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DINGEMAN'S MISSION STATEMENT:

We believe that by working together, Dingeman staff, families, students, and community members will educate, challenge and nurture all students.

DISTRICT GOAL:

This curriculum is developed from state framework and Secretary's Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills.

DISTRICT MISSION STATEMENT:

It is the mission of the San Diego City School District to educate all students in an integrated setting to become responsible, literate, thinking, and contributing members of a multicultural society through excellence in teaching and learning.

LANGUAGE ARTS ~ MATHEMATICS
SOCIAL SCIENCE ~ SCIENCE/HEALTH

 

 


LITERACY

The following curriculum overview reflects the California State framework and San Diego City School District standards.

READING
  • Look at books
  • Choose books during free time
  • Retell stories
  • Understand stories through pictures
  • Understand print carries meaning
  • Read some sight words
  • Identify upper/lower case letters
  • Identify beginning sounds
  • Begin to summarize, sequence and predict
WRITING
  • Choose own topics (e.g. personal experiences or topics of interest)
  • Write during "choice" time (Plan-Do-Review)
  • Write single letters representing a word or syllable
  • Combine drawing and "writing" for meaning
  • Dictate words, stories, poems and phrases
  • Trace and copy print
  • Write own endings to patterned sentences
  • Use inventive spelling
LISTENING AND SPEAKING
  • Listen to stories, including multicultural literature
  • Listen to peers in various situations (e.g. partner work, small groups, whole class)
  • Follow one or two simple oral directions
  • Listen to stories from a variety of genres
  • Participate in discussions
  • Ask questions and reply to questions
  • Expand vocabulary
  • Begin to reflect and assess their own performance and progress as readers, writers, listeners, and speakers

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MATHEMATICS

NUMBER SENSE AND OPERATIONS
  • Understand and relate a sense of number and quantity in useful ways
  • Understand and describe simple addition and subtraction situations
  • Ask and answers questions involving quantity derived from pictures or situations
  • Identify, describe, and extend simple patterns
MEASUREMENT AND GEOMETRY
  • Demonstrate an understanding of time using major units on clocks and calendars
  • Identify common geometric objects in the environment and describe their features
DATA ANALYSIS, STATISTICS, AND PROBABILITY
  • Collect and record information about the environment
PROBLEM SOLVING, MATHEMATICAL REASONING AND COMMUNICATION
  • Relate the use of counting, addition, and subtraction to the solution of the problems
  • Interpret and use basic logical statements in informal language
  • Communicate knowledge of basic skills, conceptual understanding, and problem solving, and demonstrates understanding of the mathematical communications of others

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SOCIAL STUDIES

LEARNING ABOUT OURSELVES  Students will:
  • Develop understanding of self
  • Develop understanding of roles in school and in the community
  • Develop understanding of roles and responsibilities
LEARNING TO WORK TOGETHER  Students will:
  • Understand that school is a place for learning and working
  • Learn to consider the rights of others
  • Understand the feelings of others
  • Understand the importance of cooperative groups
  • Understand the responsibilities of individual roles within a group
  • Develop attributes of good citizenship
  • Develop their awareness and appreciation of similarities and differences between themselves and others

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SCIENCE/HEALTH

Students will:
  • Develop their awareness and appreciation of living things
  • Learn to use their senses as tools with which to observe and describe the world of objects around them
  • Develop and practice the process skills of observing, distinguishing, comparing, classifying, communicating, and applying knowledge
Students will:
  • Discuss good health practices and why they are necessary, including nutrition, grooming and hygiene

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