Southgate Independent Schools Weekly Pacing Guide
Content
Area
Reading
4th
Reading
3rd
Week 1 Week 2
Week 3
Math
4th
Week 5
Week 6
Week 7
Week 8
Week 9
Fiction-Short Story, Drama, Prose, Fables
KCAS 4.RL.1, 4.RL.2, 4.RL.3. 4RL.4, 4.RL.5 Core Skills:Drawing Inferences,
Summarizing, Generalization,Character and setting, similies, metaphors,
Compare and Contrast
4.RF.3 and 4.RF.4
Fiction-Story, Folktale, Fables, Drama
KCAS 3.RL.1, 3.RL.2, 3.RL.3. 3.RL.4, 3.RL.5 Core Skills:Self questioning,
Drawing Inferences, Summarizing, Generalization,Character and setting,
similies, metaphors, Compare and Contrast
3.RF.3 and 3.RF.4
Language
Arts
3rd and 4th
Math 3rd
Week 4
Grade: 3/4
Chapter 1-Numbers to 10,000
Fiction-Poetry
KCAS KCAS 4.RL.1, 4.RL.2, 4.RL.3, 4.RL.4, 4.RL.5
Core Skills: Drawing Inferences, Summarizing, Generalization,Character and setting,
similies, metaphors, verse, rhythm, meter, Compare and Contrast
4.RF.3 and 4.RF.4
Fiction-Poetry
KCAS KCAS 3.RL.1, 3.RL.2, 3.RL.3, 3.RL.4, 3.RL.5
Core Skills: Drawing Inferences, Summarizing, Generalization,Character and setting,
similies, metaphors, stanza Compare and Contrast
3.RF.3 and 3.RF.4
Narratives
KCAS 3rd 3.W.3 a-d, 3.W.4-9
4th 4.W.3 a-e, 4.W.4-9
Shorter writing pieces assigned through content areas.
Grammar, Punctuation, Usage-Ongoing
KCAS: 3.L1 and 2: 4.L1. and 2
Chapter 2-Mental Math and
Chapter 3
Chapter 4 Subtraction Up to
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Estimation
Addition Up to
10,000
Using Bar
Multiplication
10,000
Models;
Tables of
Addition and
6,7,8, and 9
Subtraction
Chapter 1 Place Value and Whole
Numbers
Chapter 2 Estimation and Number Theory
Chapter 3 Whole Number Multiplication and Division
Science
4th
Matter
Core Content: 1.1.1
Focus: properties, states of matter, changes
Electrical Circuits
Core Content: 4.6.3
Focus: electrical circuits: open,
closed, series, parallel,
conducting and nonconducting
materials
Rocks/Natural Resources
Core Content: 2.3.1
Focus: classify earth materials, properties, renewable and non-renewable resources, rock cycle,
extinct, relationships to organisms
Science
3rd
Matter & Energy, Forces & Motion
Classify Objects by properties
Core Content: 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.2.2,
1.2.3, 1.2.4
Focus: three states of matter
Forces & Motion
(Magnets), Electrical
circuits
Core Content: 1.2.1,
4.6.3
Focus: magnets, attract,
repel, prediction, circuits,
static and current
electricity
Rocks/Fossils/Natural Resources
Core Content: 2.3.1, 3.5.1
Focus: identify different rocks, extinct/endangered species, examining fossils;
identify ways to care for air, land, & water
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Social
Studies
4th
Social
Studies
3rd
Government
Core Content: 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 5.2.1
Focus: basic purposes/functions of Kentucky government, services
provided by state, state flag, and symbols
Rules & Communities
Physical
Education
Locomotor and
Nonlocomotor Movements
Art
Library/Me
dia
Government &
Election
Core Content: 1.2.1,
1.2.2, 1.3.2, 2.2.1,
5.2.1
Focus: rights &
responsibilities of
citizens (voting),
structure of state
government, three
branches of Kentucky
government, laws,
social institutions in
Kentucky (government,
education, religion,
family)
Core Content: 1.2.1, 1.3.1, 2.2.1
