Lesson Plans

1st Six Weeks
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• Gain increasing control of grammar when speaking, such as using subject-verb agreement, complete sentences, and correct tense
• Use structural cues to recognize words, such as compound, base words, and inflectional endings
• Identify multi-syllabic words by using common syllable patterns
• Use knowledge of word order (syntax) and and context to support word identification and confirm word meaning
• Use resources and references, such as beginners' dictionaries, glossaries, available technology, and context to build word meanings and to confirm pronunciation of words
• Identify the musical elements of literary language
• Make and explain inferences from texts
• Understand and identify simple literary terms, such as title, author, and illustrator across a variety of texts
• Understand literary forms by recognizing and distinguishing among such types of text as stories, poems, and information books
• Recognize the distinguishing features of familiar genres
• Analyze characters, including their traits, relationships, and changes
• Identify the importance of setting to a story's meaning and recognize plot or story problem(s)
• Recognize and use parts of a book to locate information

Writing objectives:

• Write to record ideas and reflections
• Write to discover,develop and refine ideas
• Write to communicate with a variety of audiences
• Write in different forms for different purposes
• Gain increasing control of aspects of penmanship
• Use word and letter spacing and margins to make messages readable
• Use basic capitalization and punctuation correctly
• Use resources to find correct spellings, synonyms, and replacement words
• Compose complete sentences in written texts and use appropriate end punctuation
• Compose sentences with interesting, elaborated subjects
• Edit writing toward standard grammar and usage

Math objectives:

• Recall and apply basic addition facts (to 18) and use patterns to to develop strategies to remember basic addition facts
  
• Find patterns in numbers, such as a 100s chart
• Solve subtraction problems related to addition facts (fact families)
• Recognize that numbers can be represented by points on a line and use whole numbers to locate and name points on a line
• Use concrete models to represent, compare, and order whole numbers (through 999), read the numbers, and record comparisons
• Read and write numbers to 9,999
• Compare and order numbers to 999
  

Science objectives:

• Obseve and record the functions of plant parts
• Identify characteristics of living organisms
• Identify characteristics of non-living objects
• Identify external characteristics of different kinds of plants and animals that allow their needs to be met

Social Studies objectives:

• Identify selected stories, poems, statues, paintings, and other examples of local cultural heritage and explain their significance
  
• Describe how science and technology have changed communication, transportation, and recreation
• Identify characteristics of good citizenship and identify ordinary people who exemplify good citizenship
• Identify historic figures who have exemplified good citizenship