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1st

gr Curriculum Map AUGUST

READING - Imagine It! Reading and Writing Standards: 1, 2, 3, and 4

UNIT 1 LESSONS REVIEW

TEXT SELECTIONS:

Poems: "Beach Counting," "Many Colors," "After School," "Mice," "Song of the Train," "There Was Once a Fish,"

"Rain," "Rhyme Stew," "On Our Way," "Sometimes," " Open a Book," and "Trucks".

SKILLS:

Letter recognition and writing: Aa-Zz;

Phonics: initial sounds of word through oral blending and segmentation, discriminate between distinct long-vowel

sounds, associate letters with sounds and identify consonant sounds. Segmentation: segment words into onsets and

rimes. Syllabication: clapping syllables in names. Comprehension strategy: visualizing. Skills: author's purpose.

ASSESSMENTS: Observations, in class discussions, spelling/phonogram, classwork, and unit tests.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE Reading and Writing Standards: 1, 2, 4

TEXT SELECTIONS:

Poetry: "Sing a Song of People," "Solomon Grundy," "Table Manners," "The Swing,"

"Thirty Days Hath September," and "A Good Play." Idioms: "Do unto others as you would have them to do unto

you" and "Never Leave till tomorrow, what you can do today."

OBJECTIVES:

Students will understand the meaning of the stories, poems, and/or idioms, discuss location and concepts related

to core knowledge history and science, and review any unknown vocabulary words.

ASSESSMENTS: Classroom participation: in-class discussion, observation.

WRITING - 6 Trait

Six Trait Writing - Cursive and Sentence Structure - August and September

CONTENT: First two months until October 4th

, students will be practicing writing in cursive. Letter formation,

connections, capitals and lower case…during this time we will also be reviewing sentence structure

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to form all letters in cursive and make proper connections. Students will also

be able to write a well put together sentence that makes sense.

ASSESSMENT: Students will be writing completely in cursive by October 1st.

GRAMMAR - Shurley English Standards: 1, 2, 3, 4

LESSONS 1 – 8

OBJECTIVES:

Students will review study and organizational skills getting organize, listening, planning, and doing homework.

Students will introduced the meaning of: under, over, by, above, below, beside, in, out, on, between, to, around,

left, tight, top and bottom.

ASSESSMENTS: Practice work, Tests, Classroom Observation, and Participation

MATH - Saxon Lessons 1 – 9

OBJECTIVES:

Students will identify calendar dates, make towers 1-5, write 1-9, make graphs, recognize and make shapes,

order numbers smallest to largest.

ASSESSMENTS: Class assignments and homework, weekly assessments.

SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES - Core Knowledge

TOPIC: Spatial Geography

LESSON OBJECTIVES:

Students will name and locate the oceans, continents, countries (Canada, the United States, Mexico)

ASSESSMENTS: Classroom participation: in-class discussions, class work, projects and observations.

TECHNOLOGY

CONTENT

Computer Lab Rules

CORE VIRTUES Civics Standards: 1.1, 1.2

YEAR ONE: Respect and Responsibility

YEAR TWO: Respect and Responsibility

YEAR THREE: Respect and Responsibility

Lesson Objectives: Students will demonstrate respect for the world, its creatures, our environment, and for themselves.

They will demonstrate responsibility for their physical surroundings,

showing stewardship for the earth and its goods.

Assessments: Informal observations, oral discussion.

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gr Curriculum Map September

READING - Imagine It! Reading and Writing Standards: 1, 2, 3, 4

UNIT 1 LESSON 1 – 15, UNIT 2 LESSONS 1 – 6

TEXT SELECTIONS: First Day Jitters, Back to School, And the Answer Is…, Suki's Kimono, Wolf, School Now

and Then, School Bus, Wrap-up, Animal Habitats, Red-Eyed tree Frog, Under the Ground, and Day and Night in

the Dessert

SKILLS COVERED: /s/ spelled s, /m/ spelled m, /a/ spelled a, /t/ spelled t and tt, /p/ spelled p, /i/ spelled i, /n/ spelled n, /l/

spelled l, review /d/ spelled d, /o/ spelled o, /b/ spelled b, /k/ spelled c, review /k/ spelled with ck, /r/ spelled r, /u/

spelled u, /h/ spelled h, and /a/ spelled a. Comprehension strategies: monitoring, clarifying, visualizing skills, reality,

fantasy, predicting, comparing and contrasting, asking questions, summarizing, main idea and details, and drawing

conclusions, phonemes, fluency and vocabulary.

ASSESSMENTS: Observations, in class discussions and projects, spelling/phonogram tests, unit tests, and benchmark tests.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE Reading and Writing Standards: 1, 2, 4

TEXT SELECTIONS: Continued from August

OBJECTIVES: Students will understand the meaning of the stories, poems, and/or idioms, discuss location and concepts

related to core knowledge history and science, and review any unknown vocabulary words.


WRITING - 6 Trait

Six Trait Writing - Cursive and Sentence Structure - August and September

CONTENT: First two months until October 4th

, students will be practicing writing in cursive. Letter formation,

connections, capitals and lower case…during this time we will also be reviewing sentence structure

OBJECTIVE: Students will be able to form all letters in cursive and make proper connections. Students will

also be able to write a well put together sentence that makes sense.

ASSESSMENT: Students will be writing completely in cursive by October 1st.


LESSONS 10 – 28

OBJECTIVES (New): Student will sequence a picture story. They will memorize: sentence jingle, noun jingle,

verb jingle, adverb jingle, article adjective jingle, and the question and answer flow. Students will demonstrate

knowledge of complete sentence parts, kinds of sentences, complete subject, complete predicate, new vocabulary

words They will review capitalization of proper nouns like days of the week and months of the year.

ASSESSMENTS: Practice work, Tests, Classroom Observation, and Participation

MATH

Saxon Lessons 10 – 28

OBJECTIVES: Students will match a number to a set, identify morning, afternoon, ordinal numbers, inside, outside,

and seasons. Students will make shape on a geo-board and know the number of sides for a triangle, a square,

pentagon, hexagon, and octagon. Students will demonstrate knowledge of writing numbers 10-26, counting

pennies, and single digit addition facts, Students will create graphs. Students will learn key words in word

problems and practice solving them.

ASSESSMENTS: Classwork, homework, and weekly assessments (lesson 10, 15, 20, and 25).


SCIENCE- Living Things and Their Environments: Habitats

Lesson Objectives: Students will distinguish between living and nonliving things. Students will demonstrate

knowledge of living things live in environments where they are best able to survive. Students will demonstrate

knowledge of forest, prairie and meadow, underground, desert, rainforest, and water (oceans and pond) habitats.

Students will demonstrate knowledge of food chains and the plants their needs (nutrients, water, soil, air, and sun.)

Assessments: Varied assessments such as: observations, in class discussions, classwork, project, and unit test.

SCIENCE - Living Things and Their Environments: Classification

Lesson Objectives: Students will demonstrate knowledge of special classifications of animals: herbivores,

carnivores, omnivores, extinct animals and dinosaurs).

Assessments: Varied assessments such as: observations, in class discussions and projects, and unit tests.

SCIENCE - Living Things and Their Environments: Oceans

Lesson Objectives: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the location of the Indian, Pacific, Atlantic, Arctic Oceans .


SCIENCE - Oceans (continued)

Objectives: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the location of the Indian, Pacific, Atlantic, and Arctic Oceans.


