Month: January 2015

 

MATH: Measure Length in Inches

• Estimate and measure length in inches.
• Test
  

 

 ENGLISH: Homophones/Homonyms

•  tell what homophones are.
•  Recognize homophones in sentences.
• List at least four homophones
  

 

READING GROUPS: 

•   Golden Delicious: “At Home Around the World”
•  Red Delicious: ” Tomas Rivera”
•  Green Delicious: “I am a Butterfly”

 

SPELLING:

Golden Apples: eat       dream      leap    mean     peach    clean    please    beach    heat

                                 cheat      read      seat    bean       reach    lead

 Challenge Words:  cheap      leader       disease         

 

Green Apples: jar    art      car    far     farm   arm     dark  cart   card

                               star     barn    mark

Challenge Words: farmer     father    party

 

SCIENCE: Project Presentation

• Classifying Animals

 

SOCIAL STUDIES: Sports Played in our Community

• List the different sports played in their community.
• Name the different sports played at school.
• Test

 

BIBLE: Topic: Joseph Saves Egypt Continues 

• Understand that Joseph acknowledged and honored God.
• Review the Life of Joseph. 
• Test

 

MEMORY VERSE: “But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared,

                                          he saved  us, not because of righteous things we had done, 

                                          but because of his mercy.”  Titus 3:4-5

                                        First Grade will Learn the green portion.

 

MATH: Compare, Order and Measure Length

• Compare and order the lengths of two or more objects using direct comparison.
•  Estimate and measure length  using nonstandard units. 
• Estimate and measure length in centimeter.
• Test
  

 

 ENGLISH: Antonyms

•  tell what antonyms are.
•  Recognize antonyms in sentences.
• List at least four antonyms
  

 

READING GROUPS: 

•   Golden Delicious: “Reading Comprehension”
•  Red Delicious:” Reading Comprehension”
•  Green Delicious: “Reading Comprehension”

 

SPELLING: No New Words. Students will study misspelt words

                        from the previous weeks and sight words.

Golden Apples:  Challenge Words:

Green Apples: Challenge Words: 

 

SCIENCE: Topic: How Do Animals Grow?

• Review Insects /Test: 
• observe changes in the life cycle of mammals and birds.
• Compare the ways young mammals and birds depend on their parents

  for their basic needs.

 

SOCIAL STUDIES: Review Interesting Places in the Cayman Islands.

• Identify interesting places that people visit in the Cayman Islands.
• list and identify interesting places that  people visit in each district.
• Test

 

BIBLE: Topic: Joseph in Prison & Joseph Saves Egypt

• Students will understand that it is wise to flee evil.
• Even though Joseph was in prison, God was with him.
• Recall ways dreams affected Joseph’s life.
• Understand that Joseph acknowledged and honored God.

   

MEMORY VERSE: “All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking,

                                           correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God

may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.”

 2 Timothy 3:16-17 

                                         First Grade will Learn the blue portion.

 

MATH: Order Numbers & Skip Counting

• Test: skip count by twos, fives and tens.
•  Identify, describe and create patterns.   
• Copy a pictorial pattern to solve a problem. 
• Describe and extend a pattern.
• Solve patterns based on number problems.
•  Test: Numbers & Patterns   

 

 ENGLISH:  Test: Homographs

•  Topic: Writing a Friendly Letter
•  listen to a model of a friendly letter and learn about its parts.
• Identify information included in the greeting, body and closing of a friendly letter.
• Write a friendly letter referring back to their plan.
• learn how to address an envelope and write a return address.

 

READING GROUPS: 

•   Golden Delicious: “Me On The Map”
•  Red Delicious:” I am a Butterfly”
•  Green Delicious: “Fun with Fish”

 

SPELLING:

Golden Apples: handed   ended   thanked   asked   wished   fished   tricked   dressing  

                                 helping   picking   fishing   thinking  wishing   catching

 Challenge Words: claimed denying alerting ( to be studied in class)

 

Green Apples: chip   chin   itch  inch    catch   match

                               watch   fetch  patch   check

 Challenge Words:  snatch     stitch       children

 

SCIENCE: Topic: Insects Continue.

• Children will identify animals that are insects.
• Recognize parts of an insect.
• identify the characteristics of an insect that allow its basic needs to be met.

 

SOCIAL STUDIES: Topic: Interesting Places in the Cayman Islands.

• Identify interesting places that people visit in the Cayman Islands.
• list and identify interesting places that  people visit in each district.

 

BIBLE: Topic: Joseph

• Test: Jacob and Esau
• Students will relate the story of Joseph and his brothers.
•  Understand that God turns bad experiences in Joseph’s life to good.

 

MEMORY VERSE:  “Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, 

                                        be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.”    1 Timothy 1:17