Science: Students will be able to...
- Use the senses and simple tools to gather information about objects or events such as size, shape, color, texture, sound, position, and change.
- Use standard and nonstandard whole units to estimate and measure mass, length, volume, and temperature.
- Use drawings, tables, graphs, written and oral language to describe objects and explain ideas and actions.
- Describe the relationship between animals and their habitats.
- Group animals based on their habitats.
- Define components of weather, including temperature, wind, and precipitation (rain, sleet, snow, and hail).
- Observe and identify weather conditions and patterns.
- Create and use standard symbols to represent weather conditions.
- Describe and sequence seasons.
- Identify safety precautions to use during severe weather.
- Measure and record temperature in both degrees Fahrenheit and Celsius.
- Measure and record precipitation.
- Make simple charts and graphs of observed weather data.
- Identify the importance of measuring and recording weather data.
- Use available technology.
Social Studies: Students will be able to...
- Identify the purposes and characteristics of geographic representations such as maps, globes, and graphs.
- Compare and contrast regions.
- Name ways in which people modify the physical environment and the ways in which humans adapt to various environments.
- Identify ways in which the physical environment provides opportunities and constrains human activities.
- Use available technology.
Language Arts: Students will be able to...
- Locate information to answer questions.
- Organize events in a story or the steps in a process in the correct order.
- Recognize cause and effect relationships.
- Categorize information using webbing and time lines.
- Read a variety of texts including poems, charts, diagrams, maps, etc.
- Follow three-step or four-step directions.
- Generate ideas before writing.
- Organize writing to include a beginning, middle, and end.
- Revise for clarity.
- Use available technology.
- Edit for conventions of grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and spelling.
- Publish a variety of texts such as stories, poems, charts and diagrams.
- Examine pictures, diagrams, charts, and maps.
- View information via video tape, laserdisc, and web sites and organize it in written form.
Mathematics: Students will be able to...
- Solve addition and subtraction problems using data from simple charts and picture graphs.
- Read and write whole numbers.
- Create, extend and label a wide variety of patterns, orally and in writing, using symbols and objects.
- Compare and contrast the attribute changes over time in two or more quantities.
- Discriminate among the functions of length, capacity, weight, perimeter, area, time and temperature.
- Read temperatures using Celsius and Fahrenheit thermometers.
- Collect, sorts and organize data.
- Use organized data to create charts, graphs, and tables.
Health: Students will be able to...
- Identify appropriate clothing for specific weather conditions.
- Identify safety procedures needed in various types of weather.
Art: Students will be able to...
- Apply media and techniques in various activities.
- Use creativity to complete projects.
Social/Behavioral: Students will be able to
- Work cooperatively in groups without interrupting or getting off-task to complete all assigned activities.
- Attend to teacher instruction without interrupting or getting off-task to complete all assigned activities.
- Work independently without interrupting or getting off-task to complete all assigned activities.