Concepts that we will be covering ...

September:

*Writing Friendly Letters (heading, greeting, body, closing, signature)

*Apples (using our senses to describe, comparing Johnny Appleseed stories, seasons of the apple tree, beginning note taking, using notes to write descriptive sentences) 

October:

 

*Christopher Columbus (sequence/timeline, journal entries)

*Weather (properties of water, water cycle, types of clouds)

*October Writing Prompt (completing a planner and a draft)

*Fire Safety

*Pumpkins (growth cycle, rhyming & cinquain poems, Guess What's in My Pumpkin clues)

*Halloween

November:

*Veteran's Day

*Traditions & Thanksgiving (Mayflower, Pilgrims, Native Americans)

December:

*Light (artificial/natural, travels in straight lines, reflections, transparent/translucent/opaque)

*Festival of Lights/Winter Holidays (holiday customs from around the world)

January: 

*Animals in Winter (how they prepare - migrate, hibernate, adapt)

*Birds (identifying common winter birds, listening and note taking)

*Martin Luther King, Jr. (note taking, sequencing events, character traits)

*Chinese New Year

*Winter Listening Prompt - (note taking, comparing two types of animals)

February:

*Groundhog's Day

*President's Day (note taking, timelines, using notes to form a written response)

March:

*St. Patrick's Day (listening, note taking, using notes to write a descriptive paragraph with a topic sentence and supporting details)

*Sound unit (vibration, volume, pitch, man-made/natural)

April:

*Oviparous animals

*Seeds & Plants (seed parts, germination, parts and jobs of plant, how seeds travel)

May:

*Animals (classes, biomes, multi-week research report project - book and computer research)

June:

*Continue work on Animal Research Report