Language Arts
WONDERS READING - MCGRAW HILL
UNIT 4 WEEK 1 - DIFFERENT PLACES
Essential Question: What makes different parts of the world different?
UNIT 4 WEEK 2 - EARTH CHANGES
Essential Question: How does the Earth change?
UNIT 4 WEEK 3 - OUR CULTURE MAKES US SPECIAL
Essential Question: How are kids around the world different?
UNIT 4 WEEK 4 - FOLKTALES ABOUT NATURE
Essential Question: How can we understand nature?
UNIT 4 WEEK 5 - POEMS ABOUT NATURE
Essential Question: What excites us about nature?
DAILY PRACTICE
Read for 20 minutes or work on Reading Eggs/Fast Phonics lessons for 20 minutes
VOYAGES IN ENGLISH (GRAMMAR AND WRITING) - LOYOLA PRESS
GRAMMAR - SECTION 3 - VERBS
Action Verbs
Verbs in the Present Tense
Has and Have
Verbs in the Past Tense
Helping Verbs
Verbs That Tell What Is Happening Now
Verbs Review
Saw and Seen
Ate and Eaten, Gave and Given
Went and Gone, Did and Done
Am and Is
Are
Was and Were
Verbs That Tell What Will Happen
Using Vivid Verbs
Adverbs
WRITING - CHAPTER 3 - HOW-TO ARTICLES
Prewriting
Drafting
Editing/Revising
Proofreading
Publishing
HANDWRITING - ZANER-BLOSER
UNIT 3 - WRITING CURSIVE LETTERS
Cursive Basic Strokes
Undercurve
Downcurve
Overcurve
Diagonal
Cursive Keys to Legibility
Shape
Size
Spacing
Slant
CLASSROOM GOALS
To build knowledge and develop skills in the areas of phonics, reading, grammar, spelling, writing, and handwriting
To improve students' oral reading fluency and comprehension
