Weeks of February 24 - March 7
Language Arts
Unit 3 Assessment
Unit 4 Week 1
Animal Features
Essential Question: How do animals' bodies help them?
High Frequency Words: about, animal, carry, eight, give, our
Vocabulary Words: special, splendid
Oral Vocabulary : appearance, determined, feature, predicament, relief
Focuses: Long 'a', alphabetical order, how to use a dictionary, intonation, and plot sequence
Writing and Grammar: Word choice and organization in writing, was and were, apostrophes with contractions
Math
Big Idea #2
Chapter 8 Compare and Order Numbers - Re-test will be on Friday for students scoring below a 70%
Chapter 9 Use Tens and Ones to Add and Subtract
Students will use mathematical reasoning, manipulatives, and their beginning knowledge of tens and ones to solve two-digit addition and subtraction problems.
Science
Unit #5 - Motion
Students will learn about the motion of objects as well as the forces and changes in motion. Students will collaborate to complete 2 chapter inquiries; How do objects move? How can we change motion?
Social Studies
Presidents and American Symbols
What does a president do? Who is out president? What is a vice president? Who is our vice president? What are some things that represent America?
What is an election? Students will have a mock election to vote for a class mascot.
Weeks of March 17 - March 21
Language Arts
Unit 4 Week 2
Animals Together
Essential Question: How do animals help each other?
High Frequency Words: because, blue, into, or, other, small
Vocabulary Words: partner, danger
Oral Vocabulary : behavior, beneficial, dominant, instinct, endangered
Genre: Nonfiction
Focuses: Long 'e', Prefixes re-, un-, pre-, making connections between texts, main idea and details,
Writing and Grammar: Organization, writing a report with a main idea and 3 supporting details, Has and Have, capitalization and end punctuation.
Math
Big Idea #2
Chapter 9 Use Tens and Ones to Add and Subtract
Students will use mathematical reasoning, manipulatives, and their beginning knowledge of tens and ones to solve two-digit addition and subtraction problems.
We will be continuing on with Chapter 9, when we left off for the break we had completed lesson 9.6. This week we will be completing lessons 9.7-9.11. We will have a review of the chapter on Monday and we will have the chapter test on Tuesday, March 25.
Science
Unit #5 - Motion
Students finished up Unit #5 learning about how a force is anything that moves something. We learned how a push makes something go away from us and a pull makes something come closer to us. We also learned about gravity and how it pulls things to the earth. Students will take a chapter assessment in the beginning of the week.
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.
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.
