Readers' Workshop: 

• Includes mini-lessons, independent reading, guided reading, book clubs, conferring, and at home reading
• A focus on decoding strategies, increasing sight vocabulary, and improving fluency
• Strategies for reading for meaning, including: retelling, questioning, predicting, synthesizing, inferring, and determining importance 
• Growing a love of literature through exposure to different genres, authors, and series 

Writers' Workshop:

• Includes mini-lessons, independent writing time, conferring, and small group work
• A focus will be placed on personal narrative, opinion and informational writing, as well as poetry
• Writing well-developed paragraphs will be taught throughout the year
• Use of proper grammar and writing conventions will be reinforced continuously 
• Growing as thoughtful writers, who write with purpose about topics that they care about, will be a goal

 Math:

• Units of study include basic, as well as 2 & 3 digit addition & subtraction, place value, geometry, money, measuring length, time, and graphing
• Demonstrate fluency of addition and subtraction 
• Use a variety of problem solving strategies
• Incorporate math vocabulary in written and oral explanations

 Science:

• Participate in hands-on interactions experiments 
• Develop cooperative group skills
• Use the Scientific Method

Social Studies

• Learn map skills
• Explore and learn about suburban, urban and rural communities around the world 
• Compare and contrast communities long ago and today