Burns Middle School 2010-2011
Curriculum Calendar
Subject: Reading (for reading and English-focus on reading)
Date
August
11-13
Teacher: Mrs. Hoskins / Mrs.Miller
Content #
Getting to know you activities –me bags, yeah boo banners
8/11 First day back
for students
16-20
Parts of a fiction story
23-27
Rewards 1 ai and ay
Fish Story
/September
30-3
Rewards 2 au
The Turtle and the Swan
6-10
Rewards 3 er, ir, ur
Sept. 6, Labor Day
These Shoes of Mine
13-17
Rewards 4 ar, or
Herbie
Midas and the Golden Touch p.3
In addition to
Rewards and the
Bridges stories,
students will attend 4
Centers each week.
The centers include a
computer program
that works on their
level, a fluency,
Small group( we
work on different
English and reading
skills) and
independent time.
(they work on
inferences, drawing
conclusions and main
ideas…)
20-24
Rewards 5 a-e, 0-e, 1-e, u-e, e-e,
Hunting Hurricanes
October
27-1
Rewards 6 oi, oy
Oct 1-PLC
Titanic
4-8
Oct 11-15 Fall
Break
18-22
Rewards 7 ee
Volcanoes
Rewards oa, ou
Sachiko means Happiness
25-29
Rewards 9 ou
Green Ribbon and Headless horseman play
November
1-5
Rewards10 ou
Nov 2-Election Day
From Childhood
8-12
Rewards 11 OO
Three Hundred Pesos
15-19
Rewards 12 00
Phoenix Farms
22-26
11/ 24-26
Thanksgiving
Holiday
December
29-3
Gift of the Magi and
Thanksgiving book
Rewards 13 ea
Christmas stories & letter Writing
6-10
Rewards 14 ea
Best Christmas Pageant ever
13-17
Rewards 15 ea
Christmas
Break begins on
Dec. 18-Jan.2
Best Christmas Pageant Ever
January
3-7
Rewards 16 vowel review
White Washing the Fence
10-14
Rewards 17 Vowel review
A Dinner of Smells
17-21
Rewards 18 Vowel review
The Debate in Sign Language
1/17 MLK Day
24-28
Rewards 19 Vowel review
Fifteen Minutes
February
31-4
Feb 4th-PLC Day
Rewards 20 vowel review
Kenny Roberts
7-11
Rewards 21 passage1
Water Woman
14-18
Rewards22 passage 2
Satchel Paige and I am Rosa Parks
2/18 President’s
Day – No School
(First make-up day)
21-25
No school 21st
March
28-4
7-11
Rewards 23 passage 3
City Green
Rewards 24 passage 4
You Dirty Rat
Rewards 25 passage 5
Before the Game
14-18
English review
Karate Kid
21-25
Focus on English
Final Score
April
March 28April 1
Focus on English
Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad
No school, April 1
4-8
SPRING BREAK
Spring Break
11-15
Review for testing
18-22
Testing
25-29
Ice Cream Mystery Unit
The Trojan War
May
2-6
9-13
Ice cream Mystery Unit
The Roman Games
Ice Cream Mystery Unit
King Tut’s Tomb
16-20
May 17-Election
Day
Poetry
The longest Cemetary
23-24
24th-last day
Make-up days if
necessary
Rules
Helen Keller
The Lindbergh Kidnapping