Our class will be studying the following "themes" this year. These themes integrate science, social studies, language arts and art. Below each theme you'll notice the specific learning goals we will be focusing on during our studies. Our math learning goals are listed separately, though these goals will be integrated into our main theme where appropriate.
Red = Science/Social Studies
Blue = Language Arts
Green = Art
Multiculturalism: Term One
- Use social studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions, gather, interpret and analyze ideas, and communicate findings and decisions.
- Explain why people, events and places are significant to various individuals and groups.
- Ask questions, make inferences and draw conclusions about the content and features of different types of sources.
- Sequence objects, images and events, and explain why some aspects of change and others stay the same.
- Recognize the causes and consequences of events, decisions and developments.
- Explain why people's beliefs, values, worldviews, experiences and roles give them different perspectives on people, places, issues and events.
- Make value judgements about events, decisions and actions, and suggest lessons that can be learned.
- Begin to use sources of information and prior knowledge to make meaning.
- Use age-appropriate reading, listening, and viewing behaviours and strategies to make meaning from texts.
- Engage actively as listeners, viewers and readers, as appropriate, to develop understanding of self, identity and community.
- Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and make meaning.
- Recognize the importance of story in personal, family and community identity.
- Recognize the structures and elements of story.
- Show awareness of how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to family and community.
- Develop awareness of how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to land.
- Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding.
- Create stories and other age-appropriate texts to deepen awareness of self-, family and community.
- Plan and create a variety of communication forms for different purposes and audiences.
- Communicate in print, using letters and words and basic conventions of English spelling, grammar and punctuation.
- Explore identity, place, culture and belonging through arts experiences.
- Explore relationships among cultures, communities and the arts.
- Observe, listen, describe, inquire and predict how artists use processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools and techniques.
- Connect knowledge and skills from other areas of learning in planning, creating and interpreting works of art.
- Apply learned skills, understandings and processes in new contexts.
- Interpret and communicate ideas using symbolism in the arts.
- Express feelings, ideas and experiences in creative ways.
Math: Term One
Mad Science: Term Two
- Observe objects and events in familiar contexts.
- Identify questions about familiar objects and events that can be investigated scientifically.
- Make predictions based on prior knowledge.
- Collect simple data.
- Safely use appropriate tools to make observations and measurements, using formal measurements and digital technology as appropriate.
- Use tables, simple bar graphs, or other formats to represent data and show simple patterns and trends.
- Consider ethical responsibilities when deciding how to conduct an experiment.
- Reflect on whether an investigation was a fair test.
- Make simple inferences based on their results and prior knowledge.
- Compare results with predictions, suggesting possible reasons for findings.
- Recognize how different text structrues reflect different purposes.
- Begin to use sources of information and prior knowledge to make meaning from texts.
- Use play and other creative means to discover foundational concepts of print, oral and visual texts.
- Communicate in print, using letters and words and applying basic conventions of English spelling, grammar and punctuation.
- Plan and create a variety of communication forms for different purposes.
- Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual, using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play.
- Movement development strategies.
- Connect knowledge and skills from other areas of learning in planning, creating and interpreting works of art.
Math: Term Two
Ecosystems: Term Three
- Demonstrate curiosity about the natural world.
- Identify questions about familiar objects and events that can be investigated scientifically.
- Make predictions based on prior knowledge.
- Suggest ways to plan and conduct an inquiry to find answers to their questions.
- Make observations about living and non-living things in the environment.
- Collect simple data.
- Experience and interpret the local environment.
- Sort and classify data using drawings or provided tables.
- Compare results with predictions, suggesting possible reasons for findings.
- Identify some simple environmental implications of theirs and others' actions.
- Begin to use sources of information and prior knowledge to make meaning.
- Use age-appropriate reading, listening, and viewing behaviours and strategies to make meaning from texts.
- Engage actively as listeners, viewers and readers, as appropriate, to develop understanding of self, identity and community.
- Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and make meaning.
- Recognize how different text structures reflect different purposes.
- Develop awareness of how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to land.
- Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding.
- Plan and create a variety of communication forms for different purposes and audiences.
- Communicate in print, using letters and words and basic conventions of English spelling, grammar and punctuation.
- Choose elements, processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, techniques and environments of the arts.
- Reflect on creative processes and make connections to personal experiences.
- Experience, document, perform and share creative works in a variety of ways.
Math: Term Three
Red = Science/Social Studies
Blue = Language Arts
Green = Art
Multiculturalism: Term One
- Use social studies inquiry processes and skills to ask questions, gather, interpret and analyze ideas, and communicate findings and decisions.
- Explain why people, events and places are significant to various individuals and groups.
- Ask questions, make inferences and draw conclusions about the content and features of different types of sources.
