November Instructional Focus
PreK
Math: We will practice counting and recognizing that a number represents the quantity of a set. Students will also practice identifying a number. Students will practice modeling different story problems using counters. Students will also study solid shapes (sphere, cone, cube).
Literacy: We will continue our study on the letters of the alphabet (upper and lower case) and the sounds they make. Students will practice syllables, blending and separating different words, and identifying how many words are in a sentence.
Kindergarten
Literacy: Students will count, pronounce, blend, segment, & delete syllables in words. Students will also blend and segment onset and rhyme in one syllable words. Students will learn about spatial and time relationships such as up, down, before, and after.
Math: Students will sort information about objects and events in their environment & categorize data to create real-object & picture graphs.
Science: Students will continue their study on push and pull as they learn how to change the direction and speed of an object.
Social Studies: Students will study community helpers, learn the relationship between work and earning money, & recognize commemorative holidays that honor people and events of the past.
1st Grade
Math: Students will focus on their addition and subtraction fluency to 10.
Reading: Students will be working to complete sight word list A and continue progressing across the Literacy First continuum to meet each students' mid-year goals in phonics.
Social Studies: Students will be learning about Veterans Day and American symbols We will also be studying about the holiday of Thanksgiving and learning about local Native American culture.
2nd Grade
Math: We will be learning how to collect, interpret, and display data. We will also be looking at patterns in data. We will continue working on math facts.
Reading: This month several of our stories will focus on the skill of making inferences. We will also be locating facts in nonfiction text and making text to world connections. One week we will take time to compare folktales and characters. Our grammar skills are adjectives, adverbs, synonyms, and antonyms. We will continue to work on various types of writing.
Science & Social Studies: We will be learning about landforms, the history of Thanksgiving, and Native American heritage.
3rd Grade
Science: We will be learning: Growth and Development of Organisms; Reproduction is essential to the continued existence of every kind of organism; Plants and animals have unique and diverse life cycles; Social Interactions and Group Behavior; 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.
Math: We will transition into division. Multiplication and division go together. The first part of the unit the students will be given resources to learn division, like repeated subtraction and patterns. Then they will transition into learning the facts. We will also connect word problems and multiplication and division key words. We will work with fact families of multiplication and division.
4th Grade
Reading: Students will be learning to identify story elements, point of view, vocabulary and cause & effect relationships.
Math: Students will be finishing up and reviewing 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication. We are moving into division by 1 digit numbers. Please have your child work on their basic facts.
Science: We will be studying the internal and external structures of animals. We will also learn how the eye works by creating a model eye.
Social Studies: We will finish studying landforms (waterways) then we will be starting to work on map skills. We will be doing some activities and memorization in honor of Freedom Week, which will be the first full week in November (6-10).
Grammar: We will continue to learn about appositives and different types of pronouns.
5th Grade
Math: We will begin division where we will divide using a one digit divisor. We will then progress into dividing with a two digit divisor and also where we will be dividing decimals.
Science: We are finishing up working on Matter and Energy in Ecosystems by researching ways humans can inadvertently hurt an ecosystem. We will be Crosscutting concepts (Patterns, Cause & Effect, Energy & Matter, Systems & System Models) while using Science and Engineering Practices (Engaging in Argument from Evidence, Developing & Using Models, Analyzing & Interpreting Data, Constructing Explanations & Designing Solutions).
Social Studies: Students will compare and contrast the developments of the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies based on economic opportunities, natural resources, settlement patters, culture and institutions of self-government.
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