Term 1

Term 2

Term 3

Language

Reading:

·         Texts – parts of a text, Table of Contents, Index - Math

Reading:

·         Texts - Medieval

Reading:

·         Texts - Canada

·         Novels - SQUIRT - quantity & sustained focus, reading at appropriate level, maintaining Reading Log, Reading Conferences w/ peers

·         Novels – SQUIRT – appropriate reading level & personal preferences, Historical Fiction

·         Novels – SQUIRT - variety of genres, Award Winners

·         Poetry

·         Reference

·         Specialty Format

o        Atlas, gazateer

o        Mineral ID book

·         Library

o        location of Junior novels

o        poetry section, science books

o        public library visits every 3 wks.

Writing:

·         Letters

o        Home Journals - printing

• Summaries
  • Reading Log entries
  • Talking Book – chapter
• Creative writing
  • Shoe Story, use of dialogue & quotation marks
  • Colors of Canada (class)
  • Alliteration Alphabet (class)
• 3^rd Person  - About the Author
• Handwriting
  • Cursive review
  • Lettering
  • Magic lines
• Computer
  • log in
  • word files, naming
• Note Taking - Viewing & NT
  • Organization of notes
• Reflections  Viewing & Reflecting
• Fluency – FMTW – Five Minute Timed Writing – printing
  • pre-writing – jotting down notes
  • writing about what you know, events that happened
• Conventions
  • letter format
  • notebook set up & notes
  • quotation marks & dialogue
• Spelling – weekly spelling & grammar assignments, pre & post-test
• SSQ – Grammar & Vocabulary
• Vocabulary
  • similes & antonyms
  • word pole
• Creative Writing
  • Awful Alphabet Alliteration Picture Book
  • The Colors of Canada

Oral/Visual: 

• Talk About

• Poetry Presentation - memorization
• Rock Talk – informed talking about
• Listening
  • following instructions
  • Listening to presentations - courtesy
  • Getting the Main Idea Level D
• Viewing with a purpose
• Presentation outlines, cue cards
• IPD – tagged book, costume, props
• Cooperative Play – stacking cubes

Talking Book:

·         The Indian in the Cupboard

·         Reading Comprehension – CLOZE

·         Specialty Format

o        Internet, Glossary

·         Library

o        Historical Fiction novels

o        poetry section, science books

o        public library visits every 3 wks.

Writing:

·         Letters

o        Home Journals - cursive

·         Summaries

o        Reading Log entries

o        Talking Book - chapter

·         Creative writing – pattern book – The Important Book …(science)

·         3^rd Person - Personal Blurb

·         Speech writing – time constraint

·         Handwriting

o        Fluent cursive in letter writing & some notes

o        Reading cursive

o        keyboarding drills

·         Computer

o        MS Publisher – special event cards

·         Note Taking - Transcribing from the board

o        Reading & note-taking

·         Self Evaluations - PMI

·         Fluency – FMTW – printing or cursive – choice

o        pre-writing – jotting down notes

o        writing about what you know, events that happened

·         Conventions

o        point form notes

·         Spelling – weekly spelling & grammar assignments, pre & post-test

·         SSQ – Grammar & Vocabulary

·         Vocabulary

o        metaphors

o        word salad

Oral/Visual:

• Talk About

• Public speaking – Speech – intensely practiced reading or memorized
• Public Speaking Contest – Mar.
• Medieval Role Presentation – informed talking about
• Light Experiment Demo – talk about & show
• Listening
  • multi-step instructions
  • Peer teaching - math
  • Getting the Main Idea Level E
• Viewing – for information
• Cue cards – full speech, point form notes
• IPD – demonstration, artifacts, models
• Cooperative Play - checkers

Talking Book:

• Company of Fools

·         Choral Reading, Read aloud

·         Specialty Format

o        Dictionaries, Thesaurus

·         Research – library & the internet

Writing:

• Letters
  • Home Journals – cursive & computer WP
  • Thank You Letters
• Summaries
  • Reading Log entries
  • Talking Book – chapter
• Creative Writing
  • Poetry – free choice
• 1^st Person  - Monologue script
• Yearbook articles, I remember when
• Handwriting
  • cursive note taking

