Religion-Faith First-Resources for Christian Living (RCL)
Unit 1-We Believe:
God’s Word to us, Our Father in Heaven, The Gift of Faith, Jesus the Son of God, Death and Resurrection of Jesus, Receive the Holy Spirit, The People of God
Scripture: Listening to God, The Promise of Isaac, The Good Shepherd
Unit 2-We Worship:
Celebrating God’s Love to Us, Sharing in Christ’s Life and Work, Jesus’ Work of Healing, Signs of God’s Love,
Scripture: Jesus Feeds the People, Jesus Heals a Young Girl
Unit 3-We Live:
Created in God’s Image, Happy the People whose God is the Lord, Living a Moral Life, Love the Lord Your God, Love One Another
Scripture: Living in God’s Covenant, The Law and the Prophets
Unit 4-We Pray:
People of Prayer, We Pray in the Name of Jesus,
Scripture: Lord Teach Us to Pray
Unit 5-We Celebrate:
The Liturgical Year, Advent, Christmas, Lent, Holy Week, The Season of Easter
The Ten Commandments:
1. I the Lord your God: you shall not have strange gods before me.
2. You shall not take the name of the Lord God in vain.
3. Remember to keep holy the Lord’s Day.
4. Honor your father and your mother.
5. You shall not kill.
6. You shall not commit adultery.
7. You shall not steal.
8. You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor.
9. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife.
10. You shall not covet your neighbor’s goods.
The Seven Sacraments:
Sacraments of Initiation:
Baptism
Confirmation
Eucharist
Sacraments of Healing:
Reconciliation
Anointing of the Sick
Sacraments at the Service of Communion
Holy Orders
Matrimony
Act of Contrition
My God, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart.
In choosing to do wrong and failing to do good, I have sinned
against you whom I should love above all things.
I firmly intend, with your help, to do penance, to sin no more,
and to avoid whatever leads me to sin.
Our Savior Jesus Christ suffered and died for us.
In his name, my God, have mercy.
VoWac:
Is a supplement that provides instruction in word pronunciation and spelling strategies that are needed. It provides a secure sendoff in word attack usage that carries through when the vocabulary becomes too complex to pronounce by memory. It provides a secure sendoff in any written word that requires spelling of unfamiliar words.
Clover as used in VoWac:
C=Closed Syllable as in cat. (labeled C)
L=Consonant-le syllable as in table. (labeled L)
O=Open syllable as in we. (labeled O)
V= Vowel team syllable as in read.(Labeled V)
E=Vowel consonant -Silent e syllable as in cake (labeled V_E)
R=R controlled syllable as in barn, bird. (labeled R)
Units 33-43:
Miscellaneous Situations
Syllable Division
Suffixes
Adding Suffixes to words ending in silent e
Contractions-Homophones
Prefixes-Final endings with tricky spellings
Adding Suffixes to words ending in y
Plurals
Ways to spell ⁄K⁄
More Multiple spellings
Overall Review of all Units
Reading:
Houghton Mifflin Company-Invitations to Literacy
The Reading Themes:
1. It’s Cool, It’s School
2. Earth Patrol
3. Super Sleuths
4. American Snapshots
5. Meet the Challenge
6. Could It Really Happen?
English:
Houghton Mifflin
Unit 1:
Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
Unit 2:
Nouns
Unit 3:
Verbs
Unit 4:
Adjectives
Unit 5:
Capitalization
Unit 6:
Pronouns
Unit 7:
Adverbs and Prepositions
Spelling:
VoWac Spelling-Goes with VoWac Lessons
A typical week of Spelling:
Day 1-Introduce the Spell List, Clovermark, Write words
Day 2-Work with High risk or Memory Words, study
Day 3-Home Spell Projects are Due
Day 4-Spelling Word Test
Day 5-Dictation Test
Students develop the responsibility of turning words they cannot spell into words that they can. Students have the experience of writing an essay question as part of the end-of-week test.
Math:
Saxon Publishers, Inc.
We study mathematics because it is an important part of our daily lives, and even more important in the adult world. Saxon math is set up in finding similar problems presented over and over again. Solving problems day after day is the secret to success. Most of the word problems are drawn from our daily experiences.
The goal for students is to learn and remember the foundational skills of Mathematics. We have a series of daily lessons, each of which is followed by a set of problems. The problem sets review everything that has been taught previously.
The sequence of lessons and the content of the problem sets have been carefully planned. We do not skip lessons or sets. each lesson is presented using examples to lead students through guided practice. All work is shown and errors corrected. Genuine learning with high level retention takes place with consistent effort.
Assessments take place about every five lessons. Students will make excellent progress if they are able to score 80% or better on these assessments. Brief speed drills are used to improve, recall, and increase problem solving speed and automate frequently needed skills.
Importance of having memorized the multiplication facts is of high priority at this grade level. The majority of the lessons in the second semester include these facts, when working with the lessons and problem sets.
Social Studies:
Macmillan⁄McGraw-Hill
Our Country’s Regions:
Unit 1: The Southwest-
The environment, history, and economy of the Southwest
Unit 2: The Southeast-
The environment, history, and economy of the Southeast
Unit 3: The Northeast-
The environment, history, and economy of the Northeast
Unit 4: The Middlewest-
The environment, history, and economy of the Middlewest
Unit 5: The Mountain States-
The environment, history, and economy of the Mountain
States
Unit 6: The West-
The environment, history, and economy of the West
North Dakota Studies:
North Dakota⁄Children's Press Chicago
The Spirit of North Dakota The Land
The People The Beginning
The Pioneer Era A New Destiny
Government & The Economy Recreation & Leisure
Highlight of the Flickertail State
The Students end the North Dakota Unit by doing a Research-
Map Project and making a History Replica Project.
Science:
Scott Foresman
Unit 1-Life Science
Plant Structure and function
Animal Structure and function
Energy in Ecosystems
Surviving in the Environment
Unit 2-Physical Science
Measuring Matter
Force and Motion
Electricity and Magnetism
Light and Sound
Unit 3- Earth Science
Measuring Weather
The Makeup of the Earth
Exploring the Oceans
Movements in the Solar System
Unit 4- Human Body
The Digestive, Circulatory, and Nervous Systems
Keeping your Body Systems Healthy
See the Fourth Grade Web Page for pictures and activities!