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Important Dates
Important Dates
CogAt Testing
Wed-Fri, October 2nd-4th
Morrisville Market
Friday, October 4th, 8:45-9:10
Reading Check In Test
Tuesday, October 8th
Fall Conferences
Starting Wed, Oct 9th
Q1 Report Cards
Thursday, October 10th
Morehead Planetarium
Field Trip
Thursday, October 10th
Classroom Spelling Bee
Monday, October 14th
Wear Orange for Unity Day
Wednesday, October 16th
Wear Inside Out Clothes
Thursday, October 17th
Wear Team Colors,
Morrisville Market,
Track Out (at end of day)
Friday, October 18th
Track In
Tuesday, November 12th
Morrisville Market
Friday, November 15th, 8:45-9:10AM
Q2 Interim Reports
Tuesday, November 19th
Mustang Music Night
Thursday, November 21st
No School/Thanksgiving
Wed-Fri, November 27th-29th
Book Fair Literacy Night
Thursday, December 5th, 6PM
Math Check In Test
Week of December 16th-20th
End of Q2
Friday, December 20th
No School
Mon, Dec 23rd - Fri, Jan 3rd
Students Return for Q3
Monday, January 6th
Q2 Curriculum Video
Q2 Curriculum Video
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Click the subject to jump down to the information
EL
EL
Module 2 - Adaptation and the Wide World of Frogs
Big Ideas and Guiding Questions:
How does an author engage the reader in a narrative?
How to experts build knowledge and share expertise about a topic?
How do frogs survive?
Unit 1: Reading and Writing Narratives (Poems and Pourquoi Tales)
Mid-Unit 1 Assessment: Reading and Understanding Narratives: Students will read two narrative tests (poem and a pourquoi tale) and answer questions about the plot and purpose, demonstrating their ability to identify key ideas and details as well as analyze the structure of the story.
End of Unit 1 Assessment: Reading and Writing a Pourquoi Tale: Students will read aloud their pourquoi tale and be assessed for reading fluency. Students will also use answer language questions about comparative and superlative adjectives and adverbs.
Unit 2: Building Background Knowledge: Frogs and the Research Process
Mid-Unit 2 Assessment: Reading and Researching about Reptiles and Amphibians: Students will read a new text and answer questions demonstrating their ability to determine the meaning of unknown words, read for specific details, and use text features.
End of Unit 2 Assessment: Informative Paragraph: Students reread a text from the unit and a new text to synthesize information, answer selected response questions, and plan a short, informative piece of writing.
Unit 3: Writing to Inform
Mid-Unit 3 Assessment: Describing Freaky Frog Adaptations: Students answer questions to demonstrate their knowledge of appropriate response to task and correctly using present or past tense. Students will also use their graphic organizer to write their second proof paragraph of their Freaky Frog essay.
End of Unit 3 Assessment: Revising and Editing Freaky Frog Adaptations: Students will revise and write a final draft of their informative essay about their chosen freaky frog and answer selected response questions.
Module Performance Task: Reading Strategies Bookmark
Students will create a trading card and compile their writing from this quarter into a book with a front cover and table of contents.
Math
Math
Multiplication, Division, and Shapes
Unit 4: Making Sense of Multiplication and Division
Students will be able to...
Decompose a factor as a strategy for solving a multiplication problem.
Demonstrate that the order of the factors do not matter when you are multiplying (or adding) numbers.
Use a variety of strategies, like arrays and repeated addition, to model multiplication.
Use repeated subtraction (measurement model) and/or fair share (partition model) when solving a division problem.
Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurements quantities.
Use equal groups/equal shares as a strategy to solve multiplication and division word problems.
Use various representations to show an unknown.
Use multiplication and/or division to solve problems with an unknown factor.
Illustrate and explain using the relationship between multiplication and division.
Use addition, subtraction, and multiplication to solve two-step word problems.
Use concrete and pictorial place value models to find the product of a one-digit whole number by a multiple of 10.
Unit 5: Reasoning with Shapes and their Attributes
Students will be able to...
Reason with two-dimensional shapes and their attributes.
Investigate, describe and reason about composing triangles and quadrilaterals and decomposing quadrilaterals.
Recognize and draw examples and non-examples of types of quadrilaterals including rhombuses, rectangles, squares, parallelograms, and trapezoids.
Compose and decompose quadrilaterals using triangles and quadrilaterals.
Science
Science
Motion and Stability
Students will learn that:
Motion is when objects move from place to place.
Objects can move in different directions.
Objects can move at different speeds.
Changes in motion are caused by forces.
Make predictions on how a force will change the motion of an object.
Gravity is a factor of motion.
Rubbing objects together results in friction.
Social Studies
Social Studies
Economics and Financial Literacy
Students will be able to...
Give examples of how scarcity affects economic decision making.
Explain ways location can impact supply and demand (scarcity, abundance, or surplus) of goods and services in daily life.
Give examples of the relationship between supply and demand.
Determine natural resources versus human resources and their effect on settlements in an area. (capital resources)
Identify examples of settlements and economic growth made due to resources in their area.
Explain why people become entrepreneurs, examples of entrepreneurship and risks involved with entrepreneurship.
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