Conceptual Skills

• Reading comprehension
• Listening comprehension
• Inferential thinking
• Asking and answering questions demonstrating understanding by using evidence from fiction and non-fiction texts
• Identifying new vocabulary words and learning their meanings
• Applying new vocabulary in writing and conversation
• Non-fiction text features
• Exploration of different genres (i.e, headings, tables, graphs)
• Reflection on authors' purposes
• Genre study
• Writing: creative, expository, journal, descriptive, persuasive writing, report writing

Mechanical Skills

• Expanding sentences
• Writing basic paragraphs with topics and conclusions
• Grammar
• Spelling patterns
• Reading with accuracy and fluency
• Phonological awareness
• Editing and proofreading
• Using the writing process

Tefilah (Prayer)

• Expanded morning service including conversations and learning activities.

Chumash (Bible)

• Parshat Hashavuah (weekly Torah portion)

Jewish Holidays

• The Jewish holidays, laws, customs and traditions using Hebrew vocabulary, stories and songs.

Resources

• Tal Am Library

Events

• Passover Play
  

Skills

• Calculate sums and differences to 20
• Use and understand fact families
• Understanding of place value to 1000s
• Estimate to nearest 10 and 100
• Regrouping with addition and subtraction
• Understanding of fractions (1/2, 1/3, and 1/4)
• Algebra - missing addend
• Recognize and reproduce patterns
• Use <, >, = to compare and order numbers
• Measurement
• Understand 2 and 3 dimensional shapes
• Recognition of coins
• Telling time

• Create, read, and interpret pic to and bar graph

Reading

• Development of reading fluency, accuracy, and comprehension
• Teacher modeled "read alouds" of Hebrew stories,shared reading experiences with the class, guided reading activities in small groups, independent reading opportunities

Writing

• Short Hebrew paragraphs

Speaking

• Longer Hebrew conversations focusing on daily life and information about oneself and others

Listening

• Listening comprehension through immersion in a Hebrew speaking classroom

• Development of understanding of Hebrew used In daily conversations and in classroom instruction

Resources

• Haverim B’Ivrit
• Tal Am Library

Content

• Ecosystems (deserts and forests of the world)

Skills

• Observing
• Predicting
• Concluding
• Record keeping
• Labeling
• Investigating
• Measuring
• Hypothesizing

 

Content

• Examining our world
• Cultures of the world

Skills

• Non-fiction listening comprehension
• Non-fiction reading comprehension
• Introduction to research
• Locate the continents and oceans on a map and globe
• Identify the parts of a map: title, map key, compass rose
• Define the cardinal directions as well as the intermediate directions
• Identify the hemispheres
• Identify geographic features (landforms and waterways)