Thursday, June 21, 2012

What is the Common Core Curriculum?


The Common Core Curriculum is a national curriculum in the areas of language arts and math.  North Carolina has adopted the Common Core Curriculum, and we will be utilizing it's standards next school year in our planning.  It provides a consistent, clear understanding of what students are expected to learn based on their grade level.  This enables teachers and parents to know exactly what to expect and prepare for in order to help facilitate student learning.  The standards in the Common Core are designed to include relevant, real world concepts, and to include reflecting the knowledge and skills needed in order to obtain success in both college and careers.  The intent of the Common Core is that all American students leave school fully prepared with 21st century skills and are prepared for the future to compete and survive in a global economy.

We will be using the Common Core Curriculum and the North Carolina Essential Standards in order to plan instruction.  The Common Core addresses learning objectives in language arts and math and the  North Carolina Essential Standards address learning objectives for science and social studies.  We are excited to utilize this new set of standards to guide our classroom instruction.  Our county has set up a variety of Common Core resources on Symbaloo.  Symbaloo is an internet webpage that can be customized to include important links. In addition to these resources, we have been looking for a variety of additional resources by subject area for you to utilize at home with your child. 


This year in language arts we will be focusing on a variety of different literature pieces and will be focusing on the following in planning and instruction:


This year in math we will be focusing on the following concepts in our planning and instruction: 

This year in science we will be focusing on the following concepts in our planning and instruction:






This year in social studies we will be focusing on the following concepts in our planning and instruction:

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