Scope+and+Sequence


 * Concepts and Skills you will need to teach (fill in ALL the boxes!) **
 * Science: Life Cycles: Students will learn the concept of a life cycle by planting seeds and chronicling its different phases in the life cycle. Students will then apply this knowledge to the life cycles of animals. ** ||
 * Science: Food Chain: Students will learn the concept of food chains by studying their own recent meal and tracing its origins back to the beginning. ** ||
 * Science: Birds and Insects in Winter: Students will watch the Disney Classic cartoon The Grasshopper and Ants in order to begin to understand the work necessary for creatures to survive winter in the wild. ** ||
 * Science: Habitats and Homes: Students will learn about different animal habitats and shelters. What is their habitat? How can they relate their own homes and conveniences back to animals. ** ||
 * Social Studies: Holidays and Festivals: students will identify their own cherished holidays and festivals and examine holidays and festivals of other cultures. ** ||
 * Social Studies: Patriotic Celebrations: Students will learn the meaning behind patriotism and examine American patriotic festivals. Then students will apply this knowledge to other cultures to identify patriotic festivals of foreign lands. ** ||
 * Social Studies: Families and Family History: Students will begin to learn the importance of family history and build basic family trees. ** ||
 * Social Studies: Basic Geography: Students will need to learn the basics of Earthly Geography by examining land masses and oceans. They will use globes and Google Earth to make discoveries about the Earth. ** ||
 * Social Studies: Families around the World: Students will need to examine differences and similarities between their own family structure and that of families in other countries. They will need to examine why “different” is not bad. ** ||
 * Social Studies: Map Skills: Students will learn the importance of having map skills by having to guide their blindfolded classmate to a specific place in the classroom using only verbal cues. ** ||
 * Language Arts: Story Development: Beginning, Middle, and End: Students will begin examining the structure of some of their own favorite stories and learn how to identify different parts of a story. They will then create their own stories and apply this new knowledge. ** ||
 * Language Arts: Homonyms, Synonyms, and Antonyms: Students will learn the differences between homonyms, synonyms, and antonyms and then practice identifying each. Ultimately they should be able to easily provide their own examples of each. ** ||
 * Language Arts: Using Dictionary Guide Words: Students will learn how to use a dictionary (hard copy) and how to find a word by using alphabetizing skills and guide words. ** ||
 * Language Arts: Brief and Simple Letters and Journals: Students will practice writing informative and descriptive letters to a friend or loved one, and then learn how to document their own lives for themselves through basic journal writing. ** ||
 * Language Arts: Alphabetizing through the second letter of the word: Students will learn the idea of alphabetizing using the second letter in a class exercise in which they are require to alphabetize words but many words have the same first letter. ** ||
 * Science: Weather and its effects on Earth: Students will examine how the weather effects their own lives in order to infer how weather effects Earth in general. ** ||
 * Math: Counting, reading, writing to 1,000: Students will learn the patterns and systems used to count to 1,000. ** ||
 * Math: Counting by 2’s, 3’s, 5’s, and 10’s: Students will use addition to establish counting patterns and learn how to count quickly using these patterns. ** ||
 * Math: Multiplication facts of 1 and 0: Students will learn the rules and why’s of multiplying with 1 and 0. ** ||
 * Math: Fractions in Daily Life: Students will learn how fractions effect their daily lives and learn to apply simple fractions to their daily lives. They will learn the importance of why fractions and knowing how to do fractional math is important to them. ** ||
 * Math: Decimal Numbering Systems: Students will learn how they can show fractions using decimals. They will learn how this is relevant to their daily lives by applying this new way of displaying fractions to monetary units. ** ||
 * Math: Charts and Graphs: Students will learn how to present data clearly using charts and graphs. ** ||
 * Language Arts: Alphabetizing through the second letter of the word: Students will learn the idea of alphabetizing using the second letter in a class exercise in which they are require to alphabetize words but many words have the same first letter. ** ||
 * Science: Weather and its effects on Earth: Students will examine how the weather effects their own lives in order to infer how weather effects Earth in general. ** ||
 * Math: Counting, reading, writing to 1,000: Students will learn the patterns and systems used to count to 1,000. ** ||
 * Math: Counting by 2’s, 3’s, 5’s, and 10’s: Students will use addition to establish counting patterns and learn how to count quickly using these patterns. ** ||
 * Math: Multiplication facts of 1 and 0: Students will learn the rules and why’s of multiplying with 1 and 0. ** ||
 * Math: Fractions in Daily Life: Students will learn how fractions effect their daily lives and learn to apply simple fractions to their daily lives. They will learn the importance of why fractions and knowing how to do fractional math is important to them. ** ||
 * Math: Decimal Numbering Systems: Students will learn how they can show fractions using decimals. They will learn how this is relevant to their daily lives by applying this new way of displaying fractions to monetary units. ** ||
 * Math: Charts and Graphs: Students will learn how to present data clearly using charts and graphs. ** ||
 * Math: Decimal Numbering Systems: Students will learn how they can show fractions using decimals. They will learn how this is relevant to their daily lives by applying this new way of displaying fractions to monetary units. ** ||
 * Math: Charts and Graphs: Students will learn how to present data clearly using charts and graphs. ** ||
 * Math: Charts and Graphs: Students will learn how to present data clearly using charts and graphs. ** ||