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Unit 1: Plants and Animals Grow and Change |
Week 1 – A Mountain Gorilla Grows Up; Five Little Tadpoles; Someday; Caterpillars |
Week 2 – An Oak Tree Has a Life Cycle; Baby Animals; Grow, Ducklings, Grow; Caterpillars |
Week 3 – Baby Animals: Three Personal Narratives; My Garden; The Seed; Caterpillars |
Unit 2: Many Kinds of Characters |
Week 1 – Wolfie the Bunny; Look in a Book!; Old Mother Hubbard; By Myself |
Week 2 – Abuelita’s Secret; Three Little Kittens; The Turtle and the Hare; By Myself |
Week 3 – When Turtle Grew Feathers; The Boy Who Cried Wolf; The Elves and the Shoemaker; By Myself |
Unit 3: Being a Good Community Member |
Week 1 – Being a Responsible Citizen; In the Neighborhood; Neighbors, Neighbors; We Have a Little Garden |
Week 2 – People Who Made Contributions; Can You Keep Earth Clean?; Reduce, Reuse, Recycle; We Have a Little Garden |
Week 3 – Government and Laws; Firefighters; Firefighters to the Rescue; We Have a Little Garden |
Unit 4: Stories Have a Narrator |
Week 1 – Let Me Finish!; Fairy Tale Song; Lavender’s Blue; Old King Cole |
Week 2 – Tall and Small Play Ball; Once I Saw a Little Bird; Over in the Meadow; Old King Cole |
Week 3 – The Lost Kitten; The Fox and the Hen; The Secret; Old King Cole |
Unit 5: Technology at Work |
Week 1 – Working with Technology; Go, Robot, Go!; Robots: Big and Small; The Drinking Fountain |
Week 2 – How to Make a Pulley; We’re Going to the Moon; The Moon; The Drinking Fountain |
Week 3 – Technology Breakdown; I Wonder; Picture This; The Drinking Fountain |
Unit 6: Stories Teach Many Lessons |
Week 1 – Stories Teach Many Lessons; Lunch; No Tiger Hunt Today; Friends |
Week 2 – Mother Bruce; When I Hurry; The Ant and the Grasshopper; Friends |
Week 3 – Opinions About Two Books: There’s a Bear on My Chair and Mother Bruce; Five Brown Bears; Stories That Teach Lessons; Friends |
Unit 7: Past, Present, and Future |
Week 1 – Statues and Monuments; Let’s Go, Go, Go!; Long Ago on the Go; Now We Are Six |
Week 2 – Dear Abuelo; Playing Games; Sounds of a School Day Long Ago; Now We Are Six |
Week 3 – Thanksgiving Dinner 2088; Hooray for Heroes; Who Was Harriet Tubman?; Now We Are Six |
Unit 8: Observing the Sky |
Week 1 – Night and Day; Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star; Stars in the Night Sky; The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cookie |
Week 2 – Night Sky; Zoom, Zoom, Zoom; An Astronaut’s Space Suit; The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cookie |
Week 3 – How to Make Constellations, Sunprints, and an Eclipse; April Clouds; Tears from the Silver River; The Moon’s the North Wind’s Cookie |
Unit 9: We Use Goods and Services |
Week 1 – Goods and Services; The Breakfast Trade; Cushy Cow Bonnie; The Animal Store |
Week 2 – Jaylen’s Juice Box; A Pet Needs a Vet; Rat-a-Tat-Tat; The Animal Store |
Week 3 – From Pine Tree to Pizza Box; Pay and Play at the Zoo; Crocodile; The Animal Store |
Unit 10: Explore Sound, Light, and Heat |
Week 1 – Investigate Sound; Dawn is the Best Time of Day; Animal Talk; I Know All the Sounds That the Animals Make |
Week 2 – Investigate Light and Heat; I Clap My Hands; Good Vibrations; I Know All the Sounds That the Animals Make |
Week 3 – I Hear With My Ears; My Shadow; How Shadows Form; I Know All the Sounds That the Animals Make |