• reading our names 

• reading our friends names 

• reading color words 

• uppercase and lowercase letter tracking with the alphabet song. STEAM: pipe cleaner alphabet poster 

• SEEDS 2 STEAM: Playdoh alphabet mats.

October 

• Creepy Carrots (story elements, retelling, character traits) STEAM: build a fence to keep the carrots in. Art: Creepy Carrots 

• Creepy Pair of Underwear (making predictions, story elements, retelling) Art: Creepy pair of underwear 

• Spookley the Square Pumpkin (story elements, retelling, problem and solution, text evidence adjectives about Spookley) 

• Room on the Broom (story elements, character traits, sequence of events) STEAM: design a broom for the witch

• Reading high frequency words: I, it, if, in, at, am, a, the

  
  

  Seeds 2

• Splat the Cat (story elements, character traits, sequence of events)

• Leaf Thief (problem and solution)

• How to Catch a Witch (story elements, character traits, sequence of events)

• Compare and Contrast apples and pumpkins

• Arts Integration- Stuffed bag scarecrow, hanging ghost

• November

• Turkey Trouble (story elements and problem and solution) Arts Integration: Disguise a Turkey STEAM: Create a turkey trap out of building materials and creating turkey towers to hold a turkey on top without falling over

• Stone Soup (Character traits) Arts Integration: What would you put in your stone soup? Cutting out pictures and gluing into a pot of soup

• Balloons Over Broadway (making predictions) STEAM: balloon floats and green screen in front of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

• Reading high frequency words: on, of, no, go, so, up, us, run, is, his

  
  

  Seeds 2

• STEAM How to Catch a Turkey- turkey trap coding/ (cranberry and toothpick turkey trap building)

• Problem and Solution, Setting, Characters - Turkey Trouble

• STEAM- Non-fiction text, building Mayflowers out of tin foil to support the weight of the pilgrims and their luggage.

• The Last Leaf- character traits

December - Gingerbread Man Around the World

• Comparing/Contrasting different versions of The Gingerbread Man from around the world

• Arts Integration: Create a gingerbread man passport for him to visit around the world

• STEAM: design and engineer a bridge for the gingerbread man to safely get across the river

• Reading high frequency words: as, has, was, be, he, me, we, an, and, can, ran

Seeds 2

Snow Friends story- Problem and Solution

The Snow Globe Family book- snow globe craft

STEAM: Elf on the Shelf building

Katie and the Candy Cane Fairy- candy cane patterned bead ornaments

January

• Squirrel's New Years Resolution-Sequencing and Problem and Solution. What is a resolution? NYE Party Hat resolution pictures

• The Mitten-making predictions, problem, making connections. STEAM: build a mitten to see how many connecting cubes can fit inside

• The Hat- making predictions, making connections. compare and contrast to The Mitten. STEAM: build a hedgehog out of model magic and spaghetti. Art: winter hat photographs

• The Snowy Day- retelling, making connections. Art: snowy day blizzard pictures

• Reading high frequency words: big, see, get, got, not, had, did, but, my, by, why

• Decodable stories

  
  

  Seeds 2

• Tacky the Penguin character traits

• The Mitten retelling paper bag

• Sneezy the Snowman melted puffy paint writing prompt

• Snowy Weather- Salt w/ watercolor snowflakes

• STEAM- The Hat- how many cubes will fit in my hat?

• STEAM- cupid's catapult challenge

  
  

February

• Groundhog gets a say retelling, main idea and details Arts Integration: groundhog shadow puppets and shadow voting

• Crankenstien Valentine: character traits and sequencing STEAM: Engineer a sweet shop to hod several different sweets for Valentine's Day

• Bears Loose Tooth (Dental Awareness Month) First, Next, Then, Last Arts Integration: clean teeth toothbrush painting

• The Day It Rained Hearts: Main Idea Arts Integration: Umbrella heart craft

  STEAM: Cupid's Coding Challenge

• Reading high frequency words: do, to, into, play, say, said, like, came, here

• Decodable texts.

  
  

March

• Cat in the Hat rhyming word hat craftivity

• How to Catch a Leprechaun: making connections Arts Integration and STEAM: building leprechaun traps STEAM: building 3D pots of gold and building rainbow bridges. Lucky charm coding.

• Fairy Tales: comparing and contrasting real vs fantasy

  Goldilocks: beginning, middle, end STEAM building a bed or chair out of popsicle sticks

  Little Red Riding Hood: character traits STEAM: little red riding hood coding

  Three Billy Goats Gruff: problem and solution STEAM: building bridges to hold teddy bear counters

  Jack and the Beanstalk: making connections, what would you do if you had magic beans? STEAM: pool noodle bean stalk towers

• Reading high frequency words: one, two, she, you, little, jump, help, from, or, for, her, are

• Decodable texts

  
  

April -

• The Very Hungry Caterpillar sequencing and retelling and cause and effect STEAM: green screen foods I like to eat. Sock how many foods can I fit in my caterpillar building activity (students color and decorate a sock to look like a caterpillar)

• The Good Egg: character traits STEAM: plastic egg towers or sculptures.

• The Easter Bunny is Missing First, Next, Then, Last STEAM: Find the easter bunny coding. Making easter bunny ears out of pipe cleaners

• I am Earth: Nonfiction text Arts Integration: Ripped paper heart Earth (Our Class Cares)

• Reading High frequency words: too, good, look, find, pretty, what, these, they

• Decodable text.

May

• Dragons Love Tacos: making connections. Whats My Favorite Taco? Synonym tacos Arts Integration: paper plate tacos

• Mother's Day Mice: character traits Arts Integration: Mother's Day Wooden Spoons

• A Chair for My Mother: Feelings before, during, and after

• Bear Sees Color: retelling Arts Integration: Color collage poems

• Read High Frequency Words: live, have, give, there, where, come, some, done

• Decodable text.

  
  

June -

• Reading High Frequency Words: all, will, who, that, this, with

• Decodable texts

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• A Year

  • word reading at each child's level

  • trick word reading

  • decodable reading

  • comprehension - illustrators and authors

  • activity

• B Year

  • Books-Theme Communities, rural urban suburban

  • word reading at each child's level

  • trick word reading

  • decodable reading

  • comprehension - illustrators and authors

  • activity

October

• A Year

  • fiction and nonfiction

  • nonfiction text features

  • word reading at each child's level

  • trick word reading

  • decodable reading

• B Year

  • Nocturnal Animals

  • fiction and nonfiction

  • nonfiction text features

  • word reading at each child's level

  • trick word reading

  • decodable reading

November

• A Year

  • word reading at each child's level

  • trick word reading

  • decodable reading

  • Finding important ideas - authors purpose

• B Year

  • word reading at each child's level

  • trick word reading

  • decodable reading

  • Finding important ideas - authors purpose

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December

• A Year

  • word reading at each child's level

  • trick word reading

  • decodable reading

• B Year

  • word reading at each child's level

  • trick word reading

  • decodable reading

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January

• A Year

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• B Year

  • word reading at each child's level

  • trick word reading

  • decodable reading

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February

• A Year

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• B Year

  • word reading at each child's level

  • trick word reading

  • decodable reading

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March

• A Year

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April

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May

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June

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• Topic 1

  • Adding & Joining Together

  • Both Addends Unknown

  • Taking From

  • Comparing

  • Identifying Changes

October - (Topic 2: Fluently Add & Subtract Within 10)

• Topic 2

  • Counting on to Add

  • Doubles & Near Doubles

  • Adding in any Order

  • Counting Back to Subtract

  • Using Addition to Subtract

  • Word Problem Practice

November - (Topic 3: Addition & Subtraction Facts to 20: Using Strategies & Topic 4: )

• Topic 3:

  • Counting On (with and without number lines)

  • Doubles & Near Doubles

  • Making 10 to Add

  • Addition & Subtraction Word Problems

• Topic 4

  • Count to Subtract

  • Make 10 to Subtract

  • Fact Families

  • Use Addition to Subtract

December - (Topic 5: Work with Addition and Subtraction Equations)

• Topic 5

  • Find the Unknown Number

  • True or False Equations

  • Make True Equations

  • Add Three Numbers

  • Word Problems with Three Addends

January - (Topic 6: Represent and Interpret Data)

• Topic 6

  • Organize Data into Three Categories

  • Collect and Represent Data

  • Interpret Data

  • Continue to Interpret Data

  • Problem Solving: Make Sense and Persevere

• Topic 7

  • Count by 10s to 120

  • Count by 1s to 120

  • Count on a Number Chart to 120

  • Count by 1s or 10s to 120

  • Count on an Open Number Line

  • Count and Write Numerals

  • Problem Solving: Repeated Reasoning

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February - (Topic 8: Understand Place Value)

• Topic 8

  • Make numbers 11-19

March - (Topic 9 Compare Two-Digit Numbers)

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• symmetry match the butterfly

• flower parts and wholes

• bead ten sticks

• mandala arts, creating symmetry

• draw and color the time spans between hours

• use found objects spare parts to create symmetrical art

• skip count by 5's and 10's

October - Arrays

• counting 6oo mosquitoes-arrays

• make a recipe using measuring cups

• bat straw flyers how far can they fly-measure

• draw and measure hands to make a tree-measure

• sunflower, measure your height, make the flower that tall

• measure your height and make a graph

• trace your hand and measure it, make a tree (the hands are the leaves)

• skip count by 5's and 10's

• clocks to the hour and 1//2

• rulers

November - Adding 2 digit

• car ramps - drive and measure, which track is fastest

• art germ arrays

• activity-collect data on time of dusk and temperature, noticing change

• activity- collecting data - what food group do you like?

