Our Curriculum
Through the use of the workshop model in literacy and mathematics we provide a comprehensive systematic approach to reading, writing and mathematics.
Balanced Literacy provides all students with meaningful literacy activities that engages them in reading, and writing experiences; thus promoting the four skills in their development of literacy in a systematic and strategic manner. Children receive:
Ø 90 minutes of reading and writing each day in Kindergarten through 5th grade.
Ø Systematic phonics, including repetitive text.
Ø Daily writing assignments
The Investigations Math (TERC) program develops critical thinking, problem solving and decision making. It teaches our students about the broad ideas associated with math, including problem solving, communicating mathematically, reasoning, and number sense.
We want all students to realize that math is more than adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing. We want children to be able to connect math to their everyday lives. TERC enables us to accomplish this goal.
Our Science, Social Studies, Technology, Physical Education, Art, Music and Dance programs are based on the New York State Standards. Teachers follow the scope and sequence for each grade.
All teachers use the workshop model, thematic planning and project based instruction to enhance students’ understanding.
P.S. 94 Yearlong Mathematics Curriculum 2010-2011
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Kindergarten |
Grade1 |
Grade 2 |
Grade 3 |
Grade 4 |
Grade 5 |
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Sept. |
Unit 1: Routines
Who is in School Today? |
Mourning Routines & Games
Unit 1: How Many of Each? |
Unit 1: Counting Coins and Combinations |
Unit 1- Trading Stickers, Combining Coins/ Addition Fact Power Challenge
Supporting CFL Unit
T-Shirt Factory |
TERC Unit 5: Landmarks and Large Numbers
Investigations 1, 2, 4 |
Array Exploration – 3 days
Unit 1: Number Puzzles and Multiple Towers
Multiplication and Division |
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Oct. |
Unit 2: Counting and Comparing |
Unit 2: Making Shapes and Designing Quilts |
Unit 2: Shapes, Blocks and Symmetry |
Unit 3- Addition/ Subtracting |
TERC Unit 1: Factor, Multiples and Arrays
CFL: Muffles Truffles |
Unit 3: Thousands of miles, thousands of seats |
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Nov. |
Unit 3: What Comes Next? |
Unit 3: Solving Story Problems |
Unit 3 & 9: Measuring Length and Time
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Unit 5- Equal Groups
Supporting CFL Unit
Groceries, Stamps and Measuring Strips and The Big Dinner |
CFL: The Teacher’s Lounge |
Unit 4: What’s the Portion? |
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Dec. |
Unit 3: What Comes Next?
Unit 5: Make a Shape, Build a Block
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Unit 6: Number Games and Crayons Puzzles
CFL Unit: Double Decker Bus
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Unit 4: Stickers, Strings, and Story Problems |
Unit 8- How Many Hundreds? How Many Miles? |
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Unit 5: Measuring Polygons |
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Jan. |
Unit 5: Make a Shape, Build a Block |
Unit 6: Number Games and Crayons Puzzles
CFL Unit: Double Decker Bus
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Unit 4: Stickers, Strings, and Story Problems |
Unit 2- Surveys and Line Plots |
CFL: Field Trips
TERC Unit 6: Fraction Cards and Decimal Squares Investigation 3 |
Unit 6: Decimals on Grids and Number Lines |
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Feb. |
Unit 4: Measuring and Counting
CFL Unit: Bunk Beds and Apple Boxes
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Unit 4: What Would You Rather Be? |
Unit 5 & 4:Pockets, Teeth and Things |
Unit 7- Finding Fair Shares |
Graphing, Pictographs and Bar Graphs |
Unit 7: How Many People? How Many Teams? |
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Mar. |
Unit 6 : How Many Do You Have? |
Unit 7: Color Shapes and Number Problems |
Unit 6: How Many Tens? How Many Ones? |
Unit 4-Perimeter, Angles, and Area |
TERC Unit 6: How Many Packages?
How Many Groups? |
Unit 8: Growth Patterns – Patterns, Functions and Change |
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April |
Unit 7: How Many Do You Have? |
Unit 8: Two’s, Five’s and Ten’s
CFL Unit: Beads and Shoes and Making Twos |
Unit 7 & 5: How Many Floors? How Many Rooms? |
Test readiness |
Test Prep for days 2 and 3 |
Test Sophistication |
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May |
Unit 8: Sorting and Survey |
Unit 5: Fish Lengths and Animal Jumps |
Unit 8: Partners, Teams, and Paper Clips |
Revisiting Multiplication/ Division/ Fractions |
TERC Unit 8: Penny Jars and Plant Growth |
Unit 2: Prisms and Pyramids |
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June |
Differentiation of Games |
Getting Ready for Second Grade Time-Money-Games |
Unit 9: Parts of a Whole, Parts of a Group
Review of Grade 2 Skills |
Games |
CFL: Fund Raisers |
Unit 9: How long can you stand on one foot? Data Analysis and Probability |
P.S. 94 Yearlong Social Studies Curriculum 2010-2011
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Kindergarten |
Grade1 |
Grade 2 |
Grade 3 |
Grade 4 |
Grade 5 |
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Sept. |
School and School Community
Essential Question: What is a school and what does it mean to
be a good citizen of a school community? |
Families Are Important
Essential Question: Why are families important and how do they influence who we are? |
Our Community’s Geography
Essential Question: How does geography influence where people choose to live and why? |
Introduction to World Geography and World Communities
Essential Question: What are the important features of communities throughout the world? |
Native Americans: First Inhabitants of New York State
Essential Question:
How did Native
Americans influence
the development of New York |
Geography and Early Peoples of the Western
Hemisphere
Essential Question: How did geography influence the development of the
Western Hemisphere? |
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Oct. |
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New York City Over Time
Essential Question: How and why did New York City change over time?
