Resources for Home
The following resources are helpful tools to help you support your student throughout their time in elementary school. These remediation and extension tips lend themselves to guide your students through the rigor that the new Common Core standards require of them. Below you will find strategies, helpful hints, games, reading passages, and math problems that you and your student can use to practice the standards taught in the classroom.
Kindergarten
Kindergarten is a very exciting time in a child’s life! This is where a child learns many social and academic skills. Learning to read is a huge stepping stone in a child’s life. Kindergarten is a very important developmental phase in a child’s life. In kindergarten, students are learning letters, sounds, and words. The students are then learning how to blend each of these skills together as they learn to read. Because the content is becoming more rigorous as we merge into Common Core, changing the way we question our students shows to be a very helpful strategy.
1st Grade
First grade is a very important year in school. During this year, we are working on developing literacy. Our mathematics curriculum includes the following topics: number sense, time, money, patterns, sorting and classifying, operations and computation, geometry and spatial sense, measurement, and estimation. The primary focus of mathematics instruction is on problem solving, reasoning, and communication. The science and health units include topics such as: nutrition, states of matter, animals, weather and climate, magnets, and sound. These units are also taught through a hands-on, child-centered approach. The first grade social studies curriculum incorporates map and globe skills to explore where we live, including locating and identifying the Earth's continents, oceans, and types of landforms.
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2nd Grade
In second grade, the rigor of the curriculum continues to strengthen as the year progresses. The second grade teachers are using several different strategies to help the students bridge the gaps between the Georgia Performance Standards and the Common Core Standards. The rigorous levels of reading and math have teachers breaking down the questions, so the students can understand.
3rd Grade
Third grade is a very fun time where the students will grow so much! In third grade, the subject matter deepens as they expand on their prior knowledge as well as learning new and exciting things! Third Grade dives deep into literature with the student’s learning fables and folktales as well as other genres. They are writing expanded narratives and learning more about the rules of grammar. In math the student will expand on graphing, measurement, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
Common Core has amped up 4th grade! Teachers have implemented a rigorous curriculum that is designed to meet the needs of all the students. ELA and Math standards focus more on evidence and application. At home practice is even more imperative to the student’s success in the classroom.
The newly implemented Common Core Standards have raised both expectations and rigor. The students are no longer expected to just provide the right answer. They are expected to explain fully, everything they know about a topic; they are expected to provide evidence for their answer. Thus, not only do the students have to be trained to adjust to these changes, but you, the parents, also need to know how to change what you do at home to help your children climb to these new expectations.
4th Grade
5th Grade
Articles and Sample Assessments
The links below feature research articles and sample assessments that will help parents to understand the rigor and new types of assessments that their student will be using within the classroom.