• activity- collecting data - what food do you like?

• measure, more inches yards or feet

• measure find objects that are an inch, foot, yard

• lips with teeth, adults have 32 teeth and children have 20 milk teeth

• numberlines

• taking apart,

• compensation

December - (adding 2 digit)

• activity-snowflake art, folding in quarters

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February - (unit title)

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April - (unit title)

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June - (unit title)

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• counting 1, 2, and 3

• counting 4 and 5

• identifying the number 0

• writing numbers 0-5 

• Arts Integration: apple counting, Autumn tree leaf counting, 5 apples up on top photograph and counting

  
  

October - Comparing Numbers 0-5 

• equal groups 

• greater than

• less than 

• Arts Integration: 5 Little Pumpkins, pumpkin patch comparing

• Seeds 2 Art Integration: Monster eye counting and comparing, pumpkin thumbprint counting

  
  

  November- Numbers 6-10 & Comparing Number 0-10

• Counting 6 & 7

• Counting 8 & 9

• Counting 10

• Making 10

• Comparing groups of 10 by matching and using numerals

• Arts Integration: counting turkey feathers to 10 to make turkeys

  
  

December - Classifying, Sorting, & Counting Data and Understanding Addition

• classifying objects into categories

• counting and using tally marks and numerals

• exploring addition and representing as adding to and putting together

• represent addition with equations

• solving addition word problems

• Arts Integration: Winter snow globe snowflake sorting

• Seeds 2 Art Integration: Christmas tree category sorting craft, numbered snowman

  
  

January - Understanding Subtraction & More Addition and Subtracting

• represent subtraction by taking apart

  Arts Integration: NYE balloon popping subtraction

• Seeds 2 Art Integration: hot cocoa subtraction

• represent subtraction as taking from

• represent and explain subtraction with equations

  Arts Integration: penguin subtraction craft and equation

• subtraction word problems

• use patterns to develop fluency in subtraction

• using appropriate tools for subtraction

• Decompose 5 to solve problems

• related facts

• problem solving: reasoning

• fluently add and subtract to 5

• decompose 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 to solve problems

• ways to make 10

  Arts Integration: hot cocoa marshmallow addition to 10 craft, candy heart addition to 10 craft

• find the missing part of 10

• STEAM: build a winter cave with insulation to hold three or more winter animals

  
  

February - Counting Numbers to 20

• count read and write 11, 12

• count read and write 13, 14, 15

• count read and write 16, 17

• count read and write 18, 19, 20

  Arts Integration: Valentine's Day cookie counting. Valentine teen number buddy (representing teen numbers in different ways)

  
  

March - Compose and Decompose Numbers 11-19 and Counting Numbers to 100

• make 11, 12, 13

• make 14, 15, 16

• make 17, 18, 19

• finding parts of numbers 11-19

  Arts Integration: rainbow teen number craft, bunny teen number craft

• Finding patterns in numbers

• Counting by ones and tens to 50

• Counting by tens to 100

• Counting by ones to 100

• Arts Integration: skip counting caterpillars

  
  

April- Identify and Describe Shapes and Analyze, Compare, and Create Shapes

• Arts Integration: shape animals (making an animal from various smaller shapes.)

• 2D and 3D shapes

• Circles and Triangles

• Hexagons

• Solid figures

• Describing shapes in the environment

• Comparing 2D and 3D shapes

• Making and building shapes

• STEAM: building 3D shapes with marshmallows and toothpicks

May - Describe and Compare Measurable Attributes

• Arts Integration: shape bugs

• Length and Height

• Capacity

• Weight

• Describe and compare objects by measurable attributes

  
  

June - Step Up to First Grade

• using proper pencil grip 

• sky line, plane line, grass line, worm line introduction 

• writing our names 

• we can illustrate by coloring in the lines, using colors that make sense, and leaving no white spaces 

• lowercase letters (proper formation and line spacing)

October - We can be storytellers and illustrators 

• illustrators can use tools (pencils, crayons, markers...)

• illustrators can use sticks, circles, and boxes

• illustrators add lots of details and colors 

• illustrators use their 5 senses to add details 

• lowercase letters (proper formation and line spacing)

November - We can be storytellers and illustrators 

• illustrators label their pictures (using beginning sounds)

• illustrators create picture books

• lowercase letters (proper formation and line spacing)

December - We can be storytellers and illustrators

• illustrators label their pictures (using beginning sounds)

• illustrators draw a beginning, middle, and end

• illustrators label their pictures by stretching all of the sounds that we hear

• lowercase letters (proper formation and line spacing)

January - We Can Be Authors

• authors add labels to their illustrations

• authors add words to their illustrations

• "I like..." writing

• uppercase letters (proper formation and line spacing)

• continued practice with lowercase letters (proper formation and line spacing)

• Narrative Writing

February -

• authors tap sounds to write words (Unit 2 lesson 14)

• authors use word strings to write stories

• authors use high frequency words to write stories

• Opinion writing "I like..." (I think the groundhog will or will not see it's shadow.)

• Narrative Writing

  
  

  March -

• authors continue to use word strings and tap sounds to write sentences

• Proper sentence structure and conventions

• authors continue to use high frequency words to write stories

• How to writing (how to catch a leprechaun.)

• Question writing using a question mark.

• Exclamatory writing using an exclamation point.

• Narrative Writing

  
  

April -

• authors continue to use word strings and tap sounds to write sentences

• Proper sentence structure and conventions

• authors continue to use high frequency words to write stories

• Narrative Writing

• Wanted Bunny Poster writing

• Information writing: Earth Day

  
  

  May -

• authors expand sentence structure and use more high frequency words

• Opinion Writing (My favorite kind of taco is....)

• Color Poems

• Informational reports on sharks and whales

• Narrative Writing

  
  

June -

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• looking at lowercase letters 

• looking at uppercase letters 

• tracking the alphabet 

October - Fundations Unit 1 Weeks 1-4

• t, b, f, m, n, o, c, a, g

• finger tracing and coloring in student notebook 

• magnet board putting letters in their home 

• dry erase board letter formation 

• trick word practice

November - Fundations Unit 1 Weeks 5-8

• Letters: s, d, e, r, p, j, h, k, l

• finger tracing and coloring in student notebook 

• magnet board putting letters in their home 

• dry erase board letter formation 

• December - Fundations Unit 1 Weeks 9-12

• Letters v, w, x, y, z, qu

• finger tracing and coloring in student notebook

• magnet board putting letters in their home

• dry erase board letter formation

• trick word practice

January - Unit 2

• tapping CVC words

• changing beginning, middle, and ending sounds to tap and read new words

• magnet board cvc word building

• dry erase board letter formation

• uppercase and lowercase letter formation in notebook

• trick word practice

February - Unit 3

• tapping more CVC words

• long vowel vs short vowel sounds (listening)

• nonsense word segmenting and blending

• Scooping phrases and sentences

• trick word practice

March - Unit 3

• c vs k rule (c takes a, o, u k takes i and e)

• long vowel vs short vowel sounds (listening)

• Scooping phrases and sentences

• nonsense word segmenting and blending

• trick word practice

April - Unit 4

• digraphs wh, ch, sh, th, ck

• decoding three sound words with digraphs

• spelling three sound words with digraphs

• ck at the end of words

• scooping phrases and sentences

• trick word practice

May - unit 5

• blends

• sentence structure

• sentence dictation

• decoding digraphs and blends

• spelling digraphs and blends

• scooping phrases and sentences

• trick word practice

June - Unit 5

• blends

• sentence structure

• sentence dictation

• decoding digraphs and blends

• spelling digraphs and blends

• scooping phrases and sentences

• trick word practice

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October - Plant and Animal Needs 

• Needs of a plant (planting grass seed) 

• What do animals eat? 

• Where do animals live? STEAM: building bird's nest 

• Animal poster reports

November -(unit title)

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  December - Reindeer & Tundra

• Reindeer habitat Arts Integration: Tundra watercolor paintings

• Reindeer life cycle

• Reindeer parts

• Reindeer adaptations for survival in the tundra

January - Weather

• Sun: will it melt in the sun science experiment STEAM: build a shelter to keep the chocolate chips from melting.

• Wing: will it blow in the wind science experiment

• Rain & Clouds: science experiment with shaving cream and food coloring

• Snow: make our own snow with hair conditioner and baking soda

• Weathermen and Forecasting: create a five day weather forecast and use the green screen

• Extreme weather: tornados, hurricanes, blizzards STEAM: coding a tornado

Seeds 2

• STEAM- building a house that can survive a hurricane

• 3D thunderstorm craft

• Cotton ball clouds

• Suncatchers

• What should I wear weather book

• My favorite kind of weather writing prompt.

February - (unit title)

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March - Force and Motion

• Pushes and Pulls STEAM: build a maze and use pushes and pulls to get their marble through the maze

• Laundry basket races uses push and pull

• Fast & Slow cars using force

• Different types of movement. Force makes things move

• STEAM: build a three little pig house that will withstand the force of the big bad blow dryer

April - Earth and Human Activity

• What is a natural resource? Picture sort

• Water: how do we use water? The Earth's water Arts Integration: students will make a diagram comparing all of the Earth's water to available fresh water. How can we conserve water?

