This year students will develop deeper comprehensions in areas of:

• Module 1: Place Value, Rounding, and Algorithms for Addition and Subtraction

• Module 2: Unit Conversions and Problem Solving with Metric Measurement

• Module 3: Multi-Digit Multiplication and Division

• Module 5: Fraction Equivalence, Ordering, and Operations

• Module 6: Decimal Fractions

• Module 4: Angle Measure and Plane Figures

• Module 7: Exploring Measurement with Multiplication

Every day students will engage in reading and writing. These lessons are guided by the philosophies of: Lucy Calkin's Writer's Workshop, Guided Reading, Notice and Note, teaching practices known as EduProtocols, and various reading and writing strategies by Jennifer Serravallo.

• Trimester 1: Writing Narrative pieces and reading Fictional text

• Trimester 2: Writing Opinion pieces and Non-Fiction text

• Trimester 3: Writing Informational pieces and various literature text

The novels that we will read this school year are

• A Boy Called Bat by Elana K. Arnold

• Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

• Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O'Dell

• By the Great Horn Spoon! by Sid Fleischman

This year we will be studying California history through our new curriculum TCI. Students will explore California's history through various lessons and activities.

• California’s Golden Landscape

• California’s Native Peoples

• Exploration and Settlement

• The Mission System 

• Mexican California 

• California Becomes a State

• Gold Rush Changes California

• Connecting California to the Nation

• The Peopling of California

Union School District recently adopted the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). To read more details about NGSS, please read this parent guide. Our science units include:

• Human Body, Vision, & The Brain

• Earth Features and Processes

• Sound, Waves, & Communication

• Energy, Energy Transfer, & Electricity

Mystery Science, Generation Genius, and other supplemental material will be used to meet the NGSS standards.

Students will engage in various activities that are not core curriculum focused including:

• Field Trips

• Makerspace

• Rhythm and Moves

• Music with Mrs. Malloy

• Art Vistas/Project Cornerstone/Clay

• Kindergarten Buddies

• Coding

• And so much more!