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 Components of

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 minutes at home Books color-coded by reading level

LANGUAGE ARTS English Sentence structure Parts of Speech Conventions Fundations 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 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 Changes Balancing & Weighing Life Cycle of a Butterfly Energy

SOCIAL STUDIES Social Studies Alive TCI (Teachers’ Curriculum Institute) 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.” School Policy Classroom Meetings Intervention Strategies Reporting