Curriculum

English Language Arts

• myView Unit 2 - Unit Theme: Adaptations

• Essential Question - How do living things adapt to the world around them?

• Week 4: “Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow”

  • Poetry - analyze structure, rhythm, rhyme, and meter to visualize imagery in poetry.

• Week 5: “The Weird and Wonderful Echidna” and “The Very Peculiar Platypus

  • Informational Text - monitor comprehension to help synthesize information from multiple sources.

• Unit Theme - Collaborate with others to determine how living things adapt to the world around them.

• Reading Workshop - Know about the different types of informational text and understand their structures and features.

• Reading-Writing Workshop Bridge - Use language to make connections between reading and writing informational text.

• Writing Workshop - Use elements of informational text to write a travel article.

Math

• Eureka Math Module 2 - Place Value Concepts for Multiplication and Division

  • In module 2, students multiply two-digit numbers by one-digit numbers by using the distributive property. They divide two- and three-digit numbers by one-digit numbers by using the break apart and distribute strategy. Students apply their multiplication skills to convert customary units of length. They also identify factors and multiples of numbers within 100

• TOPIC A - Compose and Decompose Units of Ten

  • Lesson 1 - Multiply multiples of 10 by one-digit numbers by using the associative property of multiplication.

  • Lesson 2 - Divide two- and three-digit multiples of 10 by one-digit numbers.

  • Lesson 3 - Investigate and use a formula for the area of a rectangle.

• TOPIC B - Multiplication of Tens and Ones by One-Digit Numbers

  • Lesson 4 - Multiply by using familiar strategies.

  • Lesson 5 - Multiply by using place value strategies and the distributive property.

  • Lesson 6 - Multiply with regrouping by using place value strategies and the distributive property.

  • Lesson 7 - Multiply by using an area model and the distributive property.

  • Lesson 8 - Multiply by applying the distributive property and write equations.

  • Lesson 9 - Solve multiplication word problems.

  • Lesson 10 - Multiply by applying simplifying strategies.

Social Studies

• Chapter 2 - Three Worlds Meet

  • Big Question - How do people adapt to where they live?

  • Target Reading Skill - Cause and effect

    • Lesson 1: Algonquians of New York State

    • Lesson 2: The Iroquois League

    • Lesson 3: Europeans Explore New York

    • Lesson 4: The Dutch and the English

Science

• Elevate Science Topic 1 - Energy and Motion

  • What is energy, and how is it related to motion?

• Lessons

  • Collisions - students should be able to predict changes in energy that occur when objects collide.

  • Energy Transfer - students should be able to give examples of energy being transferred from place to place, explain that heat flows from hot objects to cold ones, and demonstrate that some materials are good conductors of heat and others are not.

  • Electric Circuits - students should be able to use models to describe how electric currents flow in circuits.

Religion

• We Believe

  • Midterm Review