November
Math
This month students will explore the concepts of multiplication and division. The content emphasis is to develop fluency with whole number multiplication and apply an understanding of the inverse relationship between multiplication and division. Students solve problems set in real-world contexts that involve composing and decomposing units into groups. Students represent multiplication and division with a variety of visual representations such as arrays, equal group pictures, and number lines. Multiplication and division concepts are taught together so that students can explore the relationship between the operations. Students learn about and use properties of multiplication. They also examine multiplication and division number patterns using a variety of representations.
AAP MATH:
Reading
The enduring understandings for this unit are:
• Understand that readers of nonfiction seek discourse with others to evaluate multiple points of view and discover implications.
• Understand that reading is transactional: readers’ beliefs impact how they interpret text and the text informs readers’ beliefs about the world.
• Understand that author's craft information to communicate their stance and beliefs about a topic.
We will ensure that the students accomplish the understandings by targeting the following goals for this unit::
• Readers adjust their thinking based on how the author presents and organizes information in order to understand the information and messages the author is communicating.
• Readers synthesize and develop their theories and opinions to understand the world.
• Readers develop theories and opinions through discussion.
AAP:
Writing
Social Studies
This month students will learn about Jamestown. Students will spend time:
Evaluating the reasons for English colonization in America by exploring the perspectives and experiences of multiple culture groups.
Comparing and contrasting the ways that Native peoples and English settlers interacted with the geographic features of Jamestown; Examining changes over time to the daily lives of Africans, English, and Native peoples in Jamestown.
Identifying the roles of culture and power in the changing relationship between the Powhatan and the English settlers.
Analyze the voices that were present and not present in the General Assembly, and examine changes over time to the daily lives of Africans, English, and Native Peoples in Jamestown.
Science
During the second quarter, students develop their understanding of the natural world around them. Students will explore the local plants and animals as well as identifying problems and issues that affect the natural resources in the area. Using hands-on investigations, students learn to inquire, observe, relate cause-and-effect relationships, collect and record information, and investigate problems that concern Virginia ecosystems, the plants and animals, the weather that affects it in it as well as the natural resources present in the state.