• Trees: why do we need trees? Tree products scavenger hunt around the school

• Reusing Resources: STEAM: students will create a new item from recyclable materials

• Reduce, reuse, recycle

May - Ocean

• Ocean habitat and layers of the ocean. Arts Integration: torn paper craft layers of the ocean. What sea creatures live in each layer of the ocean? STEAM: using loose parts and play doh create an ocean habitat

• Whales: Arts Integration: whale water color painting

• Sharks: Arts Integration: shark water color painting

• Sea Turtles: Arts Integration: paper plate sea turtles

• Fish: tinfoil fish (rainbow fish) coffee filter fish

June - (unit title)

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• Rules, Good vs Bad Choices, Being a Good Friend, Working Hard, Trying My Best, Helping Others 

• Places, homes, people, and families in a neighborhood

• Places in a community. STEAM: 3Dux cardboard neighborhood 

• Community Helpers 

• Wants vs Needs

October - (unit title)

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November - Past and Present

• Schools- past vs. present

• Homes- past vs. present (activity: homemade butter)

• Communication- past vs. present (activity: quill pen writing)

• Transportation- past vs. present (sponge steam engine craft)

• Games- past vs. present (games from the past centers)

• Pioneers (teepee building, pictographs)

  
  

  December - Families and Traditions

• Who is in my family? Who do I live with? What can families do together? Arts Integration: popsicle stick houses, colorful family glyphs, family tree with handprints from family members

• Family traditions Arts Integration: family tradition quilt

  
  

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February - United States

• Laws Keep People Safe

• Symbols of the United States

  -American Flag Art: Torn paper flags

  -Bald Eagle Art: guided realistic drawing

  -The Statue of Liberty STEAM: green penny science experiment

  -The Liberty Bell STEAM: build a liberty bell

  -The White House STEAM: engineer the white house out of Keeva planks

• Important Presidents

  Seeds 2

• Statue of Liberty torch and green screen

• Pledge of Allegiance book

• Voting activity (read about 2 candidates and have students vote for the candidate they share the same beliefs with)

  
  

  
  

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May - (unit title)

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June - Economics

• How money can be used

• Saving vs. spending money

• Goods and services

• Consumers

• Producers

• Supply and demand

• A Year-Ideas-where do authors get ideas

  • Who are community workers, draw and write

  • what does a sentence need? write about how to stay calm

  • brainstorm - make a web - ideas I would like to write about

  • nouns, plural nouns

• B Year

  • Ideas

  • activity

October- ideas topic sentence and title

• A Year

  • verbs, verb tense, comparing nouns and verbs

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  • writing a topic sentence

• B Year

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November

• A Year-organization

  • adjectives, finding parts of speech in sentences

  • writing goals

  • writing a healthy tip news story

  • How to brush your teeth

  • parts of a paragraph

  • begin to edit with highlighters

• B Year

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December

• A Year-conventions

  • sentences/fragments

  • sentences predicate and subject

  • extending sentences-with who what where when why

  • punctuation on sentences

  • Letter-to santa

  • Opinion writing- the holiday I would like to visit

• B Year

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January

• A Year

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• B Year

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February

• A Year

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March

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April

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May

• A Year

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June

• A Year

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• B Year

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• 1st Grade

  • Orientation

  • Unit 1

  • alphabet knowledge

  • letter-keyword-sound

  • letter formation

• 2nd Grade

  • fundations and One minute Phonological drills

  • short vowels blends and digraphs

October

• 1st Grade

• Unit 2

  • short vowel words

  • trick words

• 2nd Grade

  • fundations and One minute Phonological drills

  • nk, ng ck, k, c, (replaces glued sounds)

November

• 1st Grade

  • Unit 3

    • Phoneme Segmentation

    • Consonant Digraph, Keywords and Sounds: wh, ch, sh, th, ck

    • Punctuation

• 2nd Grade

  • suffixes with doubling, drop the y, drop the e

  • activity

December

• 1st Grade

  • Unit 4

    • Bonus Letters: ff, ll, ss, zz

    • New Sound: all

    • Punctuation: ! ?

  • activity

• 2nd Grade

  • two syllable closed

  • v-e syllables

  • closed and v-e with 2 syllables

  • intro double vowels

  • One minute Phonological drills

January

• 1st Grade

  • Unit 5

    • New Sounds: am, an

    • Proofreading

• 2nd Grade

  • activity

  • One minute Phonological drills

February

• 1st Grade

  • Unit 6

    • Base word and Suffix: -s

    • Pluralization

• 2nd Grade

  • activity

  • One minute Phonological drills

March

• 1st Grade

  • activity

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• 2nd Grade

  • activity

  • One minute Phonological drills

April

• 1st Grade

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• 2nd Grade

  • activity

  • One minute Phonological drills

May

• 1st Grade

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• 2nd Grade

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  • One minute Phonological drills

June

• 1st Grade

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• 2nd Grade

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  • One minute Phonological drills

A Year Family Traits

• Examine family, Compare contrast

• Look deeper looking at distinct traits

• How families teach you, help you survive, get what we need,

• Do all living things look just like their family? frog life cyle, play the ugly duckling

• Do plants look exactly like their young

ASSESSMENT- Name and draw a way your parents helped you survive

B Year-no science

October

A Year Patterns of the Sun, Earth and Moon

day and night with flashlights and models

role play sun and earth then earth and moon

sundials

• observe and document the night and phases of the moon (at home)

• tilt of sun causes seasons: draw 4 seasons and clothing needed for each one

• draw a tree in all four seasons

• Oreo cookie moon phases

• ASSESSMENT- Draw a change you have noticed on earth

Year B Nocturnal animals

• Discover owl pellets find and sort bones by parts

• Bat and Owl Diagrams

• Bat Stem, push-powered straws to make the wings flap up and down/compare to a wind powered rocket

• Glue webs of spiders then print from themEcholocation gameBat and owl graphic organizer with facts

• ASSESS-What have I learned about nocturnal animals?

  November

• A Year

• What are Natural Resources, first settlers used, make a mural

• B Year Health and Nutrition

• draw and label food groups

• sort vegetables and fruit

• how germs make you sick

• spread germs with glitter

• potato germ experiment

• egg experiment with soda (oral hygiene)

• cornucopia

• exercise and movement with story and noticing change in heartbeat

• ASSESS-Make a healthy poster

  
  

  December

• A Year No science

• B Year

• No science

  January

• A Animal Adaptation

• People Adapt flip book

• Animals adapt-intro, parts, survival, protection,

• Structural adaptations, paper gliding squirrel

• Camouflage, protection, chamo a chameleon

• Mimics, Charades,

• Nest building, Project, oil on feathers adaptation

• Create a bulletin board with NH animals hibernating

• Why do animals migrate? Structural adaptation investigation

• Make a quilt, of animal adaptations

• ASSESSMENT- Make a super human hero with as many animal adaptations

  B Year

• States of Matter

• identify matter with objects solids liquids and gas

• matter hunt to find properties

• physical/chemical changes: build and rebuild, cooked spaghetti and egg, ice melt race,

• water cycle diagram Discuss evaporation, condensation and precipitation,

• water cycle-stages with snowman, solid liquid and gas

• sink/float with different objects

• Oobleck. make oobleck discuss how it non Newtonian,

• Changing matter- vinegar and baking soda a balloon and a bottle.

• ASSESSMENT- sort solids Liquids and gas, matter that can change, how did it change?

  February

• A Year Adaptations

• No Science

• B Year Trendsetters

• imagine problem, use engineering process

• build a catapult compare objects

• Caine's Arcade: model building

• Dean Kamen videos and newspaper articles, local inventor:

• ASSESS the design Process-squirrels getting into bird feeders problem,

  March

  A Year

• Sound and Light

• How do we hear sounds. build a model ear drum Sounds how they change, data sheet, scientific methodSound and emotion

• vibrations? Tuning fork demonstration in water, Predict and test,communicating with sound

• make a rap song with soundCreate our story w/ sound effects (folly Artists)

• sound exploration children interactCan we see without light? Make shadow puppets,

• reflection V shaped mirror play, making images with blocks, light traveling through water

• Opaque, translucent, transparent,

• ASSESSMENT- sort opaque, translucent and transparent.

• STANDARDS based assessment. make a game /communicate with sound and light

  B Year

• Habitats

• what animals need to survive

• desert: draw cacti and animal

• arctic: blubber experiment

• adaptations: draw snowshoe hare in winter and summer,compare desert and Arctic

• savannah: draw and label animal, shelter, food

• plant survival water experiment. celery or carnation in colored water

• forest: play forest 4 corners wetlands: paint water lilies

• Assess- culminating project-Rain forest research and installation

  April

• A Year Social Studies

B Year

Landforms

• compare bread to Earth's layers

• volcano eruption experiment with coke and Mentos

erode beaches

• draw and write a caption about a storm and erosion

build a model of eroded land

• go outside to see erosionsand and water to show erosion of waves

• observe different kinds of dirtmodel of landforms mountains valleys, with clay and label it.

• observe samples 3 kinds of rocks

• ASSESS- Landform sort, Match vocab to definition

  A Year

• Tree Parts

• parts of plants and animals review

• life cycle of an oak tree

• Tree Parts Make a life cycle diagram

• Birds use tree resources-Birch trees

• coniferous trees- paint with pine needles

• red wood tree- measure the circumference of a red wood tree branch, large scale compass

• What are twigs, branches, limbs

• age of a tree model -the process of nutrients traveling with celery or carnations

• Life cycle of apples drawings. sprout seeds

• trees adapt Compare and Contrast - Nh trees and palm trees

• wood as a natural resource

• Biomimicry, inventions animals and plants

• ASSESSMENT- Make a diagram with resources to survive on an island

  B Year

• Plants

• draw and label plant life cycle

• draw plant part flap book

• plant needs experiment deprive each of one need to observe

• seed dispersal activity: build a model of a seed moving

• draw or make a model of a bee's parts

• pollination: design a model that mimics an animal dispersing seeds or pollen

• life cycle of a butterfly

• ASSESS -culminating project, building a model to move pollen

  June

  A Year

• No science

  B Year

• No science

  
  

• A Year Family- responsibilities

  • this is mostly a science unit

• B Year Communities and Maps

  • rules and community helpers, leadership roles in school

  • different types of communities

  • urban, suburban, rural murals

  • urban, suburban, rural triarama

  • map skills: floor plan of a room, map keys and compass rose

  • draw different types of maps, treasure, animal to food

October

• A Year-science

• B Year-science

November

• A Year Early American Settlers

• wants and needs

• Why migrate? What would you bring?

