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.
• Is familiar with the work of several authors and illustrators.
• Independently selects appropriate books.
• Distinguishes fiction from nonfiction and identifies genres such as folktales, fairytales, tall tales, realistic fiction, etc.

Fitness and Health

Movement Skills:

• Demonstrates safety and competency while performing the skills of balance, jumping and landing, changing directions and speeds while moving.
• Demonstrates proficiency while performing locomotor skills.
• Demonstrates mature motor patterns when catching, throwing, dribbling with hands and feet, kicking, striking and volleying.
• Actively participates in age appropriate fitness and skills related activities (duration and intensity).

Active Lifestyle-Knowledge and Attitude:

• Demonstrates Demonstrates cooperation, sharing and consideration of others in physical activity settings regardless of differences among them.
• Identifies an enjoyable physical activity which increases the heart rate.

Art

Literacy:

• Learns to use line to make contour drawings of natural objects. Gains an appreciation for expressive use of line.
• Acquires an understanding of size/shape relationship. Uses shape to create simple and complex patterns.
• Learns to blend colors. Recognizes and uses variations of hue.
• Explores 3_D Space through the use of more complex strategies and a wider variety of materials, such as clay slabs.
• Learns to use various viewpoints and perspectives, e.g., front, side, back. Gains an understanding of the concept of overlapping.

Expression:

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

Music

Theme: AROUND THE WORLD WITH MUSIC:

Units: Getting Ready to Read Music: 2
Katherine Lee Bates: Hometown Heroine
Passport to Music
Music of Japan

Literacy:

• Identifies pitches in and sequence of “music alphabet.
• Performs children’s games, songs and dances from Ghana.

Expression:

• Sings, moves, and plays instruments with expression and coordination.
• Uses landmark lines and mnemonic sentences to identify notated pitches.
• Deciphers note values in simple rhythmic patterns.
• Identifies themes, composers, and characters from listening to repertoire selections.

Expression:

• Sings, moves and plays instruments with expression, coordination and cultural sensitivity.
• Identifies Wellesley’s connection to America the Beautiful.
• Demonstrates steady beat.