AUGUST (Trimester 1- Science: Life Science):

Getting to know you, assessments, rules & procedures, Calendar, self-portraits

SEPTEMBER:

Math: Calendar, Numbers (writing and recognizing), Patterns, classifying, counting

Social Studies: Unit 1: Friendships & working together, school, Community Workers (Careers)

Religion: Bible Stories, God loves us, God is our creator, Mary, the Mother of God

Language Arts (Integrated into all areas of curriculum): Phonics & Sounds to improve fluency (Open Court), spelling grade level words, sight words, Identifies letters of the alphabet, following oral directions, participating in shared and independent reading, Listening attentively for a purpose (enjoyment, directions, to imagine, gather information, assess and evaluate, improve vocabulary), participate in oral discussions, Harcourt Brace Series Unit #1 (Teacher Read-Aloud), Knows left-to-right, top-to-bottom directionality in print, comprehension, discussing characters, predicting, fairy tale elements, context clues, relating books to life experiences, writing practice, D’Nealian handwriting

OCTOBER:

Math: Number Lines, Number order, Graphs & data (sorting)

Social Studies: Community Workers (Careers), Mapping, Indians

Religion: Bible stories, Jesus is the son of God, Jesus shows God’s love, The Holy Spirit

Language Arts: Above and: Harcourt Brace Series Unit #2, non-fiction, discriminating between reality and fantasy, intonation, classifying, plurals, details, punctuation & capitalization (improving sentence writing), and rhyme

Art: Halloween

NOVEMBER (Trimester 2- Science: Physical Science & Health):

Math: Estimating/Comparing, Addition

Social Studies: Unit 2: “Town & Country/Neighborhoods”, Life changes, sequence of events, democracy/voting

Religion: Bible Stories, Church, The First Christians, Church celebrations

Language Arts: Above and: Harcourt Brace #3, sequencing, double consonants, and contractions

Art: Thanksgiving

DECEMBER:

Math: Addition, Money

Social Studies: Continue Unit 2

Religion: Advent & Christmas

Language Arts: Above and: synonyms/ antonyms

Art: Christmas, Gingerbread

JANUARY:

Math: Money, Subtraction

Social Studies: Unit 3: “City & Suburb”

Religion: Bible stories, Bible stories, Mass, Living as children of God

Language Arts: Above and: Harcourt Brace #4

FEBRUARY:

Math: Subtraction, Relating Addition and Subtraction, Missing Addends

Social Studies: Continue unit 3

Religion: Bible Stories, Lent, Family & Community

Language Arts: Above and: compound words

Art: Valentine’s Day

MARCH: (Trimester 3- Science: Earth Science)

Math: Skip Counting, Measurement & Temperature

Social Studies: Unit 4: “All around the big world!”, mapping, cultures

Religion: Bible stories, Holy Week, Easter

Language Arts: Above and: Harcourt Brace #5, Alphabetical order, Inflections –ed and –ing, poetry

Art: Spring

APRIL:

Math: Measurement, Geometry (shapes, congruency, symmetry, position)

Social Studies: continue unit 4

Religion: Bible stories, Moses, loving others, forgiveness

Language Arts: Above and: pronouns

MAY:

Math: Time, Simple Fractions

Social Studies: continue unit 4

Religion: Bible stories, prayer

Language Arts: Above and: Harcourt Brace #6

Art: Mother’s Day, summer

JUNE:

Wrap-Up Assessments