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Weekly Curriculum Outline Week of Sept 30 – Oct 4 Oct 7 – Oct 11 Oct 15 – Oct 18 Oct 21 – Oct 25 Language Arts Handwriting/Johnny Appleseed by Joan Holub/Vocab Reading Log Practice Spelling Unit 5 – Content Words Johnny Appleseed & Sight Words Handwriting/Johnny Appleseed by Joan Holub Expository Non Fic- A Walk in the Desert/Statements & Questions/Spelling Unit 6 Inflected Endings/Root Words/Magic E/ Handwriting/Johnny Appleseed/A Walk in the Mountain/Spelling Unit 7 Science Terms/Descriptive Writing Using 5 senses to describe the desert & Apples/Acrostic/Reading Benchmark Unit 1 Handwriting/Finish Johnny Appleseed/Read the play, The Strongest One based on Zuni folktale/Sue’s Humming- bird/Case of the Missing Fish/ Spelling Unit 7 Consonant Digraphs/Important Poems Math 100’s Chart Patterns Skip Counting Ways to 10 Addition & Subtraction Strategies Identifying Patterns Adding & subtracting to 20 – Using different strategies/Adding 3 #’s Number Puzzles Adding & Subtracting to 20 – Using Different Strategies/Adding 3 Numbers What’s the missing Number? Magic Squares Identify Important info in word problems. What’s the ? asking? Science Understand what plants need to live. How do light & water affect seed germination? Life Science with Mrs. Roy Comparing Mammals, Birds, Fish & Insects Life Science with Mrs. Roy Animal Adaptations Life Science with Mrs. Roy Habitats – How Do Animals adapt in different habitats? Social Studies Understand Maps Continents & Oceans Regions of the US Map Skills Southwest Region of US Cross Curricular with Reading Introduce Landforms What Landforms are found in Desert Regions Desert Animals/Desert Habitat Understand life during pioneer times Zuni Native American Tribe from the SW Region Religion Sacrament of Baptism STA Garden/Choose Love Pflaum/Good News Baptize Each Other STA Garden/Choose Love Pflaum/Good News Saints are the Churches Heroes/Choose Love Survey/All School Mass Pfaum/Good News Learn about the Saints/Saint Research Compare Jesus & JA Choose Love Pflaum/Good News
