimes and pennies
• Addition facts: Sums of 15, 16, 17, and 18
• Measuring to the nearest foot
• Drawing a Number Line
• Drawing line segments to nearest inch
• Locating points on a number line
• Representing sums and differences on a numbers line diagram
• Making polygons on a geoboard
• Identifying angles of a polygon
• Adding three or more single-digit numbers
• Associative property of addition
• Naming Fractional part of a set
• Drawing a picture to solve a problem
• Look for a pattern to solve a problem
• Identify and create congruent shapes
• Adding 2 digit numbers with regrouping using dimes and pennies
• Using the Addition Algorithm
• Identifying and creating similar shapes and designs
• Creating and Reading a Venn diagram
• Identify a.m. and p.m.
• Identify midnight and noon
• Identify dozen and half-dozen
• Adding three two-digit numbers
• Reading thermometer to nearest 2 degrees Fahrenheit
• Solve a problem by guessing and checking
• Identifying and creating overlapping geometric shapes
• Use mental strategies to subtract 10 from a two digit number
• Measuring and drawing line segments to nearest half inch
• Adding 2 digit numbers with sums greater than 100
• Identify gallon, half-gallon, quart, liter containers
• Estimate and find capacity of containers
• Identify place value of a digit in a three-digit number
• Represent three-digit number pictorially
• Ordering three digit numbers
• Identify the median of a set of numbers
• Telling and showing time to five minutes intervals
• Adding three two-digit numbers with a sum greater than 100
• Drawing a picture to solve a problem
• Cutting a geometric shape apart and making a new shape
• Using comparison symbols (<,>,=)
• Reading and drawing a pictograph with a scale of 2
• Writing a fraction to show part of a set
• Picturing a fractional part of a set
• Writing a number in expanded form
• Covering designs with tangram pieces
• Writing money amounts using dollar signs and cents symbols
• Subtracting two-digit numbers using dimes and pennies
• Covering the same design in different ways using tangram pieces
• Subtracting two-digit numbers
• Writing number sentences to show equal group
• Multiplying by 10
• Counting Quarters
• Rounding to nearest 10
• Estimating and counting large collections

Science: Weather

• Understand the patterns of weather.
• Summarize how energy from the sun serves as a source od light that warms the land, air, and water.
• Summarize weather conditions using qualitative and quantitative measures to describe temerature, wind direction, wind, speed, precipitation
• Compare weather patterns that occur over time and relate observable patterns to time of day and time of year.
• Recognize that tools that scientists use for observing, recording, and predicting the weather changes from day to day and during the seasons.

Social Studies: Government & Economics

Government:

• Understand the purpose of governments.
• Explain government services and value to the community.
• Explain how governments establish order, provide security amd create laws to manage conflict.

Economics:

• Understand basic economic principals.
• Give examples of ways in which businesses in communities meet the needs and wants of consumers.
• Explain the roles and impact producers and consumers have on the economy.
• Summarize the concept of supply and demand.
• Explain why people and countries around the world trade for goods.
• Explain how money is used for saving, spending, borrowing, and giving.
• Summarize the role of financial institutions relative to savings.