Transcript Document 7154847

Components of
A Developmental Curriculum
• Time to be active and explore the environment
• Opportunities to experiment, solve problems and make
fruitful mistakes
• Thoughtful questions perhaps having more than one answer
• Choices
• Respect and caring
• Ideas, creations and discoveries are valued and displayed
• Observation of children during independent work
• Exploration of feelings, dreams and conflicts
• Work measured and evaluated against developmental
milestones
READING
Exploring literature (including a
substantial variety of genre),
oral language, word
identification, vocabulary,
comprehension and writing
development are our goals.
100 BOOK CHALLENEGE
“The more you read, the
better you read”
• Self-selected books
• Independent reading
level
20 minutes in school
• 20-30 minutes at home
• Books color-coded by
reading level
LANGUAGE ARTS
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English
Sentence structure
Parts of Speech
Conventions
Fundations
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Writing
The Writing Process
Writer’s Workshop
Writing to Learn
Response Writing
Fundations
Phonics and word analysis
• Distinguish long and short vowels
• Read and spell words with short vowels
• Read and spell words with vowel teams
• Identify parts of words (syllables, base words, suffixes, prefixes)
• Read and spell r-controlled words
• Read and spell high-frequency words
• Divide multisyllabic words
Vocabulary
• Use synonyms
• Understand multiple meaning words
• Apply dictionary skills
Accuracy
• Write clear, legible manuscript at an appropriate rate
• Conventions (punctuation, capitalization)
• Produce complete sentences
TECHNOLOGY
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Computer Lab (Tuesday 10:30)
I-Pads/ Laptops/Flash Drives
Research
Independent Study
PowerPoint/MS PhotoStory 3
Digital Camera/Flip Digital Video
Karaoke machine/Document
Camera/Student Response System
• Websites for independent practice
(National Library of Virtual Manipulatives)
• Concord Elementary Website
enVision Math
Common Core
Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley
Common Core Standards identify a limited
number of topics at each grade level, allowing
enough time for students to achieve mastery
of these concepts, rather than a spiral
curriculum in which students revisit numerous
topics from one to the next.
enVision Math
Common Core
Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley
Core Principals of Math Instruction
include:
• Conceptual Understanding
• Computational Fluency
• Problem-Solving Skills
National Mathematics Advisory Panel
Standards for
Mathematical
Practice
• Make sense of problems and persevere
in solving them
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively
• Construct viable arguments and
critique the reasoning of others
• Model with mathematics
• Use appropriate tools strategically
• Attend to precision
• Look for and make use of structure
• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning
SCIENCE
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Changes
Balancing & Weighing
Life Cycle of a Butterfly
Energy
SOCIAL STUDIES
Social Studies Alive
TCI (Teachers’ Curriculum Institute)
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Community
Maps/Geography
Leaders/Citizenship
Goods and Services
Environment
Olweus
“Bullying is when someone repeatedly
and on purpose says or does mean or
hurtful things to another person who
has a hard time defending himself or
herself.”
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School Policy
Classroom Meetings
Intervention Strategies
Reporting