Focus: identify community helpers & explain roles, laws, rules &
consequences, conflict
3 Areas of Health
Government & Civics
Core Content: 1.3.1, 1.3.2
Focus: rights and responsibilities of citizens, basic principles of democracy,
Kentucky’s constitution
Government & Civics, Elections*
Core Content: 1.1.1, 1.1.2, 1.3.2, 2.3.1, 2.3.2
Practical
Living
Music
Grade: 3/4
Choice and
Consequen
ces
Responsibil
ity
Focus: functions of local government, mayor, judge, court system, rights, responsibilities, respect, citizenship, democracy,
patriotism, Pledge of Allegiance, American flag, symbols, identify basic needs
Influence
Manners and
of Diet,
Etuquette
Rest,
Exercise
Relationships/ Movements Concepts/
Sportsmanship/ FITT Model
Body Systems
Personal
Cardiorespiratory Endurance/ Manipulative Skill: Throwing
and
General
Space
Rhythm Concepts & Durations
Native American music
Measure, bar lines, double bar lines, time signatures 2/4, 3/4, 4/4
Whole note/rest, dotted half note, half note/rest, quarter note/rest, eighth note/rest,
double eighth notes
Elements of Art (line,shape,color,texture,
Principles of Design
form)Elements (Line, Shape, Color, Texture, Form)
(emphasis,contrast,balance,pattern) Native American Art
Principles (Emphasis, Contrast, Balance, Pattern)
Media, Processes, Purposes
Introduction to
Library Rules /
Expectations /
checkout
system
Introduction to
Computer Lab
Rules /
Expectations /
Equipment use
Checking in
and out books
Review logging
in and
passwords
During Library Students will be encouraged to check out books and take Reading Counts Quizzes / All library lessons will be
correlated with classroom instruction
Computer Parts
& Terms
Information, Communication and Productivity -- Academic Expectations 1.11, 1.16,3.3, 6.1, 6.3 / Internet
Safety and Ethical & Socail Issues -- Academic Expectations 2.17, 3.6, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5 / Reasearch, Inquiry
/Problem-Solving and Innovation -- Academic Expectations 1.1, 2.3, 5.1, 5.2, 5.4, 5.5, 6.1 -- *** All areas will
be taught in correlation with classroom instructions
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Content Area
Reading
4th
Reading 3rd
Week 10
Grade: 3/4
Week 11
Week 12
Week 13
Week 14
Non-Fiction:Historical, Scientific, Technical
KCAS:4.RI.1-5, 4.RI.7
Core Skills: Inferencing, Main Idea, Text Structure and Features
4.RF.3 and 4.RF.4
Non-Fiction:Historical, Scientific, Technical
KCAS:3.RI.1-5, 3.RI.7
Core Skills: Inferencing, Main Idea, Text Structure and Feature (Compare using language that pertains
to time, sequence, cause and effect)
3.RF.3 and 3.RF.4
Language Arts
3rd and 4th
Chapter 7 Multiplication
Math
4th
Chapter 3 Whole Number Multiplication and Division
Rocks/Natur
al Resources
Core Content:
2.3.1
Focus: classify
earth materials,
properties,
renewable and
non-renewable
resources, rock
cycle, extinct,
relationships to
organisms
Week 16
Week 17
Week 18
Fiction-Myths
KCAS: 4.RL.5
Review:4.RL.1, 4.RL.2, 4.RL.3, 4.RL.4
Core Skill: Compare and Contrast
Review: Weeks 1-9
4.RF.3 and 4.RF.4
Fiction-Myths
KCAS: 3.RL.5
Review:3.RL.1, 3.RL.2, 3.RL.3, 3.RL.4
Core Skill: Compare and Contrast
Review: Weeks 1-9
3.RF.3 and 3.RF.4
Informative/Explanatory Texts
KCAS 3rd 3.W.2a-d, 3.W.4-9
4th 4.W.2a-e, 4.W.4-9
Shorter writing pieces assigned through content areas.
