Lesson Plans
1st
Six Weeks
(click on subject titles for lesson plans)

Reading objectives:
- 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