Content Areas
We will start the year with the "Building a Reading Life." The students will learn about making good book choices, tracking their thinking while they read, reading between the lines, etc. It will be important for the students to begin building their reading stamina.
The first writing unit is all about writing true stories. The students will learn about picking a moment in their lives and describing the "heart of the story" in detail. We will work on writing in paragraphs, using transitions, and continue practicing basic mechanics (punctuation, capitalization, etc.)
The first three chapters in math are quick chapters. Students will learn about place value, ways of reading and writing numbers, and numbers into the hundred thousands in Chapter 1. Chapter 2 focuses on practicing mental math strategies to add and subtract numbers. Chapter 3 will follow with addition and subtraction strategies with numbers into the hundred thousands.
The beginning of the school year is a variety of social studies concepts. We will begin the year studying Our City: Then and Now followed by Our Country: and it's Geography. We will finish the year with Our World: and it's Geography.
The first science unit of the year is on observing weather patterns. We will continue on to how things move, and adapting to change.
