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There will be a pretest given every Wednesday and a Final test given every Friday.
Aug. 11-15 Unit 1 Week 1
Aug. 18-22 Unit 1 Week 2
Aug. 25 -29 Unit 1 Week 3
Sept. 2-5 Unit 1 Week 4
Sept. 8-12 Unit 1 Week 5
Sept. 15-19 Unit 1 Six Weeks Test
Reading
Aug. 11-19 “Boomtown”
Aug. 18-26 "What About Me"
Aug. 25- 29 “Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday”
Sept. 2-5 “If You Made a Million”
Sept. 8-19 “ My Rows and Piles of Coins”
Sept.19-23 Review of skills, Unit 1 Test
Realism and Fantasy
Homonyms(context clues)
Sequence / Summarize
Glossary/Dictionary/ Alphabetical Order
Multiple Meaning Words
Character and Setting
Author's Purpose
Plurals
Prefixes – Un - not, opposite of
Dis - not, opposite of
Re-again
Suffixes – less-without,
ful-full of
ly-in a way, or manner
Ordinal numbers- (first, second,)
Counting Patterns- (by 2’s, 5’s, 100’s)
Even and Odd Numbers
2 ones=453,642
Standard Form (453,642)
Rounding by tens - 45=50, 23=20
Rounding by hundreds- 135=100,150=200
Value of a number—(237,678= the 3 is inthe ten thousands place and has the
value of 30,000
Writing numbers in word form-
one sixty four thousand, five hundredtwenty five=164,525
Comparing numbers (greater than, less than) 132,456>132,356
Fact families
Addition and Subtraction Facts
Regrouping
Chapter 1 - Plants
Chapter 2- Animals
Chapter 3- Relationships Among Living Things
Chapter 4-Ecosystems in Balance
English
Recognizing complete Sentences
Four Kinds Of Sentences (Statements, Questions, Commands, and Exclamations)
Capitalization Rules
Nouns (common, proper, singular, plural, singular possessive, plural possessive)
Writing
Review all cursive writing
Capitalization Rules
1. Always capitalize the beginning of a sentence.
2. I is always a capital.
3. Capitalize names of people and pets.
4. Capitalize Titles in names (Mrs., Mr., Ms., Dr., and Miss )
5. Capitalize names of places ( Cities, States, Streets, Rivers, Mountains, Buildings, Stores, etc.)
6. Capitalize Holidays and Special Days ( Labor Day, Christmas)
7. Capitalize Months and Days of the Week
8. Capitalize Titles of Books and Movies (Capitalize the first word , the last word, and important words in between-The Mouse and the Motorcycle-)
9. Capitalize Greeting of Letters ( Dear John,)
10. Capitalize First Word in Closing of Letters (Your friend,)
11. The first word in a Quote is always capitalized (Mom said, “Please be careful on your work today.”)
