Parkside School follows the educational objectives set forth by the Boise Public School District. Students from Parkside enter their elementary years with a strong foundation, confidence and an enthusiasm for learning that is unmatched by their peers.
Over the course of the year students will explore each of these educational objectives.
Visual Discrimination: first name, colors, shapes, numbers, letters/upper/lower, last name, letter/word/sentence and sight words. Introduction of chapter classic books utilizing costumes and props.
Primers, Library books and programs
Monthly all school commonality learning excursions
Physical Science
Sort object based on size, shape, color, weight, texture.
Identify solids, liquids, gas.
Recognize solids have a definite shape and liquids and gases take the shape of their container.
Earth Science
Observe and record weather changes day to day and over seasons.
Identify characteristics of the earth’s surface (water, soil, rocks).
Understand the sun supplies heat and light and is necessary for life.
Air is all around us. Wind is moving air and is a mixture of gases.
Identify the repeated patterns of events around us (seasons, day and night).
Explore the concept of recycling and conservation of natural resources.
Life Science
Life cycle of plants
Recognize plants look like their parents.
Fossils
Seasonal changes in plants
Identify plant needs
Life cycle of an animal
Animals look like their parents
Animal habitats provides basic needs
Identify animal needs.
Describe ways animal habitats provide basic needs.
Be Able To:
Group living and non-living things.
Explain and explore using the five senses.
Recognizethat humans are living things that need food, air, waterand shelter.
Social Studies
Identify calendar time: days, weeks, months.
Different means of transportation- today and in the past.
Explore why we celebrate patriotic and national holidays
Explore stories, pictures, celebrations and music of other cultures.
Explore the family, school neighborhood, state, country.
Know that people in the U.S. vote for their leaders.
Identify careers that are helpful for family, school and community.
Describe and show respect for rules at home, school and community.
Recognize that all people have needs and wants that they meet by sharing, trading and using money to buy goods and services.
Explore the globe as a model for the earth.
Recognize a map of the U.S.
Recognize that many kinds of plants and animals live on the earth.
Music
The Ability To:
Move to a steady beat
Identify:
high and low sounds
sing same
Differentiate:
Between talking and singing-calling-speaking and whispering.
Perform a dance to a musical selection
Use of movement in playing games.
Tempo changes in movement with steady beat
Play non-pitched instruments loudly and softly
Teach singing the scale
Math
Demonstrate:
Verbal, symbolic and physical representations of a number.
