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Student Performance Objectives:
• Participate in meaningful discussions about expository texts.
• Summarize the main idea and supporting details.
• Tell facts from opinions and prove my facts.
• Describe text structures.
• Use text features to locate information.
• Ask questions that help me understand what I read.
• Take turns speaking and listening to others.
• Read independently for longer periods of time.
Student Performance Objectives:
•Write independently for longer periods of time.
•Write a page or more per day or reach my personal volume goal.
•Generate ideas for writing.
•Choose a topic I can write about.
•Explain ideas or information about a topic.
•Write a central idea, thesis, claim, bold opinion.
•Provide supporting details for my central idea.
•Use correct essay structure.
•Organize my writing using paragraphs.
•Revise my writing.
•Use an editing checklist.
•Write legibly.
We will continue our learning about Personal Financial Literacy through the lens of an individual and how these topics apply to real life. We will then look through the lens of a business owner or entrepreneur and how the topics affect and assist businesses. Following this unit, we will practice and identify priority standards requiring growth to increase student achievement and readiness for fifth grade.
Student Performance Objectives:
I can tell the difference between fixed and variable expenses
I can calculate profit
I can compare the advantages and disadvantages of different savings options
I can describe how to allocate a weekly allowance when spending and saving
I can describe the purpose of a financial institution
I can describe the purpose of keeping money safe, borrowing money, and lending
I can represent data on a frequency table, dot plot, and a stem-and-leaf plot.
I can solve problems using data from a frequency table, dot plot, or a stem-and-leaf plot.
We will learn that organisms undergo similar life processes and have structures that function to help them survive within their environments. The student will explore and explain how structures and functions of plants such as waxy leaves and deep roots enable them to survive in their environment. Students will differentiate between inherited and acquired physical traits of organisms.
Student Performance Objectives:
I can observe a leaf and explain the environment that it lives in.
I can observe a root and explain the environment that it lives in.
I can observe a stem and explain the environment that it lives in.
I can explain how wide vs. narrow leaves help it survive.
I can explain how a waxy coating or thickened structure helps a plant survive.
I can explain how shallow vs deep roots help a plant survive.
I can explain the difference between inherited and acquired physical traits.
I can list examples of inherited physical traits.
I can list examples of acquired physical traits.
I can analyze a scenario or list and determine which items describe inherited or acquired physical traits.
We will explain the effects of the railroad industry on life in Texas, including changes to cities and major industries. We will explain the development and impact of the oil and gas industry on industrialization and urbanization in Texas, including Spindletop and important people such as Pattillo Higgins.
We will dive into Economics to describe how the free enterprise system works, including supply and demand,
identify examples of the benefits of the free enterprise system such as choice and opportunity and describe the development of the free enterprise system in Texas such as the growth of cash crops by early colonists and the railroad boom.
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.