Reading

  Open Court Reading Program:

reading anthologies, spelling, grammar and comprehension practice books

Core Literature Books:

•  The Shoeshine Girl

•  Annie and the Old One

•  BFG

* Charlotte's Web

•  Literature Circle Books: a variety of chapter books will be shared to go along with each Open Court thematic unit of study and other themes we may have within the classroom. The six OC themes are:   Friendship, City WildLife, Imagination, Money, Storytelling, and Country Life

•  Reader's theatre

* "Genre of the Month"

•  ongoing book choice, 20 minutes at night, D.E.A.R. time in class daily

•  daily Read Aloud with Miss Clancy

  Language Arts and Writing

•  daily edit, punctuation, capitalization, grammar, spelling,   phonetic rules

•  work on vocabulary, expanding sentences, paragraph formation, brainstorming, webbing, mapping, book making

•  research report and note taking practice

•  cursive writing

•  weekly spelling tests

•  weekly dictation

•  book reports

•  daily journal writing

Math

  Houghton Mifflin Mathematics text and workbook

         Skills taught & practiced:

•  place value

•  review of addition & subtraction

(with carrying & regrouping)

•  multiplication facts (memorize through 12's)

•  division: simple division with remainders

•  perimeter, area, volume

•  graphing

•  money

•  time

•  fractions & decimals

•  geometry

•  metric   measurement: length, weight, volume

Social Studies

•  Reflections text and workbook practice sheets

Community History/ U.S. Government & Citizenship/

          •  Geography: mapping directions, continents, oceans, etc.    

         year long projects:

postcards from around the world

  "Flat Stanley " project

 Science

Main units of study :  

  Bonus

•  Kindergarten buddies with Mrs. Towle's class

•  21st Century Technology

•  "Star of the Week"

•  computer lab, library, science lab, art class, P.E. music

•  a possible musical performance in the spring