SECOND GRADE READING
VOCABULARY: onomatopoeia, homonyms,
vowels, consonants, characters, setting, plot, story elements,
subheading, captions, bold print.
All the vocabulary words from the
weekly vocabulary sheets.
SKILLS:
- Use images and printed words to identify, the characters, setting and plot.
- Describe how characters respond to events
- Explain the problem and solution
PHONICS:
- Identify words that are homonyms and onomatopoeia
- identify vowels and consonants
- create words with given phonograms.
SECOND GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES
VOCABULARY WORDS: communities, urban,
city, rural, suburban (suburb), compare a, contrast, dairy, map,
neighborhood, neighbor, symbols, directions, map key.
BE ABLE TO:
- Explain/understand what is in each one of the communities (urban, suburb, rural).
- Be able to compare and contrast between the types of communities.
THIRD GRADE READING
VOCABULARY: characters, setting, plot.
Problem, solution, folktales, myths, character traits, character
motivation, sequence, images, illustrations, story elements, recount,
longed, homesick, theme. Also the vocabulary words from the weekly
vocabulary sheets.
SKILLS:
- Explain the central message/moral of the story
- Describe the character and their actions
- Identify how a characters action has affected the sequence of events.
- Retell of a text including the most important components.
- Use images and text to make meaning.
THIRD GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES
VOCABULARY WORDS: community, physical
features, natural resources, city, suburb, town, rural, map, map key,
symbols, compass rose, main directions, longitude, latitude, prime
meridian, equator, coordinates, geography, mountain range, plain,
desert, river, lake, oceans, peninsula, oceans, coasts. Hemisphere,
globe.
BE ABLE TO:
- Identify the different types of land forms
- Use a map and it's features to find places.
- Use coordinates to find place around the world.
FOURTH GRADE READING
VOCABULARY: text features, non-fiction,
captions, table on contents, graphs/charts, maps, theme, topic,
compare, contrast, folktale, valuable, evidence, devoured.vocabulary
words from the weekly vocabulary sheets.
SKILLS:
- Be able to compare and contrast the themes of text.
- Use charts, graphs, diagrams to make meaning.
- Use text evidence to respond to questions.
FOURTH GRADE SOCIAL STUDIES
VOCABULARY WORDS: landforms, plains,
geography, border, plateau, valley, tributary, Mohawk River, land form
map, political map, historical map, mouth, source, Hudson River,
globe, intermediate directions, cardinal directions, symbols, natural
resources,, renewable resources, nonrenewable, population, economy,
quarry, conservation, artifact, longhouse, ancestor, Iroquois
Confederacy, ancestors, clan, clan mother, counsel, sachem, wampum,
artifact, archaeologist, prehistory, hunter-gatherers,
BE ABLE TO:
- Explain the traveling of the Hudson River from source to mouth and the features along the way.
- Identify and contrast the various types of maps.
- Explain the causes of the Iroquois confederacy.
- Describe the government that the Native Americans began after the confederacy