• How do we know about people who lived in the past, draw the Mayflower

• Analyze artwork to learn about the past

• Gardens and Hunting, Natural rsources

  • Shelter-build native AM and pilgrims homes, gardens and animals to hunt, Make a full plymouth plantation mural, with resources

  • How have women changed

  • play, early american games, build dolls

  • compare and contrats Native Am and Pilgrims

  • ASSESS- Draw ways people survive, help each other, and natural resources

• B Year-science

December

• A Year- Fairytales/Folktales -How we share culture with other countries

• name and label the continents

• elements of a fairytale

• Cultures studied, Egyptian Cinderella, Egyptian writing

• Chinese Cinderella- Chinese invent money

• Irish Cinderella-Celtic music

  • B Year -Holidays Around the World

    • Traditions, how do people celebrate?

    • Homework, family traditions poster.

    • countires we learn about, African Christmas, Kwanza Hanukkah, Mexico, Italy, Old Befana, Chinese New Year,

    • Make a passport about each country celebrated

    • ASSESS- write and draw some of your favorite traditions you learned about

January

• A Year-science

• B Year- science

February

• A Year - American Leaders of Change

  • elections, voting, mock campaign

  • the Presidents job/ students discuss problems and solutions at school

  • George Washington-time lines in biographies

  • why was Washington important, images of how we remeber him, monuments, dollar quater

  • his home mount vernon

  • Abraham Lincoln, what changes did he make compare and contrast lincoln and washington, timelines

  • Thomas Jefferson, timelines

  • Artist, Gilbert Stuart, portraiture

  • Clara Barton- red cross

  • Marvelous Mattie- invented the paper bag

  • Assess- Culminating project-biography of a leader

• B Year- Inventors Artist and Activist- this is also mixed with science standards for engineering

  • We learned about inventors, popcycle, davinci's catapult, Dean Kamen a local inventor

  • Artists, Jackson Pollack, Frida Kahlo, Giacometti-surrealist,

  • activitists Susan B Anthony, Cesar Chavez, Dr. Martin Luther King,

  • Athletes-Shaun White Keira Knowlen

March

• A Year-science

• B Year science

April

• A Year Economics

• Goods and Services/producers and Consumers

• sequence steps to make a product, crayons and milk

• Learn about Money and breifly touch upon barter

• Scarcity

• Seedlings 2 build a circus, discuss and advertise our products, make a green screen circus act, for our service, have tickets discuss the flow of money

• Seedlings 1- build a seed city, make store fronts, advertisement and products and services

• B Year-science

May

• A Year-science

• B Year-Science

  
  

June

• A Year New Hampshire

  • federal and state government, laws

  • branches of government

  • Our nations symbols-pledge of Alligence, Bald Eagle

  • NH- looking at the map, symbols of NH, important places to visit

  • State Symbols

• B Year- Mexico Our Neighbor

  • Compare USA and Mexican symbols, money, flags presidents

  • Compare Mexican topography and USA, map

  • How do people celebrate in Mexico and Usa square dance/ mexican hat dance

  • Folk art from both countries

  • Mexican Music-make maracas/vs american Scott Joplin

  • Learning spanish words

  • Day of the Dead/halloween

  • Mexican foltales

  • Assessment, aq Persuasive story about why I should Visit Mexico

    
    

• Multiplication from 0-12

• Commutative Property

• Identity Property

• Zero Property

• Multiply using arrays, equal groups, skip counting, number lines, repeated addition

• Division using fact families and repeated subtraction

October - Multiplication and Division

• Distributive Property

• Associative Property

• Sprouts Vet Clinic Project

November - Finding Patterns in Multiplication and Division

• Turkey Escape Room

  • critical thinking

  • using multiplication and division strategies

December -

• Winter Wonderland Maps

  • Use map skills

  • multiplication and division strategies to create attractions at a winter wonderland amusement park

  • Begin Area of regular and irregular shapes

January

• Area

• Interpreting data

  • Collect data to create bar graphs and picture graphs

  
  

February

• Topics 1-8 Cumulative Benchmark

• Properties of Addition and Subtraction

• Strategies to add and subtract within 1000

  
  

  
  

March

• Multiply multiples of 10

• Fractions greater and less than 1

April

• Equivalent fractions

• Comparing fractions

• Time, capacity, mass

May

• Attributes of 2D shapes

  • Construction Room Transformation

    • reviews area, perimeter, shapes, time,

  • Year end math review- prep for SAS

  • Fine Arts Night- Pizza Palooza

    
    

June

• Perimeter

• Step up math

• Amusement Park PBL

  
  

September 

• Mentor Text

  • First Day Jitters

    • subject and predicate

    • adjectives

  • Enemy Pie

    • Adjectives

    • Simple sentences

    • sequencing events

    • Figurative Language

October

• Mentor Text

  • My Rotten Red Headed Older Brother

    • quotation marks

    • Vivid verbs

  • Owl Moon

• Shared Reading

  • Charlotte's Web

    • character traits

    • plot

    • sequencing

    • comprehension

• Cause and Effect

  • StoryWorks Magazine

November - reading aligns w social studies unit- Ellis Island

• How Many Days to America

• Her Right Foot

• The story of Annie Moore

December

• Mentor Text

  • Trouble with Trolls

    • quotation marks

    • adverbs

    • cause and effect

    • inferences

• How Santa got His Job

  • Compound, simple, complex

  • use of comma,

  • compare/contrast- (How Santa Lost His Job)

• Polar Express

  • Similes and other figurative language

  
  

January -

• The True Story of the Three Little Pigs

  • adjectives, possessives, subject/predicate review

• Fairy Tales

  • Focus on Plot Elements

  • Review character traits

  • Setting

• Fairy Tale Project Choice Board

  • Become a storywriter and animator

    • engineering with paper

    • tinkercad-3D Print

    • Digital Stop Motion

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February -

• Finish Frindle

• Iditarod Reading Passages and Stone Fox Novel

  • Iditarod STEAM integration project

• Focus on Civil Rights for Mentor Text

  • Lillian's Right to Vote

  • Ruby Bridges

  • Jackie Robinson

  • Rosa Parks

    • Martin's Big Words

      • prepositions and prepositional phrases

      • Proper Nouns

        
        

March

• Because of Winn Dixie Novel Study

• Celebrate Diversity Mentor Texts

  • The Water Princess

    • compound predicate

  • A Crayon's Story

    • Possessive nouns and pronouns

  • I Dissent

    • Gerunds (verbs ending in ing)

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April

• Winn Dixie Continued

• Mentor Text

  • Mr. Lincoln's Way

    • appositives

• The Rainbow Tulip

  • prepositional phrases

  • compound sentences/conjunctions

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May

• Verdi

  
  

• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

June

• Narrative Writing

  • Construct narrative pieces within a small group, based on a picture

• Figurative Language Poems

• Introduction to Google Docs

October - (unit title)

• Narrative Writing

  • The Monster of 419 South Broadway

• Personal Narrative

November - Letter Writing, Persuasive Writing

Students learn letter writing format and apply it to write persuasive letters to the President from a turkey's point of view.

December - Opinion Writing

• Evaluate several texts to determine elements of opinion writing

• Write opinion essay

• Modular SAS Opinion Assessment

January

• Narrative Fiction

  • Write fairy tales

• Introduce Informative Essay writing

February -

• Informational Writing

• Informational text response

• Modular SAS Assessment- informative

  
  

March

• Biographies

April

• Biographies continued

May

• Review of opinion, informational, narrative

  
  

June

• Letter writing review

  Letter to 8th grade self, letter to 4th grade teacher

• Orientation

  • Drill sounds

  • Blends

  • Digraphs

  • Lowercase cursive l

• Unit 1

  • Closed Syllables

  • Glued sounds all, an, am

  • Closed exceptions- olt, old, ost, ind, ild

  • ck, tch

  • w and qu effect on a

  • Lowercase Cursive e, h, b, f, k

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Unit 2

• 1-1-1- Suffix rule

• Review Suffixes s, es, ed, ing, ive, able, en, er, est, ish, y, ful, less, ness, ly, ty, ment

• ed /ed/ /d/ /t/

• Cursive i, j, p,r, s, t, u, w,

Unit 3

• v-e syllables

• spelling of /k/ in v-e

• s saying /z/ between two vowels

• Two syllable words with closed syllables

• Two syllable words with closed and v-e

• Multisyllabic spelling

• lowercase cursive c, a, o

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November -

• Unit 4

  • ve at end of word]p\]p

  • ive as suffix

  • silent e spelling rule

  • cursive d, g, q

    
    

• Unit 5

  • identifying schwa

  • reading words with schwa in unaccented syllable

  • spelling words with schwa

  • et spelling at end of word (jacket(

  • cursive n, m. v, y

  
  

December -

• Unit 6

  • open syllable review

  • y as vowel i and e

  • schwa in open syllable with a, i

  • open syllable exception

  • soft c

  • soft g

  • cursive z, x

    
    

January

• Bonus Unit

  • Review closed syllables

  • prefixes and roots

  • syllable division of multisyllabic words

• Unit 7

  • Pluralizing words that end in y or o

  • Suffix rule for words that end in y

  • Capital cursive- A O C G E

February

• Unit 8

  • Consonant-le

  • tion/sion

  • consonant-le exception

  • adding suffixes to consonant-le

  • Capital cursive- F T B P R L

March

Unit 9

• r-controlled syllables

• war wor

• ward and or as suffix

• spelling options for /er/

• r-controlled exception

• 111 rule with r-controlled words

• Capital H K N M D

Begin Unit 10

Vowel Teams

April activity

• Vowel Teams continued

  • adding suffixes to vowel team

  • vowel team exception

  • Capital U V Y Z

  Unit 11

  • Contractions

  • Capital Q X

May

• Unit 12

  • soft c (after e, I, y)

  • soft g (after e, I, y)

  • English words don't end w/ j

  • dge

  • silent e with soft c and g

  • Capital cursive S I J

June

• Life Cycle sort

• Reading passage and comprehension

• Generation Genius- animal structures

• What Butterfly? (camouflage activity)

• Hot Seat- vocab

• We're Building a Sanctuary!

