December Instructional Focus
1st Grade
Math: Students will be learning about addition and subtraction and improving their addition and subtraction math fact fluency to 10. They will also be exploring adding three numbers together.
Reading: Students will be working to complete sight word list A and continuing progressing across the Literacy First continuum to meet each student's mid-year goals in phonics.
Social Studies/Science: Students will be learning about different cultures as they explore how Christmas is celebrated all over the world.
2nd Grade
Math: We will be working on 2-digit addition with an emphasis on place value.
Reading: Student will be working on several important comprehension skills: identifying main idea, comparing & contrasting, asking questions, and textual evidence. We will also be working with contractions, transitional words, and writing friendly letters.
Science/Social Studies: Students will be learning about landforms.
3rd Grade
Reading: Students are focusing on making inferences and drawing conclusions. In our writing we will focus on using transition words as well as review essential grammar skills we've been working on so far this year.
Math: Students are diving heavily into multiplication and learning different strategies to find answers to multiplication problems. We are also rounding to the 10,000s place. As well as looking at different properties of multiplication and how to pick out keywords in word problems to know which operation to apply to solve word problems.
Science: Construct an argument that some animals form groups that help members survive. Being part of a group helps animals obtain food, defend themselves, and cope with changes; Groups may serve different functions and vary dramatically in size.
4th Grade
Reading: Students will continue learning about poetry devices such as imagery, figurative language, sound devices and elements of poetry. The students will create paragraphs using these concepts.
Math: We are finishing up our long division unit. After division, we are working on using CUBES to answer story problems and looking for those key terms in order to solve properly. Then we will review factors and multiples to determine if numbers are prime or composite.
Science: We are studying how animals receive different types of information through their senses, process information, and respond to information in different ways.
Social Studies: Students will be working on identifying lines of latitude and longitude and correctly locating latitude and longitude coordinates. We are also learning about the four different hemispheres. Next week we will start learning about explorers.
Grammar: Students will continue practicing possessives and pronouns.
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