Religion-This is Our Faith
Sacraments
Story of Jesus-birth, death, and resurrection
The Church-Mass, Seasons of the Church year, our parish church,
helping others, forgiveness
Saints of the Church
Prayers-Our Father, Hail Mary, Sign of the Cross, Meal Prayers
Preparations of School Masses
Reading – Scott Foresman
Read silently and orally
Comprehension through guided reading and questions
Skills practiced with Skills Practice Book
Write sentences, paragraphs, stories, and other extended forms of
writing
Journal writing
Various novels read
Accelerated Reading requirement
Math – Scott Foresman
Reading and understanding Graphs/Charts
Place Value Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division with
whole numbers
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, and Division with whole
numbers
Fractions and Mixed Numbers
Decimals, Percents
Problem Solving
Money
Time
Length, Perimeter, Area
Social Studies – Silver Burdett Ginn
Maps and Globes
Hemisphere and Directions
Exploration and Settlements
Colonies and New Nation
Growth and Expansion
Civil War and Reconstruction
Science – Discovery Works – Silver Burdett Ginn
Plants
- parts
- cells
- processes
- reproduction
- classification
Biomes/Food Webs
Solar System
Energy, work, and machines
Populations and Ecosystems
Light and Sound
Solid Earth
- minerals
- rock properties and classification
- fossils
- mountains/faults
Language Arts – McGraw Hill
Group and individual writing for the following forms of written expression
Personal Narrative
Stories
Persuasive essays
Letter writing
Descriptive writing
Varied poetry forms
Creation of a writing portfolio
Grammar study of:
Nouns
Pronouns
Adjectives
Adverbs
Sentence types
Prepositions
Verbs
Readers’ Theatre
Let’s Get Ready Advent play
Spelling- Scott Foresman
Consonant and vowel sounds
Learning to spell short and long vowel words
Learning basic sight words
Learning to spell words with blends and diagraphs
Learning to spell suffixes, prefixes and homophones
Adding “s” to nouns
Proper capitalization
Spelling test each Friday