Past Weeks
See what the students have done in the 4th quarter!
Weeks of March 24 - March 28
Language Arts
Unit 4 Week 2
Animals Together - Weekly Assessment on Monday, March 24
Unit 4 Week 3
In The Wild
EQ: How do animals survive in nature?
Genre: Nonfiction and Poetry
High-Frequency Words: find, food, know, more, over, start, warm
Vocabulary Words: search, seek
Oral Vocabulary Words:coomunicate, superior, survive, provide, wilderness
Phonics: Long /o/: o, oa, ow, oe
Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Key Details
Writing Traits: Organization
Grammar: Go and Do
Math
Big Idea #2
Chapter 9 Use Tens and Ones to Add and Subtract - Chapter Test is on Tuesday, March 25
Big Idea #3 - Geometry, Patterns, and Measurement
Chapter 10 Geometry
Students will compose and decompose two-dimensional and three-dimensional geometric shapes.
This week students will be learning about three-dimensional shapes. They will learn to identify, classify, compare, and contrast them.
Science
Unit #6 - Living Things
Students will make observations of living things and their environment using the five senses. The will identify the major parts of plants, including the stem, roots, leaves, and flowers. Students will also differentiate between living and nonliving things.
By the end of the unit students should have an understanding of 3 major concepts.
1. All plants and animals, including humans, are alike in some ways and different in others.
2. All plants and animals, including humans, have internal parts and extrenal structures that function to keep them alive and help them grow and reproduce.
3. Humans can better understand the natural world through careful observation.
This week's essential question: What are living and nonliving things?
Social Studies
Goods and Services
We will start the first half of a 2 part lesson on goods and services. Students will learn what a good is vs. what a services is. Students will also learn how we exchange money for both of these things.
By the end of this lesson students will understand the following concepts:
1. Recgonize that money is a method of exchanging goods and services.
2. Define opportunity costs as giving up one thing for another.
3. Distinguish between exmaples of goods and services.
Week of April 21 - April 25
Language Arts
Unit 4 Week 5
Working With Animals
EQ: How do people work with animals?
Genre: Nonfiction
High-Frequency Words: found, hard, near, woman, would, write
Vocabulary Words: clever, signal
Oral Vocabulary Words: advice, career, remarkable, soothe, trust
Phonics: Long e: y, ey
Writing Traits: Organization; How-to Sentences
Grammar: Commas in a sentences
Math
Big Idea #3
Chapter 11 - Patterns
Lessons 11.1 - 11.5
Students will extend repeating and growing patterns, fill in missing terms, and justify reasoning. They will also solve non-routine problems by acting them out, using manipulatives, and drawing diagrams.
Science
Unit #6 - Living Things
Students will continue to research and work on their animal groups books this week. The books are due on Thursday. Students will be assigned a report on an animal in a group that they are assigned to. Students will present to the class on Friday.
Social Studies
Earth Day!
Students will be learning about how we can help our Earth stay clean and safe. We will be talking about the 3 R's - reduce, reuse, recycle. We will also be talking about conserving energy and what we can do as a class to beautify our school campus. We will also be watching "The Lorax" and talking about how we can help the Earth.
Week of April 28 - May 2
Language Arts Unit 5 Week 1 & 2See it, Sort it! & Up In The SkyEQ: How can we classify and categorize things? & What can you see in the sky?Genre: FantasyHigh-Frequency Words: four, none, only, large, put, round, another, climb, full, great, poor, throughVocabulary Words: trouble, whole, leaped, stretchedOral Vocabulary Words: classify, distinguish, entire, organize, startled, certain, observe, remained, thoughtful, vastPhonics: Words with /ar/ ar and /ur/Writing Traits: Fluency and word choiceGrammar: Captitalize nouns and capitalizaion and end punctuationMathBig Idea #3Chapter 11 - PatternsLessons 11.6 - 11.8 (End of Chapter)Chapter 11 Test will be on FridayStudents will extend repeating and growing patterns, fill in missing terms, and justify reasoning. They will also solve non-routine problems by acting them out, using manipulatives, and drawing diagrams.ScienceUnit #6 - Living ThingsStudents will present their animal projects on Monday. Tuesday we will start lesson 5 - Parts of a Plant. Students will identify the major parts of plants, including stem, roots, leaves, and flowers.Social StudiesThis week there will be no Social Studies LessonsStudents will be using the extra 1/2 hour to do writing/grammar assignments as well as independent reading. Regular social studies lessons will resume next week!
