Reading assessments are on-going and instructional decisions will be made, and adjusted when necessary, based on those assessments. Phonics, spelling, vocabulary, daily language practice, as well as reading and writing are all connected and integrated throughout the Houghton Mifflin reading curriculum. A word list will come home on the same day each week as determined by your child's teacher. Please take time to practice the words for the post-test that will be given. Students study areas of geography that center around basic geographic terms and tools that are used, developing basic map skills and definition and identification of major land and water forms.
Students also look at how geography affects people, and how people use the land.
The students are working in cooperative groups on life science, earth science and physical science. We will be teaching our Health curriculum, regarding human growth, communicable disease and drug awareness. In Math, we use the Harcourt Brace curriculum. The first chapters are a review of basic addition, subtraction and multiplication skills from third grade. We are divided into five different groups depending on the ability of each student.