• Computer
  • keyboarding & word processing
  • importing clip art
• Note Taking – transcribing from board in cursive
• Reflections - Health
• Self evaluations – Reflections on learning
• Fluency – FMTW – cursive
  • pre-writing – jotting down notes
  • writing about what you know, events that happened
• Conventions
  • quotation marks
• Spelling – weekly spelling & grammar assignments, pre & post-test
• SSQ – Grammar & Vocabulary
• Vocabulary
  • word ladder

Oral/Visual:

• Junk Art Sculpture Presentation – talk about & demonstrate
• Historical Fiction Monologue – read aloud dramatically

• Provincial Tourism Presentation – talk about
• Listening
  • Quicksolve Whodunnit Problems
  • MMNC, oral MMM
• Choral Reading
• Script, cue cards
• IPD – demonstration, artifacts, models, video, audio, costume, props
• Cooperative Play – card games

Talking Book: Trumpet of the Swan

Mathematics

1. Number Sense & Numeration

• Number Facts: MMM +-
• Addition – 2 4-digit numbers
• Subtraction – 3 digit from 4 digit
• Rounding – nearest 10, 100, 1000
• Place value 0.01 to 10 000
• standard, expanded written form

• Number Facts: MMM+-X/ up to 9x9
• Multiplication 3 digit X 1 digit

• Number Facts: Mental Math – 1 digit
• Division 3 digit by 1 digit
• Fractions
• Decimals

2. Measurement

• Time – units, analog clock – s, m, h, d, wk, m, yr, decade, century
• Money

• Linear measurement – mm, cm, km
• Perimeter
• Area

• Volume – cubic cm, cubic m
• Capacity – L, mL
• Mass – g, kg

3. Geometry & Spatial Sense   /   Applied & Integrated Art

nil

• Grid Art, congruent, similar figures, grid coordinates
• 2-D geometry
• Protractor – measure angles

• 3-D geometry
• Sketching of 3-D and 2-D objects
• Motion geometry
• Tangrams / Pentominos
• Tesselations

4. Patterning & Algebra

• PWL ~ Playing with Logic
• Sequencing, relationship, deductive reasoning

• WP ~ Word Problems
• MB ~ Mind Benders
• Deductive reasoning, logic problems
• Board games – chess & checkers

• POTW ~ Problem of the Week
• Strategies – systematic lists, guess & check, draw a picture
• Card Games, shuffling cards, die

5. Data Management    Computer Software Applications

nil

• Graphing – pictograph, bar – vertical, horizontal, plot data, tally chart, 1 to 1, 1 to many
• Reading data – average (mean)

• Probability
• Coin toss, rolling dice

Social Studies

Human Rights

• Mapping & Sketching
• Viewing & reflecting
• Reflecting on own life
• I am Thankful For
• Colors of Canada – class book
• Remembrance Day Assembly

Medieval Studies

• Role playing, feast, performing
• Note-taking from text
• Medieval Feast
• Illuminations, Calligraphy
• Field Trip - Royal Ontario Museum – Nov.

Canada

• Research on internet, brochures from Tourism agencies
• Note-taking from text
• Mapping – sketching & coloring
• Provincial Tourism Presentation

Science

Rocks, Minerals & Erosion

• Investigating, recording
• Rock Collection
• Rock Talk – 1 mineral
• Growing crystals & experiments (extension)
• Field Trip – Quarry – Sept.
• Tree Planting – Oct. (Habitat Unit)

Light, Sound, Colour & Energy

• Experimenting, demonstrating
• Viewing & note-taking
• Research – Computer software – Light & Sound
• Oral book report on a science book from the library
• Kitchen Band – home-made instruments
• Science Experiment Demo
• The Important Book About Light, Colour & Sound (extension)

Pulleys & Gears

• Building, mucking about, presenting
• Junk Art Sculpture
• Field Trip - Ontario Science Centre – Mar.

