Month: September 2014

 

MATH:  Read tally charts.

                 Make and read bar graphs.

                Collect data(information) and construct a bar graph.

 

ENGLISH: Unit Test: Topics: What is a Sentence?

                                           Naming and Action Part.

                                           Telling Sentences

                                           Questions

                                           What Kind of Sentence?

Poetry Writing:  Students will recognize repetition, rhyme, rhythm and onomatopoeia in poetry.

                                  Learn about elements of a poem

Write a sensory poem.

                             A sensory poem, or five-senses poem, describes how a poet perceives what something looks like,

                             tastes like, smells like, feels like, and sounds like. It does not need to rhyme.

Question Poems: Students will choose a topic and write questions about it. It can be rhyming or free verse.

                                     Example: Flower

                                                 Oh, flower

                                                Why are you drooping?

                                                Why are your leaves hanging down?

                                                Why do you look so dry?

                                                Did someone forget to water you?

Five W’s Poem: Students will write a Five W’s Poem

                                 Who?

                                 What?

                                 When?

                                 Where?

                                Why?

 This types of poems will reinforce the topics; Question words and Writing questions.

 

READING GROUPS: Golden Delicious: “Did You See Chip?”

                                            Red Delicious: “All That Corn”

                                            Green Delicious: “Jack and Rick”

 

SPELLING WORDS: Golden: will big ship six hid pick trick wind his this hill fill

                                            Challenge Words: admit blizzard bitter

                                           Green: dot got job jog clock shop hop hot top not block rock

                                            Challenge Words: profit adopt lobster

 

SCIENCE: Topic: Parts of a Plant

                     Students will observe and compare plants.

                      Examine a plant and identify its basic parts.

                     Describe the functions of each part.

 

SOCIAL STUDIES: Natural and Man-made Features

                                        Students should be able to identify the natural and man-made features in their community.

 

BIBLE: Oral Test: The First Family (Cain and Abel) Continues.

                 Topic: Noah Saves His Family

                 Students will dramatize the story of Noah.

 

                Know that Noah was faithful to finish the job of building the ark and was saved from the flood.

 

Memory Verse: For God so loved the word that He gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in Him

                                 shall not perish but have eternal life.”  John 3:16

NB. Parents, please ensure that your child studies the Memory verse. Remember

there is a reward for the first students who know the memory verse.

 

For God so loved the word that He gave his one and only son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.”   John 3:16

 

 

 

MATH:  Sort and classify objects using a Venn diagram.

                 Make and read picture graphs.

                 Read tally charts.

                 Make and read bar graphs.

 

ENGLISH: Recognize and use question words in sentences.

                         Distinguish between telling sentences and questions.

                         Punctuate telling sentences and questions.

Chapter test: Telling sentences and questions; question words.

                          Poetry writing

 

READING GROUPS: Golden Delicious: “I am a Butterfly”

                                            Red Delicious: “Todd’s Box”

                                            Green Delicious: “Ants”

 

SPELLING WORDS: Golden: desk send rest bell well egg help dress best seven any many

                                            Challenge Words: beggar tread memory

                                            Red: pick pack tack back sack sick kick trick clock truck

                                            Challenge Words: they walk knock

 

SCIENCE: Vocabulary Review; Living and Non-living things.

                      In class project; Living and Non-living Things.    

 

SOCIAL STUDIES: Topic: Our Islands/Our Communities

                                         Oral Test          

 

BIBLE: Topic: The First Family( Cain and Abel)

                              Oral Test

Memory Verse: “Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; He is Christ the Lord.” St Luke 2:11

 

NB. Parents, please ensure that your child studies the Memory verse. Remember

there is a reward for the first students who know the memory verse.

 

MATH:  Show addition stories using counters.

                   Explore the concept of part-part and whole.

                   Add by joining two groups.

                   Write addition sentences using + and =.

                   Explore finding sum by adding zero.

                   Chapter Test: Concepts above

 

ENGLISH: Identify the action part of a sentence.

                         Identify telling sentences.

                        Capitalize and punctuate telling sentences.

                        Identify questions.

                       Capitalize and punctuate questions. 

 

READING GROUPS: Golden Delicious: ‘Where Do Frogs Come From’

                                            Red Delicious: ‘Jack and Rick’

                                            Green Delicious: ‘Sam and the Bag’

 

SPELLING WORDS: Golden: bed yes end kept shelf says jet ten went next when said

                                            Challenge Words: melon pedal method

                                            Red: will  six  fin this pin hid wig hill wig win his fill

                                            Challenge Words: admit blizzard bitter

 

SCIENCE: Topic: Living and Non-living Things Continues.

                      Test: Living and Non-living Things.    

 

SOCIAL STUDIES: Topic: Our Islands/Our Communities

                                                     Identify the three Cayman Islands.      

                                                     Identify districts/communities on each island and write the names. 

 

BIBLE: Topic: The First Family( Cain and Abel)

                             Students will study Adam’s family and see how they work together.

                            Learn that it is better to follow God’s ways than our own.

Memory Verse: “Let the children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to them.” St Mark. 10:14

First Grade will learn: “Let the children come to me and do not hinder them” St. Mark 10:14a

 

NB. Parents, please ensure that your child studies the Memory verse. Remember

there is a reward for the first students who know the memory verse.

 

 

MATH: Order whole numbers to 100.

                  Describe the order of numbers.

                  Compare numbers to 20.

                  Identify >, < & = signs and write signs to show numbers that are >,< or = equal.

Assessment: Order numbers and Comparing numbers using >,< & = signs. 

 

ENGLISH: Identify the naming and action part of a sentence.

                         Identify telling sentences.

                        Capitalize and punctuate telling sentences.

                       

READING GROUPS: To be assigned.

 

SPELLING WORDS:Golden Delicious ; back fast sang ask last land that catch thank have black

                                                                                   matter match after                                                                                                                       

                                               Challenge Words: subtract January Saturday

                                            Red Delicious: van had bad and bag rag flat has mat  after

                                              Challenge Words: apple matter hammer

 

SCIENCE: Topics: Senses/Living and Non-living Things 

                                     Understand that their senses help them learn.                 

                                     Distinguish between and compare living organism and non-living objects.

                                     Identify objects that are living and non-living.

 

SOCIAL STUDIES: Topic: Our Community

                                                    Describe and define a community as a place where people live, work and play.

                                                    Tell the name of their community.

                                                    Name the districts that are in the Cayman Islands.

                                                   Identify the five districts that are in Grand Cayman.

 

BIBLE: Topic: The Creation

                             Students will know that Adam named all the animals.

                             Adam was put in the garden of Eden to take care of it.

                            God made Eve from Adam’s side

Memory Verse: Jesus answered, “It is written, man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.”        

                                  Matthew 4:4

First Grade will Learn: Jesus answered, “It is written, man does not live on bread alone.” Matthew 4:4a

NB. Parents, please ensure that your child studies the Memory verse. Remember

there is a reward for the first students who know the memory verse.