  • animal groups

  • habitats

  • structures

  • life cycles

  • Career Connections: educator, vet, caretaker, market/design

  • Introduction to Google Slides, Canva

October - Fossils

• Fossil or Not- sorting activity

• Bread and Gummy Fossil Activity

• Reading Passages- fossils

• What is a Paleontologist activity

• Types of Fossils activity

• Vocab- Hot Seat

November - Beginning of Engineering Unit (continues into December)

• What is the Engineering Design Process

• Sam Labs in STEAM

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December - (unit title)

• Define

  • Ada Twist, Scientist

    • Task cards with multiple problems

• Imagine

  • What to Do with an Idea

    • scenarios- define problem and constraints and brainstorm ideas to solve

• Plan, Create, Improve

• The Crayon Man

  • Use the EDP to build crayon towers

• Sprouts Workshop

  • Use the EDP to create a new toy

  • Intro to Tinkercad

January -Forces and Interactions

• Balanced/Unbalanced

  • Informational reading

  • picture sort

    • Tug of War

• Predict motion

  • pool activity

• Magnetic Forces

  • Give me Strength activity

  • Create electromagnet

• Magnetic Mazes activity

• Vocab games

  • Hot Seat

  • Final assessment

February - Traits and Heredity

• Informational reading and questions

• Punnet Squares

• Inherited vs. Acquired traits

• Vocab Games

  • Hot seat

• STEAM NIGHT

  • Begin project elements

  • Integrate STEAM into social studies and reading

    • Iditarod- The Race to Nome

March - Weather and Climate

• Solve a Weather Problem

  • Large project- Use EDP to invent a solution to weather problem

    • Tinkercad

• Severe weather Presentations

• Weather log (daily)

  • Connects to Iditarod (weather in Alaska)

  • Informational reading

    • weather/climate

• Create weather instruments

April - EDP (STEAM challenge)

Honeybees and Plants science- informational reading

Pollinator STEM challenge-

Peep nest (build a nest to keep birds safe)

May -Build a Roller Coaster STEM challenge

• create with paper plates and marble

June - STEM Challenge

• Straw Rockets and Parachute challenge

• Continents and Oceans song

• Identify and Label continents and oceans

• Recognize and define landforms

• Continent research

• STEAM project with SamLabs- light up landmarks

October - (unit title)

Reading passages in Scholastic Magazine during reading groups

November - Immigration to Ellis Island

• Virtual Field Trips

  • Ellis Island

  • Statue of Liberty

• Immigration Doll Project

• Immigration Packet

December -

• Finish Immigration

• Scholastic News

January -

• Introduction/Overview of American Revolution

• Novel Study:

  • And Then What Happened, Paul Revere

• Scholastic News

  
  

February -

• Civil Rights- (connects to Mentor Text)

• Iditarod

• Scholastic News- current events

  
  

March -

• Iditarod

• Scholastic News-current events

  
  

April

• Branches of Government

• Scholastic News-current events

  
  

May

• New Hampshire Government and Symbols

• Scholastic News-current events

June

• Review

  
  

• Thinking Thursdays

• Workbook Activities

• Prodigy introduction and assessment

October - Adding/Subtracting Decimals; Multiplying Whole #

• Capture the Flag

• PBL-Haunted House

• Fall SAS

• Fact Fluency/Spiral Thursdays

November - Multiplying by Decimals;

• Fact Fluency (Mad Minute)

• Building Thinking Classrooms (1/2 class with whiteboards, 1/2 with small group concept check)

December - Dividing Decimals then Adding/Subtraction of Fractions

• Fact Fluency/Spiral Thursdays

• Full Room Building Thinking Classrooms with flipped classroom (video on next days lesson for HW, review of skills leading up to the lesson, and brief overview of what's to come)

  
  

January - Finish Adding/Subtracting Decimals and Start Fractions (+/-)

• Fact Fluency/Spiral Thursdays

• BTC with flipped classroom

• Start Bakery PBL (Fractions)

  
  

February - Fractions Multiplication and Division

• Fact Fluency/Spiral Thursdays

• BTC with flipped classroom

• Finish Bakery PBL and Presentations

  
  

March - Finish Fractions (M/D), Conversion of Measurement Units, Start Coordinate Plane

• Fact Fluency/Spiral Thursdays

• BTC with flipped classroom

  
  

April - Finish Coordinate Plane, Volume, and Start Classifying 2D Shapes

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May - Finish 2D Shapes and Review for EOY Test/SAS Testing

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• Understand Place Value

• Read and Write Multi Digit Numbers

• Compare Multi-Digit Numbers

• Round Multi-Digit Numbers

• Adding and Subtracting Multi-Digit Numbers

• Estimating Sums and Differences

October - (Multiplication 2 x1, 3x1, 4x1 )

• Multiplying by a 10, 100, and 1,000

• Estimating Products

• Use Distributive Property

• Use Partial Products

• Use Standard Algorithm Problem Solving

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November - (Multiplication 2 digit x 2 digit)

• Multiply by 10's

• Estimate Products

• Use Area Models

• Use Distributive Property

• Use Partial Products

• Use Standard Algorithm

• Problem Solving

December - Finish Multiplication and Start Division

• Divide by 10's, 100's, and 1,000's

• Estimate Quotients

• Understand Remainders

• Divide 2 digit by 1 digit

• Divide Multi digits by 1 digit

January - (unit title)

• Divide Multi digits by 1 digit (review and practice)

• Problem Solving with Division

• Factors and Multiples

• Prime and Composite Numbers

• Patterns and Problem Solving

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• A Year

  • ThinkSRSD; Introduction of POWER, TIDE, C-SPACE

  • activity

• B Year

  • Assessments (IDI, LETRS, Dibels)

  • Class Novel Read Aloud

  • Reading Groups (Standard for each Reading Class)

    • Mini Lessons

      • Just Right Books, Stamina, Goals

      • Text Features

      • Text Evidence

      • Text Connections

      • Cause/Effect

    • Engage: Daily Language Review/Super Sentence building

    • Accuracy, Fluency, Grammar: Activity related to mini lesson in Story Works & Word Study small group

    • Depth and Complexity-Building Comprehension: Independent Reading

October

• A Year

  • Class Novel (Because of Mr. Terrupt)

  • Plot, Character Traits and Development, Inference

  • GIST/TIDE

• B Year

  • Class Novel

  • Reading Groups

    • Mini Lessons:

      • Figurative Language, Plot, Dialogue, Characters (Traits, etc), Fiction

    • Engage: Daily Language Review and paragraph writing

    • Accuracy, Fluency, Grammar: Activity related to mini lesson in Story Works & Word Study small group

      • Word Study based on assessments

    • Depth and Complexity-Building Comprehension: Independent Reading

November

• A Year

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• B Year

  • Class Novel

  • Reading Groups

    • Mini Lessons:

      • Non-Fiction Review, Stop-and-Jot (readying for research project), Main Idea/Supporting Details

    • Engage: Daily Language Review and paragraph writing

    • Accuracy, Fluency, Grammar: Activity related to mini lesson in Story Works & Word Study small group

      • Word Study based on assessments

    • Depth and Complexity-Building Comprehension: Independent Reading

December

• A Year

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• B Year

  • Class Novel

  • Reading Groups

    • Mini Lessons:

      • Note taking; Paragraph building; Outlining information to write a paper

    • Engage: Daily Language Review and paragraph writing

    • Accuracy, Fluency, Grammar: Activity related to mini lesson in Story Works & Word Study small group

      • Word Study based on assessments

        • Multi-Syllabic

        • Root/Base Words

        • Digraphs

    • Depth and Complexity-Building Comprehension: Independent Reading

January

• A Year

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• B Year

  • Class Novel

  • Reading Groups

    • Mini Lessons:

      • Descriptions, Organizing Information, Sequencing; Themes; Poetry Features

    • Engage: Daily Language Review and paragraph response to text with text evidence

    • Accuracy, Fluency, Grammar: Activity related to mini lesson in Story Works & Word Study small group

      • Word Study based on assessments

    • Depth and Complexity-Building Comprehension: Independent Reading

February

• A Year

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• B Year

  • Class Novel

  • Reading Groups

    • Mini Lessons:

      • Figurative Language, Poetry, Commas (possessive or plural)

    • Engage: Daily Language Review and paragraph writing

    • Accuracy, Fluency, Grammar: Activity related to mini lesson in Story Works & Word Study small group

      • Word Study based on assessments

    • Depth and Complexity-Building Comprehension: Independent Reading

March

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  • Assessments

  • Baseline writing sample

  • GIST/TIDE practice

  • Sentence Construction Warm-Ups

• B Year

  • Assessments

  • Baseline writing sample

  • Start The Writing Revolution

  • Sentence Construction Warm-Ups

October

• A Year

  • The Writing Revolution

  • Sentence Construction Warm-Ups

  • Picture in Writing Poem (Fall Day)

  • Narrative-Scary Story

  • Wrapped Up in a Good Book Recommendation

• B Year

  • The Writing Revolution

  • Sentence Construction Warm-Ups

  • Picture in Writing Poem (Fall Day)

November

• A Year

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• B Year

  • Personal Narrative

  • The Writing Revolution

December

• A Year

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• B Year

  • Country Research Report

  • The Writing Revolution

January

• A Year

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• B Year

  • Final Draft of Country Report-Revision/Editing

  • The Writing Revolution

  • Opinion baseline

  • Poetry (last week of Jan- Feb)

    • Picture in Writing- Winter

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  • The Writing Revolution

  • Poetry

  • Persuasive Essay

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  • activity

June

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

  • activity

  • activity

• A Year

  Life Science - Plants and Animals (start mid Sept.)