SCIENCE - Living Things: Environment

Objective: Students will become aware of environmental change and habitat destruction can cause extinction.

Assessment: Varied assessments such as: observations, in class discussions and projects, and unit tests.

TECHNOLOGY

CONTENT

Logging On

Clean up and logging off

Input and output devices that are standard are used to successfully operate computers and related technologies.

- Students will learn where to plug in headphones and how to properly care for them.

Communicate about technology using developmentally appropriate and accurate terminology.

- Students will learn the terms mouse, icon, toolbar, and login (user name / password)

Positive social and ethical behaviors when using technology are demonstrated.

- Students will understand appropriate use of the computer lab and how to use the computers

TYPE TO LEARN

All students will complete one type to learn assessment by the end of the school year.


Year One: Respect and Responsibility Year Two: Respect and Responsibility Year Three: Respect and

Responsibility

Lesson Objectives: Students will demonstrate respect for the world, its creatures, our environment, and for themselves. They

will demonstrate responsibility for their physical surroundings, showing stewardship for the earth and its goods.


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READING - Imagine It!

UNIT 2 LESSONS 7 – 15, UNIT 3 LESSON 1 – 10

TEXT SELECTIONS: Unit 2: Day and Night in the Dessert, Animals, Black and White, Polar Bears, Barn, Nests,

Unit 3: Responsibility, What Does It Mean to be Responsible?, Arthur's Pet Business, Pigsty,

SKILLS: /j/ spelled j and dge, /f/ spelled f, /e/ spelled e and _ea_, /ks/ spelled _x, review the -ed ending sound /ed/, /d/,

and /t/, /g/ spelled g, /m/ spelled _mb, and s, /sh/ spelled sh, /th/ spelled th, /ch/ spelled ch and _tch, /ar/ spelled ar, /w/

spelled w, /wh/ spelled wh, /or/ spelled or, and ore /er/ spelled er, ir, and ur. Review of short vowels. Comprehension

strategies: classifying, categorizing, vocabulary, monitoring and

clarifying, making predictions.

ASSESSMENTS: Observations, in class discussions and projects, spelling/phonogram tests, benchmark tests and unit tests.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE

TEXT SELECTIONS: Poetry: "I Know All the Sounds That the Animals Make," "The Owl and the Pussy Cat,""

The Pasture," "The Purple Cow," and "The Frog." Idiom: "Fish Out of Water." Fictional Stories:

The Coy at the Dike, The Frog Prince, All Stories are Anansi's, The Pied Piper, Puss-in-Boots,

The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and Why the Owl has Big Eyes. Science Biographies: Rachel Carson.

OBJECTIVES: Students will understand the meaning of the stories, poems, and/or idioms, discuss location and

concepts related to core knowledge history and science, and review any unknown vocabulary words.


WRITING - 6 Trait

Six Trait Writing – Ideas

CONTENT: Students will learn how to find the right topic, use good descriptive details, and make the CONTENT

of their writing clear.

OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how to pick a topic. Sometime they will be assigned a topic and other times they

will pick their own. Students will focus on what they know and give details showing all they know. For those just

beginning to write they details will be in the picture that accompanies their writing.

ASSESSMENT: After listening to the story “When I Am Old with You,” Students will create a well put together

sentence about what they like to do with their favorite person. Drawings done to accompany work will be very

detailed to create a clear picture of the scene.


LESSONS 30 – 45

OBJECTIVES (Review): Review vocabulary words, previously taught jingles, and capitalization.

OBJECTIVES (New): Students will learn capitalization of cities and states, new vocabulary words and write sentences using parts of speech

labels and word banks.

ASSESSMENTs: Unit Tests, Observations, Classroom Participation

MATH - Saxon Lessons 29 – 42 Standards: 1, 3, 4

OBJECTIVES: Review previously taught skills. Students will use pattern blocks to make patterns and learn

congruent shapes, Students will order numbers 0-20, count backwards, single digit addition, count

pennies, create bar graphs, and practice writing numbers 1-38.

ASSESSMENTS: Classwork, homework, and weekly assessments (lesson 30, 35, and 40).


TOPIC: History- Ancient Civilizations – Mesopotamia and Egypt

LESSON OBJECTIVES: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the importance of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers,

the development of writing and its impact on civilization, and Code of Hamnurabi and why laws and rules are

important. Students demonstrate knowledge of important pharaohs: King Tut and Hatshepsut, ancient Egyptian

religion including: pyramids, mummies, animal gods, the sphinx. Students demonstrate knowledge of Egyptian writing.

ASSESSMENTS: Varied assessments such as: observations, in class discussions and projects

(making a pyramid and making hieroglyphics), and unit tests.

TECHNOLOGY

CONTENT

Directed and independent learning activities are used for computers.

Students will be introduced to math and reading learning games Communicate about technology using developmentally appropriate and accurate terminology.

Students will learn internet, webpage, and browser

TYPE TO LEARN



Year One: Diligence Year Two: Self-Control and Self Discipline Year Three: Perseverance

Objectives: Students will learn that perseverance is pushing on despite difficulty and hardship. Students

will learn that sticking to something is better than giving up.

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READING - Imagine It! Reading and Writing Standards: 1, 2, 3, 4 (these apply to all

text selections).

UNIT 3 LESSONS 11 – 15, UNIT 4 LESSONS 1 – 13

TEXT SELECTIONS: Unit 3: Talking About Our Environment, When I Get Up in the Morning, What I Want To Be,

Everybody Works, Worksong, Quinito's Neighborhood, Firefighters, A Busy Day, Wake Up!

SKILLS: The schwa sound, /ng/ spelled _ng, /kw/ spelled qu_, syllables with -ie, /a/ spelled a and a-e, /y/ spelled y, /s/

spelled ce and ci_, long i spelled i and i_e, long o spelled o and o_e, review long vowels, /v/ spelled v, long u spelled u

and u_e, /j/ spelled ge and gi_, long e spelled e_e, long e spelled ee and ea, long e spelled _y and ie_. Comprehension

strategies: visualizing, summarizing, main idea and details, monitoring and clarifying, asking questions,

making connections, and drawing conclusions.

ASSESSMENTS: Observations, in class discussions and projects, spelling/phonogram tests, benchmark tests, and unit tests.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE Reading and Writing Standards: 1, 2, 3, 4

TEXT SELECTION: Poetry: "Thanksgiving Day" and "The Princess and the Pea."

Fictional Story: The Maid and the Milk Pail

OBJECTIVES: Students will understand the meaning of the stories, poems, and/or idioms, discuss location and concepts



WRITING - 6 Trait

Six Trait Writing – Word Choice/Conventions

CONTENT: Students will learn to fall in love with words, choose precise words, and select words with color,

variety and sparkle.

OBJECTIVE: Students will learn how to use hot words to make their writing more interesting to the reader.

During this unit students will learn how to use a thesaurus to select the best hot word.

ASSESSMENT: After listening to “Fancy Nancy,” students will create a sentence all about them using hot words

to describe themselves and the things they like to do. Again, drawings accompanying work will be very detailed

to create a clear picture of the scene.


LESSONS 57 – 70

OBJECTIVES (Review): Review previously taught jingles and vocabulary words.

OBJECTIVES (New): Students will learn: new vocabulary words, prepositional phrases, sentence building,

and new synonyms and antonyms. Also, they will: practice and improve sentences with prepositions, participate in

share time practice and improved sentences, and identify nouns as singular and plural.

