Social Studies: Being Patriot in My Community- Students will establish the foundation for responsible citizenship by examining how holidays, historical figures, symbols and customs represent American beliefs and principles and contribute to our national identity.
Math: Patterns- Students will use patterns to identify relationships and make predictions. They will use patterns of sounds, physical movement, and concrete objects. Students begin to use what they learned in earlier units and extend learning by exploring patterns such as growing patterns, repeating patterns, and geometric patterns
Reading:
• discuss the purposes for reading and listening to various texts (e.g., to become involved in real and imagined events, settings, actions, and to enjoy language);
•ask and respond to questions about text
•monitor and adjust comprehension (e.g., using background knowledge, creating sensory images, rereading a portion aloud)
•make inferences based on the cover, title, illustrations, and plot
•retell or act out important events in stories
•make connections to own experiences, to ideas in other texts, and to the larger community and discuss textual evidence.
Writing:
•dictate or write sentences to tell a story and put the sentences in chronological sequence
•Write clearly and coherently using standard writing conventions
•descriptive words
•use complete simple sentences.
•capitalize the first letter in a sentence
• use punctuation at the end of a sentence
•use phonological knowledge to match sounds to letters
