March 31 - April 4: Earth Day

March 31 – April 4: Earth Day*

 

ELA

(Mon., Tue.) Main Idea Cards to enhance listening skills

(Wed., Thur.) Inference Cards to enhance listening skills

 

AM II/III/PM: Prepositions

Roots and Suffixes (de-, re-, un-)

 

Cursive: Loops (tunneling)

 

Earth Day: Planting Seeds (indoors)

 

Geography

How Does Our Climate Affect Our Environment: An Insight into Global Warming

Characteristics of a Desert and Rainforest

 

Civics

Symbols of America

The Statue of Liberty

The Bald Eagle

 

*Earth Day is on April 22, but this lesson is incorporated this week as we are working on our garden

Library day this Friday

 

 

March 24 - 28, 2014

Updated: 3.25.2014

 

ELA:

·    Proofreading Sentences, Verbs: AM I and II

·    Dictionary Skills: AM III/PM

·    PM II: Defining Spelling Words; Sentences

·    Penmanship

 

Geography:

·    Making a map

·    Looking at Geographical Formations in Washington State

·    Mapping States and their Capitals

 

Civics:

·    The American Flag and Its History

 

If a student completes the agenda on the whiteboard, then they may do springtime art such as the ladybug rocks.

 

 

 

Lessons for March 10 -14, 2014

March 10 – 14, 2014

Eric Carle

 

ELA: Dictionary Skills

- word hunt

- alphabetizing

 

Grammar/Syntax:

-Pronouns and Capitalization Practice (AM I)

- Adverbs (AM II/ PM), and Intro. to Conjunctions

 

Geography:

Mapping Mid-Atlantic States and their Capitals

 

Civics:

The American Flag

 

Theme/Journal Writing

Author: Eric Carle

YouTube vids story time

Lessons for March 3 - 7, 2014

ELA:

AM I (and a few AM II), nouns and pronouns, capitalization

AM II and PM: Adverbs

Dictionary skills

1.   Alphabetical Order

a.   AM I and II: basic (first letter)

b.   PM I and II: intermediate (second and third letter)

2.   Putting (a few) spelling words in alphabetical order and thinking about where they might be found in a dictionary

 

Geography:

Mapping the Eastern states and their capitals

 

Identifying longitude and latitude on a map

 

Civics:

The American Flag (to tie up our USA mapping and capitals)

 

 

Lessons for Feb. 24-28, 2014

 

 

Lessons for February 18 - 21, 2014

February 18-21, 2014

ELA

AM I:

Capitalization (“I” and special names, i.e. proper nouns)

Nouns and Verbs

Synonyms and Antonyms – intro.

 

AM II/PM I:

Adverbs

Synonyms and Antonyms review

Articles

 

PM II:

Adverbs and Articles

 

Civics

Martin Luther King, Jr

Rosa Parks

Our American Flag: What does it mean to us as Americans?

 

Geography

Memorize Great Lakes -- possible quiz this week

 

Library this Friday

 

 

 

 

February 10 - 14, 2014

February 10-14

Valentine’s Week

 

ELA:

Journal Writing: All About My Family

Intro. to adverbs

Practice on:     nouns, verbs (AM I, AMII)

pronouns (AM II, PM)

Intro. to adverbs: (AM II, PM)

synonyms and antonyms

Reading Comprehension

 

Civics:

Frederick Douglass

Geography:
The Great Lakes (also, land/water form)

The Great Lakes States and Capitals (AM – finish map; PM – memorize)

 

Friday: No library, spelling test starts at 9:20, DVD at 9:30, Valentine party at 10:30