ASSESSMENTS: Unit 2 Tests, Classroom Observation and Participation

MATH


OBJECTIVES: Review all previously taught skills. Students will create patterns using pattern blocks, design their own

patterns, and make bar graphs. Students will demonstrate knowledge of: recognizing number words, counting by twos,

counting dimes, of even and odd numbers, ordering and adding numbers 0-20, and writing numbers 1-51. Students will

learn to measure lines using a ruler.

ASSESSMENTS: Classwork, homework, and weekly assessments (lesson 45, 50, and 55).

SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES - Core Knowledge Standards: History: 1.1, 1.2

TOPIC: History - Early Exploration

OBJECTIVES: Students will demonstrate understanding of the first Europeans who came to America to find wealth,

economic opportunity and religious freedom.

TOPIC: HISTORY - EARLY EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT

OBJECTIVES: Students will demonstrate knowledge of conquests of Cortez and Pizarro, how Europeans diseases

devastated Native American populations, the story of the Lost Colony, the founding of Jamestown, how slavery

began, the development of plantations in the Southern colonies, the Pilgrims and their voyage on the Mayflower,

their founding of Plymouth colony, the first Thanksgiving, and the

founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony by the Puritans.

ASSESSMENTS: Varied assessments such as: observations, in class discussions projects, and a unit test.

TECHNOLOGY

TYPE TO LEARN



Year One: Gratitude

Year Two: Wonder

Year Three: Stewardship

Lesson Objectives: Students will learn that caring well for the gifts given to us - our life, our world, our talents, and those

entrusted to our care are necessary.


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READING - Imagine It! Reading and Writing Standards: 1, 2, 3, 4 (these apply to all text selections).

UNIT 4 LESSONS 14 – 15 UNIT 5 LESSONS 1 – 13

TEXT SELECTIONS: I Call It Sky, When a Storm Comes Up, Listen To the Rain, On the Same Day in March,

A Good Day for Kites, Deserts, Snow Is Good, and Hurricanes.

SKILLS: All /e/ spellings and sounds /e/ spelled y and _ie_, /s/ spelled s, ce, ci_, and cy, all spellings of /a/, /i/ spelled

_igh, _y and _ie. Comprehension strategies: sequencing, summarizing, making connections, cause and effect,

visualizing, classifying and categorizing, predicting, main idea and details, monitoring and clarifying, and asking

questions.

ASSESSMENTS: Observations, in class discussions, spelling/phonogram spellings, benchmark test, and unit tests.


TEXT SELECTIONS:

It Could Be Worse (read aloud). Fictional Stories: The Egyptian Cinderella, The Korean Cinderella, and

Yeh- Shen: a Cinderella Story form China

OBJECTIVES:

Students will understand the meaning of the stories, poems, and/or idioms, discuss location and concepts related



WRITING - 6 Trait

Six Trait Writing – Voice/ Conventions – December

CONTENT: Students will learn how to add energy to their writing, match voice to the purpose,

and discover new voices.

OBJECTIVE: Students will focus on making their purpose clear. If the story is sad, does it sound sad..or

funny…or happy? They will learn what words to use to make their purpose stand out.

ASSESSMENT: After listening to the story “Dog Breath,” students will create a comic book giving

each character a voice.


LESSONS 76 – 95

OBJECTIVES (Review): Review previously taught jingles and vocabulary words.

OBJECTIVES (New): Students will learn new vocabulary words, new synonyms and antonyms. They will learn noun check and a

singular/plural check. They will write paragraphs using topic and supporting/non-supporting ideas.

They will use supporting /non-supporting sentences.

ASSESSMENTS: Unit 2, Classroom Observation and Participation, Writing Assessments

MATH

SAXON LESSONS 57 – 71

OBJECTIVES: Review all previously taught skills. Students will demonstrate knowledge of: telling time on a face clock

and a digital clock, writing numbers up to 64, sorting, counting by fives, counting pennies and dimes, recording

pattern, counting even and odd numbers, memorize and practice additions facts, and read number words one - ten.

Students will read graphs, memorize seasons, draw line segments, divide whole into halves.

ASSESSMENTS: Classwork, homework, and weekly assessments (lessons 60, 65, and 70).

SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES - Core Knowledge Standards: History: 1.1, 1.2 Geography 1.2

TOPIC: History - Religions

LESSON OBJECTIVES: Students will demonstrate knowledge of religion has often the base of significant ideas and

event in world history. Student will compare and contrast characteristics of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

ASSESSMENTS: Varied assessments such as: observations, in class discussions and projects, and a unit test.

TECHNOLOGY

TYPE TO LEARN



Gratitude (Year 1) Wonder (Year 2) Stewardship (Year 3)

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gr Curriculum Map January



TEXT SELECTIONS: The Way to Captain Yankee's, Me on the Map, Classroom Globe, Looking at Maps and Globes,

A Trip to Grandma's House, The Special Day, Sam's Map, Our Class Trip, The Zoo Trip.

SKILLS: Long vowel spellings, long /o/ spelled o, o_e, _ow and oa, long u spelled u, _ew, u_e, and _ue, /oo/ spelled

_ue and u, /oo/ spelled oo, Comprehension strategies: visualizing, sequencing, classifying and categorizing, making

inferences, reality and fantasy, predicting, asking questions, monitoring and clarifying, summarizing, drawing

conclusions, cause and effect, and making connections, and main idea and details.


TEXT SELECTIONS: Idioms: "There's no place like home" and "Practice makes perfect. Fictional Stories:

Hansel and Gretel, Aesop's Fables- The Boy Who Cried Wolf, The Dog in the Manger, The Goose

That Laid the Golden Egg , Issun Boshi: One-Inch Boy, Tom Thumb, Thumbelina, and Little Finger of the

Watermelon.

LESSON OBJECTIVES: Students will understand the meaning of the stories and/or poems, discuss location and concepts



WRITING - 6 Trait

Six Trait Writing – Review Ideas, Word Choice, Voice and Conventions – January

CONTENT: Students will be reviewing the three traits covered in the first semester.

OBJECTIVE: Check –up.. Do students understand ideas, voice and word choice and can they put them all

together in a piece of writing.

ASSESSMENT: After listening to “Where’s my Homework,” students will put together their own writing, using

the 3 traits about their missing homework.

GRAMMAR

Shurley English

LESSONS 76 – 95

LESSON OBJECTIVES (Review): Review previously taught jingles and vocabulary words.

LESSON OBJECTIVES (New): Students will: learn new vocabulary words, new synonyms and antonyms, noun check

and a singular/plural check. Students will be introduced to paragraph, topic and supporting/non-supporting ideas and

supporting /non-supporting sentences.

ASSESSMENTS: Unit 2, Classroom Observation and Participation, Writing Assessments

MATH


OBJECTIVES: Review all previously taught skills. Students will: write numbers up to 76, add two digit numbers without

grouping; show doubles, make graph, identify congruent shapes, and group by 10's.

ASSESSMENTS: Varied assessments such as observations, and unit tests.

SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES - Core Knowledge Standards: 1.1, 1.2 Geography 1.2

TOPIC: SCIENCE - INTRODUCTION TO MATTER

OBJECTIVES: Students will learn the basic components of an atom, names of common examples of the three

states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas, and water as an example of a changing state of matter of a single substance.


