Monthly Objectives:
Reading: Unit 4A Exploring Informational Text & 5A Poetry
Students will understand that text can provide information or explain a process and understand the role of text features. (Unit 5A)Students will use strategies learned thus far to read poetry in ways that captures mood, feelings, and ideas. Students will develop a wider range of vocabulary and comprehension. Students will use visualization and analysis of word choice to understand the theme. Students will participate in literary discussions involving various types of poetry and will discuss the characters and setting.
Writing: 4B Research Writing & 5B Descriptive writing
Students will be familiar with notetaking and will apply this skill in the area of research. Students will organize their research and inform. (Unit 5B)Students will use their knowledge gained about poems in the reading unit to write poetry in a variety of styles. Types of poems students will be exposed to include bu are not limited to: circle poems, list poems, Haiku, rhyming, and non-rhyming.
Math: Unit 6 Telling Time & Data and Probability. Unit 7 Number Sense and Computation.
Students will develop methods of collecting, organizing, describing, displaying and interpreting data to answer questions. Students will begin to develop the understanding of the concept of chance, to explore the possible outcomes of situations and predict results, and to begin to describe the likelihood of events (certain, impossible, most likely, and least likely). (Unit 7) Students will focus on place value with numbers to three-digits, including the use of expanded form. Students will focus on mastery of plus/minus 10 strategies, Students will also compare collections of coins up to $1.25, and 1 and 2 step addition/subtraction story problems.
How the world works IB unit:
An
inquiry into the natural world and its laws; the interaction between the
natural world (physical and biological) and human societies; how humans use
their understanding of scientific principles; the impact of scientific and
technological advances on society and on the environment.
SS2.1 The
student will demonstrate skills for historical thinking, geographical analysis,
economic decision making, and responsible citizenship by
b) using
basic map skills to locate places on maps and globes to support an
understanding of American history;
e) comparing
and contrasting people, places, or events in American history;
f) recognizing
direct cause-and-effect relationships;
SS-2.6 The
student will develop map skills by using globes and maps of the world and the
United States to locate
a) the
seven continents and the five oceans;
b) the
equator, the Prime Meridian, and the four hemispheres; and
c) major
rivers, mountain ranges, lakes, and other physical features in the United
States.
S-2.6 The
student will investigate and understand that there are different types of
weather on Earth. Key ideas include
a) different
types of weather have specific characteristics;
b) measuring,
recording, and interpreting weather data allows for identification of weather
patterns; and
c) tracking
weather allows us to prepare for the weather and storms.
S-2.8 The
student will investigate and understand that plants are important natural
resources. Key ideas include
c)
plants can help
reduce the impact of wind and
water.