September & October

• Everyday Math:  Routines, Review & Assessment and Adding & Subtraction
• Reading: My Father’s Dragon
• Book Report: Mystery Book Report
• Fall Poetry
• Research on Salmon
• Pacific Coast Salmon

• Salmon Dissection with Kate Poaster

• Salmon Field Trip to Cedar River

• Salmon Calendars

 November & December

• Everyday Math:  Linear Measures & Area and Multiplication & Division
• Reading:  Ramona Quimby, Age 8, Stone Fox
• Eye & Light Science Lab
• Winter Poetry
• Persuasive Turkey Writing/Art Project
• Geography and Mapping Skills

 January & February

• Everyday Math:  Place Value in Whole Numbers & Decimals and Geometry
• Reading: Helen Keller or Harriet Tubman
• Book Report: Biography Newspaper Project
• Color of Snow Writing
• January: Changes Science Kit
• February: Electricity Science Kit

• Northwest Native Americans

• Native American Satchel & Tribal Writing Projects

March

• Everyday Math:  Multiplication & Division and Fractions
• Reading:  Sarah, Plain and Tall, Facing West,  and Pioneer Literature Circles

• Oregon Trail Journal Entries

• Apple Valley School
• Pioneers

• Everyday Math:  Multiplication & Division
• Reading: Sarah, Plain and Tall and Rocks & Minerals Non-Fiction text
• Book Report: Historical Story Quilt Interview
• Creative Writing/Poetry
• Rocks and Minerals Science Kit
• Civics - Democracy Basics

• Everyday Math:  Measurement & Data and Probability 

• Strategy games (cribbage, chess, mancala, dominoes)

• Reading: Pagoo and  James and the Giant Peach
• Crowd Writing
• Tide Pool Project & Plaque
• Marine Life of the Puget Sound
• Puget Sound Lab
• Alki Beach field trip with Kate Poaster