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Daily Schedule
Morning Meeting is how we start each day. We connect and share while expressing feelings and celebrating our individuality.
Fountas & Pinnell Classroom is a research –based comprehensive Reading Language Arts program that immerses students in high quality literature. FPC follows a balanced literacy framework. It contains five text based instructional contexts to engage students in reading, writing, thinking and talking with varied levels of teacher support. It is an integrated approach that develops students' deep knowledge of literacy concepts. It provides explicit whole group instruction and small group application while teaching phonics, phonemic awareness, reading strategies and comprehension. Through FPC, your child will grow to be a life long reader and writer.
Heggerty is a program that provides daily phonological awareness instruction. It teaches students to hear and work with sounds in spoken words. Students will orally blend, segment and manipulate sounds. It is a foundational reading skill that enables students to decode and encode words in print.
Fundations is a program that provides systematic and explicit phonics / word work instruction. We are also incorporating the Teachers College Phonics program.
Spelling words will be taken from Fountas and Pinnell's Lists of Commonly used phonograms and High Frequency Sight Words. Students will be given 10 new words weekly. Six of these words will follow a specific spelling pattern/phonics rule. Four words will be high frequency sight words. Students will be tested on these words. They will also be expected to spell 3 additional application words following the same spelling pattern and 2 review sight words. This totals 15 words a week.
Read Aloud is when we examine text up close. We practice comprehension strategies and engage in wonderful book talks. A variety of genres are read aloud to students as they dig for deeper meaning.
click ^Reading Workshop is where your child will learn specific reading strategies and behaviors while navigating through a variety of genres and leveled texts. Students will spend time reading texts on their independent and instructional reading levels. Through mini lessons and individual conferences, students will progress through reading levels, developing decoding, comprehension and fluency skills. Teaching is responsive to individual strengths and needs.
click here^Writing Workshop is where your child is becoming an Author and Illustrator of many different types of writing. Through the Teachers College Units of Study curriculum, students are learning the process, mechanics and craft of writing.The program is directly aligned with the new Common Core State Standards.
click here^enVisionMATH Common Core Program is a comprehensive mathematics curriculum that provides in depth instruction on important categories or domains of mathematics. The program is directly aligned with the new Common Core State Standards.
Science concepts are taught through experimentation and hands on discovery. Students will learn about Seasonal Changes, Life Sciences,Astronomy, Properties, and Motion.
click here^Social Studies concepts are taught using trade books, shared big books, charts, and online resources. We follow an integrated Social Studies/ELA curriculum developed by teachers from the Putnam/Northern Westchester region. It is aligned with the New York State Social Studies Framework and integrates Common Core ELA Standards.
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