Spelling Words: Review Unit

hop, top, log, hog, hot, lot, leg, beg, red, bed, let, get, fish, shop, ship, with, thin, thank, run, fun, nut, cut, bug, rug, clip, clock, flag, flip, black, block

Text:  Treasures (Review Unit)

Main Selection: Teacher 's Choice

High Frequency Words:  one, they, two, her, does, who, some, no, of, eat, into, many, live, out, want, put, show,  under, three, make, today, way, school, late, away, why

Skills and Strategies:author's purpose; main idea & details, sequence of events, compare and contrast stories

 Review:  Inflectional endings (-ing, -ed)

             Plurals (-s, -es, irregular)

             Contractions with not and is

              Capitalization

New Unit:  Measurement

We will be measuring length, capacity and temperature using nonstandard and standard measures.

Vocabulary:  temperature, degrees, themometer, hot, warm, cool, cold, seasons, winter, spring, summer, autumn, inches, centimeters feet, meter, yard, linking cubes, cups, teaspoons, tablespoons, quarts, gallons, liters, grams, kilograms, ounces, pound, scale, balance, balanced, unbalanced

New Unit:  Properties of Matter

We will be describing, identifying, and classifying matter and  relating this to real world objects.

 The primary focus of this unit is the school and local community.  The unit introduces basic map skills, addresses seasonal changes in the local community and discusses various land uses.  Attributes of the local community are explored, such as, language, seasons, land use, and culture.

Vocabulary:  map, key, legend, ocean, sea, island, mountain, plains, hill, river, lake, coontinent, country, United States, state, Louisiana, city, Baton Rouge, urban, rural, seasons, fall, spring, winter, summer.