  • Parts of a plant structure

  • Photosynthesis

• B Year

• Introduce EDP and Scientific Method/Earth Science Unit for Rocks/Weathering and Erosion

  • Scientific Method flip book

  • Engineering and Design steps and process with STEAM activities to help with growth mindset

  • Classifying rocks

  • Rock cycle simulation

  • Rock and Plate Tectonics Vocabulary

  • Pangea and the Ring of Fire

    
    

October

• A Year

• Life Science- Plants and Animals

  • Classification of animals

  • Life cycles of animals

  • Food Chains

    • What's For Dinner?

    • Apex Predator

  • Food Webs

    • Owl Pellets - (Structure of Animals, Food Web)

    • Tech Food Web (TBD)

    • Field Trip to Center for Wildlife in York, ME

• B Year

• Continuation of Rocks/Weathering and Erosion Unit

  • Stress Me Out - stresses on the earth's crust

  • Earth's Changing Surface

  • Wind and Water Erosion Demonstrations

    • There She Blows and Sticks and Stones

  • Experiments with mechanical weathering and chemical weathering

  • Relationship between weathering, erosion, and deposition

November

• A Year

• Earth Science- Moon, Sun and Stars

  • Moon Phases

    • Moon Journal

    • Moon Phase Model

  • Earth in the Solar System

    • Revolution/Rotation - Seasons vs. Day/Night (model)

    • Layers of the Atmosphere Model

    • Shadows

    • Venn Diagram - Earth with another Planet and Earth with Moon and Sun

• B Year

  • activity

  • activity

December

• A Year

• Earth in Space

  • Sun as a Star

  • Types of Stars

  • Constellations

    • Model and Design a New Constellation (3D)

      • Writing ( write a myth to accompany your star)

• B Year

  • activity

  • activity

January

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

• Energy Unit/Light and Sound

  • Potential and Kinetic Energy

  • Energy Transfers and Transformations

  • Forms of Energy

    
    

February

• A Year

• Matter/Mixtures and Solutions

  • Three States Of Matter

  • Movement of Molecules

  • Properties of Matter

    • Models of Molecules and Chemical Formula

  • Mixtures and Solutions

    • Physical and Chemical Changes

• B Year

• Energy Unit/Light and Sound

  • Energy Conversions

  • Heat Energy

  • Light Energy- Mirror, Mirror, How Does Light Travel?

  • Light and Sound Waves - Making Waves and What's that Sound?

March

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

• Invention/EDP/Rube Goldberg Project

  • Design and build a Rube Goldberg Machine

April

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

  • activity

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May

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

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June

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

  • activity

  • activity

• A Year

  • Constitution/Civics

    • Rights and Responsibilities of a Citizen

    • The Constitution

      • Be A Constitution Detective

        • Articles of Confederation

        • Delegates and Representatives

        • Ratification

        • Three Branches of Government

        • Bill of Rights

        • Amendments

    • Write a Classroom Constitution

• B Year

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October

• A Year

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• B Year

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November

• A Year

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• B Year

  • World Geography

    • Linktivity Maps

    • Me on a Map

    • Continents and Oceans

    • How To Read A World Map/Map Skills

    • Latitude / Longitude

December

• A Year

  • 
    

  • activity

• B Year

  • World Geography/Culture

    • Country Research Project

    • Amazing Race

January

• A Year

  • Economy

    • Goods and Services/Wants vs. Needs

    • Supply and Demand

    • Interdependence

    • Scarcity

    • Profit

  • Economy Simulation - Birches Bazar

    • Create a product

    • Design products

    • Price, Advertise and Sell Products on Shopping Day

    • Evaluate Business Model

• B Year

  • Country Research Project

February

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

  • activity

  • activity

March

• A Year

  • United States Study

    • Region Study

      • Linktivity on US Regions

      • Research Jigsaw

    • States and Capitals

      • Mapping Skills

    • Vocabulary of Geography

  • State Research Report

• B Year

  • activity

  • activity

April

• A Year

  • American Revolution (start to have time before Fine Arts Night)

  • activity

• B Year

  • Westward Expansion ( Splash Publications)

    • History of Development in the New World

    • US Expansion

    • Lewis and Clark

May

• A Year

  • American Revolution

    • Field Trip to Boston (end of May/early June)

    
    

• B Year

  • Oregon Trail (Story Path)

    • Family Reenactment (experiential)

      • tables in class become wagons

    • Primary/Secondary Sources

    • Journals of Oregon Trail Travels

    • Guidebook - artwork/writing

June

• A Year

  • American Revolution Wrap-Up

    
    