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Three Worlds Meet
Essential Question:
How did three diverse
cultures interact and
affect each other? |
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Nov. |
Self and Others
Essential Question: How are people unique?
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Families Now and Long Ago
Essential Question: How do
families grow and change
over time?
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Case Studies of a Community in Africa, Asia, South America, The Caribbean,
Middle East, Europe, Southeast Asia, or Australia
Essential Question: How do culture, history, geography, people, and government shape the development
of a community? |
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The United States
Essential Question: How do geography,
economics, people, and
key events connect to
shape a nation? |
P.S. 94 Yearlong Reading Curriculum 2010-2011
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Kindergarten |
Grade1 |
Grade 2 |
Grade 3 |
Grade 4 |
Grade 5 |
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Sept. |
Readers Build Good Habits |
Readers Build Good Habits |
Readers Make Good Decisions and Build Good Habits |
Building Stamina, meaning, and Word solving strategies |
Stamina, Meaning and Word Solving |
Reading with Stamina, Comprehension, and Tricky Words |
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Oct. |
Readers Read, think and Talk About Emergent Story Books & Invent Fun Things to Do With Them |
Patterns and Print Strategies |
Tricky Words /Hard Parts |
Grow Ideas About characters |
Ideas About Characters |
Readers Have Ideas About Characters |
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Nov. |
Readers Use All Our Power to Read Everything We Can
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Comprehension |
Readers Think and Talk About Characters |
Nonfiction Reading with a focus on building comprehension skills and strategies |
Social Issues/Book Clubs |
Non-Fiction Reading/Focus on Biographies |
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Dec. |
Readers Use All We Know to Read: Songs, Poems & Other Texts |
Non-Fiction (How To) |
Story Elements |
Talking and writing about texts to infer and interpret |
Non-Fiction Reading (Content Area) |
Social Issues/Book Clubs |
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Jan. |
Readers Learn Information About the World Through Our Books in Theme-Based Reading Clubs
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Readers Work to Understand What We Are Reading by Using All We Know to Figure Out Words and Clear Up Confusion |
Non-Fiction Reading
To Become Experts and Share Passions |
Folktales |
Poetry |
Content Area Reading Social Studies/Science |
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Feb. |
Readers Have Lots of Strategies to Figure Out Words & We Are Eager to Take On New Challenges |
Readers Study Characters |
Author Study |
Social Issues: book club/ series |
Historical Fiction |
Mid-Year Reflection Poetry (Black History) |
P.S. 94 Yearlong Writing Curriculum 2010-2011
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Kindergarten |
Grade1 |
Grade 2 |
Grade 3 |
Grade 4 |
Grade 5 |
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Sept. |
Launching Writing Workshop |
Launching Writing Workshop: Small Moments |
Launching with small moments |
Quick Publish
Launch Notebooks
Personal Narrative |
Quick Publish, personal narrative |
Quick Publish Personal Narrative/Edge of Your Seat Writing |
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Oct. |
Building Personal Narratives |
Can you read this?
Focus on conventions of writing. |
Can you read this? Conventions |
Realistic Fiction |
Realistic fiction |
Realistic Fiction |
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Nov. |
Approximating Small Moments |
Writing About Reading |
Realistic Fiction |
Nonfiction – Use features, strategies and skills learned in RW to make writing stronger |
Personal Essay |
Autobiography |
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Dec. |
Small moments |
How to |
Fairy Tales |
HW preparation |
Non fiction writing research based projects and reports (content area writing) |
Literary Essay |
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Jan. |
Writing for Readers (Class Topic) |
Revision-Revisit an old piece.
Focus on Elaboration and Conventions. |
Non-Fiction |
Folktales |
Historical
Fiction |
Investigative Journalism |
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Feb. |
Looking Closely: Observing, Labeling and Listing Like Scientists |
Authors as Mentors |
Authors as Mentors |
Critical Review writing |
Test Readiness |
Mid-Year Reflection Poetry Writing |
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Mar. |
How-to Books |
Realistic Fiction
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Write Gripping Stories with Meaning and Significance |
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Journalism
Play writing (revise a published piece into a play) |
Folktales, Fairytales, Fables, and Legend Writing |
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April |
All About Books(Independent Topic) 3 weeks
Poetry 2 weeks |
Poetry |
Poetry |
Independent Writing Projects |
Quick Publish, personal narrative |
Test Writing |
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May |
Letter Writing |
All About…- |
Persuasive Writing |
Mystery short stories
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Realistic fiction |
Fantasy Writing |
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June |
Getting Ready for First Grade: Independent Writing Projects
*Re-Cap |
Fairy Tales/Fantasy |
Revision & Assessment |
Content Area Writing
(research project with reading workshop)
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Personal Essay |
Independent Writing Projects |