TOPIC: SCIENCE - MEASUREMENT

Lesson Objective: Students will understand and show knowledge of unit of measurement: length, volume, and

temperature.

Assessments: Varied assessments such as: observations, in class discussions and projects, and a unit test.

TOPIC: SCIENCE - GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES OF THE EARTH

OBJECTIVES: Students will demonstrate knowledge of the earth is a huge sphere covered by oceans and

continents, and that the inside of the Earth consists of three distinct layers and is responsible for certain phenomena.

ASSESSMENTS: Varied assessments such as: observations, in class discussions and projects, and unit tests.

TOPIC: SCIENCE- ASTRONOMY

OBJECTIVES: Students will: demonstrate knowledge of the Sun is the source of the Earth's energy, heat and light.

Students will learn about stars, constellations, big dipper, and that the sun is a star. Students will learn about the

nine planets. Students will learn about Earth and its place in the solar system. Students will learn about the moon

and the phases of the moon (full, half, crescent, and new.)

ASSESSMENTS: Varied assessments such as: observations, in class discussions, projects, and a unit test.

TECHNOLOGY

TYPE TO LEARN



Year One: Courage Year Two: Courage Year Three: Courage

Lesson Objectives: Students will understand physical, moral and intellectual courage. Students will learn to stand up for the

truth. From Core Knowledge, students will learn about the courage of the early explorers.


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UNIT 7 LESSONS 3 – 20

TEXT SELECTION: The Kite, Franklin Rides a Bike, All About Kites, The Little Engine That Could, Riddles,

Wheels, The Itsy Bitsy Spider, The Tortoise and the Hare, Winners Never Quit.

SKILLS: Phonics: /ow spelled ou-, owm ou_, /n/ spelled kn, /aw/ spelled au_, aw, al, all, augh and ough, /oi/ spelled oi

and _oy, /f/ spelled ph, /er/ spelled ear, and review all short and long vowel sounds.

Comprehension strategies: summarizing, predicting, cause and effect and inquiry.

ASSESSMENTS: Observations, in class discussions and projects, spelling/phonogram tests, benchmark tests, unit tests.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE

TEXT SELECTION: Poetry: "My Shadow," " Washington," "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod," and

"The Queen of Hearts." Idiom: "Land of nod"

OBJECTIVES: Students will understand the meaning of the stories and/or poems, discuss location and concepts



WRITING - 6 Trait

Six Trait Writing – Sentence Fluency

CONTENT: Beginning Sentences in different ways, creating sentences of different lengths and reading

sentences aloud to check how they sound.

OBJECTIVE: Students will learn that strong writing and sentence fluency is created with varying sentence

length and the ordering of words.

ASSESSMENT: Students will now be expected to write a group of sentences that stay on topic. Students will be

writing three different sentences of different lengths about their favorite animal. Each sentence will need to

start a different way and they will explore if those sentences are fragments or well put together. GRAMMAR - Shurley English Standards: 1, 2, 3, 4

LESSONS 96 – 116

OBJECTIVES (Review): Review previously taught jingles, vocabulary words, synonyms and antonyms,

capitalization/punctuation, topic words and sentences, and common and proper nouns.

OBJECTIVES (New): Students will learn: new vocabulary words, two-point expository paragraph, how to change plural

categories to singular points in a two- point paragraphs, and contractions isn't, aren't, wasn't, weren't. Also, they will

practice and improve sentences

ASSESSMENTS: Unit 2 and Unit 3 test, Writing Assignment #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, Classroom Observation and

Participation, and Writing Assessments.

MATH Standards: 1, 3, 4


OBJECTIVES: Students will: write numbers 72 - 95, count pennies and dimes, read calendar, counting by 5's,

subtraction and adding 2 digit numbers without regrouping, tell time to the half hour, divide a square into fourth,

count by 10's, split a square into fourths, count by 10's, order numbers to 100, count by 100's, identleast and

greatest, add facts and sums of 10, identify a missing addend, draw congruent shapes and designs.

ASSESSMENTS: Classwork, homework, and tests.

SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES - Core Knowledge Science Standards: 1.1 , 3.1

TOPIC: SCIENCE- ASTRONOMY (CONTINUED)

OBJECTIVES: Students will: demonstrate knowledge of the Sun is the source of the Earth's energy, heat and light.

Students will learn about stars, constellations, big dipper, and that the sun is a star. Students will learn about the

nine planets. Students will learn about Earth and its place in the solar system. Students will learn about the moon

and the phases of the moon (full, half, crescent, and new.)

ASSESSMENTS: Varied assessments such as: observations, in class discussions, projects, and a unit test.

TOPIC: 13 COLONIES

OBJECTIVES: Students will: identify the location of the 13 original colonies. Students will learn about: the Boston

Tea Party, Paul Revere’s ride and the Minutemen in redcoats. Students will learn about: Thomas Jefferson and the

Declaration of Independence, the Fourth of July, Betsy Ross, George Washington, Martha Washington, and

Washington, D.C.


TECHNOLOGY

TYPE TO LEARN



Year One: Loyalty Year Two: Love of Country Year Three: Honesty and Justice

Lesson Objectives: Students will demonstrate honesty by trying to live truthfully in word and action and trying to

live in justice by giving others what is due to them.


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gr Curriculum Map March

READING - Imagine It! Reading and Writing Standards: 1, 2, 3, 4 (these apply

to all text selections).

UNIT 8 LESSONS: 1 – 18

TEXT SELECTION: Cactus Hotel, How a Seed Grows, The Garden, Saguaro, Green and Growing:

A book about Plants, and Flowers

SKILLS: /a/ spelled a, a_e, ai_ and _ay, /i/ spelled I, i_e, _igh, _ie, and _y, /o/ spelled o, o_e, oa_, and ow, /u/ spelled

u, u_e, and _ew. ; Comprehension strategies: monitoring and clarifying, and making connections.

ASSESSMENTS: Observations, in class discussions, spelling/phonogram tests, benchmark tests, and unit tests.


TEXT SELECTION: Fictional Stories: Little Red Riding Hood, Lon Po Po, Poor. Non-fictional Writing:

Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, Thomas Edison's Autobiography, and Poor

Richard's Almanac. Idiom: "Hit the nail on the head."

OBJECTIVES: Students will understand the meaning of the stories and/or poems, discuss location and concepts related



WRITING - 6 Trait

Six Trait Writing – Paragraph Structure and Organization

CONTENT: Work should start with a bold beginning, a mighty middle and a crafty excellent ending.

OBJECTIVE: Students will learn that good stories start with a great beginning to grasp the reader’s attention, a

mighty middle to keep the reader entertained and an excellent ending to make the reader want to read more.

ASSESSMENT: Students will be putting together a book report where they will explore the beginning, middle

and end to a short chapter book. Student’s explanations of their stories will be writing in small paragraphs.


LESSONS 96 – 116

OBJECTIVES (New): Students will learn contractions: I'm, can't, don't, doesn't, and didn't. Also, they will continue to

learn new vocabulary words, identifying complete sentences and fragments and predicate parts.

ASSESSMENTS: Writing assignment #6, #7, #8, #9, Unit 3 and 4 tests, Classroom Observation and Participation.