• B Year

  • Oregon Trail Wrap Up

  • Strawberry Banke Field Trip

• Solving Simple Equations

• Solving Multi-Step Equations

• Solving Equations with Variables on Both Sides

• Rewriting Equations and Formulas

October - Transformations

• Translations

• Reflections

• Rotations

• Congruent Figures

• Dilations

• Similar Figures

• Perimeters and Areas of Similar Figures

November - Angles and Triangles

• Parallel Lines and Transversals

• Angles of Triangles

• Angles of Polygons

• Using Similar Triangles

December - Graphing and Writing Linear Equations

• Graphing Linear Equations

• Slope of a Line

• Graphing Proportional Relationships

• Graphing Linear Equations in Slope-Intercept Form

• Graphing Linear Equations in Standard Form

• Writing Equations in Slope-Intercept Form

• Writing Equations in Point-Slope Form

January - Systems of Linear Equations

• Solving Systems of Linear Equations by Graphing

• Solving Systems of Linear Equations by Substitution

• Solving Systems of Linear Equations by Elimination

• Solving Special Systems of Linear Equations

February - Data Analysis Data Analysis and Displays

• Scatter Plots

• Lines of Fit

• Two-Way Tables

• Choosing a Data Display

March - Functions

• Relations and Functions

• Representations of Functions

• Linear Functions

• Comparing Linear and Nonlinear Functions

• Analyzing and Sketching Graphs

April - Exponents and Scientific Notation

• Exponents

• Product of Powers Property

• Quotient of Powers Property

• Zero and Negative Exponents

• Estimating Quantities

• Scientific Notation

• Operations in Scientific Notation

May - Real Numbers and the Pythagorean Theorem

• Finding Square Roots

• The Pythagorean Theorem

• Finding Cube Roots

• Rational Numbers

• Irrational Numbers

• The Converse of the Pythagorean Theorem

June - Volume and Similar Solids

• Volumes of Cylinders

• Volumes of Cones

• Volumes of Spheres

• Surface Areas and Volumes of Similar Solids

• Rational Numbers

• Adding Integers

• Adding Rational Numbers

• Subtracting Integers

• Subtracting Rational Numbers

October - Multiplying and Dividing Rational Numbers

• Multiplying Integers

• Dividing Integers

• Converting Between Fractions and Decimals

• Multiplying Rational Numbers

• Dividing Rational Numbers

November - Expressions

• Algebraic Expressions

• Adding and Subtracting Linear Expressions

• The Distributive Property

• Factoring Expressions

December - Equations and Inequalities

• Solving Equations Using Addition or Subtraction

• Solving Equations Using Multiplication or Division

• Solving Two-Step Equations

• Writing and Graphing Inequalities

• Solving Inequalities Using Addition or Subtraction

• Solving Inequalities Using Multiplication or Division

• Solving Two-Step Inequalities

January - Ratios and Proportions

• Ratios and Ratio Tables

• Rates and Unit Rates

• Identifying Proportional Relationships

• Writing and Solving Proportions

• Graphs of Proportional Relationships

• Scale Drawings

February - Percents

• Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

• The Percent Proportion

• The Percent Equation

• Percents of Increase and Decrease

• Discounts and Markups

• Simple Interest

March - Probability

• Probability

• Experimental and Theoretical Probability

• Compound Events

• Simulations

April - Statistics

• Samples and Populations

• Using Random Samples to Describe Populations

• Comparing Populations

• Using Random Samples to Compare Populations

May - Geometric Shapes and Angles

• Circles and Circumference

• Areas of Circles

• Perimeters and Areas of Composite Figures

• Constructing Polygons

• Finding Unknown Angle Measures

June - Surface Area Surface Area and Volume

• Surface Areas of Prisms

• Surface Areas of Cylinders

• Surface Areas of Pyramids

• Volumes of Prisms

• Volumes of Pyramids

• Cross Sections of Three-Dimensional Figures

• Powers and Exponents

• Order of Operations

• Prime Factorization

• Greatest Common Factor

• Least Common Multiple

October - Fractions and Decimals

• Multiplying Fractions

• Dividing Fractions

• Dividing Mixed Numbers

• Adding and Subtracting Decimals

• Multiplying Decimals

• Dividing Whole numbers

• Dividing Decimals

November - Ratios and Rates

• Ratios

• Using Tape Diagrams

• Using Ratio Tables

• Graphing Ratio Relationships

• Rates and Unit Rates

• Converting Measures

December - Percents

• Percents and Fractions

• Percents and Decimals

• Comparing and Ordering Fractions, Decimals, and Percents

• Solving Percent Problems

January - Algebraic Expressions and Properties

• Algebraic Expressions

• Writing Expressions

• Properties of Addition and Multiplication

• The Distributive Property

• Factoring Expressions

February - Equations

• Writing Equations in One Variable

• Solving Equations Using Addition or Subtraction

• Solving Equations Using Multiplication or Division

• Writing Equations in Two Variables

March - Area, Surface Area, and Volume

• Areas of Parallelograms

• Areas of Triangles

• Areas of Trapezoids and Kites

• Three-Dimensional Figures

• Surface Areas of Prisms

• Surface Areas of Pyramids

• Volumes of Rectangular Prisms

April - Integers, Number Lines, and the Coordinate Plane

• Integers

• Comparing and Ordering Integers

• Rational Numbers

• Absolute Value

• The Coordinate Plane

• Polygons in the Coordinate Plane

• Writing and Graphing Inequalities

• Solving Inequalities

May - Statistical Measures

• Introduction to Statistics

• Mean

• Measures of Center

• Measures of Variation

• Mean Absolute Deviation

June - Data Displays

• Stem-and-Leaf Plots

• Histograms

• Shapes of Distributions

• Choosing Appropriate Measures

• Box-and-Whisker Plots

• A Year

  • Reading: Active reading practice, short stories, informational texts, SSR every other Friday. 

  • Writing: Writing an email, clarity and tone, writing process, begin narrative writing unit

  • Grammar: Fragments/Run-ons, phrases and clauses

  • Word Study: Greek and latin roots

October

• A Year

  • Reading: Begin “The Crucible”

  • Writing: Complete narrative writing unit

  • Grammar: compound/complex sentences, modifiers

  • Word Study: Text-relevant vocabulary

November

• A Year

  • Reading: Complete “The Crucible” Begin “Crossing Ebenezer Creek”

  • Writing: Writing to inform, Race review, POWER/TIDE

  • Grammar: varying sentences, concise wording, 

  • Word Study: Text-relevant vocabulary

December

• A Year

  • Reading: “Crossing Ebenezer Creek” 

  • Writing: Complete Writing to inform; MLA formatting

  • Grammar: Comma usage, non-restrictive elements

  • Word study: Text-relevant vocabulary

January

• A Year

  • Reading: Non-fiction texts related to debate

  • Writing: Argument writing- debate unit

  • Grammar: Dashes and ellipses, dialogue and punctuation, quoting speech

  • Word study: Text-relevant vocabulary

February

• A Year

  • Reading: Non-fiction texts related to debate

  • Writing: Argument writing- debate unit

  • Grammar: Titles of works, verbals, actives and passive voice

  • Word study: Text-relevant vocabulary

March

• A Year

  • Reading: “To Kill a Mockingbird” 

  • Writing: Daily journal entries, responses to reading 

  • Grammar: verb shifts, verb moods, reference skills

  • Word study: Text-relevant vocabulary

April

• A Year

  • Reading: “To Kill a Mockingbird” 

  • Writing: Daily journal entries, responses to reading 

  • Grammar: Word relations and connotations

  • Word study: Text-relevant vocabulary

May

• A Year

  • Reading: Short stories/poems

  • Writing: Speech writing unit

  • Grammar: Mentor texts

  • Word study: text-relevant vocabulary

June

• A Year

  • Reading: Short stories/poems

  • Writing: Speech writing unit

  • Grammar: Mentor texts

  • Word study: text-relevant vocabulary

• A Year

  • Reading: Active reading practice, Short stories, Informational texts, SSR every other Friday

  • Grammar: Fragments, run-ons, subject/verb agreement, phrases and clauses

  • Writing: Sending an email/tone and audience, writing process

  • Word study: Greek and Latin Roots

October

• "Crossing Ebenezer Creek" by Tonya Bolden (6 weeks)

• Grammar: Compound/complex sentences, modifiers

• Writing: Narrative writing, journal responses to reading

• Word study: Text-relevant vocabulary

November

• A Year

  • Crossing Ebenezer creek, non-fiction texts

  • Grammar: Varying sentences, concise wording, capitalization

  • Writing: Writing to inform, RACE review, POWER/TIDE

  • Word study: Vocabulary in context; text-relevant vocabulary

December

• A Year

  • Drama/readers theatre

  • Grammar: "Performing in education" Daily bell-ringer work

  • Writing: Writing to inform

  • Word study: Vocabulary in context; text-relevant vocabulary

January

• A + B Year

  • "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen (5 weeks) (Making shelter project)

  • Research writing- Stories of survival (5 weeks)

  • Grammar: punctuation, comma, non-restrictive elements

  • Word Study: Text relevant vocabulary

February

A + B Year

• "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen

• Research writing- Stories of incredible survival (9 weeks)

• Grammar: Dialogue punctuation, quoting text, pronoun case

• Word Study: Text relevant vocabulary

March

A + B Year

• Reading: "The Outsiders" S.E. Hinton Novel study (8 weeks)

• Writing: Literary analysis

• Grammar: Reference skills, context clues

• Word Study: Text relevant vocabulary- Student selected vocabulary lists

April

A + B Year

• Reading: "The Outsiders" S.E. Hinton Novel study(8 weeks)

• Writing: Literary analysis

• Grammar: connotations, figurative language, word relationships

• Word Study: Text relevant vocabulary- Student selected vocabulary lists

May

A + B Year

• Reading: Genre book clubs/poetry (8 weeks)

• Writing: Argument writing, speed debating (8 weeks)

• Grammar: "Performing in education" daily bell-ringer work

• Word Study: Vocabulary in context; text-relevant vocabulary

June

• Reading: Genre book clubs/poetry (8 weeks)

• Writing: Argument writing, speed debating (8 weeks)

• Grammar: "Performing in education" daily bell-ringer work

• Word Study: Vocabulary in context; text-relevant vocabulary

• A Year

  • Literature: "What does active reading look like?”
    -Short stories, informational text.
    -SSR every other Friday/reading logs to go home. 

  • Grammar: Fragments/run-ons, subject/verb agreement 

  • Writing: “How can I email my teacher?” “Who is my audience?” “What is the writing process?”
    Word study: Greek and Latin Roots
    STEAM: Hexagonal thinking; working together to solve problems.
    
    

October

• Reading: Independent reading practice, narrative samples; reading logs to go home

• Grammar: Compound and complex sentences

• Writing: Begin Narrative writing workshops (4 weeks)+ LEGO project

• Word study: Greek and Latin Roots
  
  

November

• A Year

  • Reading: "Restart" Gordan Korman; reading logs to go home. SSR every other Friday. 

  • Grammar: Capitalization, punctuation, commas

  • Writing: Journal responses to daily reading, 

  • Word Study: Text relevant vocabulary

December

• Reading: Drama/ Readers Theatre 

• Grammar: Quoting Speech, text, titles of works

• Writing: R.A.C.E. Response; POWER/TIDE; Writing to Inform
  Word study: Vocabulary in context; text-relevant vocabulary

January

• A + B Year

  • Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief - Novel Study (9 weeks)

  • Research writing- Greek god research (9 weeks)

  • Grammar: Pronouns (case, clarity, intensive, agreement)

  • Word Study: Text relevant vocabulary

February

A + B Year

• Percy Jackson: The Lightning Thief - Novel Study

• Research writing- Greek god research

• Grammar: Parts of speech

• Word Study: Text relevant vocabulary

March

A + B Year

• Reading: Genre Book clubs (4 weeks)

• Thesis crafting, argument writing, speed debates(4 weeks)

• Grammar: Mentor texts

• Word Study: Text relevant vocabulary- Student selected vocabulary lists

April

A + B Year

• Reading: Genre book clubs(8 weeks)

• Thesis crafting, argument writing, speed debates (9 weeks)

• Grammar: Mentor texts

• Word Study: Vocabulary in context; text relevant vocabulary

May

A + B Year

• Reading: Short story unit

• Writing: Literary analysis

• Grammar: mentor texts

• Word Study: Vocabulary in context; text relevant vocabulary

June

• A + B Year

  • Reading: Genre book clubs/poetry (8 weeks)

  • Writing: Literary analysis (8 weeks)

  • Grammar: Mentor texts

  • Word Study: Vocabulary in context; text-relevant vocabulary

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

  • Scientific Practices

    • Mystery Solutions Challenge

    • Metric Doodle Notes

    • Measuring in Metric Doodle Notes

      • Color Rack Lab - making accurate measurements and lab practice

    • Experimental Design

      • Copy Cat Experimental Design (with legos)

      • Recording Data (Little Alchemy)

October

• A Year

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  • activity

• B Year

  • Kinetic and Potential Energy

    • Energy in Toys Lab

  • Heat energy and Transfer

    • Heat transfer demonstrations/Lab

  • Classifying Matter

    • Elements, Compounds and Mixtures Notes

      • Petri dish activity

    • Properties of Matter

    • Density

      • Fruits and roots demonstration (will it float or sink?)

