February Instructional Focus
PreK
Math: We will compare sets of 1-5 objects and work on measurable attributes.
Literacy: Students will express ideas through a combination of drawing and emergent writing with guidance and support. They will also be working on concept of spoken word.
Kindergarten
Literacy: Students will begin to develop first drafts by sequencing the action or details of stories/texts, develop an awareness of context clues through read-alouds and other text experiences, use new vocabulary to produce and expand complete sentences.
Math: Students will recognize, duplicate, complete, and extend repeating, shrinking and growing patterns involving shape, color, size, objects, sounds, movement, and other contexts. Students will also continue practice in counting by tens and ones to 100, recognizing without counting the quantity of a small group of objects in organized and random arrangements up to 10, counting forward with and without objects from any given number up to 10, as well as draw conclusions from real-object and picture graphs.
Science: Students will use tools and materials to design and build a structure that will reduce the warming effect of sunlight on an area.
Social Studies: Students will explain that a map is a drawing of a place and the globe is a model of Earth, locate the United States on a world map and a globe, & identify the state of Oklahoma on a map of the United States.
1st Grade
Math: Students will be exploring extending counting sequences and place value.
Reading: Students will work on identifying sight words on List B. They will also be working on decoding words using phonics skills and improving each child's reading fluency.
Social Studies/Science: Students will learn about Earth's place in the solar system. They will also observe the changes of the sun throughout the day and the year.
2nd Grade
Math: We will continue 2 digit addition and subtraction within word problems and begin arrays as a introduction to multiplication.
Reading: Our skills for reading will focus on analyzing characters, determining the point of view, and author's purpose. We will be working with abbreviations and capitalizing words correctly. Our focus stories for this month are about kindness.
Science & Social Studies: In February, we are gearing up to learn about rapid and slow changes that occur on earth such as rock erosion and earthquakes.
3rd Grade
Reading: Students will be learning about Author's Purpose, Locating Information and Poetry. We will also begin sending home test prep homework later this month. Please make sure your child is working on it each evening and returning it to school on Fridays (or as your student's teacher has asked). It is very important that students read each evening for at least 20 minutes. Using Moby Max would be very helpful, and can count as their reading time. We appreciate your support!
Science: Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive. Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms. Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
Math: We will be diving into fractions. We will understand the numerator from the denominator, compare, order, and finding fractions on a number line. We will end the month with measurement, using metric and customary lengths and reading an analog thermometer.
4th Grade
Reading: Students will describe the structure of a text (e.g., description, compare/contrast, sequential, problem/solution, cause/effect.) Students will increase knowledge of academic and grade level vocabulary to infer meaning of grade level text.
Math: Students will be able to read, write, and name fractions. We will be working on how to compare and order fractions with unlike denominators. Students should also be able to add/subtract with like denominators and write the fractions in simplest form.
5th Grade
Reading: Students continue study of fiction, focusing upon literary elements and literary and sound devices. Students continue personal narrative and memoir writing and will begin poetry.
Math: Students will continue working with fractions. We will be working on how to compare and order fractions with unlike denominators, add/subtract and multiply fractions. We will also work on comparing fractions to decimals.
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