- Sequence objects, images and events, and explain why some aspects of change and others stay the same.
- Recognize the causes and consequences of events, decisions and developments.
- Explain why people's beliefs, values, worldviews, experiences and roles give them different perspectives on people, places, issues and events.
- Make value judgements about events, decisions and actions, and suggest lessons that can be learned.
- Begin to use sources of information and prior knowledge to make meaning.
- Use age-appropriate reading, listening, and viewing behaviours and strategies to make meaning from texts.
- Engage actively as listeners, viewers and readers, as appropriate, to develop understanding of self, identity and community.
- Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and make meaning.
- Recognize the importance of story in personal, family and community identity.
- Recognize the structures and elements of story.
- Show awareness of how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to family and community.
- Develop awareness of how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to land.
- Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding.
- Create stories and other age-appropriate texts to deepen awareness of self-, family and community.
- Plan and create a variety of communication forms for different purposes and audiences.
- Communicate in print, using letters and words and basic conventions of English spelling, grammar and punctuation.
- Explore identity, place, culture and belonging through arts experiences.
- Explore relationships among cultures, communities and the arts.
- Observe, listen, describe, inquire and predict how artists use processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools and techniques.
- Connect knowledge and skills from other areas of learning in planning, creating and interpreting works of art.
- Apply learned skills, understandings and processes in new contexts.
- Interpret and communicate ideas using symbolism in the arts.
- Express feelings, ideas and experiences in creative ways.
Math: Term One
- Understands place value of numbers to 1000
- Counts by multiples of 5, 10, 25, 100
- Adds three digit numbers with & without regrouping
- Subtracts three digit numbers with & without regrouping
- Recalls basic +/- math facts (term 1 benchmark 15-21/minute, term 2 &3 benchmark 20-29 per minute)
- Uses problem solving strategies to find solutions
Mad Science: Term Two
- Observe objects and events in familiar contexts.
- Identify questions about familiar objects and events that can be investigated scientifically.
- Make predictions based on prior knowledge.
- Collect simple data.
- Safely use appropriate tools to make observations and measurements, using formal measurements and digital technology as appropriate.
- Use tables, simple bar graphs, or other formats to represent data and show simple patterns and trends.
- Consider ethical responsibilities when deciding how to conduct an experiment.
- Reflect on whether an investigation was a fair test.
- Make simple inferences based on their results and prior knowledge.
- Compare results with predictions, suggesting possible reasons for findings.
- Recognize how different text structrues reflect different purposes.
- Begin to use sources of information and prior knowledge to make meaning from texts.
- Use play and other creative means to discover foundational concepts of print, oral and visual texts.
- Communicate in print, using letters and words and applying basic conventions of English spelling, grammar and punctuation.
- Plan and create a variety of communication forms for different purposes.
- Create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual, using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play.
- Movement development strategies.
- Connect knowledge and skills from other areas of learning in planning, creating and interpreting works of art.
Math: Term Two
- Counts by multiples of 5, 10, 25, 100
- Understands strategies for multiplication of basic facts
- Understands strategies for division of basic facts
- Recognizes, describes, compares and extends patterns
Ecosystems: Term Three
- Demonstrate curiosity about the natural world.
- Identify questions about familiar objects and events that can be investigated scientifically.
- Make predictions based on prior knowledge.
- Suggest ways to plan and conduct an inquiry to find answers to their questions.
- Make observations about living and non-living things in the environment.
- Collect simple data.
- Experience and interpret the local environment.
- Sort and classify data using drawings or provided tables.
- Compare results with predictions, suggesting possible reasons for findings.
- Identify some simple environmental implications of theirs and others' actions.
- Begin to use sources of information and prior knowledge to make meaning.
- Use age-appropriate reading, listening, and viewing behaviours and strategies to make meaning from texts.
- Engage actively as listeners, viewers and readers, as appropriate, to develop understanding of self, identity and community.
- Use personal experience and knowledge to connect to text and make meaning.
- Recognize how different text structures reflect different purposes.
- Develop awareness of how story in First Peoples cultures connects people to land.
- Exchange ideas and perspectives to build shared understanding.
- Plan and create a variety of communication forms for different purposes and audiences.
- Communicate in print, using letters and words and basic conventions of English spelling, grammar and punctuation.
- Choose elements, processes, materials, movements, technologies, tools, techniques and environments of the arts.
- Reflect on creative processes and make connections to personal experiences.
- Experience, document, perform and share creative works in a variety of ways.
Math: Term Three
- Identifies, sorts and describes 2D shapes and 3D objects
- Demonstrates an understanding of fractions
- Measures length and perimeter in centimeters and meters
- Measures mass using grams and kilograms
- Predicts duration of events (hours, minutes, days)
- Tells time with an analog clock
- Uses problem solving strategies to find a solution