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North Texas Christian Academy - McKinney, Tx
2009-2010 Curriculum
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1st Nine Weeks
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2nd Nine Weeks
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3rd Nine Weeks
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4th Nine Weeks
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Reading
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Review of Phonics rules, vowels, consonants, blends, and clue words, silent and oral reading
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Phonics review, accuracy and rate, compare and contrast, drawing conclusions
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Reading different genres, prediction of outcomes, fiction book reports
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Sequencing, finding main ideas, non-fiction book reports
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Language Arts
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Sentences, nine capitalization rules, periods, commas, writing leads, characters
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Writing good sentences, forming plurals, contractions, letters and addresses, order
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Dictionary skills, book reports, verbs, nouns, subjects, quotation marks, voice
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Book reports, diagramming subjects and verbs, proofreading skills, adjectives
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Handwriting
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Review all cursive letters of the alphabet
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Dictated sentences
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Paragraphs
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DOL, Bible verses
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Spelling
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Word books, one-two-and three syllable words, consonant blends
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Consonant and vowel digraphs, diphthongs, spelling bee practice
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Silent letter combinations, words with r-controlled vowels, homonyms
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Context clues, compound words
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Math
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Multiplication/division, measuring length, time, addition and subtraction facts, addition with carrying
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Multiplication tables, story problems, greater than-less than-and equal to, 3 digit dividends
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Fractions, temperature, add and subtract measures, multiplication/division tables, geometric shapes
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Multiplication and division, reducing fractions, multiplying 3 digit numbers, division with 2 digit divisors
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Social Studies
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Current events, time lines, local and state government
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Family trees, currents events, three branches of government
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Geography, maps, economics, American heritage notebooks, Christopher Columbus to Jefferson
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Biography book reports, bio presentation and project, Revolutionary and Civil wars, economics/Mall day
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Science
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Learn about safety during scientific investigations, scientific method
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Construct maps, graphs, and tables, science history, use a microscope, balance scale
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Study of plants and animals, forces, liquids, solids, gases
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Solar system and sun, eco systems, renewable/non-renewable resources
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Bible
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Jesus' early life and first year of ministry, Adam
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Story of Noah, Job, and review of Joseph
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Begin story of Moses
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Continue story of Moses
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