Read and Understand the Meaning of Simple Words

·        Apply common nonexceptional phonetic analysis (blends, medial consonants, final digraphs, r-controlled vowels, silent e, and double vowels/diphthongs)

·        Identify and know meanings of compound words, contractions, root words, prefixes (un-, dis-) suffixes (-ly, -ful) and word ending (-er, -est)
Read and use sight words

·        Identify and correctly use nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns

·        Identify and use opposites (antonyms), rhyming words, synonyms, homonyms

·        Alphabetize words to the second letter

Read for Meaning and Demonstrate Oral Reading Skills

·        Choose books of interest that they can read

·        Distinguish between and talk about fiction, realistic fiction, fantasy, and nonfiction

·        Identify and describe the main idea, important details, sequence, setting (time and place), plot, characters, problem, and solution to the problem

·        Predict outcomes and draw conclusions

·        Summarize a story using main idea, supporting details, cause and effect, time periods, facts and sequence

·        Read aloud smoothly and expressively with proper phrasing

·        Use a variety of comprehension strategies (rereading, predicting, questioning)

·        Distinguish between poetry, riddles, plays, everyday print (e.g. recipes, simple schedules)

·        Use a dictionary and glossary of a book to locate information

·        Read and follow multi-step directions

·        Make connections between a text and personal experience

·        Express own opinions about text

Communicate through Writing

·        Print using the correct form and neatly so others can read their printing (appropriate spacing of letters and words)

·        Use pre-writing strategies (drawing, fast writing, mapping, and clustering)

·        Use editing marks

·        Revise writing-Final draft will contain proper spelling, capital letters at the beginning of sentences and periods, question marks, and exclamation points at the end

·        Write a story with a clear beginning, middle, and end

·         Write a paragraph, stories, biographies, articles, poems, journals, letters, and books

·        Write a friendly letter and address an envelope

·        Stay on topic in writing

Discussions and Oral Presentations

·        Demonstrate oral reading skills and make a brief oral presentation

·        Keep feet still, speak clearly, and use correct loudness when speaking to small and large groups

·        Make your idea clear

·        Sequence when speaking

·        Tell a personal experience and retell something they have read and know what they tell is complete

·        Tell facts from opinions and tell facts and opinions in a clear and logical order

·        Add good ideas in small and large group discussions when it is their turn

·        Answer questions briefly and clearly

Listening Skills

·        Sit quietly without disturbing others and show the speaker you are listening

·        Listen for main ideas, recall sequences, and important details

·        Ask appropriate questions

·        Follow multi-step directions

Understand Place Value of Three-Digit Numbers in the Base Ten Number System

• Recognize, read, order, and count from 0-1,000
• Use, model, and identify place value positions of 1’s, 10’s, 100’s, and 1,000’s
• Recognize and use less than (<), greater than (>), and equal to
• Identify odd and even numbers
• Know that a group of ten can be broken into ten ones and that ten ones equals a group of ten
• Know that a group of 100 can be broken into 10 tens and that 10 tens equal a group of 100
• Know the sequence of numbers up to 1,000

Count to 1,000 in Many Ways

• See the pattern in numbers 0-1,000
• Skip count by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s forwards and backwards
• Count backwards from 20
• Skip count starting at any point
• Count by 10’s starting with a number such as 43

Understand and Use Fractions as Parts of a Set and Parts of a Whole

• Identify part of a whole up to 1/12
• Recognize that when all parts are included the result is one
• Divide a circle, square, rectangle into ½, 1/3, 2/3, ¼, and ¾

Select and Use Appropriate Tools of Measurement

·         Read a calendar (length of the day, week, month, and year)

·         Tell time on an analog and digital clock to the nearest quarter hour and five minute intervals

Compare Length, Width, Capacity and Time Using Standard and Nonstandard Units of Measure

·         Use standard linear measures (inch, foot, yard, centimeter and meter)

·         Use liquid measures (cup, pint, quart, gallon, and liter)

·         Measure down to one-half inch and one centimeter

Money

·         Identify and recognize the value of dollar bills ($1, $5, $10, $20, $50) and coins, (penny, nickel, dime, quarter, half-dollar) and the value of given sets of coins

·         Exchange money for equal values and make change

ESTIMATION AND COMPUTATION

Perform Basic Arithmetic Functions Using Mental Math and Pencil and Paper

• Know fact families and “double” facts
• Know basic addition and subtraction facts from 1-20 (memorization)
• Identify 10 more than and ten less than
• Solve 2- and 3-digit addition and subtraction problems using a variety of models and algorithms
• Understand the meaning of addition and subtraction
• Demonstrate the commutative and identity properties of addition
• Model multiplication as repeated addition and division as “sharing equally” and grouping objects
• Determine whether a solution to a problem is reasonable (estimate sums and differences in a 2-digit problem)
• Work number sentence vertically and horizontally
• 2-digit addition, subtraction, and 3 single digit column addition
• 2-digit addition, subtraction regrouping

FUNCTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS

Recognize, Identify, and Complete Patterns

• Make their own patterns and describe them
• Complete a pattern
• Skip count by 2’s, 5’s and 10’s
• Use a calculator to find and extend patterns in the number system
• Complete a problem with a missing operation (missing addend, subtrahend)

GEOMETRY

• Construct, Compare, Classify, and Analyze the Relationship between Geometric Figures
• Identify and classify 3-dimensional shapes
• Demonstrate an understanding of symmetry and congruency
• Understand and measure the area and perimeter of rectangles
• Solid shapes: cubes, spheres, cylinders, cones, pyramids, and rectangular prisms

