Reading

• Build a love for reading as they engage with books either independently or with assistance
• Discuss books daily to use and extend their vocabularies, to
  explore ideas, and to engage in accountable talk with
  their peers
• Talk about new words and what they mean
• Demonstrate an understanding of the story through retelling
• Demonstrate an understanding of the print-sound relationship and develop phonemic awareness
• Read Level B I books with 95% accuracy, fluency and full comprehension

Writing

• Develop good writing habits such as writing daily on a
  topic of interest
• Write for a variety of purposes including to tell a story, to convey information to others, to get something done, or producing and responding to literature
  
• Use words in their writing that they use in their conversation
• Approximate spelling demonstrating lettersound relationships
  as well as use conventional spelling for high frequency words

Understand numbers, multiple ways of representing numbers, relationships among numbers, and number systems

Recognize, use, and represent algebraically patterns, relations and
functions

Use visualization and spatial reasoning to analyze characteristics and properties of geometric shapes

Determine what can be measured and how, using appropriate methods and formulas

Collect, organize, display, and analyze data

Develop awareness of similarities and differences that make
each individual and group unique

Recognize how people, places, and events change over
time

Identify characteristics of the physical environment and understand how they affect what people do

Recognize that people use a variety of tools to do different kinds of
work in different settings

Understand what rules, rights, and responsibilities are and how they affect people in different circumstances

Observe and describe physical properties of objects using senses, and appropriate tools and sort them according to their properties

Identify the basic needs of living things

Understand that living things change over time

Integrate music and the visual arts into the Jewish life cycle and chagim

Explore musical instruments and art materials and techniques
Experiment with primary and secondary colors

Begin to build a visual arts vocabulary

Work individually and within a group, resulting in a presentation for the school community

Reading

• Form good reading habits and a love for reading by reading
  poems, picture books, letters, and simple informational
  books and by reading 4 or more books daily
  
• Develop skills and strategies to gain meaning
  
• Build a sight vocabulary of at least 150 words and use
  print-sound relationships to decode words
  Participate in book talks with the teacher, a classmate
  or in a group
• Read Level I books with 95% accuracy, fluency and full comprehension

Writing

• Develop good writing habits such as writing daily on a
  topic of interest
• Understand various writing purposes
  
• Build on skills and strategies such as planning, sequencing,
  combining words and pictures, and using their own ideas
  and language
• Understand language use and conventions to be able to spell, punctuate, and create writing that can be read by themselves and others

Numbers 1-100

Learn two-digit place value, concept of even and odd, and
use symbols to learn sums of 10

Add and subtract two-digit number without regrouping

Explore two-and three dimensional shapes

Recognize, describe, create and extend geometric and number patterns

Collect and record data in many ways

Convey mathematical thinking using specific language

Explore the use of mathematical tools and technology
(e.g. measuring cups and scales)

Learn about themselves, their families, and school

Understand the symbols, rights and roles of citizens
within each community

Explore different groups existing in different communities

Begin to locate these communities on maps and globes

Listen to folktales, legends, oral histories, music, and biographies, to illustrate how families lived in their community at different times

Learn about themselves, their families, and school

Understand the symbols, rights and roles of citizens
within each community

Explore different groups existing in different communities

Begin to locate these communities on maps and globes

Listen to folktales, legends, oral histories, music, and biographies, to illustrate how families lived in their community at different times

Integrate music and the visual arts into the Jewish life cycle and chagim

Explore musical instruments and art materials and techniques

Experiment with primary and secondary colors

Begin to build a visual arts vocabulary

Work individually and within a group, resulting in a presentation for the school community

Reading

• Build on good reading habits by learning to read for information, reading one or two chapters from a book daily,
  and keeping a personal reading log
• Monitor for meaning
• Decode unfamiliar words and decipher many irregularly spelled
  words by looking for familiar parts such as root words
• Read Level L books with 95% accuracy, fluency and full comprehension

Writing

• Build on good reading habits by learning to read for information, reading one or two chapters from a book daily,
  and keeping a personal reading log
• Monitor for meaning
• Decode unfamiliar words and decipher many
  irregularly spelled words by looking for familiar parts such as
  root words
• Read Level L books with 95% accuracy, fluency and
  full comprehension

Explore expanded notation for two and three digit numbers
and their place values as well as associative and commutative
properties of addition

Explore multiplication

Recognize fractions as part of whole

Exchange money

Explore symmetry and congruence and standard units of measure

Tell time

Explore patterns using numbers

Use of bar graphs, pictographs, and Venn diagrams

Predict and explain outcomes

Explore rural, suburban and urban communities

Compare new communities studied to their own communities

Through literature and discussion, demonstrate and understanding of their geographic, socioeconomic, cultural and ethnic existence

Classify materials based on their physical properties and changes

Begin to investigate how variables such as shape, material and
mass affect an object’s properties

Begin to investigate how various forms of energy interact with
objects

Investigate life cycles and understand that plants and animals
need air, water and food to survive

Observe, describe and record daily, seasonal and cyclical changes in the weather

Integrate music and the visual arts into the Jewish life cycle and chagim

Use basic art tools

Experiment with color, shapes and texture

Identify new art
vocabulary

Reading

• Reading habits are enhanced by reading to others with
  expression and reading several books by the same author in the same genre and on the same topic
• Read and understand 30 chapter books on a variety of genres
  
• Keep a personal reading log to record thoughts and ideas
  about books
• Be able to discuss and summarize the main ideas and parts of a book and to question what an author writes
• Read Level O books with 95% accuracy, fluency and full comprehension

