Consolidated School

Science and Social Studies Themes 

for

First Grade, Second and Third Grades

Please Note: The multiage classroom runs on a rotation of science and social studies themes covering all concepts in a developmentally appropriate manner.  In the 2008-09 school year, the multiage classroom studied the first grade science and social studies themes.  This also includes first grade field trips. The themes for this year are listed under first grade.

We are starting a new science program called Science Companions this year.  The main units for first grade are weather, collecting and examining life and solids, liquids and gas.  I am not sure of the exact time that these will be studied but I have put a rough estimate here. 

September

First Grade:  Responsive Classroom,  Self,  Feelings, beginning weather, harvest, field trip to Harris Farm

Second Grade: Responsive Classroom,  Getting to know you, Rules and the Constitution (Constitution Day-September 18th),  Life cycles

           Third Grade: Two Biomes-Grasslands/Prairie/Blueberry Plains and Deciduous Forest, Habitat, Constitution (create a Classroom Constitution, States,

October

First Grade:  Fall,  Pumpkins, Columbus Day, Fire Safety, Ox-Cart Man, field trip to Old York to see the Ox Cart Man and to Tyler Brook (Kennebunkport Conservation Trust in our Children Field Trip)

Second Grade: Fire Safety, Life cycles, Our community in Kennebunkport, Many uses of the Kennebunk River

Third Grade:  Two more biomes -Arctic and Alpine Tundra and Taiga/Coniferous Forest, Habitat, Study of US, State Poster

November

First Grade: Weather (water changes), recycling, Native Americans and Pilgrims

Second Grade: The First Thanksgiving, Maps and Globes, Sound, Inventions

Third Grade: Last two land biomes (Tropical rain forest and desert), Colonial America and Pilgrims, Squanto (core literature book), Habitat

December

First Grade: Crickets, Snails, Fish, Weather (ice), Traditions Around the World, field trip to Backstage at the Nutcracker

Second Grade: Holidays Around the World,  Sound, Inventions

Third Grade:  Revolutionary War/Independence, Government -three branches as it relates to early America, Solar System

January

First Grade:  Martin Luther King Jr., Weather (snow and winter changes), solids, liquids and gases, winter snowshoeing at Tyler Brook

Second Grade:  Calendar, Trees, Rocks and Fossils

Third Grade: Endangered Animals Reports, Martin Luther King, Jr., Solar System

February

First Grade: President’s Day, Valentine's Day, Groundhog Day, 100 days

Second Grade: President's Day, Famous Black Americans, Rocks and Fossils, Dinosaurs

Third Grade: President's Day as George Washington relates to the Revolutionary War and Abraham Lincoln with the Civil War, Black History Month, Magnets and Electrical Currents

March

First Grade:  Weather (wind/air), Wellness, Our Body, Our Selves, Folk Tales/Fairy Tales, Maple Trees, field trip to Harris Farm to go maple sugaring

Second Grade:  Rocks and Fossils, Dinosaurs

Third Grade: Women in History month, report, Magnets and Electrical Currents, US Economy to start US vs Mexico, Stone Fox (core literature book)

April

First Grade:   Seeds, roots, leaves

Second Grade:  Dinosaurs and Fossils,  Earth Day

Third Grade: US vs. Mexico, Force and Motion

May

First Grade:  Flowers, growing mold, field trip to Tyler Brook (Kennebunkport Conservation Trust in our Children Field Trip)

Second Grade: Life Cycles

Third Grade:  Land Yacht Races (after force/work/energy unit)

June

First grade: Author's Tea, Reflection, Portfolio work, trolley trip,

All grades: Finish up with any of the above themes or go into further depth on these topics

Revised 7/08

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