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Curriculum
LANGUAGE ARTS:
**Students will work towards mastery of the MN Language Arts Standards
Guided Reading (Book Clubs):
*Students are grouped for guided reading (small groups) by instructional need. Your student may or may not have the same reading teacher throughout the year. The groups will be flexible and may change as your student progresses in reading fluency/comprehension skills. Students read books at or just above their reading level during small group instruction.
*fluency * word-attack skills *comprehension * vocabulary
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Resources for whole group reading/writing:
Units of Study for Teaching Reading (Lucy Calkins), Houghton Mifflin Literacy Program, Reading A-Z, RAZ Kids, Phonemic Awareness, Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS)
Skills:
*phonics (consonants, short/long vowels, blends, digraphs)
*comprehension (story structure, sequencing, cause/effect, predicting, making generalizations, compare/contrast, topic/main idea/details/summary, fantasy/realism)
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Writer’s Workshop (mini-lessons & writing time):
*conventions of print (letter formation – ez Write Handwriting, spacing between words)
*sentences (capital letters, punctuation, complete sentences, telling/asking sentences)
*narrative, opinion, and informational writing
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MATH:
**Students will work towards mastery of the MN Math Standards
Everyday Math:
*Whole numbers up to 120 (read, write, compare, order, count)
*Addition & Subtraction (write, model and solve number stories, computation, basic facts, write/solve number sentences, determine if an equation is true or false, compose/decompose numbers - emphasis on compliments of 10)
*Patterns (numbers – 2s, 5s,10s; patterns with objects, pictures, rules)
*Geometry (2D/3D shapes – sides, faces, corners; polygons)
*Place Value (up to 100s place)
*Money (penny, nickel, dime – identify and the value of a group of coins)
*Measurement (inches and centimeters)
*Time (hour/half hour – digital and analog notation)
*Graphing (bar and tally graphs)
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UNIT STUDIES:
Science: life cycles (butterflies – fall, frogs – spring) and animal habitats
Social studies: current events, time lines, people, places and environments, map skills, rights and responsibilities, holidays and celebrations of various cultures
Health: problem solving, personal responsibility, friendship skills, safe/unsafe behaviors, and goal setting
*We use the Second Step curriculum
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SPECIALISTS:
Students will visit five different specialists this year. All specialist teachers have a website. Please visit the Sunnyside Homepage and click on the link for each specialist teacher to see the curriculum and activities used in his/her classroom. I also put links on my classroom webpage under the Websites tab.
Specialist Teachers:
Jocelyn Rognlin (Music) 651-621-7673 Jodi Vanderbilt (Art) 651-621-7676
Andy Wait (Science) 651-621-7660 Chet Springborn (P.E.) 651-621-7630
Jenna Pomraning & Karin Martinjako
(Technology/Library) 651-621-7607
**Students will work towards mastery of the MN Language Arts Standards
Guided Reading (Book Clubs):
*Students are grouped for guided reading (small groups) by instructional need. Your student may or may not have the same reading teacher throughout the year. The groups will be flexible and may change as your student progresses in reading fluency/comprehension skills. Students read books at or just above their reading level during small group instruction.
*fluency * word-attack skills *comprehension * vocabulary
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Resources for whole group reading/writing:
Units of Study for Teaching Reading (Lucy Calkins), Houghton Mifflin Literacy Program, Reading A-Z, RAZ Kids, Phonemic Awareness, Peer-Assisted Learning Strategies (PALS)
Skills:
*phonics (consonants, short/long vowels, blends, digraphs)
*comprehension (story structure, sequencing, cause/effect, predicting, making generalizations, compare/contrast, topic/main idea/details/summary, fantasy/realism)
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Writer’s Workshop (mini-lessons & writing time):
*conventions of print (letter formation – ez Write Handwriting, spacing between words)
*sentences (capital letters, punctuation, complete sentences, telling/asking sentences)
*narrative, opinion, and informational writing
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MATH:
**Students will work towards mastery of the MN Math Standards
Everyday Math:
*Whole numbers up to 120 (read, write, compare, order, count)
*Addition & Subtraction (write, model and solve number stories, computation, basic facts, write/solve number sentences, determine if an equation is true or false, compose/decompose numbers - emphasis on compliments of 10)
*Patterns (numbers – 2s, 5s,10s; patterns with objects, pictures, rules)
*Geometry (2D/3D shapes – sides, faces, corners; polygons)
*Place Value (up to 100s place)
*Money (penny, nickel, dime – identify and the value of a group of coins)
*Measurement (inches and centimeters)
*Time (hour/half hour – digital and analog notation)
*Graphing (bar and tally graphs)
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UNIT STUDIES:
Science: life cycles (butterflies – fall, frogs – spring) and animal habitats
Social studies: current events, time lines, people, places and environments, map skills, rights and responsibilities, holidays and celebrations of various cultures
Health: problem solving, personal responsibility, friendship skills, safe/unsafe behaviors, and goal setting
*We use the Second Step curriculum
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SPECIALISTS:
Students will visit five different specialists this year. All specialist teachers have a website. Please visit the Sunnyside Homepage and click on the link for each specialist teacher to see the curriculum and activities used in his/her classroom. I also put links on my classroom webpage under the Websites tab.
Specialist Teachers:
Jocelyn Rognlin (Music) 651-621-7673 Jodi Vanderbilt (Art) 651-621-7676
Andy Wait (Science) 651-621-7660 Chet Springborn (P.E.) 651-621-7630
Jenna Pomraning & Karin Martinjako
(Technology/Library) 651-621-7607