Grammar, Punctuation, Usage-Ongoing
KCAS: 3.L1 and 2: 4.L1. and 2
Chapter 8 Division
Chapter 9 Using Bar Models:
Multiplication and Division
Math
3rd
Science
4th
Week 15
Chapter 7 Decimals
Earth/Space Science & Energy Transformations
Core Content: 2.3.2, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5
Focus: changes to the earth’s surface, layers of the earth, weather changes, weather tools, revolution, rotation,
moon phases & cycle
Chapter 10
Money
Chapter 11
Metric
Length,
Mass, and
Volume
Chapter 8
Adding and
Subtracting
Decimals
Physical Science - Motion &
Forces
Core Content: 1.2.1, 1.2.2,
1.2.3, 4.6.2, 4.6.4, 4.6.5
Focus: motion, force, changes in
position and/or time, push, pull,
friction, simple machines,
vibration, sound travel, pitch,
magnetic field, Sun’s light & heat,
sources of light, reflection,
refraction & absorption of light,
production of heat
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Science
3rd
Social Studies
4th
Grade: 3/4
Rocks/Fossils
Water Cycle/Weather Patterns
Space Science – Earth, Moon, Sun,
/Natural
Core Content: 2.3.1, 2.3.2
Universe, Planets & Light
Resources
Focus: stages of water cycle, using weather
Core Content: 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 4.6.2, 4.6.4
Core Content: tools, describe & predict weather conditions,
Focus: solar system, location of objects in the sky, revolution & rotation, moon
2.3.1, 3.5.1
recognize weather patterns, weather maps
phases & cycle, importance of sun, sources of light, reflection, refraction &
Focus:
absorption
identify
different
rocks,
extinct/enda
ngered
species,
examining
fossils;
identify ways
to care for
air, land, &
water
Government & Election
Economics
Geography - maps,
Core Content: 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.3.2, 2.2.1, 5.2.1
Core Content: 2.2.1, 3.1.1, 3.2.1, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.4.1, 3.4.2,
landforms, natural
Focus: rights & responsibilities of citizens (voting),
3.4.3
resources, physical
structure of state government, three branches of
Focus: economy in Kentucky, scarcity, economic choices/ decisions,
environment
Kentucky government, laws, social institutions in
productive resources, profit, markets, supply/ demand, goods/services,
Core Content: 4.1.1, 4.1.2,
Kentucky (government, education, religion, family)
production, distribution, consumption, change over time, trade,
4.1.3, 4.2.1, 4.3.1, 4.3.2,
productivity, interdependence
4.4.1, 4.4.2
Focus: use of geographic tools,
locate and describe landforms,
bodies of water and natural
resources located in the regions of
KY and the US, absolute & relative
location, describe, analyze &
compare patterns of movement and
settlement in Kentucky, compare
regions in Kentucky and US by
their human and physical
characteristics, advancements in
technology assist with settlement in
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Social Studies 3rd
Government & Civics, Elections*
Core Content: 1.2.1, 1.3.1, 2.2.1
Focus: functions of local government, mayor, judge, court
system, rights, responsibilities, respect, citizenship,
democracy, patriotism, Pledge of Allegiance, American flag,
symbols, identify basic needs
Practical Living
Physical Education
Music
Art
Library/Media
Drugs and Alcohol
Grade: 3/4
Economics
Core Content: 3.1.1, 3.2.1, 3.3.1, 3.3.2, 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3
Focus: scarcity, opportunity cost, wants & needs, markets, profits,
consumer, producer, buyers, sellers, barter, supply/ demand,
goods/services, banking, technology
Self Esteem
KY
Geography - Maps, natural
resources
Core Content: 4.1.1, 4.1.2,
4.1.3, 4.2.1, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.4.1,
4.4.2
Focus: map skills, create maps, use
of cardinal directions,
characteristics of rural & urban,
types of technology, natural
resources, physical environment,
adaptation to physical environment
Conflict
Hygiene
Communicable Disease
Resolution
Flexibility/ Manipulative Skill: Catching
Simple
Muscle Strength and Endurance/ Manipulative Skill:
Space, Time,
Games
Dribbling, Passing, Shooting
Force in
Dance
Melody Concepts
Tempo & Dynamics
Shape & direction, staff, treble clef pitch notation from low C
Presto, Allegro, Moderato, Largo
Piano, mezzo piano, mezzo forte, forte
Native American Art
Purpose, Media, Processes
Stress
Subject &
Matter
Media &
Process
Colonial
Purposes
Appalachian
Media,
Processes, &
Purposes
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Content Area
Reading
4th
Reading 3rd
Language Arts
Math
3rd
Math
4th
Science
4th
Grade: 3/4
Week 19
Week 20
Week 21
Week 22
Week 23
Non-Fiction Historical, Scientific, Technical
KCAS: 4.RI.6, 4.RI.7,4.RI.8,4.RI.9
Review: 4.RI.1-5
Core Skills: Point of View, Author’s Purpose, Text to…..connections, Text Features
Review: Weeks 10-15
4.RF.3 and 4.RF.4
Week 24
Week 25
Week 26
Week 27
Fiction:Theme and Point of View From Narrations and Stories from
Different Cultures
Core Standards: 4.RL.7 and 9
Review:1-6
Core Skills: Point of View, Theme
Review Skills: Weeks 1-9, 16-18
4.RF.3 and 4.RF.4
Fiction:Theme and Illustrations
Core Standards: 3.RL.7 and 9
Review:1-6
Core Skills: Text Features,, Theme
Review Skills: Weeks 1-9, 16-18
3.RF.3 and 3.RF.4
Non-Fiction Historical, Scientific, Technical
KCAS: 3.RI.6,3.RI.7,3.RI.8,3.RI.9
Review: 3.RI.1-5
Core Skills: Point of View, Author’s Purpose, Compare and Contrast the Main Idea,
Text Features
Review: Weeks 10-15
3.RF.3 and 3.RF.4
Opinion Pieces
KCAS 3rd grade 3.W.1a-d, 3.W.4-9
4th Grade 4.W.1a-e,4.W.4-9
Shorter writing pieces assigned through content areas.
