September

//**August/September**//

 * Setting up a classroom community(rules, expectations, routines, schedules)**
 * Baseline Assessments: Math, Reading, Writing**

=Math= Graphing(Picto., Line, Bar, tables, charts, lists, collect, organize, analyze data) Place Value,(ones, tens, hundreds, 10 more/less, 100 more/less, value of digit, rounding to nearest 10/100, represent numbers in expanded form and regrouped forms for 2 & 3 digit numbers, locate, label, compare, and order whole numbers to 1,000)

Addition Facts, Addition with regrouping(2&3 digit), Pictorial Representations Commutative and Assoc. properties to solve problems

=Reading= //Before Reading: Choose the appropriate text for a specific purpose. Articulate what is known about the text topic based on the title, author, pictures, illustrations, prior knowledge. Make relevant predictions about waht will probably happen in a story(fiction) or what will be learned(nonfiction)based on title, cover, chapter headings, illustrations, etc.//

//During Reading: Make predictions and connections. Ask and answer questions. Describe the mental imagery that occurs while reading. Identify specific words or phrases that cause comprehension difficulties and self monitor. Explain first-, second-, and third-person point of view. Interpret graphical information(charts, tables, diagrams). Make inferences based on explicit information in the text; provide justification for those inferences.//

//After Reading: Describe characters' physical and personality traits. Develop a new title that best fits the text. Describe he conflict faced by a character in the story. State the main idea with supporting details in informational text. State the theme in literary text.//

//Developing an Interpretation: Explain similarities and differences in a story. Draw conclusions based on implicit or explicit evidence from text. Decide an author's purpose for including particular information in text. Interpret meaning based on charts, graphs, maps, illustrations, photos in text. Identify and explain text structures, e.g., sequence, main idea/details, compare/contrast, cause and effect.//

=**Treasures: Theme One: Our World**=


 * __Aug. 30th and Sept. 7th: First Day Jitters(new beginnings)__**
 * Spelling(short vowels): clap, step, sick, rock, luck, crop, snack, mess, head, shut, miss, stamp, jump, click, pond, cat, macan, *bathtub, *anthill**
 * Grammar: statements and questions, commands and exclammations as well from Dear Juno unit**

Spelling(long vowels): date, fine, rose, lake, life, home, safe, rice, glove, plane, wise, smoke, grade, smile, come, clap, sick, crop *sneeze, *escape Grammar: commands and exclammations


 * __Sept. 13th: Whose Habitat Is It?(building communities)__**
 * Spelling(long a): fail, pail, ray, plain, tray, trail, May, braid, sway, gray, plays, paint, snail, great, safe, rice, globe, *lady, *afraid**
 * Grammar: subjects**


 * __Sept. 20: Penguin Chick(Antarctic Life)__**
 * Spelling(long o): gold, bowl, soak, sold, snow, loaf, roast, coast, scold, coal, slow, grows, show, float, blow, snail, plain, gray, *window, *program**
 * Grammar: predicates**


 * __Sept. 27: The Perfect Pet(people and pets)__**
 * Spelling(long i): mild, sky, pie, might, find, fight, ties, right, fry, tight, child, flight, bright, buy, dye, soak, bowl, gold, *wind, *children**
 * Grammar: sentence combining and compound sentences**


 * __Oct. 4th: Test week__**

story structure(setting, characteristics of) skills(inferencing/predicting outcomes, compare & contrast, main idea& details, using/making/interpreting diagrams) Author's craft(humor, pun, word play, imagery/sensory language) Grammar(action verbs, present & past tense) Writing(writing paragraphs: topic sentences, supporting sentences)
 * //* Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor//...** vocab.(submarine, school, microscope, ocean floor, prey)

I.C.E. Retell realistic fiction: Beginning, Middle, End and use a graphic organizer and then write 3 paragraphs.

=Writing=
 * 100 High Frequency Words, Elaboration

Writing Prompt: Write about something that happened this summer. Editing: use of capitalization( proper nouns: names, titles), end punctuation, commas(city, state and month,year and in a series) =__Science__/Social Studies=
 * Geographic Regions: Unit one of social studies text(oceans, rivers, the continents/major oceans, characteristics of oceans/rivers, how the people and land are connected, compass rose, map key, physical map). The effects of ocean tides on land are an example of how places change over tiem.

Animal Adaptations(oceans, rivers) __//Organisms can survive and reproduce only in environments that meet their basic needs.//__ __//Plants and animals have stuctures and behaviors that help them to survive in different environments//.*__ This is presented when all the different regions are discussed throughout our social studies units. Experiment: "making sand"(erosion), water evaporation and salt crystals left, using a microscope

End of the month: Kwakiutl

Time for Kids**: __All year this newspaper is used to discuss current events.(__Understand the interrelatedness of the past and present)