Unit 1 Week 1
Spelling Words (VCCV):
1. happen
2. lettuce
3. basket
4. winter
5. sister
6. problem
7. supper
8. subject
9. lesson
10. spelling
11. napkin
12. collar
13. traffic
14. suggest
15. puppet
16. skillet
17. picnic
18. planet
19. system
20. pumpkin
Grammar:
Sentences
A complete sentence tells a complete idea, begins with a capital letter, and ends with an end mark.
Sentence:
The dogs run across the grass.
They bark happily.
Flowers are beautiful.
Ten blue balloons rise.
Crazy kangaroos are jumping up and down.
Not a Sentence:
chewing on a bone
playing on the grass
are beautiful
ten blue balloons
jumping up and down
(Look at the examples and think about why each one is or is not a complete sentence)
Unit 1 Week 2
Spelling Words (Plurals):
1. pennies
2. inches
3. plants
4. families
5. bodies
6. glasses
7. wishes
8. pockets
9. lists
10. copies
11. parties
12. bunches
13. crashes
14. supplies
15. pencils
16. accidents
17. libraries
18. mysteries
19. carpenters
20. merchants
Grammar:
Subjects and Predicates
A sentence tells a complete idea with a subject and predicate.
A subject tells who or what the sentence is about.
A predicate tells what the subject is or does.
In the following sentences, the subject and the predicate are separated.
The boys / climb the tree.
They / laugh and play.
Unit 1 Week 3
Spelling Words (Present and Past Tense Verbs):
1. using
2. getting
3. easiest
4. swimming
5. heavier
6. greatest
7. pleased
8. emptied
9. leaving
10. worried
11. strangest
12. freezing
13. funniest
14. angrier
15. shopped
16. included
17. occurred
18. supplying
19. scarier
20. happiest
Grammar:
Statements and Questions
A statement tells something. It begins with a capital letter and ends with a period.
A question asks something. It begins with a capital letter and ends with a question mark.
Statement: Today is sunny.
Question: What is the weather today?
Unit 1 Week 4
Spelling Words (Vowels ee, ea, ai, oa, ay, ow):
1. clean
2. agree
3. teeth
4. dream
5. grain
6. coach
7. display
8. window
9. shadow
10. cheese
11. peach
12. braid
13. Sunday
14. float
15. thrown
16. entertain
17. complain
18. bleachers
19. willow
20. wheat
Grammar:
Commands and Exclamations
A command tells someone to do something.
It begins with a capital letter and ends with a period.
An exclamation tells something with very strong emotion.
It begins with a capital letter and ends with an exclamation point.
Command: Put the cup on the table.
Exclamation: This apple is delicious!
Unit 1 Week 5
Spelling Words(Vowels ou, ow, oi, oy):
1. proud
2. shower
3. hour
4. amount
5. voyage
6. choice
7. avoid
8. thousand
9. prowl
10. employ
11. bounce
12. poison
13. annoy
14. appoint
15. broil
16. however
17. mountain
18. coward
19. turmoil
20. chowder
Grammar:
Compound Sentences
A compound sentence is made up of two simple sentences joined with a comma and a word such as and or but.
To make a compound sentence, write the first sentence.
Put a comma in place of the end punctuation and add a word such as but.
Then add the second sentence, but begin it with a lowercase letter unless it is a proper noun or I.
Example: I took my notebook, but I forgot to take my pencil.