February Learning Goals

We have an exciting month up ahead in our classroom! 

February Learning Goals

Language:

• identify several reading comprehension strategies and use them before, during, and after reading to understand texts
• extend understanding of texts by connecting the ideas in them to their own knowledge and experience, to other familiar texts, and to the world around them
• read appropriate texts at a sufficient rate and with sufficient expression to convey the sense of the text to the reader and to an audience (e.g., make oral reading sound like spoken language,
• write short texts using several simple forms (e.g., procedure)

Math:

• estimate, measure, and record the distance around objects (perimeter), using non-standard units (e.g. snap cubes, string)
• estimate and measure length, height, and distance, using standard units (i.e., centimetre, metre) and non-standard units;

Science:

• use appropriate science and technology vocabulary, including: clear, opaque, runny, hard, greasy, and granular, in oral and written communication
• identify objects in the natural and built environment as solids (e.g., sand, ice, rocks, tables, sidewalks, walls) or liquids (e.g., water, tree sap, milk, gasoline)
• describe the properties of solids (e.g., they maintain their shape and cannot be poured) and liquids (e.g., they take the shape of the container they are in and can be poured)

Physical Education:

• balance on a variety of body parts, on and off equipment, while stationary and moving (e.g., balancing on a bench without moving, walking forward on a bench);
• transfer their body weight over low equipment in a variety of ways (e.g., from feet to hands to feet).

Upcoming assessments:

Language:  

• Procedural Writing: Looking at writing procedures of choice (e.g., are all parts of a procedure included? Does the student use specific language (e.g. adjectives and adverbs)  to describe the steps?)

Math:

• Measurement:  Can student use the appropriate measuring tools correctly and justify why they used those tools to measure?

Science:

• Identifying Liquids and Solids and their properties.
• Conducting experiments safely
• Able to make reasonable predictions about an experiment
• Use appropriate vocabulary to describe observations of an experiment