Curriculum Newsletter

Curriculum Newsletter

January 2020 – June 2020

GRADE ONE and TWO

Language Arts Language learning takes place in and across all subject areas. Oral language and listening skills are developed through: Classroom discussion Partner sharing Following instructions Songs, stories, poems and rhymes Reading skills will be developed through: Independent reading Reading with a partner Guided reading (reading with teacher guidance) Reading with older buddies Class read-alouds and discussions Decoding strategies Comprehension strategies, including but not limited to predicting, visualizing, making connections and inferencing Writing skills will be developed through: Personal stories and journal entries Informational writing Instructional writing Poetry Word study Instruction on decoding/segmenting (sounding out words) Spelling practice Word families (rhymes) Alphabetizing Parts of speech, such as nouns, verbs, and adjectives

Math Numbers Represent numbers using pictures, words and symbols Compare and order numbers Exploring place value Counting forwards and backwards by 1s, 2s, 5s, and 10s Adding and subtracting numbers to 18 (Grade 1) Adding and subtracting two-digit numbers with regrouping (Grade 2) Problem solving Patterns and Relations ·       Describe and extend repeating and increasing patterns ·       Describe equality and inequality by using the appropriate symbols (concretely and pictorially) Shape and Space (Measurement) ·       Use standard (centimeters) and non-standard (paper clip) measurements to solve problems ·       Order and compare objects to solve problems Statistics ·       Gather and record data to answer questions ·       Construct and interpret graphs to solve problems

Technology The use of technology will be integrated across the curriculum and will include robotics.

Social Studies Community in the Past Students will demonstrate an understanding of community Students will demonstrate an understanding of how various people worked together to build Calgary as a community Students will compare and contrast present-day Calgary with Calgary in the past

Health and Life Skills Students will: Demonstrate safe, caring, welcoming and respectful behavior inside and outside the classroom Exploring their feelings and work on developing empathy Learn about nutrition and how to live a healthy active lifestyle ·       Continue to develop growth mindset through daily conversations and activities Continue to work on Zone of Regulations: green zone (in control and ready to learn), yellow zone (lose of some control and difficult to learn), red zone (you have lost control and unable to learn), and blue zone (not feeling our best)	Science Students will learn about hot and cold temperatures through: ·       Recognizing the effects of heating and cooling ·       Identifying methods of heating, cooling and maintaining temperatures Students will learn about magnetism through: Exploring magnets Testing the effects of magnets on a variety of materials Students will learn about plants and animals through: ·       Learning about the needs of living things ·       Describing and classifying plants and animals
Art Students will explore elements of art such as: ·       Texture ·       Space ·       Shape Students will work with a variety of medium ·       Paint ·       Charcoal ·       Pencil Crayons ·       Watercolours ·       Oil pastels Students will analyze, evaluate and respond critically to art works by looking critically at: ·       Their own art ·       Art of classmates ·       Art of professionals Students will use techniques learned in art to communicate their understanding in other curricular areas. Students will be provided the opportunity to participate in the Artfelt Studio residency in February. They will explore wet felting and needle felting to gain proficiency using wool as a medium	Physical Education Students will be work on fundamental movement and health skills through: Gymnastics Dance Soccer Outdoor cooperative games Lacrosse Students will have use of the gymnasium for Physical Education 5 times each week. In addition to going to the gymnasium students will have movement activities in the classroom each day.
	Music -Miss Nair Students will: ·       continue to learn a variety of songs and singing games to gain confidence with using a singing voice and to develop in-tune singing ·       read, write and create simple melodic patterns, using the pitches la, so and mi, as well as the rhythmic patterns ta, titi and ta rest Students will learn through: ·       Movement games ·       Listening activities Playing non-pitched and pitched percussion instruments