STATISICS/PROBABILITY

Predict and Record Outcomes of Events

• Explain differences between chance and certainty, giving examples
• Collect, Record, and Interpret Data Using Graphs
• Represent the data in a variety of ways (tally marks, bar graphs, pictographs, and a two circle Venn diagram)
• Interpret data by reading graphs, use graphs to compare and problem solve
• Use the terms maximum and minimum when working with a data set

PROBLEM SOLVING, COMMUNICATION, REASONING, CONNECTIONS

• Solve and create word problems
• Calculate simple problems mentally
• Choose appropriate operations to solve problems
• Build links between abstract and concrete
• Discuss problem strategies and solutions
• Draw logical conclusions (justify solutions, thinking processes, and conjectures in a variety of ways)
• Defend estimations, solutions and/or predictions
• Apply mathematical skills and process to literature
• Apply mathematical skills and processes to situations with self and family

Earth/Space Science

·        Develop an interest in air and weather

·        Experience air as a material that takes up space and can be compressed into a smaller space

·        Observe the force of air pressure pushing on objects and materials

·        Observe and compare how moving air interacts with objects

·        Observe and describe changes that occur in weather over time

·        Become familiar with instruments used by meteorologists to monitor air and weather

·        Compare monthly and seasonal weather conditions using bar graphs

·        Recognize that the Sun is a principal source of Earth’s heat and light

·        Observe the location of the Sun and the Moon in the sky over a day and the change in the appearance of the Moon over a month

·        Organize and communicate observations through drawing and writing

·        Identify types of precipitation, variation in wind, sky conditions and day and night changes

·        Observe the seasonal and daily changes in weather: similarities and differences, temperature changes

·        Recognize that humans are affected by natural events e.g., earthquakes, volcanoes, floods

World of Work

·        Explores careers in science that are available in the community. Ask community members how science is used in their occupations

·        Practices work readiness skills in the classroom 

·        Discusses why safety is important in science careers

·        Identifies personal interests, capabilities, and strengths which may lead to future careers

·        Create graphs of occupations in the community that use science

CULTURE

·        Recognizes social connections between self and neighborhood

·        Recognize most cultures preserve important personal and public items from the past

·        Recognize communities have customs and cultures that differ

·        Identify diverse cultural groups within the communities of Alaska

·        Recognize that cultures have strong traditions of loyalty to their region and country

·        Identify and explain the significance of selected stories, poems, statues, paintings, and other examples of local and state cultural heritage

·        Examine the effects of changing technologies on the local community and state

CITIZENSHIP/GOVERNMENT

·        Demonstrates respect for peers and adults

·        Uses appropriate conflict resolution strategies

·        Recognizes and demonstrates qualities, traits and characteristics of a friend

·        Understands the role of all school personnel

·        Describe how groups work independently and cooperatively to accomplish goals within a community

·        Know how to share and give opinions in a group

·        Recognize that each individual must make decisions about the work groups and play groups in which they participate

·        Recognize how groups and organizations encourage unity and work with diversity to maintain order and security

·        Identify functions of governments

·        Know that communities have different laws depending on the needs and problems of their community

·        Identify ways that public officials are selected, including election and appointment

·        Takes part in the voting process in the classroom and learns to accept the majority vote

·        Distinguish among local, state, and national government and identify representative leaders at these levels such as mayor, governor, and president

·        Identify characteristics of good citizenship such as establishing beliefs in justice, truth, equality, and responsibility for the common good

·        Identify qualities of good citizenship and identify ordinary people who exemplify good citizenship

·        Recites the Pledge of Allegiance to honor the United States

·        Explain the meaning of selected patriotic symbols and landmarks of Alaska

HISTORY

·        Explain the significance of various community, state, and national celebrations such as Veteran’s Day and President’s Day

·        Participates in holiday activities associated with: Columbus Day, Martin Luther King Day

·        Explain how local people and events have influenced local community history

·        Use vocabulary related to chronology, including past, present, and future

·        Describe and measure calendar time by days, weeks, months, and years

·        Identify seasons and how they affect people

·        Identify and explain the significance of various community landmarks

·        Describe how people adapt to meet the demands of their environments

§         Create and interpret timelines

GEOGRAPHY

·        Describe how the globe is a model of earth locating hemispheres, poles and equator

·        Recognize the natural regions are represented on different types of maps by showing physical features, climate, vegetation, and natural resources

·        Subdivide the world by positioning the equator, continents, oceans, and hemispheres on a map and globe

·        Recognize that a map contains elements such as title, scale, symbols, legends, grids, and North, South, East and West direction

·        Describe the importance of physical geographic features on defining communities

·        Analyze how individuals and populations depend upon land resources

·        List earth’s natural resources such as minerals, air, water, and land

·        Consider alternative uses of resources and land

·        Show how landmasses and bodies of water are represented on maps and globes

·        Locate the state of Alaska and its major cities on a map

ECONOMICS

·        Explain how people make choices on how they spend and earn money

·        Names the basic needs of food, clothing and shelter

·        Explains that everything has value to someone

·        Explain the purposes of spending and saving money

·        Explain how work provides income to purchase goods and services

·        Describe how society depends upon workers with specialized jobs and the ways in which they contribute to the production and exchange of goods and services

·        Give examples of the various institutions that make up economic systems such as families, workers, banks, government agencies, small businesses and large corporations

·        Know the major products of Alaska

·        Recognize that communities around Alaska and the world are economically interdependent