Specials

Library/Media

Information Skills:

• Utilizes card catalog or computer data base to locate materials.
• Access information using print materials and technology.
• Follows circulation procedures.

Literature Appreciation:

• Participates in and responds to the sights and sounds of storytelling.
• Investigates numerous literacy genres (e.g., biography, humor, poetry, mystery) and informational literature.
• Selects books of appropriate reading level and interest.
• Expands literacy background by examining and/or reading books by new authors.

Fitness and Health

Movement Skills:

• Combine basic fundamental motor patterns to perform beginning sports skills. (dribbling, kicking, striking, catching, throwing).
• Demonstrates ability to change direction during group activities while manipulating an object.
• Demonstrates proper striking patterns using bats, paddles, rackets and hands.
• Maintains continuous moderate to vigorous activity for a specific time.

Active Lifestyle-Knowledge and Attitude:

• Identifies objectives and benefits from frequent physical activity.
• Understands and demonstrates the purpose of rules in physical activity.

Art

Literacy:

• Uses line with a variety of media such as printmaking, wax resist, etc. Focuses on the way artists use line to explore the design possibilities of abstraction.
• Creates depth using overlapping shapes. Uses shape to create natural forms and specific architecture.
• Expands knowledge of color and its relationships through study of the color wheel. Continues to develop mixing skills.
• Explores complexities of form and space by using found objects and mixed media. Learns the process of clay applique.
• Develops skills by working with more complex organizations with a focus on symmetry and asymmetry.

Expression:

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

Music

Theme: INSTRUMENTS AND SOUND:

Units: Beginning Recorder
Instrument Families
Experimenting with Sound
Music of Russia

Literacy:

• Uses landmark lines and mnemonic sentences to identify notated pitches.
• Reads and performs simple melodies on soprano recorder.
• Counts beats in music sung and played (”1,2″ etc.)
• Identifies themes, composers, and characters from listening to repertoire selections.

Expression:

• Sings, moves, and plays recorder with expression and coordination.
• Recognizes, names, and categorizes instruments by sight and sound.
• Categorizes instruments into family groupings.
• Uses proper acoustical terms to describe sounds.
• Describes steady beat.