BAV Vocabulary

Kindergarten

will read the story Baby Animals and learn some names for baby animals.  We will then then draw a picture of how our favorite baby animal
AnimalBabies.html
would look like when it grows up and what it does when it plays.
  little and play
is our new sight word.

AnimalBabies.html

We will look at a more extensive list on one of my favorite sites called Enchanted Learning

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/animals/Animalbabies.shtml

Then we will delve into F words on  Enchanted Learning's Picture Dictionary on the Internet
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Fisfor.shtml
and see many many F words.

We will work on more position words too like
around,  left, right, up and down.
Practice these terms at home especially left and right and around.
We will also classify and categorize animals as well as determine which group they belonged in. 
Then we will draw some more pictures and write a word to complete a sentence.

Unit 4  Week 1
Grades 1-5

First Grade
will read an Informational Nonfiction book about City Birds. In particular this book will tell us about robins, sparrows, pigeons, blue jays and red-tailed hawks nesting areas in cities. We will focus on comprehension skills. We will also look on the internet and see other common birds that were not discussed in the book. 
Then we will discover that there were two meanings to bat and saw. We will look them up too and see all kinds of different bats! Next, we will look closely at long o words and we will learn that when there is an o in the middle of the word and an e is on the end of the word, the o says its name. (like nose) We will also leaned that ow can also say o as in the word show.
We will then play the sequence game and explain to our partner what happens next.  Last we will practice using the word "was" in sentences.
Our sight words are
any
open
saw
soon

Second Grade will read about
Yaks of the Mountains. We will learn that Yaks live in Central Asia and that they have very long hair which keeps them warm in the tall cold mountains of Tibet and Nepal.  We  will discover that yaks are mammals and are related to cows but they have long horns and long hair.  We will also learn that yak milk is used to  make yogurt and cheese and the yaks fur is used to make rope. 

Then we will learn about snow leopards and ibex goats who also live in the mountains with the yaks and we will compare them to the yaks.
Next we will look at word endings s and es and the ar and or sound words like star and far.  Last we will be introduced to linking verbs. 
Sight words are
happen
here
out
what

 

Third Grade will read the book
From Farm to Dinner Table:Food's Great Journey.  It will show the different food regions of the United States and how our production of food increased  with the inventions of the transcontinental rail line, the steamboat, motor trucks, refrigerated trucks, ships and airplanes. We will learn it changed from 3 billion tons of freight in 1860 to 1 1/2 trillion tons in 2002.
We will look closely at a diagram that shows  farms sending food to canning factories, bread factories, milk plants and meat plants.  Then the factories and plants send it to the supermarket where we go to buy the food.

For our grammar lesson we  will look at all kinds of Idioms on the internet, we will play a game and  learn that an idiom is a phrase, or group of words, that means something different when the words are together than when each word is separate like

It is raining cats and dogs.
which means
it isn't really raining cats and dogs. It is raining very hard.

We will also look at words with the broad o sound as in vault and straw.
Then we will compare and contrast phrases.  We Compare when we tell how things are the same and we Contrast when we tell how things are different.
Then we will chart the verbs Be, Do and Have and see that it takes many different forms when it is in the present and past tense.

Fourth Grade will read the book Hollywood Hounds.  It us about famous dogs who performed in movies and on television.  We will learn that usually more than one dog does all the tricks in the movies and sometimes the trainers find the dogs they train in dog pounds.
We then we will look at more prefixes and their meanings, review the inflected endings ed and ing and review pronouns which take the place of a noun.  Then we will also be introduced to  antecedents (the noun a pronoun replaces)
  of those pronouns. Last we will look at phrases and draw conclusions from those statements.


Fifth Grade will read a story called
Swimming Together-The Way It Should Be. It is historical fiction which means the characters are not real people but the author took his information from events that happened in the past.  In this case the story occurred in the late 1950's to early 1960's and will tell us about the the discrimination and prejudices that occurred  before there were integration laws. The author cites a particular event in Pennsylvania that he used as a reference.
Our vocabulary lesson will review homophones. The phonics lesson will focus on Schwa l and Schwa-n and our language structure lesson this week will review pronouns and antecedents (see fourth grade).  Last we will analyze characters and setting for our Reading Comprehension lesson.

 

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