Writing

• Expand writing habits by writing longer and more complex pieces using the revising, editing, and publishing process
• Write daily in all subject areas such as social studies, science
  and math
• Develop a sense of what makes a good piece of writing
  
• Choose different forms of writing that best suits what they
  want to say
  
• Pay attention to spelling and punctuation
  
• Use classroom resources to help with writing and editing

Investigate and classify properties of 2 and 3 dimensional
shapes

Use concrete experiences to estimate and measure and choose appropriate measuring tools for standard and nonstandard
measurements

Identify equivalent measures within a system

Recognize, describe and extend patterns

Use manipulative materials to model properties of addition and
multiplication

Organize data using tables and graphs

Use a variety of strategies to solve word problems

Explore cultures and civilizations of communities all over the world

Begin to learn about historical events in the order they happened

Understand how people in different communities meet their needs, make economic decisions, and govern themselves

Locate world communities, continents, and oceans on maps and globes using latitude and longitude

Observe, investigate, describe and classify materials based on their
physical properties

Investigate life cycles and begin to understand how various factors can affect them

Begin to explore how the solar system moves in predictable patterns and affects seasons, sunrise and sunset and the weather

Understand how to make informed healthy choices

Integrate music and the visual arts into the Jewish life cycle and chagim

Build on art experiences creating two and three dimensional art
forms

Discuss the works of famous artists

Reading

• Read and understand at least 25 books, at least 4 books in one genre, on one subject or by the same author
  
• Show evidence of understanding their reading in both
  writing and classroom discussion
• Relate new ideas and information in books to previous
  knowledge and personal experience
• Read Level S books with 95% accuracy, fluency and full comprehension

Writing

• Write daily in a variety of genre
• Produce an informational report including appropriate facts and details
• Produce a response to literature that demonstrates an
  understanding of the book’s story, setting and characters
  
• Produce a story that establishes interesting characters and situations, and includes details and descriptions
• Produce a narrative procedure
• Revise their work by adding or deleting details, rearranging the sequence of words, sentences and paragraphs
• Edit for spelling and punctuation

Use knowledge of place value to read and write numbers up to hundred millions

Add and subtract whole numbers with regrouping

Multiply and divide whole numbers and know facts through 144 and explore division procedures with remainders

Learn about the associative and commutative properties

Demonstrate rounding and estimating

Compare fractions decimals and percents using symbols and
identify their use in daily life

Identify properties of 2 & 3 dimensional shapes

Collect data and represent information on a graph

Use a variety of strategies to solve word problems and explain how solutions can be applied to other situations

Focus on the history of the local community and government

Understand the history, geography, economics, and government of New York State as well as the lifestyles, events, and issues and how
they connect to the United States

Study Native Americans, Colonial and Revolutionary periods and the
establishment of a new nation

Understand the shaping of government

Locate information by investigating primary and secondary sources (e.g.: maps, timelines, interviews, documents, and the Internet)

Present oral and written reports research

Science

Observe, investigate, describe and classify materials based on physical properties

Observe, investigate and describe light, heat, electrical, sound,
chemical and mechanical energy

Observe, investigate and describe variables and how they affect an
object’s properties and motion

Investigate life cycles and the growth and development of plants and animals

Understand the natural cycles of land, water and air

Understand how objects in the sky move in predictable patterns

Develop and describe appropriate choices leading to good personal health

Identify and describe patterns and change over time

Perform experiments

Integrate music and the visual arts into the Jewish life cycle and
chagim

Extend knowledge of art media

Participate in class discussions about works of art and make inferences based on visual evidence

Reading

• Read and understand at least 25 books, at least 4 books in one genre, on one subject or by the same author
• Read informational texts such as newspapers, magazines, reference materials and textbooks
• Put together ideas and information from different books, making decisions about what is most important
• Read Level V books with 95% accuracy, fluency and full
  comprehension

Writing

• Write daily in a variety of genre
• Produce an informational report using at least three sources of information
• Produce a response to literature that expresses the
  student’s thinking using examples from the story to support
  these ideas
• Produce a story that establishes interesting characters and situations, and includes details and descriptions
• Produce a narrative procedure
  
• Revise their work by adding or deleting details, rearranging the sequence of words, sentences and paragraphs
  
• Edit for spelling and punctuation, using reference
  materials for support

Use knowledge of place value to read and write numbers up
to one billion

Use math operations efficiently and accurately

Identify differences between prime and composite numbers

Understand the concept of proper and improper fractions and changing

Find the greatest common factor and least common multiple of a set of numbers

Add and subtract fractions with unlike decimals

Multiply decimals to the hundredth place and explore dividing decimals without remainders

Compare relationships among fractions, decimals and percents

Estimate and measure length, distance, mass, volume and capacity
in real situations

Work individually and collaboratively to write about solutions
to problems using mathematical language

Identify the history, geography, economics, and governments of the
United States, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean

Interpret and evaluate information found in primary and secondary source documents

Present oral and written research reports

Science

Observe, investigate, describe and classify materials based on physical properties

Observe, investigate and describe light, heat, electrical, sound,
chemical and mechanical energy; how they are transferred and what
happens when objects interact with them

Investigate life cycles and the growth and development of plants and animals and their interdependence with each other

Understand the natural cycles of land, water and atmosphere

Understand how human decisions can have an impact on the earth

Understand the importance of science, scientists and technology impact on our lives

Work individually and in groups using appropriate methods to collect, describe, record and share information and ideas

Integrate music and the visual arts into the Jewish life cycle and
chagim

Recognize the societal, cultural and historical significance of art

Connect the visual arts to other areas of the curriculum

Choose new ways to use familiar tools and materials

Deepen observational and expressive skills