Unit 3: Proclaiming the Kingdom of God

Chapter 17: Signs Teach

The students will:

• discuss Christian signs.
• see that sacraments are signs.
• look for and answer the signs of people in need.

Chapter 18: Signs of Belonging

The students will:

• understand that they belong to the church.
• know about the sacraments of belonging.
• learn the signs and actions of the sacraments of belonging.

Chapter 19: Signs of Healing

The students will:

• see that people need forgiveness and healing.
• understand the sacraments of healing.
• recall that God is merciful and forgiving.

Chapter 20: Signs of Serving

The students will:

• see that God calls each of us to help build the kingdom.
• learn about the sacraments.
• look for ways to serve others.

Chapter 21: The Church Is a Sign

The students will:

• understand that the Church helps build the kingdom.
• learn that we are asked to be a sign of God’s love.
• see that Jesus shows us how to serve.

Chapter 22: Reviewing Unit Three

Unit Four: We Are Kingdom People

Chapter 23: I Call You Friends

The students will :

• see that Jesus shows us how to be friends of God.
• understand that all Christians are disciples of followers of Christ.
• discover what a good disciple does.

Chapter 24: Families

The students will:

• learn there are many ways of being a family.
• see that the Church is a family.
• understand all families are a sign of the kingdom.

Chapter 25: Parishes

The students will:

• see that a parish is a place where we learn to serve.
• understand that a parish is a sign of the kingdom.
• learn about the ministers in a parish.

• sacraments
• signs
• beliefs
• Anointing of the Sick
• the Blessed Trinity
• healing
• vocation
• stewardship
• vow
• serve
• Resurrection
• disciples
• loyalty
• Sabbath

• The Apostles’ Creed
• The Sign of Peace
• Sacraments of Initiation
• Sacraments of Healing
• Act of Contrition
• Penitential rite
• Sacraments of service
• Eucharistic Prayer

We will be reading the following stories:

• Words In Our Hands by Aba B. Litchfield
• Sports Signals by Gary Apple
• The Horse Who Lived Upstairs by Phyllis McGinley
• Mufaro’s Beautiful Daughters by John Steptoe
• The Boy Who Cried Wolf by Genie Iverson
• The Big Orange Spot by Daniel Pinkwater
• Miss Rumphius by Barbara Cooney
• Mi Dori by Helen Breen
• Ali Baba Bernstein by Johanna Hurwitz
• No People Are the Same by Barbara Branca
• Lee Bennett Hopkins Interviews Beverly Cleary
• A Story A Story by Gary E. Haley
• The Traveling Storyteller by Linda Goss
• Nothing Much Happened Today by Mary Christian

The students will be:

• choosing the most appropriate meaning of multiple meaning word.
• identifying character traits and emotions.
• understanding relationships between substitute words and their referents.
• using structural analysis to determine word meaning.
• understanding words that sound alike but have different meanings.
• recognizing story setting.
• understanding likenesses and differences in longer texts.
• using long word decoding strategy to read words.
• using text and prior knowledge to predict logical outcomes.
• recognizing elements of reality and fantasy in stories.
• using context clues to determine word meaning.
• recognizing words with similar and opposite meanings.
• connecting personal experiences with those of story characters.
• understanding the sequence of events in text.
• recognizing stated and unstated cause and effect relationships.
• using the white pages of a telephone directory.

Before each story the students review the critical vocabulary words and discuss the meaning. After we discuss the meaning, we agree upon an appropriate definition and they write it down in their reading notebooks.

Unit 5: Verbs

The students will:

• identify the present and the past forms of the verb be.
• use has and have as helping verbs;
• use the past form of the irregular verbs go, see, do, run, and come.
• use the past form of the irregular verbs give, write, eat, talk, and grow.
• form contractions and the word not.

Unit 6: Writing

The students will write a story, remembering that a story is made up of an exciting beginning, middle, and an end. The story will be 3-5 paragraphs in length. The students use the writing process.

Unit 7: Adjectives and Adverbs

The students will:

• identify adjectives that tell what kind.
• identify adjectives that tell how many.
• use a, an, and the correctly.
• use adjectives ending in -er and -est.
• identify adverbs that tell how.
• identify adverbs that ell when and where.
• use to, two, too in a sentence.
• use adjectives to change the meaning of a sentence.

Unit 8: Description

Unit 9: Capitalization and Punctuation

The students will:

• use correct capitalization and end punctuation.
• use capitalization properly.
• write abbreviations.
• underline book titles.
• use quotation marks with direct quotations.
• use a comma to separate an exact quotation from the rest of the sentence.

Unit 10: Letters

The students will:

• use and understand the five parts to a letter.

Chapter 3: Developing Addition and Subtraction

The students will:

• write money amounts in dollars and cents.
• add money amounts.
• estimate using front-end estimation.
• solve problems needing exact answers or estimates.

Chapter 4: Subtraction

The students will:

• explore subtraction patterns.
• explore subtraction on a hundred chart.
• estimate differences using rounding.
• explore regrouping, 2-4 digit numbers.
• subtract across zeros.
• solve multiple step problems.
• subtract money.

Chapter 5: Multiplication Concepts and Facts

The students will:

• write multiplication stories and sentences.
• multiply 0-12 as a factor.

Unit 2: The Solar System

Chapter 1: Earth, the Water Planet

The students will:

• identify where water is found on Earth.
• describe the forms of water.
• describe why water is important.
• describe the moon’s phases.
• identify what causes eclipses.
• describe why there are seasons.
• identify the cause of day and night.

Chapter 2: The Solar System and Beyond

The students will:

• identify the solar system’s nine planets.
• describe other bodies in the solar system.
• describe what constellations are.
• describe how telescopes help us see stars.
• compare and contrast radio and optical telescopes.
• describe how crewed missions differ from space probes.

Chapter 4: By the Shining Sea

The students will:

• identify who the Kwakiutl were and where they lived.
• describe their way of life.
• identify natural resources used.
• describe their beliefs about nature.

Chapter 5: Over Waves of Grass

The students will:

• identify who the Cheyenne were and where they lived.
• describe their way of life.
• explain the importance of buffalo.
• describe how the horse changed their way of life.

Chapter 6: In Red Rock Country

The students will:

• identify who the Navajo were and where they lived.
• describe the Navajo way of life.
• identify skills the Navajo learned from their neighbors.
• define adaptation.

Chapter 7: Settling the Northeast

The students will:

• identify who the pilgrims were and locate the site of Plymouth Colony.
• describe the hardships of the Pilgrims first winter.
• explain how the Wampanoag helped the Pilgrims.
• identify early settlers of their community.

Units 14-26

The students will:

• learn that the ur sound can be spelled er, ir, ur, or.
• learn that the oi sound is spelled oi or oy.
• learn that the j sound can be spelled with the consonant j or with the g followed by e, I, or y.
• learn that the k sound may be spelled k, ck, c.
• learn that the ar sounds can be spelled are, air, ear.
• learn that homophones are words that sound alike and different spellings and meanings.
• learn that a compound word is made up of two or more shorter words.
• learn that when a base word ends with e, the e is dropped before -ed or -ing is added.
• learn that when a base word ends with a consonant and y, the y is changed to I before -es or -ed is added.