MATH


OBJECTIVES: The students will: write numbers 100 - 109, memorize addition facts by adding 9, identify fractions one

half, one third, and one sixth, use comparison symbols (>, <, and =), divide a set of objects by sharing, identify quart,

gallon, liter, estimate and measure the capacity of a container in a cup, identify geometric solid (cones and spheres),

identify one dollar, adding three single digit numbers, identify the season - spring, count combinations of dimes,

nickels, and pennies.



TOPIC: 13 COLONIES (Continued)

OBJECTIVES: Students will: identify the location of the 13 original colonies. Students will learn about: the Boston

Tea Party, Paul Revere’s ride and the Minutemen in redcoats. Students will learn about: Thomas Jefferson and the

Declaration of Independence, the Fourth of July, Betsy Ross, George Washington, Martha Washington, and

Washington, D.C.


TOPIC: HISTORY- WESTWARD EXPANSION

Lesson Objective: Students will know and understand the importance of the Louisiana Purchase and how it impacted

American settlement, who Lewis and Clark and Sacagawea were and their impact on the expansion.


TECHNOLOGY

TYPE TO LEARN


CORE VIRTUES Civics Standards: 11, 1.2.




1st

gr Curriculum Map April




TEXT SELECTION: Flowers at Night, Plants That Eat Animals, A House Is a House for Me, Homes Around the

World, Building a House, The White House, Snail's Pace.

SKILLS: Phonics: review all covered sound/spelling cards and review all vowel sounds, /e/ spelled e, e_e, ee, ea, _y,

and _ie, review consonant blends, review consonant digraphs.

Comprehension strategies, vocabulary, comparing and contrasting.

ASSESSMENTS: Observations, in class discussions, spelling/phonogram tests, benchmark tests, and unit tests.


TEXT SELECTION: Idioms: "Don't let the cat out of the bag" and "The more the merrier." Fictional Stories:

Pinocchio, Brer Rabbit Gets Brer Fox's Dinner and Brer Rabbit and Brer Bear .

LESSON OBJECTIVES: Students will understand the meaning of the stories and/or poems, discuss location and

concepts related to core knowledge history and science, and review any unknown vocabulary words.


WRITING - 6 Trait

Six Trait Writing – Combine all Traits

CONTENT: Students will review and touch up on all six traits.

OBJECTIVE: Review all of the traits learned throughout the year.

ASSESSMENT: Students will create one paragraph that incorporates all 6 traits.

Conventions: Conventions are covered in every unit.

CONTENT: Spelling, punctuations, grammar, and spacing

OBJECTIVE: Students will review the listed conventions, become aware of what their own personal areas of

struggle are, and follow an editing process to reduce error.

ASSESSMENT: Correct conventions will constantly be assessed in every unit in student work.

GRAMMAR

Shurley English

LESSONS 133 – 148

OBJECTIVES (Review): Review previously taught jingles, vocabulary words, and previously taught synonyms

and antonyms.

OBJECTIVES (New): Students will: learn new vocabulary words, past, present, and future tense verbs, parts of a

friendly letter and envelope, practice writing and editing expository writings, identify simple sentences and fragments,

make fragments into complete sentences and write a friendly letter.

ASSESSMENTS: Writing assignment #9, #10, Unit 4 tests, Unit 5 Test #1, #2, Classroom Observation and

Participation, Writing Assessments.

MATH


OBJECTIVES: Review previously taught skills. The students will be able to: identify fractional parts of a whole,

graph tags on a bar graph, measure line segments to the nearest centimeter, identify geometric solids (cubes and

cylinders), memorize subtraction facts with the difference of two, and identify fractional part of a set.


TOPIC: History - Early Exploration: The American West

OBJECTIVES: Students will: demonstrate knowledge of the location of the Appalachian, Rocky Mountains and the

Mississippi River. Students will be introduced to Daniel Boon, the Wilderness Road and the Louisiana Purchase,

and Lewis, Clark with Sacagawea.


OBJECTIVES: Students will understand the meaning of the stories and/or poems, discuss location and concepts related



SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES -

TOPIC: History - Early Civilizations: The Earliest People

LESSON OBJECTIVES: Students demonstrate knowledge of the first people's arrival in North America by crossing

a "land bridge," and how people went from hunting to gathering to farming. Students demonstrate knowledge of the

development of towns and cities. They will learn about Hunters and Nomads.


TOPIC: Early Civilizations - The Earliest People - Central America

LESSON OBJECTIVES: Students will demonstrate the knowledge of: the Mayan development of large populations

centers in the rainforests of Mexico and Central America, the Inca establishment

of a far-ranging empire in the Andes Mountains of Peru and Chile, and the Aztec establishment of a vast empire in

Central Mexico.


TOPIC: SCIENCE - ELECTRICITY

Lesson Objective: Students will understand and show knowledge of static electricity, basic parts of a simple

electric circuit, non- conductive and conductive materials, and rules for electrical safety.


TECHNOLOGY

TYPE TO LEARN



Year One: Forgiveness Year Two: Graciousness and Courtesy Year Three: Gentleness and Humility

Lesson Objectives: Students will learn to act kindly, courteously to make others feel special and learn by humility

that they are not perfect.

Assessments: Informal observations and oral discussion.

1st

gr Curriculum Map May

READING - Imagine It! Reading and Writing


TEST SELECTIONS: Finding Shelter, Homes, This House is Made of Mud, The Bravest of the Brave, My Brother

is Afraid of Just About Comes, Clyde Monster, The Mice in Council, Ira Sleeps Over.

SKILLS: Introduce r-controlled words, introduce r-controlled vowels, review /e/ sounds, review /oo/ spelled oo, _ue, u,

_ew and u_e, review /ow/ spelled ow and ou_, review /oi/ spelled oi and _oy, prefixes and endings

ASSESSMENTS: Observations, in class discussions, spelling/phonogram tests, benchmark tests and unit tests.


TEXT SELECTION: Poetry: "Little Sally Walker" and "Riddle Rhymes." Idioms: "An apple a day, keeps the

doctor away." Fictional Stories: The Knee-High Man , and Medio Pollito . Non-Fiction: Louis

Pasteur's Autobiography and Edward Jenner's Autobiography.

OBJECTIVES:

Students will understand the meaning of the stories and/or poems, discuss location and concepts related to core

knowledge history and science, and review any unknown vocabulary words.


OBJECTIVES (Review): Review previously taught jingles, vocabulary words, types of paragraph and letter writing, and friendly letter and

envelope parts.

OBJECTIVES (New): Students will be introduced to how to write an independent friendly letter, address an actual envelope, and to write a

thank you note.

ASSESSMENTS: Unit 5 tests, Classroom Observation and Participation, and Writing Assessments. WRITING - 6 Trait

Six Trait Writing – Combine all Traits – April / May

CONTENT: Students will review and touch up on all six traits.

OBJECTIVE: Review all of the traits learned throughout the year.

ASSESSMENT: Students will create one paragraph that incorporates all 6 traits.

Conventions: Conventions are covered in every unit.

CONTENT: Spelling, punctuations, grammar, and spacing

OBJECTIVE: Students will review the listed conventions, become aware of what their own personal areas of

struggle are, and follow an editing process to reduce error.

ASSESSMENT: Correct conventions will constantly be assessed in every unit in student work.

MATH - Saxon Lessons 125 – 135

OBJECTIVES: The students will: identify quarters, subtraction two digit factors without regrouping, identify cold,

cool, warm, and hot temperatures, read a thermometer to the nearest ten degrees, memorize subtraction facts,

subtract half of a double, identify events (certain, likely, impossible), identify and count 100's, 10's and one's,

identify rectangle shapes, geometric solids (rectangular prisms), use cubes representing to 500, and identify the

season - summer.

