October- Class Themes: About Me/ Skeletons/Farm (apples, pumpkins, trees,farm animals)/Color is Everywhere
Science Focus: Unit A –Animals; Topic 3, Animal Babies;
Plants; Topics 1-2, How Plants Grow & What Plants Need
Unit D- Growing and Changing correlates with skeletons.
Unit B Topic 1, Grouping Objects correlates with apples and pumpkins for sorting and Venn diagrams.
Unit B Topic 2, Light or Heavy correlates with weighing apples and pumkins.
Unit B Topic 3, Looking at Objects-Parts to Whole; correlates with apples and apple printing and fruit salad.

November- Class Themes: Thanksgiving/In the Barnyard/The Little Red Hen
Science Focus: Unit D- Being Healthy (germs, nutrition)

December- Class Themes: Gingerbread Man/Three Little Kittens/Pets
Science Focus: Unit D- Your Senses; Unit A- Animals, Topic 2

January-Class Themes: Winter/The Snowy Day/New Year’s
Science Focus: Unit B- Sound, Heat, and Light

February- Class Themes: Transportation/Going Places
Science Focus: Unit B- Movement; Unit B- Matter

March- Class Themes: Here Come the Bears (hibernation) /Nighttime (space, day & night)
Science Focus: Unit C- Earth and Sky; Unit C- Weather

April- Class Themes: Earth Day/Peter Rabbit
Science Focus: Unit C- Caring for the Earth; Unit A-Plants

May-Class Themes: Spring/Mother’s Day/ Peter Rabbit
Science Focus: Unit A- Plants

June-Class Themes: Eggs/Ducks & Chicks
Science Focus: Unit A-Topic 3-Animal Babies

*Only Classroom themes that correlate with science listed here. Houghton-Mifflin reading series themes or books are in bold italics. Some topics overlap two months because they carry over or are done in either month depending on time constraints.