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Curriculum Guide
 
September & October
  • Salmon Research and Water Cycle

  • Salmon Dissection with Kate Poaster

  • Salmon/Watershed field trip (Cedar River)

  • Salmon Research Calendar

  • Reading – My Father's Dragon, & non-fiction text about salmon & water

  • OCTOBER - Mystery Book Report

  • Fall Poetry

  • Everyday Math:  Routines, Review & Assessment and Adding & Subtraction

November & December
  • Eye & Light Science Kit

  • Reading: Ramona Quimby, Age 8

  • Winter Poetry

  • Geography and Mapping Skills

  • NOVEMBER: Persuasive Turkey Writing/Art Project

  • Everyday Math:  Linear Measures & Area and Multiplication & Division

January & February
  • NW Native Americans

  • Reading: Helen Keller & NW Native American legends

  • JANUARY: Book Report- Biography Newspaper Project

  • JANUARY - Changes Science Kit

  • FEBRUARY - Electricity Science Kit

  • Everyday Math:  Place Value in Whole Numbers & Decimals and Geometry
March
  • Pioneers

  • Reading: Sarah, Plain & Tall (WASL Stem Questions), If You Traveled West in a Covered Wagon

  • Pioneer Journal Writing Project

  • Apple Valley School

  • Everyday Math:  Multiplication & Division and Fractions

April
  • Rocks and Minerals Science Kit

  • Reading: Non-fiction text about rocks and minerals

  • Reading: Pioneer Literature Circles

  • APRIL: Story Quilt Interview

  • Magic School Bus Inside the Earth

  • Creative Writing/Poetry

  • Everyday Math:  Multiplication & Division
May & June
  • Tide Pool Research Project & Plaque

  • Marine Life of Puget Sound

  • Puget Sound Lab

  • Alki Beach field trip with Kate Poaster

  • Democracy Unit

  • Reading: James and the Giant Peach

  • Everyday Math:  Measurement & Data and Probability 

November, March & May - We will include our health units/concepts during these months.