UNITS OF STUDY
Reading
Novel Studies
· The Cay Theodore Taylor
· Sign of the Beaver Elizabeth George Speare
· The Best Christmas Pageant Ever Barbara Robinson
· Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh Robert C. O'Brien
· Number the Stars Lois Lowery
· The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe C.S. Lewis
Other mini-units
- Folktales
- Historical Non-Fiction
- Poetry
- Songwriting
- Seasonal Selections
Writing
· Sentence Building
· Paragraph Mechanics
· Multiple Paragraph Essays
· Songwriting
· Descriptive Paragraphs
· Poetry
· Opinion Writing
· Persuasive Paragraphs
· Genre Studies
English
· Sentence Building
· Parts of Speech:
Nouns, verbs, adverbs, adjectives, pronouns, articles, prepositions, conjunctions
· Similes and Metaphors
· Subject/Verb Agreement
· Punctuation
· Homophones
Math
· Addition/Subtraction of larger numbers
· Multiplication/Division including the introduction to long division
· Mastery of basic skills for addition and multiplication.
· Authentic problem solving
· Basic geometric shapes including calculations of area and perimeter.
· Algebra including simplification of simple expression and equation, graphing coordinates of both positive and negative integers.
· Review of customary and metric measurements
· Introduction to fractions including addition and subtraction with common denominators.
· Decimals and their relationship to division/fractions.
Social Studies
· Tennessee History with related field trips such as:
o Nashville Walking Tour
o Country Music Hall of Fame and Song Writers Contest
o Belle Meade Plantation
o The Hermitage (Docents for the day).
· Regions of the United States
Science
· Food Chemistry and Related Systems of the Body
· Electricity – Creating an electrical house serves as the grand finale
· Space
· Land and Water – stream table simulations of various landforms
· Animals – Classroom becomes the home to aquatic, tropical and woodland animals for observation
· Nature’s Classroom in Mentone, Alabama reinforces and connects several units to authentic situations.
