Specials

Library/Media

Information Skills:

• Locates information from many areas of the library/media center.
• Follows circulation procedures.

Literature Appreciation:

• Responds to the sights and sounds of storytelling.
• Connects stories to own exeriences.
• Is familiar with the work of several authors and illustrators.
• Independently selects appropriate books from the collection.

Fitness and Health

Movement Skills:

• Continues to refine performance of basic motor patterns (i.e., walk, run, jog, jump, gallop, slide, hop, skip).
• Able to apply basic motor patterns during individual group activities.
• Demonstrates the following manipulative skills: dribbling using hands/feet, catching self-tossed objects and throwing overhand/underhand.
• Actively participates in age appropriate fitness and skills related activities (duration).

Active Lifestyle-Knowledge and Attitude:

• Demonstrates safety and proper mechanics when participating in physical activity.
• Demonstrates appropriate behavior when playing with others.

Art

Literacy:

• Focuses on gaining control of line.
• Explores and identifies more complex geometric and organic shapes.
• Explores primary and secondary colors through a wider variety of media.
• Explores 3-D space through problem solving strategies using simple assemblages with an emphasis on structural balance.
• Spatially organizes parts to whole with a focus on body proportions. Explores more complex patterning.

Expression:

• Approaches assignments with enthusiasm; uses art to express moods, emotions and ideas.

Music

Theme: Music Makers:

Units: Getting Ready to Read Music: 1

My First Composers!
My First Opera
Music of Ghana

Literacy:

• Identifies themes and composers from listening to repertoire selections.
• Performs children’s games, songs and dances from Ghana.

Expression:

• Sings, moves, and plays instruments with expression and coordination.
• Demonstrates the differences between steady beat and melodic rhythm.