Spelling
| Week | Quarter | Theme | Focus / Objective |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Q1 | Community Helpers & Our Neighborhood | Extended CVC word review; blends bl/cl/fl/st/sn |
| 2 | Q1 | Homes and Families in Our Community | Digraphs ch/th/wh/ph in words |
| 3 | Q1 | Jobs and Tools People Use | Long vowel silent-e patterns (a_e, i_e, o_e, u_e) |
| 4 | Q1 | Getting Around: Transportation | Vowel teams ee/ea/oa/ai |
| 5 | Q1 | Farm to Table: Where Food Comes From | R-controlled vowels ar/or/er/ir/ur |
| 6 | Q1 | Keeping Us Safe: Firefighters and Police | Diphthongs oi/oy/ow/ou |
| 7 | Q1 | Our School Community | Compound words and syllable division |
| 8 | Q1 | Maps and Where We Live | Contractions (don't, can't, it's) |
| 9 | Q1 | Celebrating Our Community (Quarter Review) | Quarter review: phonics patterns and sight words |
| 10 | Q2 | The Four Seasons and How They Change | Suffixes -s/-es/-ed/-ing |
| 11 | Q2 | Fall Harvest and Changing Leaves | Prefixes un-/re-/pre- |
| 12 | Q2 | Weather Patterns: Wind, Rain, and Clouds | Two-syllable word decoding |
| 13 | Q2 | Day and Night, Sun and Moon | Silent letters (kn, wr, mb) |
| 14 | Q2 | Family Traditions and Celebrations | Soft c and soft g words |
| 15 | Q2 | Winter Is Coming: Cold Weather Ahead | Homophones (their/there, to/too/two) |
| 16 | Q2 | Light and Shadows in Winter | Plural noun spelling rules (-s, -es, -ies) |
| 17 | Q2 | Winter Holidays and Traditions Around the World | Comparative/superlative endings (-er, -est) |
| 18 | Q2 | New Year, New Goals (Quarter Review) | Quarter review: affixes and multisyllable decoding |
| 19 | Q3 | Animals and Their Habitats | Vowel team review with theme vocabulary |
| 20 | Q3 | Animals in Winter: Hibernation and Migration | Three-syllable word decoding |
| 21 | Q3 | Ocean and Water Habitats | Consonant blends in multisyllable words |
| 22 | Q3 | Forest and Woodland Animals | Spelling patterns for -tion/-sion |
| 23 | Q3 | Farm Animals and Their Needs | Irregular plural nouns (children, mice, feet) |
| 24 | Q3 | Insects and Small Creatures | Possessive nouns ('s) |
| 25 | Q3 | Earth's Land: Mountains, Deserts, and Rivers | Common Latin/Greek roots (intro) |
| 26 | Q3 | Caring for Animals and the Earth | High-frequency word mastery review |
| 27 | Q3 | Pets and Responsibility (Quarter Review) | Quarter review: advanced phonics and morphology |
| 28 | Q4 | Plants: Seeds, Roots, and How Things Grow | Spelling multisyllabic academic vocabulary |
| 29 | Q4 | Parts of a Plant and What They Need | Synonyms and antonyms spelling practice |
| 30 | Q4 | From Seed to Flower: Plant Life Cycles | Word families and analogies |
| 31 | Q4 | Gardens and Growing Our Own Food | Dictation with mixed phonics patterns |
| 32 | Q4 | Spring Weather and New Life | Editing for spelling in own writing |
| 33 | Q4 | Butterflies and Insect Life Cycles | Vocabulary building through theme words |
| 34 | Q4 | Healthy Bodies, Healthy Growth | Review of all major phonics patterns |
| 35 | Q4 | Looking Back: My Year in Review | Cumulative spelling review |
| 36 | Q4 | Growing Into the Next Grade (Year-End Celebration) | Year-end spelling mastery check |