Communication Skills
• Handwriting: D’Nealian review, D’Nealian cursive
• Grammar/Usage/Mechanics: spelling, capitalization, parts of speech, contractions, types of sentences)
• Composition: writing process, descriptive paragraphs, creative writing, daybook journaling, book reports, research papers.
• Dictionary skills
• Public speaking: oral presentations, show and tell, book reports, calendar, current events
Reading/Literature
• Phonemic awareness: prefixes, suffixes, contractions, compound words, irregular vowels, possessives, diphthongs
• Comprehension: sequence of events, cause and effect, story structure, compare and contrast, predict and summarize, author’s viewpoint, main idea, inference, character identification
• Vocabulary
• Genres: realistic fiction, biography, non-fiction, folk tales, fantasy
• Study skills
· Adding and subtracting 2 and 3 digit numbers
· Adding with regrouping
· Subtracting with regrouping
· Place value in 5 digit numbers
· Fact families
· Number strategies
· Fractions
· Geometry
· Multiplication (introduction) / Division (introduction)
· Patterns and Algebra ( introduction)
· Time
· Measurement
· Mean, median, mode
· Problem solving with each concept covered
• Life cycles of plants, animals, and people
• Fossils and dinosaurs
• Sound
• Matter, Halloween Chemistry
• Magnets
• National Geographic Explorer
· Continents and Oceans
· Map skills
· Landforms
· City, State, Country, continent (global address)
· Native Americans
· Famous people
· Current event in Time for Kids
· Colonial America
· Global communities: yearly focus on a specific country