November

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

  • Density

    • CER (scientific argument writing)

    • Flinking lab, density column

    • Density calculations (mass, volume and density)

December

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

  • Physical/Chemical Changes - Making Pancakes

  • Exothermic Rxn Lab - (measuring temperature of reactions)

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January

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

  • Atoms

    • Modeling with pom-poms

    • Periodic people

    • Periodic table superhero/villain and pizza box project

    
    

February

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

  • Atoms

    • Bohr Diagrams manipulatives

  • Counting Atoms and Elements

  • Chemical Bonding - Stop motion in canva

    
    

March

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

  • Balancing chemical equations

  • Making frescoes

  • Inertia 500 (Nascar Themed unit discovering Newton's Laws)

    • Balanced and Unbalanced Forces

    • Net Force

    • Friction

    • Inertia

April

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

  • Motion and Forces

    • Inertia 500 (Nascar Themed unit discovering Newton's Laws)

    
    

May

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

  • Waves

    • Light, Sound and Electromagnetic Waves

    • Sound Wave Art

June

• A Year

  • activity

  • activity

• B Year

  • Electricity and Magnetism

    • Magnetic Mazes

• Earth's Interior and Plate Tectonics

  • Alfred Wegener readers theater

  • Build Pangea - based on evidence (cut and paste activity)

  • Convection Demonstrations

  • Graham cracker plate tectonics Lab

October

• Earthquakes and Volcanoes

  • Earthquakes and Volcanoes Plotting Activity

  • Are earthquakes and volcanoes related to plate boundaries - CER (scientific argument writing)

    
    

November

• Rocks and Minerals

  • Mineral identification lab using physical properties (harness, luster, streak...)

  • Crayon Rock Cycle

December

• Geologic Time Scale - Layer Cake!

• Index Fossils

January

• Finish Geologic Time Scale

• Earth's Fresh Water - Begin Water Cycle

February

• Continue Water Cycle

  • All Earth's water Demo

  • Layers of the Atmosphere

  • Types of Clouds

  • Hailstorm Data

• Weather Fronts, Air Masses,

• Predicting Weather

  
  

  
  

March

• Changing Global Temps

• Minimizing Human Impact

• A Plastic Ocean

  • Design a device to pick up ocean trashWeather and Atmosphere continued/Project Save the Oceans

April

• Space and Planets

  • Scale models of the Universe (measured out in the parking lot)

May

• Earth/Sun/Moon relations

  • Modeling Eclipses

  • Styrofoam models of Earth's tilt

June

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• A Year
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• A Year
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• A Year
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• A: American History - Civil War

  • Front Page News - Union v. Confederacy - war started

  • strengths and weaknesses of North v. South

  • Political Cartoons

• B: Medieval Europe

  • Close Reading

  • How Christianity Impacted Europe Mapping

October

• A: American History - Civil War

  • Ironclads

  • Gettysburg comics/newspaper - BandLab Collab?

  • Emancipation Proclamation

• B: Medieval Europe

  • Feudalism Social Pyramid

  • Cornell Notes

  • Primary Source

  • Crusades

November

• A: American History - Civil War

  • Primary Sources (diaries, photos, etc.)

  • Writing Civil War letters

  • Timeline

• B: Medieval Europe

  • Medieval Europe Road Trip

  • Kingdom Maps

December

• A: American History - Reconstruction

  • Political Cartoons

  • Lincoln's Assassination - BandLab Collab?

  • Amendments 13-15

  • Congress & Jim Crow Laws

  • Plessy v Ferguson

  • KKK

• B: Geography - World Maps & Geographic Thinking

  • Thematic Maps

  • 5 Themes of Geography (t/f and reading followed by Zombie Apocalypse)

  • Canva City Mosaic

  • GPS & GIS Compare/Contrast

January

• A: American History - Manifest Destiny & Westward Expansion & 2nd Industrial Revolution

  • American Progress by John Gast

  • Boom Towns

  • Inventors

  • Big Business Biographies

  • Labor Strikes

  • Immigration

  • Midterm

• B: Geography - Physical Systems

  • 3d Model of Earth's inner structure

  • Layers of the Atmosphere picture

  • Midterm

February

• A: American History - Pre-WWI/WWI

  • American Imperialism

  • Seward's Folly

  • Spanish American War

  • Assassination of Archduke

  • Mapping of Europe 1914

• B: Geography - Physical Systems

  • Moon Phases sorting activity

  • Wind patterns

  • Water Cycle

March

• A: American History - WWI

  • Biographies

  • Political Cartoons

  • Art from Trenches

  • WWI Poetry/BandLab background music to poem

  • Effects of Inflation

  • Casualties

• B: Geography -

  • Climate Zones

  • STEAM Climate Quest

  • Weathering, Erosion, Deposition

  • Human Actions

April

• A: American History - Roaring 20's/Great Depression/WWII

  • Presidents and challenges of 20s (Teapot Dome Scandal, Kellogg-Briand Pact, Coolidge, Hoover, etc.)

  • Music and art of Harlem Renaissance

  • Dorothea Lange photography - I Am poems

  • Great Depression in a Box

  • Road to War

  • Mapping of Europe 1939

• B: Geography

  • activity

  • activity

May

• A: American History - WWII

  • Major leaders, countries, government systems

  • Europe's Dictators: Most Wanted

  • Pearl Harbor (political cartoon, day of photos, day after speech FDR to Congress) - BandLab Collab

  • Japanese Internment

  • Measuring welfare on the homefront

  • Iwo Jima - battles in the Pacific

• B: Geography - Country Project

  • Country research for Arts Integration

June

• A: American History - WWII/Holocaust

  • Holocaust

  • Victory & Consequences

  • Final

• B: Geography

  • activity

  • Final

• Lines of Latitude & Longitude

• Physical Maps

• Famous Landmarks (lat and long)

• Trade in Ancient World

October - Geography, Economics, Citizenship

• EdPuzzle x 3

• 3 Branches Cloze Reading

• You Be The Judge - Amendments

• EdPuzzle: Cause and Effect

November- What Does A Historian Do?

• Timeline Activity

• EdPuzzle x2

• Class Source Sort Activity (primary v. secondary sources)

• Sources Station Activity/Packet

December - Early Humans and the Agricultural Revolution

• Hunter-Gatherers

• The Agricultural Revolution

• Storyboard Project (Paleolithic v. Neolithic)

January - Ancient Egypt and Kush

• The Nile River

• Life in Ancient Egypt

• Deities of Ancient Egypt Activity

February - Ancient Egypt and Kush

• Egypt's Empire

• The Kingdom of Kush

March- The Ancient Greeks

• The Rise of Greek Civilization

• Sparta and Athens

April- The Ancient Greeks

• Greek Mythology

• Compare/Contrast Hercules

• Myths, Monsters, and Heroes Activity

May- The Ancient Greeks

• Greece and Persia

• Glory, War, and Decline

June- Greek Civilization

• Greek Culture

• The Greek Mind

• A Year

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November

• A Year

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December

• A Year

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January

• B Year

February

• A Year

• B Year

March

April

• A Year

• B Year

  • Whirligig Novel Study

  • Build a Whirligig - Project

May

• A Year

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• Solving Simple Equations

• Solving Multi-Step Equations

• Modeling Quantities

• Accuracy with Measurements

• Solving Equations with Variables on Both Sides

• Solving Absolute Value Equations

• Rewriting Equations and Formulas

October - Solving Linear Inequalities

• Writing and Graphing Inequalities

• Solving Inequalities Using Addition or Subtraction

• Solving Inequalities Using Multiplication or Division

• Solving Multi-Step Inequalities

• Solving Compound Inequalities

• Solving Absolute Value Inequalities

November - Graphing Linear Functions

• Functions

• Characteristics of Functions

• Linear Functions

• Function Notation

• Graphing Linear Equations in Standard Form

• Graphing Linear Equations in Slope-Intercept Form

• Transformations of Linear Functions

• Graphing Absolute Value Functions

December - Writing Linear Functions

• Writing Equations in Slope-Intercept Form

• Writing Equations in Point-Slope Form

• Writing Equations of Parallel and Perpendicular Lines

• Scatter Plots and Lines of Fit

• Analyzing Lines of Fit

• Arithmetic Sequences

• Piecewise Functions

January - Solving Systems of Linear Equations

• Solving Systems of Linear Equations by Graphing

• Solving Systems of Linear Equations by Substitution

• Solving Systems of Linear Equations by Elimination

• Solving Special Systems of Linear Equations

• Solving Equations by Graphing

• Graphing Linear Inequalities in Two Variables

• Systems of Linear Inequalities

February - Exponential Functions and Sequences

• Properties of Exponents

• Radicals and Rational Exponents

• Exponential Functions

• Exponential Growth and Decay

• Solving Exponential Equations

• Geometric Sequences

• Recursively Defined Sequences

March - Polynomial Equations and Factoring

• Adding and Subtracting Polynomial

• Multiplying and Dividing Polynomials

• Special Products of Polynomials

• Solving Polynomial Equations in Factored Form

• Factoring x2 + bx + c

• Factoring ax2 + bx + c

• Factoring Special Products

• Factoring Polynomials Completely

April - Graphing Quadratic Functions

• Graphing f (x) = ax2

• Graphing f (x) = ax2 + c

• Graphing f (x) = ax2 + bx + c

• Graphing f (x) = a(x − h) 2 + k

• Using Intercept Form

• Comparing Linear, Exponential, and Quadratic Functions

May - Solving Quadratic Equations

• Properties of Radicals

• Solving Quadratic Equations by Graphing

• Solving Quadratic Equations Using Square Root

• Solving Quadratic Equations by Completing the Square

• Solving Quadratic Equations Using the Quadratic Formula

• Solving Nonlinear Systems of Equations

June - Radical Functions and Equations

• Graphing Square Root Functions

• Graphing Cube Root Functions

• Solving Radical Equations

• Inverse of a Function