Mrs. Reynolds

• Spelling Words Practice
• Spelling Assessment
• Review & Practice
• Tricky Words Review
• Sound Spelling Alternatives & Tricky Spellings
• Spelling Tree
• Nouns (Common, Proper, & Irregular, Plural)
• Alphabetical Order
• Capitalization & Punctuation 
• Antonyms & Synonyms
• Action Verbs, Verbs To-Be
• Adjectives
• The War of 1812 Readings
• Charlotte's Web chapter book reading & reading response journal
• Boost Reading
• IXL Learning

Writing: Journal Writing & Informative Writing

• Review Paragraph Conventions and Writing
• Handwriting Practice
• Writers Workshop

Knowledge Unit 8 - Insects

Lesson 1 Insects Everywhere!

Lesson 2 What Makes an Insect an Insect?

Lesson 3 Life Cycles of Insects

Lesson 4 Social Insects: Bees and Wasps

Lesson 5 Social Insects: Ants and Termites

Pausing Point

Lesson 6 Insects that Glow and Sing

Lesson 7 Armored Tanks of the Insect World

Lesson 8 Friend or Foe?

Domain Review and Assessment

• Plant Needs 

• • Plants have body parts (roots, stems, leaves) to survive and grow. 
  • Plants are living organisms and typically grow in fixed locations.
  • Though there are many different types of plants, they have common needs (air, water, minerals, light).

• Plant Diversity

• Plants are diverse in size, structure, and ecological needs. 
• Plants live in environments to which they are suited; those environments also differ: 
  • Deciduous forests (oak trees) 
  • Tropical forests (vines, epiphytes) 
  • Meadows and prairies (grasses) 
  • Deserts (cacti) 
  • Tundra (plants of small size) 
  • Ponds, lakes, rivers, and streams 
  • Oceans are home to less than a dozen known species of plants.
• Many plant habitats change in cycles over time—seasons—and plants are adapted to survive during those changes.

• Animal Needs

• Adult plants and animals reproduce. 
• Many kinds of animal parents take care of their offspring until the offspring become mature enough to care for themselves.

• Animal Diversity

• Animals are diverse in size, shape, and ecological needs.
• Animals vary in their structure.
  • Invertebrates: without backbones (snails, insects, coral) 
  • Vertebrates: with backbones (mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians)
• Animals live in environments to which they are suited; those environments differ:
  • Deciduous forests (squirrels, raccoons) 
  • Tropical forests (moles, worms) 
  • Meadows and prairies (prairie dogs) 
  • Deserts (lizards, scorpions) 
  • Tundra (arctic fox, polar bears) 
  • Ponds, lakes, rivers, and streams (fish, oysters) 
  • Oceans (There are numerous species of animals in the world’s oceans, such as sea stars and whales.)

• Ecosystems: Plant and Animal Relationships

• Many plants and animals live in a specific habitat. 
• Organisms that share a given space affect each other.
  • Animals depend on plants for food and shelter. 
  • Plants depend on animals (for example, pollination, seed dispersal).
• There are also groups of living things that are neither plants nor animals (fungi, algae, bacteria).