W H A T
W E
W I L L
S T U D Y
D U R I N G
O U R
2009-2010 School Year!
1st QUARTER CURRICULUM
BIBLE!
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PLACE VALUE TO MILLION
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ADDING:
whole numbers with carrying
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Review of “The Salvation Message”,
with Mrs. Liebig sharing her personal testimony
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SUBTRACTING:
whole numbers with borrowing
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Optional sharing of students’ testimonies, stories,
questions, and goals for their journey with God this
year.
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MULTIPLICATION:
* whole numbers with carrying
* 2-and 3-digit
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DIVIDING:
* whole numbers
* money
* 2-digit
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FRACTIONS:
* Fractional parts of a group
* Remainders as fractions
* Adding & subtracting with a
common denominator
* Mixed numbers
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STORY PROBLEMS
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MONEY
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AVERAGING
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MEASUREMENT:
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Study of The Book of Genesis
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Begin a “Personal Devotions Journal” that students
will be encouraged to use during free time at school,
and at home.
LANGUAGE!
Sentences:
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MATH
!
Punctuation & Capitalization
Good sentences vs. fragments
RULES FOR: end marks, commas,
4 Types of sentences
quotation marks, apostrophes, colons,
Correcting run-together sentences
underlining, and 11 capitalization rules
Making sentences interesting & informative.
WRITING: Friendly Letters,
Thank-You
Notes, Post Cards, & a Short-Form Book Report
* English linear, liquid, &weight
* Converting measures
*Equations
* to the nearest quarter-inch
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READING!
Oral Reading Skills:
In order to communicate meaning, emotion, and
understanding, students will be taught & encouraged
to use these “Good Oral Reading Skills”:
(1) read SMOOTHLY (knowing the words)
(2) use appropriate VOLUME
“Read & Thinks”!
Students will be given frequent
5-minute “Read and Think”
assignments in class to practice
increasing their silent-reading speed
and comprehension skills.
Pizza Hut “Book-It”!
Students will be required to read a
minimum of 100 pages, or 300 minutes
per month. This will count as a
portion of their reading grade. This is
just a minimum, however; everyone
will be encouraged to read above that
amount, through fun games, special
events, contests, prizes, and parties that
we will have throughout the school
year.
Book-Report!
During this nine-week period, your
child will have the opportunity to write
his/her first book report! No worry
though! They will be guided step-bystep throughout the entire process,
during two class periods. This first
book report will be a “short-form”
report, which will prepare them for the
longer book report writing process that
we will begin in the 2nd nine-week
period.
(3) use appropriate PACING
(4) use appropriate EXPRESSION
(5) read with accurate PAUSING
Comprehension Skills:
Sequencing Story Events, Main Idea/Supporting
Details, Relevant/Irrelevant Information,
Fact/Opinion, Cause/Effect, Drawing Conclusions,
Predicting, Inferring, Following Directions
Vocabulary Building:
Reading Vocabulary Quiz each week
1st Quarter Literary Elements!
Setting, Plot, Conflict/Problem/Solution, Character
Study, Motive, Flashback, Foreshadowing,
Onomatopoeia, Descriptive Words, Imagery,
Figurative Language, Humor, Tall Tale, Moral of
story, Dialogue, Mood, Idioms, Limericks
1st Quarter Reading Study Skills!
Reading Maps & Diagrams, Using a Glossary,
Finding Bible verses, Captions, Organizing
Facts/Details, Relate story content to Biblical Truth
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Spelling
Lists!
Lesson 1:
Lesson 2:
Lesson 3:
Lesson 4:
Lesson 5:
Lesson 6:
short vowel
sounds
schwa ‘o’
sound
Long
“a”
the letter
“a”
Short & long
“e”
REVIEW
of 1-5
(1) Didn’t
(1) Other
(1) Great
(1) Against
(1) Either
(1) Great
(2) Which
(2) Among
(2) Straight
(2) Already
(2) Receive
(2) Other
(3) Hospitals
(3) Company
(3) Laid
(3) Package
(3) Least
(3) Which
(4) Swimming
(4) Control
(4) Eighth
(4) Radio
(4) Valley
(4) Against
(5) Having
(5) Compare
(5) Waist
(5) Salad
(5) Everybody
(5) Already
(6) Often
(6) Reason
(6) Weight
(6) Astronaut
(6) Chimney
(6) Either
(7) Haven’t
(7) Connect
(7) Raise
(7) Manage
(7) Secret
(7) Among
(8) Hasn’t
(8) Collect
(8) Neighborhood
(8) Agree
(8) Treatment
(8) Straight
(9) Thankful
(9) Brother
(9) Brake
(9) Favor
(9) Beaches
(9) Hospitals
(10) Soccer
(10) Correct
(10) Waste
(10) Passover
(10) We’ve
(10) Package
(11) Still
(11) Grandmother
(11) They’ve
(11) Flower
(11) Pleasing
(11) Laid
(12) Laughing
(12) Gloves
(12) Complain
(12) Crosswalk
(12) Seventeen
(12) Compare
(13) Hamburger
(13) Shovel
(13) Brain
(13) Watchman
(13) Weave
(13) Receive
(14) Catsup
(14) Recover
(14) Grateful
(14) Warned
(14) Niece
(14) Valley
(15) Selfish
(15) Overcome
(15) Waiting
(15) Charged
(15) Deceive
(15) Everybody
(16) Comics
(16) Kingdom
(16) Paints
(16) Tasting
(16) Belief
(16) Having
(17) Biscuit
(17) Pardoned
(17) Relate
(17) wallpaper
(17) Chinese
(17) Often
(18) Elastic
(18) Someplace
(18) Disobey
(18) Wallpapered
(18) Copies
(18) Rother
(19) Inherit
(19) Someone’s
(19) Claimed
(19) Wander
(19) Eleventh
(19) Weight
(20) Impress
(20) Confused
(20) Microwave
(20) Fantastic
(20) Feverish
(20) Gloves
(1)
3
Waterproof
(1) neighborhood
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Spelling, con’t:
Penmanship!
