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Kindergarten
Reading
High Frequency Words
she all over when her some
Target Skills
- Sequence of events
- Context clues
- Proper nouns for days and months
Math
- Decompose and compose numbers to show how a whole can be broken into two parts and two parts can be joined to make a whole.
- Addition and subtraction are taught simultaneously using the number bond model so students begin to understand the relationship between the pairs and the whole.
- Work with different quantities to find possible number pairs using stories, objects, sets, and numerals.
- Develop an understanding of the addition symbol and each number position within the equation
First Grade
Reading
High Frequency Words
ready country soil almost
kinds earth covers warm
Target Skills
- Sequence of events
- Reading with expression
- Multiple-meaning words
Math
- Study, organize, and manipulate numbers within 40
- Compare quantities and begin using the symbols for greater than, less than, and equal to.
- Addition and subtraction of tens
- Add two-digit and single-digit numbers within 40
- Use place value to add two-digit numbers
Second Grade
Reading
High Frequency Words
begins being flower I’ve ground laugh ready stood tall very
Target Skills
- Compare and contrast
- Figurative language
- Monitor and clarify
Math
- Record category counts and organize and represent data by drawing both picture and bar graphs
- Use information in graphs to solve addition and subtraction problems and compare results
- Apply knowledge of coin values and place values to find the total value of a group of coins or bills.
- Build on previously learned measurement concepts to work with inches and yards.
- Use addition and subtraction to compare two lengths
- Use drawings and equations with an unknown to represent addition and subtraction.
- Generate measurement data and represent it with a line plot
Third Grade
Reading
Target Vocabulary
sincere managed loaded inspired conversations
reunion currently pleasure terror loveliest
Target Skills
- Possessive nouns and pronouns
- Sequence of events
- Formal and informal language
Math
- Learn to manipulate a given number of objects to create equal groups.
- Organize equal groups into arrays where either a row or column is seen as the new unit being counted.
- Using arrays to develop spatial reasoning skills.
- Work with doubles and even numbers to set the stage for learning multiplication in 3rd grade
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We always say that we work in the most beautiful place and it’s confirmed every morning when I drive into town. I don’t think anyone could ask for a better view from their classroom windows!
I graduated from Central Washington University with a Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education and an additional endorsement in reading. I have since received a Master’s Degree in Education, with a focus on reading and literacy. I came to work in Index in January of 2006. I began teaching preschool and kindergarten in the mornings and various subjects to the second through eighth grades in the afternoons, after two years I added first grade to the class as well. With more recent changes I am now teaching Kindergarten through Third Grade.