What will we be learning this month?
Grade: Kindergarden A
(Teacher Lisa)
Math
Month: March 2013
Addition and subtraction: facts and stories
Phonics
Consonant digraphs –sh; -ch; -ck; -ng; -th; -wh
Becoming familiar with new sounds
Independent and small group reading
Identifying syllables
Writing simple sentences with high frequency words
Writing simple sentences connected to a specific topic
Reading
Writing
Social Studies and Science
People’s feelings
What will we be learning this month?
Grade: Kindergarden B
(Teacher Marie-Line)
Math
Month: March 2013
Addition and subtraction: facts and stories
Phonics
Blending consonants and word families: initial r blends; initial
l blends
Reading
Respond to simple questions about a text
Role playing stories
Writing
Writing words based on how they sound
Using that word in a 3 word sentence
Social Studies and Science
Parts of the body
What will we be learning this month?
Grade: Kindergarden C
(Teacher Rex)
Math
Phonics
Reading
Writing
Social Studies and Science
Month: March 2013
Addition
-et/-en; short vowel i; consonant b; -it/-in
Respond to simple questions about a text
Learn to ask questions about a text
Recognise high frequency words and target sounds
To write words neatly and correctly on the line
To space correctly
To write words based on how they sound
Parts of the body
Jobs people do
What will we be learning this month?
Grade: 1
(Teacher Sally)
Math
Language Arts
Month: March
Capacity: estimating, measuring, comparing
Comparing numbers: more than and less than; comparing numbers within 10;
comparing by subtraction; solving picture problems
Graphs: making picture graphs; reading and interpreting data
Where I live: naming places in town, why we go there and what we do there
Grammar: adjectives and verbs
Writing: writing a letter, including addresses; writing sentences using verbs and
adjectives
Social Studies
and Science
Science: Comparing living and non-living things; food chains
Spelling lists
Words with -ill and -ull; Words with the long a sound; Words with the long e sound;
Words with the long i sound
Reading
Programme
Different groups are working at different levels, working on a variety of reading skills
What will we be learning this month?
Grade: 1
(Teacher Jesse)
Math
Language Arts
Social Studies
and Science
Spelling lists
Reading
Programme
Month: March
Comparing numbers: more than and less than; comparing numbers within 10;
comparing by subtraction; solving picture problems
Graphs: making picture graphs; reading and interpreting data; counting by 5s
Where I live: naming places in town, why we go there and what we do there; Let’s go
Shopping: going shopping; asking for help
Grammar: possessive prepositions; countable and uncountable nouns
Writing: writing a letter, including addresses; writing sentences about their
neighbourhood; writing different types of poetry
Physical Education: performing and repeating simple actions in sequence
Science: Comparing living and non-living things; identifying the characteristics of
living things
Words with the long a sound; Words with the long e sound; Words with the long i
sound; Words with the long o sound
Different groups are working at different levels, working on a variety of reading skills
What will we be learning this month?
Grade: 2
(Teacher Lauren)
Math
Language Arts
Social Studies and
Science
Month: March
Fractions: halves and quarters
Weather: recognising and describing different weather
Grammar: using past and present tense; using adjectives; using the
Writing: Using adjectives; writing about the weather
Art: viewing and creating abstract art
Science: experiments to explore the 5 senses
ICT: creating picture story for the 5 senses
Spelling lists
Words with ow and ou; Words ending in ing; Words with long e spelled y
Reading
Programme
Different groups are working at different levels, working on a variety of reading
skills
What will we be learning this month?
Grade: 3
(Teacher Sadia)
Math
Language Arts
Science
Social Studies
Spelling lists
Reading
Programme
Month: March
Money: addition and subtraction of dollars and cents
Grammar: sentence basics
Writing: Sentence fluency, focusing on creating fluent phrasing
Human digestive system: the process of food digestion in and the organs involved
Introduction to new topic: Plants and their parts
History: looking at how the local area has changed
Geography: where foods come from
Science: Food chains
Words with W; words with r-controlled a as in star and pair; Number words;
Words with three consonants in a row
Different groups are working at different levels, working on a variety of reading
skills
What will we be learning this month?
Grade: 4
(Teacher Rajni)
Math
Language Arts
Science
Social Studies
Month: March
Decimals: understanding, comparing, estimating
Grammar: prepositional phrases; conjunctions (co-ordinating and subordinating)
Writing: Sentence fluency; sentences and fragments
Life Cycles of some animals: identify the stages of life cycles
Life Cycles of plants: identify the stages of life cycles
Technology: to design and make a device to enable people to wash their hands
with minimal water
International: comparing water usage around the world
Spelling lists
High frequency words; r-controlled Vowels; Letter Y as a consonant and a vowel
Reading
Programme
Different groups are working at different levels, working on a variety of reading
skills
What will we be learning this month?
Grade: 5
(Teacher Kara)
Math
Language Arts
Science
Social Studies
Spelling lists
Reading
Programme
Month: March
Decimals: converting decimals to fractions; multiplying and dividing fractions by
decimals; using a calculator with decimals; word problems with decimals
Measurement: converting measurements
Grammar: complex sentences; pronoun-antecedent agreement; apostrophes and
quotation marks
Writing: Sentence fluency, focusing on using different types of sentence structures
Electric circuits: constructing simple circuits
Using electricity: batteries in series; batteries in parallel
Conductors of electricity: identify conductors and insulators of electricity; identifying
electrical safety
History: researching important historical events and adding to a timeline
Art: research illustrations of historical artworks and sketch own designs to represent
historical events
Words with regular short sound of i, as in ill; Words with sound of i like that of long e,
as in pique; Words with sound of i before r, as in urge
Different groups are working at different levels, working on a variety of reading skills