ASSESSMENTS: Classwork, homework, and tests 24, 25, and final math test.

SCIENCE and SOCIAL STUDIES - Core Knowledge Standards:

TOPIC: Modern Civilization – Mexico Geography

OBJECTIVES: Students will learn about: the location of Mexico, Central America, the Yucatan Peninsula, the Pacific

Ocean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Rio Grande, and Mexico City, the mix of Native American and Spanish heritage,

Mexican traditions and Mexican Independence Day.


TOPIC: Science - Human Body Systems

Lesson Objectives: Students will identify and understand the characteristics of the skeletal system, the muscular

systems, the digestive system, the circulatory system, and the nervous system. Students demonstrate knowledge of

the skills of how to take care of your body and knowledge of the importance of vaccinations.


TECHNOLOGY

TYPE TO LEARN


CORE VIRTUES Civics Standards: 11, 1.2

Year One: Hope Year Two: Joy Year Three: Wonder

Lesson Objectives: Students will understand that wonder is to delight in beauty and mystery.


1st

gr Curriculum Map SPECIALS AUGUST





Lesson Objectives: Students will demonstrate respect for the world, its creatures, our environment, and for themselves.

They will demonstrate responsibility for their physical surroundings,

showing stewardship for the earth and its goods.


ART

UNIT Introduction to classroom procedures; All Kinds of Lines

CONTENT Procedures and safety; Recognize and apply various kinds of lines.

SKILLS Practice procedures; Practice various lines. Find various lines in artworks.

ASSESSMENT Check lines.

CORE KNOWLEDGE Enhancement Social Studies – name and locate the oceans, continents, countries (Canada, the United states, Mexico)

MUSIC

UNIT

Elements of Music CK Songs; Following a Condutor; Listening, Performing, Audience Etiquette;

Reading and Performing Notes and Rests; Music/ Songs; Listening, Performing, Audience Etiquette

Eighth Notes; improvise simple melodic and rhythmic patterns using vocal sounds, body percussion, movement,

and instruments

CONTENT

Review basic music elements and instrument families; Make New Friends; Oh Dear What Can the Matter Be;

Oh, John the Rabbit On Top of Old Smokey ; music elements and instrument families

America the Beautiful Star Spangled Banner Yankee Doodle; For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow

SKILLS

Steady beat Moving To Music; Short and Long Sounds Loud and Quiet Quarter, half, whole notes/rests;

Italian Musical Descriptors; SW recognize the name, value and appropriate; Quiet Marching Steady Beat Fast

and Slow; SW hum melody while listening to music; Echo short rhythms

and patterns; Italian Musical Descriptors; improvise simple melodic and rhythmic patterns using vocal

sounds, body percussion, movement, and instrument

ASSESSMENT

Teacher Observation Solfege from memory. Teacher observation Italian Musical Descriptors;

improvise simple melodic and rhythmic patterns using vocal sounds, body percussion, movement, and instrument


PHYSICAL EDUCATION

UNIT RULES AND EXPECTATIONS/BODY AWARENESS

CONTENT:

Safety Follows directions and classroom rules Cooperation

Respects Differences Identifies feelings Plays fair

SKILLS:

Understands rules and safety concerns

Comprehend the protocols used in a physical education setting

Understands expectations

Understands the importance of cooperation and sportsmanship

ASSESSMENT:

Teacher observation Teacher checklist Peer ASSESSMENT

SPANISH

CONTENT

Vocabulary - Greetings and Farewells

Culture - Introduce the concept of formal and informal

SKILLS and OBJECTIVES

Greet each other and new students; Respond to greetings; Ask names of others; Introduce each other;

Goodbyes

ASSESSMENT Role playing


1st

gr Curriculum Map SPECIALS September


Year One: Respect and Responsibility Year Two: Respect and Responsibility Year Three: Respect and

Responsibility

Lesson Objectives: Students will demonstrate respect for the world, its creatures, our environment, and for themselves. They

will demonstrate responsibility for their physical surroundings, showing stewardship for the earth and its goods.


ART

UNIT Art from Long Ago

CONTENT Cave Paintings; Look at art from ancient Egypt.

SKILLS Observe and discuss cave paintings. ; Observe and discuss Egyptian art;

Create a design inspired by Egyptian art.

ASSESSMENT Class participation check

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement: Social Studies - Ancient Civilizations (Egypt-Mesopotamia)

MUSIC

UNIT

Music/ Songs; Listening, Performing, Audience Etiquette; Eighth Notes; improvise simple melodic and

rhythmic patterns using vocal sounds, body percussion, movement, and instruments

CONTENT

music elements and instrument families; America the Beautiful Star Spangled Banner Yankee Doodle;

For He’s a Jolly Good Fellow

SKILLS

Quiet Marching Steady Beat Fast and Slow; SW hum melody while listening to music; Echo short

rhythms and patterns; Italian Musical Descriptors; improvise simple melodic and rhythmic patterns using

vocal sounds, body percussion, movement, and instrument

ASSESSMENT

From memory. Teacher observation

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement: Social Studies - Ancient Civilizations (Egypt-Mesopotamia)

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

UNIT MOTOR SKILL DEVELOPMENT – CHASING, FLEEING, DODGING

CONTENT:

Cues of dodging: Avoid tagger, change of direction, change of level, change of speed

Cues of chasing: Eye on target, reach to tag, arms extended, trap in corners

Cues of Fleeing: Use fakes, change directions, change speeds, keep head up

SKILLS:

Understands and demonstrates fast and slow change of directions.

Understands and demonstrates changing speed

Demonstrates the ability to maneuver around obstacles

Demonstrates strategies used to chase, flee, and dodge

Tag Examples: Squirrel tag Freeze tag Tracker tag

ASSESSMENT:

Teacher checklist and rubric for loco motor SKILLS

Teacher checklist for chasing, fleeing and dodging

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement: Social Studies - Ancient Civilizations (Egypt-Mesopotamia).

SPANISH

CONTENT

Vocabulary - Numbers 0 – 10; Shapes; Classroom objects

Culture - Countries in Latin America and the capitals


Recognize numbers; Count forward and backwards 0 - 10; Flashcards with shapes with color;

Familiar classroom objects

ASSESSMENT

PowerPoint for classroom objects; Draw picture of teachers; Recite numbers and manipulates

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement: Social Studies - Ancient Civilizations (Egypt-Mesopotamia).

1st

gr Curriculum Map SPECIALS October


Year One: Diligence Year Two: Self-Control and Self Discipline Year Three: Perseverance

Objectives: Students will learn that perseverance is pushing on despite difficulty and hardship. Students

will learn that sticking to something is better than giving up.

ART

UNIT Shape

CONTENT Recognize and apply basic shapes.

SKILLS Create an artwork that includes shapes; Overlap some shapes.

ASSESSMENT Check

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement: Science – Habitats classification; oceans; environment MUSIC

UNIT

Orchestra/ Prokofiev’s ‘Peter and The Wolf” ; Class Room Instruments: Technique/ Performance Etiquette;

Play Rhythm Instruments/ categorize by sound and sight; Listening, Performing, Audience Etiquette

CONTENT

Families of Instruments Strings, Brass, Woodwinds, Percussion (Discerning by timbre- sound quality) ;

Prokofiev’s: “Peter and the Wolf”

SKILLS

Recognize different instruments by distinctive timbre Understand that instruments can represent different animals.

