Steck Elementary School

Language Arts

• Reading: Comprehend, evaluate, and appreciate age appropriate materials; interpret and make inferences about written materials; develop a positive attitude toward reading 
   
• Writing: Write in a variety of styles for a variety of audiences and purposes
   
• Listening: Direct attention to what is heard and organize thoughts to make an appropriate response
   
• Speaking: Organize and present ideas; speak for a specific purpose in various presentation formats 
   
• Convention/Structure: Write standard English in a grammatical, well-organized manner using conventions of language 
   
• Spelling: use developmental spelling skills; proofread written work for spelling errors
   

Mathematics

• Number sense: Understand number meanings and relationships among numbers; understand number operations
   
• Geometry: Develop an understanding of 2- and 3-dimensional objects; measure different aspects of shapes; understand how shapes are related to one another
   
• Measurement: Use customary and metric measures to determine length, area, volume, and weight
   
• Operations and computation: Use a variety of computational strategies; apply the fundamental operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division using whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
   
• Patterns and relationships: Identify patterns and relationships in numbers, operations, geometry, and measurement to classify and organize information
   
• Probability and statistics: Collect, organize, describe, and interpret data using realistic situations
   

Science

• Content: participate in hands-on activities in the following areas:
   
• Astronomy: planetarium
   
• Earth Science: weather
   
• Health: digestion and drug education
   
• Life Science: small life with a microscope
   
• Physical Science: electricity and magnetism
   
• Skills:
• Predict
• Observe
• Collect and Record Data
• Interpret
• Classify
• Draw Conclusions
• Formulate Hypothesis and Models
• Experiment