26 Days of Review!
Lesson 7:
Lesson 8:
Lesson 9:
Lesson 10:
Short & long
“i”
Long
“o”
sounds of
“ou”
long
u and oo
(1) Fighting
(1) Suppose
(22) Through
(1) Your
(2) Final
(2) Grown
(23) Country
(2) Picture
(3) Idea
(3) Lonely
(24) Enough
(3) Movies
(4) Sincere
(4) Hotel
(25) Group
(4) Poor
(5) Quite
(5) Program
(26) Couple
(5) Tuesday
(6) Quiet
(6) Throat
(27) Although
(6) Pasture
(7) Height
(7) Heroes
(28) Touched
(7) Human
(8) Divide
(8) Owner
(29) Rough
(8) Bushel
(9) I’d
(9) Protect
(30) Young
(9) Improve
(10) Alive
(10) Provide
(31) Shoulder
(10) Duty
(11) Violin
(11) Volcano
(32) Southern
(11) You’re
(12) Deny
(12) Shadow
(33) Blood
(12) Pure
(13) Satisfy
(13) Groan
(34) Thorough
(13) Cartoons
(14) Living
(14) Pillow
(35) Soul
(14) Should’ve
(15) Guide
(15) Coast
(36) Youth
(15) Adventure
(16) Supply
(16) Poetry
(37) Tour
(16) Tomb
(17) Video
(17) Folklore
(38) Flood
(17) United States
(18) Politely
(18) Gross
(39) Doughnut
(18) Choosing
(19) Ninetieth
(19) Sewing
(40) Troubling
(19) Nature
(20) Fifteenth
(20) Hostess
(41) Cousins
(20) rudely
(21) Country
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We will practice daily to
completely review proper
formation and connection
of all cursive letters, during
this 1st nine-weeks.
How Will Students be
Graded? Penmanship
grades will be somewhat
individualized; during the
1st Nine-Weeks, students
will be graded according to
their:
1. ability to correctly form
and connect all cursive
letters (weekly test)
2. individual progress and
improvement with the
following “good
penmanship” traits
 uniform size
 uniform slant
 uniform spacing
Penmanship Portfolios!
Students will enjoy seeing
how their handwriting
improves this year, by
keeping a portfolio. They
will be able to choose their
best handwriting pieces to
include, and be able to
evaluate their own personal
progress.
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Ohio History!
Science!
CHAPTER 1: Ohio’s Land
UNIT 1: Scientific Investigations
VOCABULARY:
geography, continent, country, natural
environment, habitat, human features, climate, average,
temperate, humid, precipitation, geologist, sediment, erode,
glacier, divide, extinct, region, till, preserve
Vocabulary: survey, study, experiment, variable, mass,
weight, statsitics
Skills: learn to work as a team, conduct survey, study,
and experiment; record data on a table and graph
PLACES:
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United States, Canada, Mexico
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Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia,
Pennsylvania
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Ohio River, Lake Erie
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Ohio’s Land Regions: Lake Plain Till Plains, Allegheny
Plateau, Bluegrass Region
UNIT 2: Investigating Organ Systems
Vocabulary: organ, organ system, respiration, artery,
vein, nutrient, digestion, saliva, enzyme, esophagus,
small intestine, large intestine, indigestion, fiber,
excretory system, kidney, urinary system, urinary
bladder, dialysis, organ transplant, organ donor
CHAPTER 3: American Indians
OHIO TIMELINE: 1600’s – 1700’s
VOCABULARY: historic, prehistoric, tepee, wigwam, longhouse,
imitate, vision quest, lavish, temporary, shaman, Great Spirit,
abundant, confederation, legend
UNIT 3: Investigating Living Things
and Their Homes
PEOPLE: Iroquois, Erie, Wyandot, Miami, Mingo, Ottawa,
Shawnee, Delaware
Vocabulary: organism, species, habitat, ecology,
ecologist,
ecosystem,
community,
population,
biosphere, predator, prey, symbiosis, mutualism,
commensalism, parasitism, producer, consumer,
herbivore,
carnivore,
omnivore,
scavenger,
decomposer, food chain, food web
CHAPTER 4: Struggle for Ohio
OHIO TIMELINE: 1745-1795
VOCABULARY: colony, sea-to-sea clause, planation, charter,
headwaters, treaty, independence, neutral, ordinance, township,
ambassadors, annuities, reservation
PEOPLE: LaSalle, Celeron, George Washington, Pontia, Chief
Logan, Little Turtle, Bluejacket, Tarhe the Crane, Anthony Wayne
PLACES: France, Canada, Great Britain, Fort Duquesne,
Pittsburgh, Point Pleasant, Appalachian Mt., Gnaddenhutten, Fort
Washington, Cincinnati, Fallen Timbers, Greeneville
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