SW learn and use Italian Musical Descriptors in a meaningful manner.

SW play instruments responsively and responsibly according to conductors signals and class room rules.

ASSESSMENT

Peter and the Wolf/Instrument Pack

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement: Science – Habitats classification; oceans; environment

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

UNIT – THROWING AND CATCHING

CONTENT:

Cues of throwing: Step with opposite foot, arm extended back (elbow up), point to target with non-throwing hand,

release towards target, follow through

Cues of catching: Eyes on thrower, hand up, absorb force towards body, use hands not body

SKILLS:

Perform the correct cues of a proper throw, be able to throw for accuracy, be able to catch with both one and two

hands, be able to receive a thrown ball successfully, be able to throw with both one and two hands.

Throwing and catching examples:

Oscars trash can Throwing through a hoop Messy backyard Make it take it

ASSESSMENT:

Teacher checklist and rubric for throwing and catching Peer ASSESSMENT Teacher/Student discussion


SPANISH

CONTENT

Vocabulary - Days of the week; Review colors; Introduce numbers 11 - 20

Culture - Colors of the flag; Color a famous painting


Review colors; Recite days of the week; Ask/tell days of the week

ASSESSMENT

Sing days of the week; Color drawing; Calendar; Recite numbers 11- 20


1st

gr Curriculum Map SPECIALS November


Year One: Gratitude

Year Two: Wonder

Year Three: Stewardship

Lesson Objectives: Students will learn that caring well for the gifts given to us - our life, our world, our talents, and those

entrusted to our care are necessary.


ART

UNIT Color and Form

CONTENT Recognize red, yellow, and blue as primary colors, and learn the secondary colors. Recognize and

create a form Talk about size relationships

SKILLS Paint a color wheel, and mix the secondary colors of orange, green, and purple. Make a model magic

snowman

ASSESSMENT Check the color wheel

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement:

Social Studies – Early Exploration (Thanksgiving)

MUSIC

UNIT

Composer: Mozart; Listening, Performing, Audience Etiquette; Play Rhythm Instruments/ categorize by

sound and sight; Create Rhythmic Patterns to Accompany CK Songs

CONTENT Skip to My Lou; Composer: Mozart and A Little Night Music

SKILLS Italian Musical Descriptors; improvise simple melodic and rhythmic patterns using vocal sounds, body

percussion, movement, and instrument

ASSESSMENT -----



PYYSICAL EDUCATION

UNIT GYMNASTICS/BALANCING

CONTENT:

Balancing components/cues: Stillness, focus, tension of the muscles, extend feet and body parts for stability,

smooth transitions.

SKILLS:

Discover how to balance with different body parts on different levels.

Will be able to balance with control of different objects.

Develop and refine a gymnastics sequence.

Improve coordination through flexibility and balance.

Gymnastics and balancing examples:

Animal walks Modified forward roll

Low balance beam River stones and stepping stones

ASSESSMENT:

Teacher checklist and rubric for gymnastics and balancing

Student Drawings

Teacher Observation



SPANISH

CONTENT

Vocabulary - Food; Clothes; Body parts

Culture - PowerPoint with different food from Central and South America


Identify food; Identify clothes; Identify body parts

ASSESSMENT

Make a menu; Box of clothes; Play “Simon Says” ; Ask questions about new vocab; Draw and color



1st

gr Curriculum Map SPECIALS December


Gratitude (Year 1) Wonder (Year 2) Stewardship (Year 3)

ART

UNIT

Color and Form continued

CONTENT

Recognize the difference between 2D and 3D art.

SKILLS

Paint snowman’s hat

ASSESSMENT

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CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement Social Studies – World Religions

MUSIC

UNIT

Audience Listening Etiquette

CONTENT

Ballet: Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite

SKILLS

Understand that ballet combines orchestral music, drama, and movement to tell a story. ; Italian Musical Descriptors

ASSESSMENT

Teacher Observation Ballet Assessment Notation Review


PHYSICAL EDUCATION

UNIT – KICKING AND DRIBBLING WITH FEET

CONTENT:

Dribbling the ball with set boundaries. Dribble the ball with feet while traveling.

Starting and stopping. Kick the ball to target.

Kicking for distance. Kicking in the air.

SKILLS:

Demonstrate proper technique for dribbling at control level.

Kicking a stationary ball from a stationary position

Kicking and dribbling examples:

Kicking at a pin Kicking into goals

Kicking to a partner Aerobic kickball

ASSESSMENT:

Teacher/student discussion

Teacher checklist and rubric for kicking and dribbling

I pad ASSESSMENT CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement Social Studies – World Religions

SPANISH

CONTENT

Vocabulary - Animals; Adjective Culture - “Noche Buena”


Identify domestic animals; Sentences about animals with new adjectives; How does the Spanish culture

celebrate the holidays

ASSESSMENT Answer oral questions about animal; Write sentences with adjectives


1st

gr Curriculum Map SPECIALS January


Year One: Courage Year Two: Courage Year Three: Courage

Lesson Objectives: Students will understand physical, moral and intellectual courage. Students will learn to stand up for the

truth. From Core Knowledge, students will learn about the courage of the early explorers.


ART

UNIT Texture

CONTENT Describe the qualities of texture and provide examples. Recognize repetition.

SKILLS Look at sculpture and paintings. Do printmaking.

ASSESSMENT Check

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement Science – Matter; measurement; astronomy

MUSIC

UNIT Opera; Audience Listening Etiquette; Jazz; Improvisation

CONTENT

Opera; Reinforce Core Subject(s) Content: Hansel and Gretel; Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel;

Brother come and Dance with me; I am The Little Sandman, Children’s Prayer

Jazz: Louis Armstrong- “Westside Blues”, “When the Saints Go Marching In”

SKILLS

SW understand that opera combines music, singing, and acting and dentify Characters, plot, setting, voice tiimbre,

and dynamics. SW dance to the song Brother come and dance with me.

SW be aware: Jazz is an American art form rooted in African American and European musical traditions/Terms

improvisation, call and response, melody, harmony, Italian Musical Descriptors

ASSESSMENT

Teacher Observation Opera Worksheet


PHYSICAL EDUCATION

UNIT – STRIKING

CONTENT:

Eyes on Ball Wide Stance Step towards target

Extend hands parallel to surface for contact Follow through

Watch object into implement

Types of strikes:

Overhand Underhand Forehand Backhand

Two hand One hand Serving Stationary object Moving object

SKILLS:

Knows how to strike stationary objects with body parts and implements

Know how to strike moving objects with body parts and implements

Uses proper force when striking objects

Uses accuracy toward a target or area

ASSESSMENT:

Teach observation

Teacher checklist

I pad ASSESSMENT


SPANISH

CONTENT

Vocabulary - “Feeling” words; Adjectives; Ages; Numbers 20-30

Culture - The Three Wise Men/Magi Mexico City Presentation (Core Knowledge)


Questions and answer; Identify numbers 20-30

ASSESSMENT

Tell how they feel; Ask how others feel; How old they are; Ask someone’s age;

Recite numbers 20- 30; Review numbers 0- 30


1st

gr Curriculum Map SPECIALS February


Year One: Loyalty Year Two: Love of Country Year Three: Honesty and Justice

Lesson Objectives: Students will demonstrate honesty by trying to live truthfully in word and action and trying to

live in justice by giving others what is due to them.


