First Six Weeks
Spelling
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. 11-15 “Boom Town”
Aug. 18-22 “What About Me?”
Aug. 25-29 “Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday”
Sept. 2-5 “If You Made a Million”
Sept. 8-12 "My Rows and Piles of Coins”
Sept. 15-19 Review of skills, Unit 1 Test
Realism and Fantasy
Homonyms (context clues)
Sequence / Summarize
Compound Words
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
Problem and Solutions
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
Expanded form: 400,000 + 50,000 + 3,000 + 600 + 40 + 2 = 453,642
Word form: 4 hundred thousands, 5 ten thousands, 3 one thousands, 6 hundreds,
4 tens, and 2 ones
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 in
the ten thousands place and has the value of 30,000
Reading numbers to 999,999 place
Writing numbers in word form: one hundred
sixty four thousand, five hundred twenty five=164,525
Comparing numbers: (greater than, less than)
132,456 > 132,356
Fact families: 8 , 13, 5
8 + 5 = 13
5 + 8 = 13
13 - 5 = 8
13 - 8 = 5
Addition and Subtraction Facts
Regrouping
Recognizing Complete Sentences
Four Kinds Of Sentences:
Declarative = makes a statement
Interrogative = askes a question
Imperative = gives a command or makes a request
Exclamatory = shows strong feeling or emotion
Capitalization Rules
Nouns (common, proper, singular, plural, singular possessive, plural possessive)
Chapter 1 - Plants
Chapter 2 - Animals
Chapter 3 - Relationships Among Living Things
Chapter 4 - Ecosystems in Balance
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
(Mrs. Shaver said, "Learn your capitalization rules.")