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Drama
Students are experiencing drama and persuasive elements through reading. Students will discuss characters and settings, while experiencing drama through reader's theaters. Students will showcase their knowledge and skills by performing various scripts in the classroom.
Fiction
Students will get creative by creating characters, not once, but twice. They will give them specific traits and develop a story for them in their series book. They will develop their character's adventures throughout their stories using timelines; then share it with their classmates.
Addition & Subtraction
Students will review fact strategies gained throughout the year and extend this skill for numeric sentences with two or three addends adding up to 20. They will learn to solve word problems for different types of structures such as result/start/change unknown and determine what they know and what they are being asked to solve. They will also practice comparison problems and generating their own word problems when provided with an equation.
Place Value
Students will demonstrate their knowledge of place value by describing numbers in different ways; including, pictorial form, expanded form, regrouping, and standard form for numbers up to 120. Mainly, we will focus on comparative language and comparing numbers based on their value. They will have the opportunity to use their knowledge of value to order numbers on an open number line according to magnitude, generate a number greater or less than another, and justify their responses using values to determine if a number is greater than, less than, or equal to another.
Food Chains & Life Cycles
Students will explore food chains and life cycles. They will dive into consumers, producers, and the interdependence that animals or sources of food have on one another. We will focus on the interdependence and transfer of energy. We will explore three different types of live cycles, including bird, fish, and frogs.
History
Students will study economic choices, saving, and spending. They will extend on their previous learning of needs and wants to learn about the choices that people must make when deciding between both according to the financial availability that people have to make such purchases. They will learn about consumers, producers, goods, and services.
Economics & Technology
Needs and Wants- Students will describe ways that families meet basic human needs and describe similarities and differences in ways families meet basic human needs.
Goods and Services- The student will identify examples of goods and services in the home, school, and community. They will also identify ways people exchange goods and services and identify the role of markets in the exchange of goods and services.
Economic Choice- Identify examples of choices families make when buying goods and services.
Saving and Spending- The student understands the condition of not being able to have all the goods and services one wants. They will identify examples of people wanting more than they can have and understand the value of work.
In art, we will review the elements of art and creating fall themed art projects. Each grade will also be starting their Wester art projects.
In October, we are practicing using fall themed songs to perform rhythms and play games
We will be playing chasing, fleeing, dodging games, as well as learning the basic skills for the game of 4 square.