Grammar, Punctuation, Usage-Ongoing
KCAS: 3.L1 and 2: 4.L1. and 2
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14 Fractions
Chapter 15
Real World
Bar Graphs
Customary
Problems:
and Line
Length,
Measurement
Plots
Weight, and
Volume
Chapter 9 Angles
Physical Science - Motion & Forces
Core Content: 1.2.1, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 4.6.2,
4.6.4, 4.6.5
Focus: motion, force, changes in position and/or time,
push, pull, friction, simple machines, vibration, sound
travel, pitch, magnetic field, Sun’s light & heat,
sources of light, reflection, refraction & absorption of
light, production of heat
Chapter 10 Perpendicular and
Parallel Line Segments
Chapter 11 Squares and
Rectangles
Chapter 16 Time and
Temperature
Chapter 12 Area and
Perimeter
Unity & Diversity – Biological Science – Plant and Animal Life
Core Content: 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3
Focus: Plants and animals compare:structure/function ,growth/survival/reproducti on, life
cycles–reproductive characteristics, organisms, living/nonliving/once living
Unity &
Diversity –
Biological
Science –
Plant and
Animal Life
Core Content:
3.4.1,
3.4.4,
3.5.1,
4.7.1, 4.7.2
Focus:
inherited/learne
d behavior,
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instincts,
success of
organisms/envir
onment,
adaptations,
human
interactions in
the
environment,
growth,
reproduction,
and fossils.
Science
3rd
Social Studies
4th
Social Studies 3rd
Practical Living
Physical Education
Music
Art
Library/Media
Space Science – Earth, Moon, Sun,
Life Science – Plant & Animal Life
Universe, Planets & Light
Core Content: 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 4.6.1, 4.7.1
Core Content: 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.3.5, 4.6.2,
Focus: basic needs of organisms, classification, types of animals, habitats, living/nonliving/once
4.6.4
living, growth, survival, reproduction of animals and plants, adaptations, food chains, parts of a
Focus: solar system, location of objects in the
plant, photosynthesis, life cycles, ecosystem - identify different types, producer, consumer &
sky, revolution & rotation, moon phases & cycle,
importance of sun, sources of light, reflection,
refraction & absorption
Geography - maps, landforms, natural resources, physical environment
Early Cultures in KY
Core Content: 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.2.1, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.4.1, 4.4.2
Core Content: 2.1.1, 2.3.1, 2.3.2, 5.2.2, 5.2.3
Focus: use of geographic tools, locate and describe landforms, bodies of water and natural
Focus: explore and compare cultural elements of Native American,
resources located in the regions of KY and the US, absolute & relative location, describe,
Appalachian, pioneers in Kentucky, interactions that occurred between
analyze & compare patterns of movement and settlement in Kentucky, compare regions in
these diverse groups, settlement in Kentucky, change over time
Kentucky and US by their human and physical characteristics, advancements in technology
assist with settlement in KY
Geography - Maps, natural resources
Culture &
Core Content: 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.1.3, 4.2.1, 4.3.1, 4.3.2, 4.4.1, 4.4.2
Native Americans
Focus: map skills, create maps, use of cardinal directions, characteristics of rural & urban,
Core Content: 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 5.2.2, 5.2.3
types of technology, natural resources, physical environment, adaptation to physical
Focus: describe different cultures, compare
environment
Noncommuni
cable
Simple
Games
Harmony
Unison & parts
Nutrition
Safety
Review Elements of Fitness/ Manipulative Skill: Striking
Form
Repeat signs, AB form, ABA
form, round, verse/chorus
Color Theory Subject matter –
Benefits of Exercise/ Manipulative Skill:
Kicking
Elements
American folk music
Combining elements of music through
playing recorders
Media & Processes
West African Art – Media, Processes & Purposes
Color Scheme–Media & Processes
Southgate Independent Schools Weekly Pacing Guide
Content Area
Reading
4th
Reading
3rd
Language Arts
3rd and 4th
Math
3rd
Math
4th
Science
4th
Science
3rd
Week 28
Week 29
Week 30
Week 31
Non-Fiction Historical, Scientific, Technical
KCAS: 4.RI.6,4.RI.8,4.RI.9
Review: 4.RI.1-5
Core Skills: Point of View, Author’s Purpose, Text to…..connections
Review: Weeks 10-15, 19-23
4.RF.3 and 4.RF.4
Grade: 3/4
Week 32
Week 33
Week 34
Week 36
Testing
Fiction:Theme and Point of View From Narrations and Stories from
Different Cultures
Core Standards: 4.RL.7 and 9
Review:1-6
Core Skills: Point of View, Theme
Review Skills: Weeks 1-9, 16-18, 24-27
4.RF.3 and 4.RF.4
Fiction:Theme and Illustrations
Core Standards: 3.RL.7 and 9
Review:1-6
Core Skills: Text Features,, Theme
Review Skills: Weeks 1-9, 16-18, 24-27
3.RF.3 and 3.RF.4
Non-Fiction Historical, Scientific, Technical
KCAS: 3.RI.6,3.RI.7,3.RI.8,3.RI.9
Review: 3.RI.1-5
Core Skills: Point of View, Author’s Purpose, Compare and
Contrast the Main Idea, Text Features
Review: Weeks 10-15, 19-23
3.RF.3 and 3.RF.4
Review of all pieces-Choose pieces for publication.
