Students will:

• Learn and act out "Stories Jesus Told" (the Parables)
• Learn about Lent, Holy Week, and Easter
• Learn how the saints followed God

Students will:

• Read aloud daily
• Whole group reading daily
• Meet in small group reading (3 days weekly)
• Re-tell stories orally
• Story comprehension – written
• Work on story vocabulary
• Daily work on site words
• Daily use of phonetic approach

Spelling – Phonics
No spelling text - spelling words are connected to reading program.
Phonics text/Workbook

Students will:

• Take home spelling word list and directions monthly
• Phonics Daily – homework twice a week.
• Spelling Daily

Monday - 3 times each

Tuesday- Sentences for ½ of spelling list

Wednesday- Definitions for 2^nd half of spelling list

-Alphabetical Order Test

Thursday – Practice Test/Learning to self-correct

Friday – Test day.

• Learning to spell words both orally and written
• Learning to write simple sentences
• Learning to use a dictionary
• Taking weekly test
• Practice spelling phonetically.
• Practice Alphabetical Order

Phonics
Textbook: Phonics A

Students learn:

• Chapter III Review of Short Vowels
  • Blending Sounds
  • Recognizing Beginning, Middle and Ending Sound
• Chapter IV Long Vowels AEIOU, Reviewing Long and Short Vowels

English/Language Arts
Text – English Plus
Dictation – Weekly Test

Students will:

• Review Long/Short Vowels
• Learn Consonants
• Learn Marks in a Sentence: period, question mark, comma, exclamation point
• Learn how to make 2 words into a contraction
• Learn about a compound word
• How to write a sentence (beginning, middle & end)
• Learn asking and telling sentences
• Words that are opposites
• Writing a short story (at least three sentences)

Chapters to Be Covered

• Chapter 7 Literature and Writing
• Chapter 8 Language and Usage more about sentences
• Chapter 9 Literature and Writing (letter writing)

Math
Textbook – Workbook
Whole Group Instruction
Small Group Instruction (3 teachers)
Computer Math Skills
Special Math (Parent)

Students will:

• Add Numbers 0 – 12
• Subtract Numbers 0-12
• Learn "less than"
• Learn "greater than"
• Writing Numbers 1 - 100
• Counting by 2’s, 5’s, 10’s
• Playing Math Games for Reinforcement
• Learning to Add Vertically and Horizontally
• Learn to put Numbers in Order or Out of Order
• Fact Families
• Problem Solving – Word Problems
• Weekly Tests
• Mixed Test – Unit Tests
• Double Addition
• Double Subtraction

Math Units

• Chapter 4 Facts and Strategies to 12
• Chapter 5 Geometry- Shapes and Facts
• Chapter 6 More Facts and Strategies – Fact Families

Handwriting
D’Nealian Textbook

Students will:

• Complete two letters upper and lower case daily in textbook
• Complete worksheet and each letter
• Learn correct seating position
• Learn to hold pencil correctly
• Learn to write numbers 1-100 correctly.

Social Studies
Textbook – My World
Workbook – My World
Projects

Students will study:

• Unit 4 Our World
• Unit 5 It Happens in America
  • State
  • Country
  • World

Begin Special Projects

• Writing 3-5 Facts
• Presenting a Simple Project Form
• Learn to Share Orally
• California Family Adventures
• Projects:
• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
• California Family Adventures
• Presidential Report – Lincoln – Washington - Bush
• U.S. Projects - Choose 2 states

Science
Harcourt Science Text/Workbook

Students will complete:

Unit IV All About Animals

• Learn What Animals Need
• Learn the Different Kinds of Animals
• Learn about Insects
• Learn How Animals Grow
• Butterfly
• Frog
• Spider

Project: Spider Parts

Animal Habitat

Compare Plants/Animals

• Do animals need plants?
• Do animals help plants?
• How do we need plants and animals
• Science Fair Display: March 2 –3 Insects

Unit V Weather and Seasons – Measuring Weather

Art
Text: Discover Art

Students will:

• Learn Animal Sculpture
• Learn Drawing Simple Scenes
• Learn to Work With Clay (Clay sculpture)

Music
(Taught by Mrs. Mary Reynolds)

Computers
(Taught by Mr. Tim Vos)