Habitat

• Environmental Stewardship, doing & reflecting
• Tree planting
• Field Trip – BORC – date varies
• Earth Day Electives – Apr.22
• Field Trip – end of June – Zoo
• Arbor Week, Environmental Presentations

Visual Arts   Music   Drama/ Dance

Art:

• 2D - Lettering, Illustrating, Sketching, Posters, Collage
  • Initial Art, lettering
  • Border Art – around memorized poems
• 3D – Shoe sculpture
• Card – Thanksgiving Day
• Publication – Shoe Story, Coors of Canada (class book)
• Integration – mapping, diagrams in science

Music:

• Singing
  
   

Drama:

• Poetry Presentation 8 & 12 line poems
  • Memorization, costume, props

Art:

• 2D - Sketching,
• 3D - Paper Mache figure,
• Publication – All About Me, The Important Book About Light, Colour & Sound
• Card – Stained Glass Triptych Holiday, Pop-Up
• Integration - Colour Collage, Illuminations, Grid Art, diagrams in social studies & science

Music:

• Classical Music Appreciation – draw to music
• Performing
• Singing
• Kitchen Band - Science
• Instruments of the symphony
• Field Trip: Toronto Symphony – Feb.

Dance:

• Group Presentation – exercise line dancing

Drama:

• Role Playing & entertaining at the Medieval Feast

Art:

• 2D –Yearbook Cover Design, Oil pastels
• 3D – Psanky Egg, Paper Mache mask

• Card – Egg Tangram Spring Card, Mother’s Day Hanger, Father’s Day
• Publication – Class Yearbook
• Integration – Junk Art Sculpture, mapping, diagrams in science & social studies

Music:

• Jazz & Blues Music Appreciation – listening
• International Music Appreciation - from around the world – find selection, use CD player, explain preference
• Harmonica
• Reading music

Drama:

• Indigo Presentation  - choral poetry recitation & acting out
• Historical Fiction Monologue

Physical Education & Health

Phys.Ed:

• soccer baseball
• Terry Fox Run
• King’s Court
• cooperative games
• balls – catch, throw, dribble
• volleyball
• hiking & tree planting

Health: Personal Safety – school rules, fire, road, home, bike

Fitness: DVPA In class stretch, dance & movement breaks

Social/Emotional: Personal Learning Journal, Cooperative Play, Class Community Service

Phys.Ed:

• basketball
• skating
• snow shoeing – 1 week
• dancercise

Health: Substance Abuse – tobacco

Fitness: DVPA In class stretch, dance & movement breaks

Social/Emotional: Personal Learning Journal, Cooperative Play, Class Community Service

Phys.Ed:

• floor hockey
• ribbon, dance, parachute exploration
• scooter soccer
• skipping & hula hoop
• track & field
• hiking & tree planting

Health: Growth & Development

Fitness: DVPA In class stretch, dance & movement breaks

Social/Emotional: Personal Learning Journal, Cooperative Play, Class Community Service

Projects

·         Memorize 3 poems – 8 (Sept.) & 12 lines (Oct.), 1 free choice – perform with costume, props & actions

·         Rock Collection  (8 – 12)

·         Rock Talk (1 - 3 min.), 1 cue card, 1 specimen, 1 tagged book

·         I am Thankful For poem - publish

·        Shoe Story - write in school, illustrate at home, publish - Reader Response Postcards - Nov.

·        Medieval Role Presentation (2 to 3 min.) perform with costume & props, 2 tagged books, 1 cue card - Dec.

·        Feast Performance – music, drama & dance - Dec.

·        Grid Art – complete at home - due Jan.

·        Oral Science Book Talk - Jan.

·        Kitchen Band Presentation (1 to 3 min.) 1 cue card - Jan.

·        Speech (3 to 5 min., written out on cue cards or memorized) - write in class, practice at home, present Feb.

·        The Important Book About Light, Sound & Color – publish (extension)

·        Light or Sound Experiment Demo (1 to 3 min.) 1 cue card, equipment (extension)

·         Junk Art Sculpture Presentation (2 -4 min), 1 cue card, make sculpture at home, demonstration Mar.

·         Historical Fiction Monologue (1 to 2 pages written) read aloud dramatically with costumes, props & dramatic gestures - April

·         Provincial Tourism Presentation (1 – 3 min), 1 cue card, 2 tagged books or magazines, props - May

·         Class Choral Reading Performance at Indigo- May

·         Harmonica Performance - May

·         Class Yearbook – publish - June

Timeline

Weeks 1 – 10

Weeks 11 – 24

Weeks 25 – 38*40