🍎 August & September Learning Highlights
➕ Math: enVision Topics 1–3
Students will build foundational skills in multiplication, division, and place value through problem-based learning and visual models:
Topic 1: Â Place Value Students deepen their understanding of large numbers, compare and order them, and practice rounding using place value relationships.
Topic 2: Multiplication and Division—Meanings and Facts Students explore the relationship between multiplication and division, learn strategies for fact fluency, and use visual models to represent operations.
Topic 3: Generate and Analyze Patterns Focuses on identifying number patterns, creating tables, and writing rules to describe relationships—laying the groundwork for algebraic thinking.
✏️ Writing: Informational Writing – National Parks
Students will research and write about U.S. National Parks, using nonfiction text features such as:
Headings and subheadings
Captions and diagrams
Maps and bolded vocabulary
This unit blends research, structure, and creativity as students learn to inform and engage their readers with real-world topics.
📚 Reading: Benchmark Workshop Units 1 – Nonfiction Animal Texts
Students dive into engaging nonfiction texts focused on animals and their behaviors, habitats, and adaptations. Through close reading and discussion, they’ll practice:
Identifying main ideas and supporting details
Using text features to locate and understand information
Making inferences and asking questions
Comparing and contrasting animal traits and survival strategies
This unit builds background knowledge while strengthening comprehension and vocabulary skills.
🌿 Science: Animal & Plant Adaptations
Students investigate how living things survive and thrive in their environments. Topics include:
Physical and behavioral adaptations
How traits help organisms meet basic needs
Examples from desert, arctic, rainforest, and aquatic ecosystems
Hands-on activities and inquiry-based discussions will help students connect science to the natural world around them.