Curriculum Information
Quarter 1:
ELA/WRITING
MATH
Quarter 2:
ELA/WRITING
MATH
ELA/WRITING
MATH
Quarter 4:
ELA/WRITING
SCIENCE
ELA/WRITING
- Building Reading Stamina! (20 minutes nightly)
- Using comprehension strategies to better understand what we read
- The students will use a variety of fiction and nonfiction literature to research how students around the world overcome learning challenges.
- Writing informative texts.
- Analyze our own reading strengths and areas of improvement to create a reading strategies bookmark
MATH
- Building Mathematical Community & Understanding Equal Groups
- Using Data to Solve Problems
- Stories with Addition & Subtraction
- Human Body
- Bones, Muscles, & Skin
- Bones, Muscles, & Skin
- Civics and Government
Quarter 2:
ELA/WRITING
- Building Reading Stamina (25 minutes nightly)
- Using comprehension strategies to understand what we read
- Use a variety of texts to conduct research on frog species.
- Write Porquoi Tales (stories that explain why)
- Write informative texts
MATH
- Stories with Addition and Subtraction
- Making Sense of Multiplication and Division
- Reasoning with Shapes and their attributes
- Matter
- Force and Motion
- Geography and Environmental Literacy
ELA/WRITING
- Building Reading Stamina (30 minutes nightly)
- Using comprehension strategies to better understand what we read
- Complete a book study on classic literature; focus: Peter Pan
- Compare/Contrast different versions of Peter Pan
- Analyze Characters' Point of View
- Write a critique of the text
MATH
- Applying the operations to Area and Perimeter
- Understanding Fractions as parts of a whole
- Earth in the Solar System
- Economics and Financial Literacy
Quarter 4:
ELA/WRITING
- Building Reading Stamina (35 minutes nightly)
- Use nonfiction texts to research issues that involves access to water on our planet
- Write an informative text
- Create a public service announcement that informs others
- Using tools to measure length, weight, and capacity
- Understanding Time
SCIENCE
- Earth's Land and Water Features
- Plants on Earth
- History and Culture