Curriculum

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Language Arts

• Spelling and Vocabulary 
  • Carden Spelling Book
  • Wordly Wise 
• Log and Daily Drill (Monday - Thursday)
  • ​​​Sound and Vowel Controls (Chart)
  • Workbooks:  Language, Spelling, Class Book 3
• Language Rules
  • ​Parts of Speech
    • Pronouns (subject, object & possessive)​​
• Sentence Analysis
  • Who, what, when, where, why, and how
  • ​Key word(s) and title
  • Direct objects
• Verb Conjugations
  • Review of Present, Past, and Present Perfect Tenses
  • Past Perfect, Future, and Future Perfect Tenses
  • Past Participles
  • Regular, Negative, Interrogative, and Progressive Forms
• Dictation (develops listening skills)
• Reading Comprehension - small reading groups M-Th
  • Rhythmic reading
  • Oral and comprehensive
  • Recall
  • Nonfiction and Fiction Paired Texts
• Public Speaking
  • Poems presented in Friday Assemblies
    Class Play:  Save the date:  January 29, 2026

History and Geography

• Textbook:    Harcourt - Social Studies:  Our Communities
  • ​Communities based on Geography, History, and Culture
• ​Reference Book:  Teacher Created Resources - States and Capitals
  
  • ​5 regions of the U.S.
    

Literature

• The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
• Excerpts from Grimm’s Fairy Tales
  • Cinderella
  • Rumpelstiltskin
  • Hansel and Gretel
  • The Fisherman and His Wife
• Mufaro’s Daughters 
  • Modern African fairy tale (loosely based on Cinderella)
• Black Beauty
• The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo
• From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E. L. Konigsburg​

Writing and Composition

• Book Reports
  • Mr. Popper’s Penguins
  • Where/What Is? (famous places)
    
  • Grade level fiction (student choice)
  • Diorama
• Composition Patterns (Carden)
• Creative Writing and Narratives (using Trait Crate)
• Persuasive Writing (opinions)
• ​Expository Writing (facts and information)
• Letters
• Research Paper
  • Zimbabwe (Mufaro’s Daughters)
  • Christmas in different countries
    
  • U. S. President