May Instructional Focus
PreK
Math: Students will continue their practice with using numbers, picture graphs, shapes, and counting.
Literacy: We will continue with letter recognition, letter sounds, writing practice, identifying syllables, words within a sentence, and rhyming words.
Kindergarten
Literacy: Students add/delete/substitute phonemes in one syllable spoken words & blend letter sounds to decode simple vowel/consonant and consonant/vowel/consonant words.
Math: Students will order up to 6 objects using measurable attributes, such as length and weight, sort objects into sets by more than one attribute, & compare the number of objects needed to fill two different containers.
Science: Students will construct an argument supported by evidence for how plants and animals (including humans) can change the environment to meet their needs.
Social Studies: Students will use words and phrases related to chronology and time to explain how things change including before/after, past/present/future and today/tomorrow/yesterday.
1st Grade
Math: Students will continue to explore measurement and tell time to the hour and half hour. Students will also be exploring shapes and their attributes.
Reading: Students will improve their reading fluency by engaging in reader's theaters and poetry reading. The students will also compare and contrast nonfiction and fiction texts.
Social Studies/Science: Students will explore types of weather and how the sun can affect the weather. The students will also engage in STEM challenges to increase their problem solving skills.
2nd Grade
Math: We will be wrapping up the year with measurement and money. Students will learn how to measure with inches and centimeters along with counting coins to make amounts up to a dollar.
Reading: Students will continue to develop reading skills and strategies. We will be reviewing concepts such as identifying cause/effect, problem solution, main idea and details. We will also be working on making inferences. Students will continue to work on improving their reading fluency. Grammar skills this month are suffixes, prefixes, synonyms, and antonyms; as well as reviewing many of the skills learned this year.
Science & Social Studies: We will be exploring plants and seed dispersal.
3rd Grade
Reading: Students are working on Famous Oklahoman/person research and continuing to practice good reading skills and strategies. Students are/will be working on novel studies as well.
4th Grade
Reading: Students will continue learning new words through weekly vocabulary units, read and understand poetry, and review skills previously taught
Math: We are finishing up our unit on multiplying and dividing decimals, Next, we will start learning how to find mean, median, mode, and range of a set of data.
Science: We are studying energy! We have been experimenting with energy transfer and will finish up the year with energy transformation to electricity and sound. We will be building solar cookers to capture sunlight and cook a hot dag.
5th Grade
ELA: Students will review synthesizing information from several sources to include in their expository writing. Students will continue work on narrative fiction, figurative language and sound devices and poetry.
Science: Students are working on Earth & Space Systems Unit. Interactions within and between systems of matter and energy produce observable and predictable patterns that comprise all of nature. The study of systems and interactions is fundamental in science. This unit provides a variety of concrete experiences that allow students to explore how Earth is both a part of a larger system and is itself composed of interconnected systems. Students identify Earth's major spheres and investigate how they interact. They explore the importance of water as a resource and calculate the ratio of salt water to fresh water. Students research ways humans can impact, both positively and negatively, Earth's systems and resources and make class presentations to communicate their findings.
Social Studies: Students will examine the formation of the American system of government following the American Revolution.
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