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Enduring Understandings
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Essential Questions
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Sample Instructional Activities/Assessments
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Bible
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Learn God’s promises.
Understand that God’s promises are for us today, too.
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What promises has God made to His people?
Why did He make these promises?
What promises does he make to us? Why?
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Daily Bible lessons
Promises project
Promises mobile
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Reading
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Construct meaning and fluency in reading literature.
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How can we build on our understandings of reading to understand what we read?
How can we become more fluent readers?
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Shared readings
Read alouds
DIBELS tests
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Spelling
Vocabulary
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Use words to strengthen comprehension and meanings.
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What are some key words (theme words) used in stories?
How can we use stories to help us understand unfamiliar words?
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Stoplight vocabulary
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Grammar
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Introduce the parts of speech.
Deepen understanding and use of nouns, verbs, and adjectives.
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How do we use the parts of speech to form correct sentences and speech?
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Mad libs
Group practice
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Writing
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Learn the writing process; study author’s purpose.
Review sentence-writing, and introduce paragraph-writing.
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How do we use sentences to form paragraphs?
Why do authors write different styles of writing?
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“Animal Tracks” booklet
Descriptive “shape” writing
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Mathematics
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Deepen understanding of addition and subtraction, time and money.
Introduce and practice fractions and measurements.
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What does it mean to add and subtract?
How do we use money? Why do we use money?
How do we use clocks?
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Workbook sheets
Math Soup magazines
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Science
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Explore the purposes and wonders of God’s creation in the areas of rocks, nutrition, animals, and energy.
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How can we use our understanding of rocks, nutrition, animals, and energy to praise our Creator?
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AIMS journals
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Social Studies
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Learn and apply the eight strands of social studies, focusing on the area of peoples (communities) and human-environment interaction.
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How do we live in community?
How do communities differ?
How do God’s people form a Christian community?
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“Bonnemaville”
2nd grade mall
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Christian Conduct
Service
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We do our best, “working as unto our Lord.”
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Did we do our best for God today?
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Redo’s
Clean up our classroom and playground
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