The Warrensburg Elementary School follows the New York State Learning Standards to guide us in developing our curriculum and lessons that addresses the needs of all students.  We are committed to providing each student with the best possible education that we can offer.  The Warrensburg Elementary School uses the Core Knowledge Language Arts program which is published by Amplify Learning as our base program. Students are administered assessments throughout the school year which are aligned to the program and its components.  This reading program addresses the skills necessary for reading, comprehension, and writing.  In addition, students are benchmarked and assessed in the Fall, Winter, and the Spring.  Students who fall below these benchmarks are further tested in order to determine their areas of need.  Students who fall below grade level standards are placed in Academic Intervention Services and are monitored weekly or bi-weekly based on their needs.  Below are the names of the units that your child will be learning about.  Within each of the units your child will engage in a wide range of speaking and listening, writing, and reading activities.

The Warrensburg Elementary School follows the New York State Mathematics Standards to guide instructional planning.  The program that our school uses is Ready Math which is a program that was developed by Curriculum Associates.  Part of this program is a diagnostic assessment that provides information about student levels of mathematical mastery, provides instructional planning for classroom teachers, amongst other resources that provide interventions and enrichment opportunities.  Students are benchmarked three times per year in order to assess their individual growth.  Following those benchmarks we review the assessments and determine next steps, if any, in order to address the needs of the students. 

The Standards for Mathematical Practice 

The Standards for each grade level and course begin with eight Standards for Mathematical Practice. The Standards for Mathematical Practice describe varieties of expertise that mathematics educators at all levels should seek to develop in their students. These practices rest on important “processes and proficiencies” with longstanding importance in mathematics education. 

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively. 

3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others. 

4. Model with mathematics. 

5. Use appropriate tools strategically. 

6. Attend to precision. 

7. Look for and make use of structure.

8. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Science instruction follows the New York State Science Learning Standards. A brief outline of the topics explored at each grade level is listed below.

New York State has five specific content areas for standards:

• History of the United States and New York

• World History

• Geography

• Economics

• Civics, Citizenship, and Government

https://www.nysed.gov/curriculum-instruction/civic-readiness-initiative

Standard 1: History of the United States and New York Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in the history of the United States and New York. 

Standard 2: World History Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of major ideas, eras, themes, developments, and turning points in world history and examine the broad sweep of history from a variety of perspectives.

Standard 3: Geography Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the geography of the interdependent world in which we live—local, national, and global—including the distribution of people, places, and environments over the Earth’s surface. 

Standard 4: Economics Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of how the United States and other societies develop economic systems and associated institutions to allocate scarce resources, how major decision-making units function in the United States and other national economies, and how an economy solves the scarcity problem through market and nonmarket mechanisms. 

Standard 5: Civics, Citizenship, and Government Students will use a variety of intellectual skills to demonstrate their understanding of the necessity for establishing governments; the governmental system of the United States and other nations; the United States Constitution; the basic civic values of American constitutional democracy; and the roles, rights, and responsibilities of citizenship, including avenues of participation. 

For Kindergarten through Sixth Grade, below are the Social Studies Practices.  Below is the link to the full document on the New York State Education Department website. 

https://www.nysed.gov/curriculum-instruction/k-12-social-studies-framework

• Gathering, Interpreting and Using Evidence

• Chronological Reasoning and Causation

• Comparison and Contextualization

• Geographic Reasoning

• Economics and Economic Systems

• Civic Participation