ART

UNIT Texture – continued from January

CONTENT Describe the qualities of texture and provide examples; Recognize repetition.

SKILLS Look at sculpture and paintings. Do printmaking.

ASSESSMENT -----

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement Soc Studies – 13 Colonies

MUSIC

UNIT Rhythm Band; Listening, Performing, Audience Etiquette

CONTENT Rhythm Band Reading and notating pitch and rhythm

SKILLS SW singing, narration and choreography for musical program.

ASSESSMENT Teacher observation


PHYSICAL EDUCATION

UNIT – PATHWAYS

CONTENT:

Walking Running Skipping Galloping Traveling

Hopping Leaping Jumping Marching Side Shuffles

Pathways Zigzag Curved Straight Shaped

Levels- Low Middle High

SKILLS:

Demonstrate a variety of locomotor movements correctly

Utilize multiple pathways/patterns in a variety of situations

Travel at different levels and speeds

Employ space awareness concepts in game play

ASSESSMENT:

Student Drawings Teacher/Student Discussion Teacher Checklist


SPANISH

CONTENT

Vocabulary - Dates; Family members; Adjectives

Culture - “Dia de San Valentine” Familias in Spanish speaking countries


Tell the date; Ask the date; Identify family members; Describe family members

ASSESSMENT

Point and recite numbers 21-30; Tell date of the week; Calendar; Draw picture of the family;

Make family album


1st

gr Curriculum Map SPECIALS March

CORE VIRTUES Civics Standards: 11, 1.2.




ART

UNIT Still Life

CONTENT Recognize examples of still life as a subject of various artworks.

SKILLS Create a mixed media still life collage. Employ light and dark shading.

ASSESSMENT Check shading

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement - Social Studies - 13 Colonies; Westward Expansion MUSIC

UNIT Rhythm Band Reading and notating pitch and rhythm; Listening, Performing, Audience Etiquette

CONTENT

Rhythm Band Reading and notating pitch and rhythm; (Late March) Paul Dukas- The Sorcerer’s Apprentice;

Reinforce Core Subject(s) Content: Benjamin Franklin -Thomas Edison Thomas Edison- Contribution to

recorded sound

SKILLS Musical Performance for Parents; (Late March) SW listen to The Sorcerer’s Apprentice to recognize

that music can help tell a story. ; Italian Musical Descriptors

ASSESSMENT Teacher Observation

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement - Social Studies - 13 Colonies; Westward Expansion

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

UNIT – RHYTHMS

CONTENT:

Slow/fast beat Rhythmical beat Tempos

Change of force Etiquette Dance sequence

SKILLS:

Demonstrates the ability to move to a slow and fast beat, rhythmical beats, and varying tempos

Demonstrates the ability to move in relation to a stationary object/partner

Demonstrates movement showing change of force

Demonstrate proper etiquette when involved in a group or partner dance

Combines SKILLS to perform a dance or movement sequence

Rhythmic Activities Locomotor movements to music

Jump bands Jump rope

Line, circle and partner dance Aerobic dance and steps

ASSESSMENT:

Teacher Observation Teacher Checklist Rubric Student routines

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement - Social Studies - 13 Colonies; Westward Expansion SPANISH

CONTENT

Vocabulary - Weather words

Culture - The Amazon and the Andes in South America The tropical jungles of Costa Rica


Describe current weather; Ask questions about weather; Review Standards from Lesson 1-11

ASSESSMENT

Draw pictures of the weather; Guess the weather based on a picture; Answer oral questions

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement - Social Studies - 13 Colonies; Westward Expansion

1st

gr Curriculum Map SPECIALS April


Year One: Forgiveness Year Two: Graciousness and Courtesy Year Three: Gentleness and Humility

Lesson Objectives: Students will learn to act kindly, courteously to make others feel special and learn by humility

that they are not perfect.


ART

UNIT

Portraits Contrast & Rhythm

CONTENT

Recognize portraits as subject matter in artworks. Recognize contrast and rhythm as art principles

SKILLS

Share personal opinions about what art is and what purpose it serves. Create a simple design that emphasizes

contrast and rhythm.

ASSESSMENT

Class participation; Check for contrast and rhythm

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement - the Earliest People; Central America

MUSIC

UNIT World Music Examples; CK Songs/ 2 Part Form (Experience through movement)

CONTENT Bucket; Take Me out to the Ball Game; Review CK songs from Aug-April

SKILLS -----

ASSESSMENT -----


PHYSICAL EDUCATION

UNIT – FITNESS

CONTENT:

Body functions Physical activity Heart

Heart rate Muscle Respiration

Muscular Strength Flexion xtension

Fitness ASSESSMENTs

SKILLS:

Understands the heart is a muscle that becomes stronger as a result of physical activity

Understands the changes that occur in respiration during and after participation in sustained physical activity

Participates in activities that promote muscular strength

Demonstrates proper flex and extension of various body parts

Understands and participates in health related fitness ASSESSMENTs

Activities:

Stretching Partner run Relays Animal walk activities Fitness stations

ASSESSMENT:

Teach observation Teacher checklist I pad ASSESSMENT


SPANISH

CONTENT

Vocabulary - Months of the Year; Clothing; Numbers

Culture - Video on Guatemalan children and their clothes


Identify items of clothes; Identify the months of the year; Recite the months of the year in order; State the

current month and the month of their birthday

ASSESSMENT

Sing “Meses del año” song; Recite the months of the year; Draw/cut/paste clothing; Describe clothing; Write

sentences using adjectives


1st

gr Curriculum Map SPECIALS May

CORE VIRTUES Civics Standards: 11, 1.2

Year One: Hope Year Two: Joy Year Three: Wonder

Lesson Objectives: Students will understand that wonder is to delight in beauty and mystery.


ART

UNIT Illustrating a poem or story

CONTENT Read a story or poem and illustrate

SKILLS Illustrate a story or poem-add close & far

ASSESSMENT Check for size relationships

CORE KNOWLEDGE enhancement Science – Human Body Social Studies – Mexico

MUSIC

UNIT

CK Songs; Listening, Performing, Audience Etiquette; World Music Examples;

CK Songs/ 2 Part Form (Experience through movement)

CONTENT

Curriculum/ Song and Composer Review; There’s A Hole in the; Bucket; Take Me out to the Ball

Game; Review CK songs from Aug-April

SKILLS Melody can move up and Down.

ASSESSMENT Teacher Observation


PHYSICAL EDUCATION

UNIT – FIELD DAY/TEAM GAMES

CONTENT:

Field day games:

Capture the flag Scarf Tag 50 yard dash

Jump the creek Marble relay Dizzy bat race Gunny sack relay

SKILLS:

Demonstrate competency in a variety of games

Utilize fundamental field and playground game SKILLS

Apply knowledge of the rules of the games

Utilize tactics and strategy in game play

Compare and contrast the role of individual vs. team aspects in field and playground games

Describe the role of both a leader and follower

ASSESSMENT:

Teacher Observation I pad ASSESSMENT


SPANISH

CONTENT

Vocabulary - Places in the neighborhood; Numbers; Review

Culture


Identify animals; Identify family members; Recite numbers; Recite colors; Days of the week;

Months of the year

ASSESSMENT

Review all past vocabulary


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