Please note that the following are projections and may be adjusted as the year progresses.
Language Arts: McGraw Hill Reading series, Simple Solutions Grammar, Orton Gillingham Spelling
Q 1
LA - beginning stories, short stories, comprehension
Grammar- nouns, sentences and punctuation
Spelling- Orton-Gillingham basics, review of sounds and vowels, blends
Q 2
LA - parts of a letter, comprehension, poetry, short stories
Grammar- verbs, commas, contractions
Spelling- blends continued, open and closed syllables, multisyllabic decoding
Q 3
LA - poetry, short stories, fairy tales, writing a recipe
Grammar - verbs, pronouns, commas
Spelling - blends, vowel teams, r controlled vowels
Q 4
LA - chapter books, fairy tales
Grammar- adjectives, review punctuation including quotation marks, review of nouns and verbs
Spelling- blends, vowel teams, 3 syllable words, r controlled vowels
Math: Everyday Math
Q 1
Addition and subtraction practices, calendar, time to hour and half hour, money, beginning word problems
Q 2
2-3 digit addition and subtraction with and without trading, fractions, geometry- 2d and 3d shapes, writing and solving word problems
Q 3
measurement: area, perimeter, capacity; beginning multiplication- arrays, place value to 10,000, addition and subtraction of money amounts, solving word problems
Q 4
basic division, geometry, review calendar, time to quarter hour, money, identifying important information in a word problem
Religion: Faith First
Q 1
prayers, Old Testament Bible Stories, Catholic signs and symbols, sacraments
Q 2
Reconciliation, Old testament Bible stories, Catholic signs and symbols, parts of the church
Q 3
Participation in Reconciliation and begin First Holy Communion, New testament
Q 4
participation in First Holy Communion, New testament, parts of and responses in the Mass
Science and Social Studies: will be taught on an alternating cycle in 1-3 weeks increments. Some units will cross over between quarters. Scott Foresman Sciecne and McGraw Hill People and Places
Q1
Motion, Matter , Moon, Stars, and Seasons
Getting to know our classroom community, Communities, human rights, Map Skills, North America, Culture
Q2
Weather and Seasons, Energy. Animal and Body Systems
Colonization of United Staes, Pilgrims, Oglethorpe and Georgia History, Wants and Needs, process of production, Cultural Studies, Social Justice, Peace
Q3
Life Cycles , Plants and Fungus
Government, Washington D.C, patriotic symbols, review Map Skills, community service projects/ charities/ Catholic in a Box project
Q4
Natural Resources and 3 R's, Technology, Fossils, Sound
Inventions and inventors, current events, My Family is Special. Our culture and other cultures- family share