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Miss McCandless's Grade Curriculum Language Arts Curriculum Sentences -identifying, punctuation, telling part of sentence, and naming part of sentencesWrite Complete Sentences-capitalization and punctuate sentences Nouns-define, identify, singular, proper, common, and plural Alphabetical Order Verbs-action and helping Adjectives Pronouns Adverbs Friendly Letter Writing-punctuation in a letter Six Traits Writing D.O.L.-(Daily Oral Language) Each morning children write two sentences correcting mistakes in grammar and punctuation ************************************************************* Handwriting Writing in Manuscript -letters and numerals, position, shape, size, slant, spacing, and strokesCursive Readiness (Introduced in November)-letters and numerals, positions, strokes o Writing Lowercase Cursive Letterso Writing Uppercase Cursive Letters************************************************************* Spelling One lesson per week (most weeks) 35 lessons Lessons dealing with consonants, vowels, blends, contractions, endings, vowel pairs, and homonyms. Tests includes: 15 words-10 list words and 5 bonus words Students take pretest on Monday, if student passes (15/15) he/she does not have to take the test again on Friday. Final test on Fridays ************************************************************* Religion Jesus Christ Is With Us Always o Jesus is the Son of Godo Jesus Christ Gives Us The Churcho We Celebrate God’s Loveo We Celebrate Baptismo We Celebrate Confirmationo The Church Yearo Ordinary TimeJesus Calls Us To Penance and Reconciliation o We Learn about God’s Loveo God Gives Us Lawso We Follow God’s Lawso We Prepare for the Sacrament of Forgivenesso We Celebrate the Sacrament of Forgivenesso Advento ChristmasJesus Gives Himself in the Eucharist o Jesus Gives Us the Eucharisto We Gather for the Celebration of the Eucharisto We Celebrate the Liturgy of the Wordo We Celebrate the Liturgy of the Eucharisto We Go in Peace to Share God’s Loveo Lento The Three DaysWe Live Our Catholic Faith o God Calls Us to Love and Serveo The Church Lives Todayo We Prayo We Honor Mary and the Saintso We Show Love and Respecto EasterCelebration of Reconciliation and First Communion ************************************************************* Reading Skills -vocabulary, comprehension, oral reading, word attack, and reading for pleasureBook-It (October-March) Guided Reading-centers with activities and individual/group work Houghton Mifflin Reading Series 2.1 and 2.2 (beginning of year) ************************************************************* Phonics Consonants-Initial, Final, and Medial Short Vowels Long Vowels Variant Consonant Sounds and Consonant Blends Syllables, Compound Words, Y as a Vowel, Consonant Digraphs, and R-controlled Vowels Vowel Digraphs and Diphthongs Contractions, Plurals, and Inflectional Endings Suffixes, Prefixes, Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms ************************************************************* Mathematics Number and Operation Sense Place Value to 100 Addition and Subtraction: Facts to 18 Money and Time Addition of Two-Digit Numbers Subtraction of Two-Digit Numbers Geometry, Fractions, and Probability Measurement Introduction to Multiplication ************************************************************* Science Human Body o How Your Body Workso Nutritiono Keeping HealthyPhysical Science o Mattero Force, Magnets, and ElectricityEarth Science o The Solar SystemLife Science o Fossils++Science will be 1st and 3rd quarters of the school year. ************************************************************* Social Studies Living in a Community Our Government Looking at Earth -mapsLearn about People Past and Present People at Work Junior Achievement in the Spring Daily Geography-weekly questions pertaining to Geography TIME for Kids Scholastic for Kids ++Social Studies will be 2nd and 4th Quarter. Daily Geography, TIME for Kids, and Scholastic for Kids will be done weekly. ************************************************************* +++Please note that these topics are not in any order and may not be covered this year. This is what I intend to get through. However, class pace is hard to predict, so please view this as a simple outline. |
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