Religion

Students will:

• tell about the special meal that Jesus shared with his disciples at the Last Supper
• identify Ordinary Time as a time to be fed by Jesus, the Bread of Life.
• explain that Ordinary Time is a time to grow in the knowledge and love of Jesus.
• define Bread of Life, chasuble, liturgical year, and vestments.

Math

Students will:

• Count back to find the difference
• Subtract zero or subtract all to find the difference
• Use doubles facts to find the difference
• Use addition facts to subtract.

Phonics

Students will:

• Read and spell words with oi/oy vowel team
• Spell words with the -ind, -ild, -old, -ost, and -olt sound
• Review and practice trick words
• Review plural suffixes
• Review the suffix -ed and-ing

Reading/Writing

Students will:

• Orally retell the story A Color of His Own
• Form complete sentences with multiple subjects
• Compare the character’s attempts to solve the problem in the beginning and end of the story
• Choose evidence that provides support of an explanation of the ways the chameleon changes in A Color of His Own
• Construct simple sentences with one or more subjects and multiple verbs based on the characters in A Color of His Own
• Identify story elements and evidence of change in the story
• Make real-life connections to the word camouflage
• Retell the events of the story
• Form complete sentences with multiple subjects
• Compare the main character’s attempts to solve the problem at the beginning of the story and the end

Social Studies

Students will:

• Identify the features of rural, suburban, and urban communities
• Compare and contrast features of different types of communities
• Determine the relative location and population densities of rural, suburban, and urban communities 
• Identify advantages and disadvantages of different types of communities

Religion

Students will:

• Tell the story of Pentecost
• Expression appreciation for the things in our lives
• Describe how the Holy Spirit guides us in decision making
• Define faith, grace, Holy Spirit, Messiah, and Temple

Math

Students will:

• Add 3 numbers
• Write a number sentence to solve problems
• Practice solving different word problems
• Use different strategies to solve addition problems

Phonics

Students will:

• Spell words with bonus letters f, l, s
• Spell words with glued sounds am, an, all, ing, ink, ang, ank, ong, onk, ung, unk
• Read words with r-controlled vowels ar, or, er, ir, ur
• Spell trick words full, pull, shall, talk, walk, both
• Spell words with closed syllable exceptions (ild, ind, old, olt, ost)
• Read words with vowel teams ai, ay, ea, ee, ey, oi, oy

Reading/Writing

Students will:

• Orally retell the story The Little Yellow Leaf
• Explain why evidence is important in informative writing
• Understand shades of meaning and how word choice affects the story
• Orally complete sentence frames about a story’s beginning, middle, and end
• Write about how the problem and solution to the beginning and end of a narrative story
• Explain how adjectives help readers visualize action and meaning in a text
• Explain what lesson the main character learns in the story
• Write an informative paragraph about how the character changes changes throughout the story
• Describe nature during fall using adjectives from the text

Social Studies

Students will:

• Recognize the different elements of a community and the role our homes play in the community. Design a community that includes places to live, work, play, and solve problems.

Religion

Students will:

• Explain the prayer Jesus taught his disciples
• Explain how God provides for his creation
• Recognize that Jesus wants us to trust God our Father with our cares
• Define petition and praise

Math

Students will:

• Start chapter 1: addition and subtraction strategies
• use the Commutative Property and Identity Property to find sum
• use a number line to count on when adding
• use doubles and near doubles to find sums
• make a 10 to solve addition problems

Phonics

Students will:

• Read and spell words that have am, an, ang, ank, ing, ink, ong, onk, ung, unk (glued sounds)
• Read and spell words with ar controlled vowels
• Review trick words, full, pull, shall
• Practice new trick words - both, talk, walk

Reading

Students will:

• Identify evidence in the text, How Do You Know It’s Fall?, to answer the question “how do the changes in fall weather impact people and nature?
• Build understanding of sentence elements by identifying the verbs that correspond with the subject
• Begin to write an informative paragraph answering the question, “how do the changes in fall weather impact people and nature?
• Combine their learning about change in fall and informational texts
• Combine simple sentences into compound sentences about fall using conjunctions
• Compare the whole message and partial message in conversations
• Use information from illustrations and text to ask and answer questions about The Little Yellow Leaf
• Orally retell the story of The Little Yellow Leaf using sentence frames
• Explain why evidence is important in informative writing
• Understand shades of meaning and how word choice affects the text

Science

Students will:

• investigate which kinds of birds are likely to visit a bird feeder based on what they eat.
• draw their own bird feeder design to attract a specific type of bird
• build a prototype of their bird feeder using available materials