Religion

Students will:

• Begin Unit 1: God, Our Creator and Father
• Discuss Unit Saint: Saint Isidore the Farmer
• Read about the creation story and saints
• Define the words, “creation” and “holy”

Math

Students will:

• Review addition facts of 10 and other first grade math concepts.
• Begin chapter 5 in math textbook about place value
• relate hundreds, tens, and ones
• read and write numbers to 999

Language Arts

Students will:

• Discuss and answer the question “How does reading help us learn?”
• Understand that reading a book multiple times for different purposes helps readers better understand and enjoy the story.
• Understand that different readers enjoy different types of books.

Reading

Students will:

• Decode and encode words with consonant digraphs
• Decode and encode words with consonant blends
• Decode and encode words with the /k/ sound
• Decode and encode closed syllable words

Science

Students will:

• examine how scientists organize animals into groups based on their characteristics.
• study animal traits and use these traits to sort animal cards into mammals, birds, reptiles, and invertebrates
• Be challenged to make decisions about animals that don’t fall neatly into any of the above categories.

Religion

Students will:

• Review parts of the Mass
• Review the different topics we’ve learned about in religion this year.

Math

Students will:

• Tell time to the nearest half hour
• Tell time to the nearest quarter hour
• Tell time to the nearest 5 minutes

Language Arts

Students will:

• Continue to work on 2nd grade memory books

Reading

Students will:

• Encode homophones to complete sentences
• Encode and decode /or/ words with or, ore, ar, oar, our, and oor
• Practice reading with expression

Science

Students will:

• Discuss how new materials are invented

Religion

Students will:

• Tell how we must forgive one another and let Christ’s peace rule in our hearts
• Explain why God the Father wants us to choose to follow him
• Explain that the Holy Spirit helps us make moral choices
• Identify basic steps for making good choices
• Define conscience and moral choice

Math

Students will:

• Related addition and subtraction to length
• Review measurement for chapter test
• Tell and write time to the nearest hour

Language Arts

Students will:

• Work on end of the year memory book writing prompts

Reading

Students will:

• Practice decoding and encoding /ar/ words with air, ear, erry, and ary
• Encode the correct homophone to complete sentences
• Understand and use homophones
• Practice reading with expression
• Practice decoding and encoding /or/ words with or, ore, ar, oar, our, and oor
• Practice reading at an appropriate rate

Science

Students will:

• Describe properties
• Investigate the question “why do we wear clothes?”
• Construct a hat that will successfully block the sun

Religion

Students will:

• Explain the story of the Good Samaritan
• Give examples of ways to reach out to others
• Define “beatitudes”

Math

Students will:

• estimate the length of an object in inches and feet
• compare lengths of objects (e.g., how much longer is one object)
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Reading

Students will:

• Read and write words with suffix -able
• Use typographical clues to aid fluency
• Encode pattern words with long /oo/
• Answer questions about literary text
• Discuss nonfiction texts (super magazine)
• Read Pattern Words with /ār/ spelled air, airy, ear, are, erry, and ary

Science

Students will:

• generate observations and questions about the phenomenon of foundries and create an initial conceptual model to explain the phenomenon
• gather clues during and after each lesson in this unit to help them improve their explanations

Religion

• We will spend our Religion time reflecting and discussing our First Communion experiences.

Math

Students will:

• Start measurement unit
• Measure objects to the nearest inch
• Identify measurement in inches, feet, and yards
• Measure objects to the nearest centimeter
• Compare lengths of inches and centimeters

Language Arts

Students will:

• Revise and edit an opinion speech
• Prepare opinion speeches
• Discuss making a magazine
• Generate ideas for a magazine story
• Write a plan for a magazine story

Reading

Students will:

• Add -ness to words ending in y
• Practice encoding long words with oa and silent e
• Practice observing punctuation while reading
• Read and discuss grade-level texts
• Review decoding and encoding oo, ew, ou, ui, u__e vowel sounds
• Practice reading with natural phrasing

Science

• In our next lesson in Science, students will think about what plants need and how habitats change over time.

Religion

Students will:

• Prepare for First Communion
• Practice receiving communion
• Practice Mass responses

Math

Students will:

• make line plots
• analyze line plots
• Review types of graphs
• Collect data to create different types of graphs

Language Arts

Students will:

• Draft beginning, middle, and end of an opinion speech
• Revise and edit an opinion speech

Reading

Students will:

• Identify irregular comparative and superlative adjectives
• Decode and encode words with long /i/
• Read and answer questions about grade-level texts
• Decode and encode words with long /o/

Science

Students will:

• discuss the following question: Why do trees grow so tall?
• learn about plant adaptations focusing on light, leaves, and competition.

Religion

Students will:

• Prepare for First Communion
• Practice receiving Communion

Math

Students will:

• analyze data on picture graphs.
• make bar graphs to show data.
• draw conclusions and answer questions based on bar graphs.
• make a table to solve problems.

Language Arts

Students will:

• Present information about their african animal
• Generate ideas for writing an opinion speech
• Review the structure for opinion writing
• Plan an opinion speech

Reading

Students will:

• Encode long a words to complete sentences
• Practice reading with expression
• Practice reading text in illustrations
• Read and discuss grade-level texts
• Decode and encode long i words

Science

Students will:

• Investigate how plants need water and sunlight to grow
• Experiment with growing lima bean seeds in light and dark conditions

Religion

Students will:

• Describe how the early Christians gathered to remember Jesus
• Explain that we are united with one another when we pray the Lord’s Prayer
• Describe how we receive Holy Communion
• Write a prayer to pray after receiving Holy Communion

Math

Students will:

• skip count and count on to determine the value of a group of coins.
• solve word problems with money.
• use coins to make one dollar
• Review money concepts for their quiz next week

Language Arts

Students will:

• Use notes to write informational text
• Begin drafting a research report
• Write a conclusion for a research report
• Revise a research report

Reading

Students will:

• Encode and complete sentences with compound words
• Practice observing punctuation
• Practice reading with appropriate rhythm 
• Read and discuss grade-level texts
• Decode and encode long e words
• Practice differentiating between characters in dialogue 

Science

Students will:

• Observe and inquire about the question “How can huge fields of flowers suddenly grow in one of the hottest, driest places on Earth”?
• Make observations and create a concept model to explain the essential question

Religion

Students will:

• recognize that we are on a journey of faith and that we are called to share our faith with others after the final blessing at Mass by loving and serving others.
• Finish the last chapter in their Eucharist book.
• Continue to prepare for their First Communion

Math

Students will:

• Review money concepts for Chapter 8 test on Tuesday
• Begin Chapter 9 about Data Analysis 
• Record data from a survey
• Use data from a tally chart to make a picture graph
• Practice data collecting and analysis 

Language Arts

Students will:

• Edit writing using a checklist
• Use the writing process to publish a research report
• Write Fun Facts for an informational poster
• Complete a map and illustration for an informational poster
• Make an informational poster

Reading

Students will:

• Encode and decode long e words
• Differentiate homophones with long e
• Practice reading with natural phrasing and expression
• Read and discuss grade level texts
• Encode and decode long a words

Science

Students will:

• Answer the question, “how did a tree travel halfway around the world?”
• Investigate the mystery of the koa tree, a type of tree that only grows in two places – islands halfway across the world from each other
• Develop 3 different models of seed structures
• Observe how the structure affects the seed’s function in dispersing away from the tree