Reading (EL Education Curriculum) This quarter we will be learning about children experiencing learning challenges all over the world and how they overcome them. We will be connecting this knowledge to their own personal learning challenges and strategies to overcome them. The main texts for this quarter are: Waiting for the Biblioburro Rain School Nasreen's Secret School My Librarian is a Camel
We focus a lot of helping students see that they are part of a global community, and we discuss the educational differences throughout the world. Students will be communicating with one another about texts and learning challenges. Students will be using context clues to figure out what unknown words mean. Students will work on making inferences. Students will be reading texts to find the gist, central message, and moral. Students will be writing short, constructed responses to questions about a text.
Math This quarter we will be exploring equal groups, repeated addition, skip counting, and arrays and how they help us understand multiplication. We will also collect data and use that data to create bar graphs and pictographs to represent that data. Using the data we will also answer questions as well as ask questions. Lastly, this quarter we will use strategies like place value and decomposing numbers to help us better understand addition and subtraction.
Students will be writing multiplication equations to represent story problems Students will use pictures, arrays, and repeated addition to model story problems Students will identify patterns in multiplication Students will collect data Students will organize data Students will represent the data collected by creating a scaled picture graph and a scaled bar graph Students will analyze and interpret data from a graph Students will solve one and two step problems using data in the graphs created Students will use expanded form (breaking numbers down into their place value) to decompose numbers to solve addition and subtraction Students will apply the relationship between addition and subtraction to solve problems Students will solve two-step word problems using addition and subtraction
Social Studies In social studies this quarter we will be studying civics and government on the local level. We will study how the structure and function of local government aids in the democratic process, as well as how the local government structures and function has changed over time. We will also talk about how participating in local government can lead to a positive impact on our community.
Students will be able to explain the three branches of government (focus on local government) Students will summarize the historical development of local governments Students will describe the structure of local government and how it functions to serve citizens Students will model ways in which responsible citizens take part in public debate and discussion Students will determine possible ways to protect and contribute to their communities.
Science This quarter we will be learning about the human body--specifically, bones, muscles, and skin! Our essential questions for this unit are: How is the human body structured to carry on the necessary functions of life? How do the functions of the skeletal and muscular systems compare? Why is skin necessary for the human body?
At the end of this unit, students will be able to... Explain that the human body is made of systems to include the skeletal and muscular system. Identify why the human body systems are essential for life. Describe ways the skeletal and muscular systems protect, move, and support the human body. Compare the functions of the skeletal and muscular system. Explain why skin is necessary Explain why skin keeps the human body healthy Construct explanations as to why the skeletal system protects, supports, and enables movement of the human body. Construct explanations as to why the muscular system protects, supports, and enables movement of the human body. Observing the human body in motion then identify the skeleton as a system. Develop and use models of the human skeleton and observe that each bone has a certain shape, position, and function.