3rd 3.W.4-6
4th 4.W.4-6 Shorter writing pieces assigned through content areas.
Grammar, Punctuation, Usage-Ongoing
KCAS: 3.L1 and 2: 4.L1. and 2
Chapter 17 Angles and Lines
Chapter 18 Two-Dimensional
Chapter 19 Area and
Shapes
Perimeter
Chapter 13 Symmetry
Week 35
Measurement
Testing
Testing
Unity & Diversity – Biological Science – Plant
Unity & Diversity – Biological Science – Plant and Animal Life
and Animal Life
Core Content: 4.6.1
Focus: food chains, food webs, ecosystems, relations between organisms, producer,
Core Content: 3.4.1, 3.4.4, 3.5.1, 4.7.1,
consumer, decomposer
4.7.2
Focus: inherited/learned behavior, instincts, success of
organisms/environment, adaptations, human
interactions in the environment, growth, reproduction,
and fossils.
Life Science – Plant & Animal Life
Forces &
Core Content: 3.4.1, 3.4.2, 3.4.3, 3.4.4, 4.6.1, 4.7.1
Motion
Focus: basic needs of organisms, classification, types of animals, habitats, living/nonliving/once living, growth, survival,
(Magnets),
reproduction of animals and plants, adaptations, food chains, parts of a plant, photosynthesis, life cycles, ecosystem - identify
Electrical
different types, producer, consumer & decomposer
circuits
Core Content:
1.2.1, 4.6.3
Focus: magnets,
Testing
Testing
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attract, repel,
prediction,
circuits, static
and current
electricity
Social Studies
4th
Social Studies 3rd
Practical Living
Physical Education
Music
Early
Cultures in
Kentucky
Core
Content:
2.1.1, 2.3.1,
2.3.2, 5.2.2,
5.2.3
Focus: explore
and compare
cultural
elements of
Native
American,
Appalachian,
pioneers in
Kentucky,
interactions that
occurred
between these
diverse groups,
settlement in
Kentucky,
change over
time
Culture &
Native
Americans
Core Content:
2.1.1, 2.1.2,
5.2.2, 5.2.3
Focus: describe
different
cultures,
compare
Historical Perspective
Testing
Core Content: 5.1.1, 5.2.1, 5.2.3
Focus: primary & secondary sources, timelines, significant events in Kentucky, historical documents, symbols,
readings – historical significance to Kentucky, investigate change over time in Kentucky
History – Famous People, Patriotic Holidays, Family
Core Content: 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 5.1.1, 5.2.1, 5.2.3
Focus: timeline, families, freedom, slavery, patriotic holidays and significance (Martin Luther King Jr., Presidents’ Day), explain
why monuments & landmarks are important, change over time, primary and secondary sources, describe and compare cultures,
symbols
Consumerism
Benefits of
Ex/ Kicking
West African music
Testing
Earth Day/
Jobs, Careers, Working
Budgets
3R’s
Balancing and Rolling
Review Elements of Fitness/ Dodging and
Cultural
Simple
Fleeing
Dance
Games
Timbre
Cultural Arts activities
Production of sound, orchestral instrument
Fine Arts Night theme activities & performances
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families (brass, string, woodwind,
percussion), human voice types
Art
Library/Media
Cultural arts activities