Essential Question- What is a neighborhood?

Genres:

-Realistic Fiction

-Informational Text

-Procedural Text

Academic Vocabulary:

-Type: a kind of something

-Various: many different kinds of something

-Settle: to make a home in a new place

-Group: a number of people or things

Language & Conventions:

-Nouns

-Verbs

-Adjectives

Math:

- Fact Families & Doubles Facts

Foundational Skills:

- Short Vowel Review

ELA:

- Intro to Unit 2 - How Do Living Things Grow & Change?

- Week 1 - How do Animals Grow & Change - Reading Informational Texts

Essential Question- How do living things grow and change?

Genres:

-Informational Text

-Poetry

-Drama

Academic Vocabulary:

- Notice: To notice something means to see it, hear it, or feel it. When we notice something, we pay attention to it.

- Reason: A reason is why we do something or why something happens. It helps explain a decision, an action, or an event. A reason shows why someone thinks, feels, or does something.

- Pattern: Numbers or things that can repeat.

- Nature: Nature is all the things outside that are not made by people. It includes trees, animals, flowers, water, rocks, and the sky.

Language & Conventions:

-Simple Sentences

-Declarative Sentences

-Interrogative Sentences

-Exclamatory Sentences

-Imperative Sentences

Writing

-Informational Text

Math:

-Solving problems with 5s and 10s

-Counting by 5s

-Comparing coin collections: Nickels and Pennies

Foundational Skills:

-Short vowel review

-Nasalized A (ex: jam, ham, an, ram)

-Short I (ex: skin, lip, flip)

ELA:

-Week #2: How do plants grow and change?

-Reading informational texts

Math:

• Fractions: Whole, half, fourth

• Time to the hour

• Exploring shapes as we construct sea star quilts

• Exploring patterns of 5s in a sea star quilt

• Using 10s, 5s, & 1s to count and compare coin collections

Foundational Skills:

• Short i

• Short o

• Advanced review of short a, i, o

ELA:

• Finishing week 2: How do plants grow and change

• Beginning week 3: How are baby animals different from their parents?

• Reading & Writing - Informational Texts

Math:

• Fractions: whole, half, fourth

• Time to the hour

• Greater than/Less than

• Addition - combinations of 10

• Doubles

Foundational Skills:

• Review - short a, i, o, u

• Blends

ELA:

• Week 3: How are baby animals different from their parents?

• Reading & writing informational texts

Math:

• Explore composing and decomposing numbers within 10

• Model and solve problem situations using the number rack

• Pose, solve and share strategies for a comparison problem situation

• Add and compare quantities within 10

• 3D Objects

• Time to the hour

Foundational Skills:

• -all, -oll, -ull

• ck /k/

ELA:

• Genre - Drama

  • "The Bigger Shoes for the Big Race"

• Imperative Sentences

• Writing - Informational Text

Math:

• Estimate and solve addition and subtraction problems

• Investigate number relationships within 10 or 20 on a number line

• Model addition and subtraction jumps on a number line

Foundational Skills:

• wh /w/, ph /f/

• ng

ELA:

• Inquiry Project: New to the Zoo

  • Students will continue to research an animal and write a persuasive letter to a Zookeeper to add that animal to the zoo.

Math:

• Using a number line to explore relationships between addition and subtraction

• Investigate relationships among landmark numbers with 100 on a number line

Foundational Skills:

• ng

• nk

• digraphs review (ck, sh, th, ch, wh, ph, ng, nk)

ELA:

-MyView Unit 3- Imagine That

• Genre: Fable

• Read: Ant and the Grass Hopper

• Writing: Opinion Writing

• Language and Conventions: Singular and Plural Nouns

  
  

  
  

Math:

• Finish up our discussion on measuring

• Explore adding and subtracting 1 from doubles combinations

• Learning and discussing multiple strategies to add and subtract

Foundational Skills:

• Long vowel review (CVCe)

• _ce ending (c can make the /s/ sound)

ELA:

Why are art and music classes so important?

• Genre: Persuasive Text

• Read: Thumbs up for Art and Music!

• Writing: Opinion

• Language and Conventions: Proper Nouns

*Thursday - Early Release (conferences)

*Friday - Teacher PD

Math

• Students connect double-flap card combinations with derived fact strategies and problem situations

• Students apply derived fact strategies to addition problem situations

• Students make sense of and solve a comparison problem situation 

Foundational Skills

• Words with VCe pattern & exceptions (

• Reading and spelling words with -es

ELA

• Inquiry project: Opinions about traditional tales

Essential Questions: How can we use our imaginations?

Genres:

• Fables

• Folktale

• Poetry

• Persuasive Text

Academic Vocabulary:

• Create: To make or build something new by using your imagination.

• Imagine: To picture something in your mind.

• Possible: Something can happen.

• Suppose: Think about what could happen.

Language & Conventions:

• Singular and Plural nouns

• Common and Proper nouns

• Pronouns

• Capitalize/Proper Names

Writing:

• Opinion Writing

Essential Question: Why is the past important?

Genres:

• Biography

• Historical Fiction

• Informational Text

Academic Vocabulary:

• Record: to write something down

• Supply: to provide an item

• Necessary: something that needs to happen

• Experience: something you do or see happen, or something that happens to you

Language & Conventions:

• Action Words

• Past tense verbs

• Future tense verbs

• Verbs

• Compound sentences

Writing:

• Personal narrative

*Friday - Career Day

Math

• Students make sense of, represent and solve join and separate problems

• Students make sense of, represent and solve part-part-whole problems

• Students compare and connect different types of addition and subtraction problems

• Students investigate true and false as they apply to equations

Foundational Skills

• Reading and spelling words with -ed

• Reading and spelling words with -ing

ELA

• Unit 4: Why is the past important

• Week 1: How do artists of the past help us see the world differently?

March 23-27

Math

• Students make sense of, represent and solve join-and-seaprate problems

• Students make sense of, represent, and solve part-part-whole problems

• Students compare and connect different types of addition and subtraction problems

• Students investigate true and false as they apply to equations

Foundational Skills

• -ed ending

• -ing ending

ELA

• Week 2: How can a person’s actions change the world?

• Reading: Biography - Jackie Robinson

• Writing: Personal Narrative

• Language & Conventions: Review - action words & past-tense verbs

**Spring Break March 30-April 6

**School Resumes Tuesday, April 7th

Math

• Students explore ordering and finding the difference between heights

• Students explore comparing and ordering 3 heights

• Students represent and compare 3 heights using comparison symbols

• Students explore and represent patterns related to pairs

Foundational Skills

• Learning about open and closed syllables

• Compound words with 2 closed syllables

• Long Vowel preteaching:

  • Long a spelled ai, ay

  • Long e spelled ee, ea, ey

ELA

• Week 3: How can technology change the world?

• Reading: Historical Fiction - Before the Railroad Came

• Writing: Personal Narratives

• Language & Conventions: Verbs

Math

• Students estimate and count

• Students represent data using a picture graph

• Students connect patterns to counting by 5s

Foundational Skills

• Reading and spelling words with two closed syllables

• Reading and spelling words with open and closed syllables

ELA

• Week 4:Why is it important to learn about our country’s past?

• Reading: Informational Text - “What is the Story of our Flag” and “The First American Flag”

• Writing: Personal Narrative

• Language & Conventions: Verbs

**Earth Day Party on Friday!

Math

• Students estimate and count

• Students represent data using a picture graph

• Students connect patterns to counting by 5s

• Students describe and compare 2 & 3 dimensional shapes using attributes

• Students identify & sort 3-dimensional shapes buy attribute

Foundational Skills

• The grapheme TCH spells the sound /ch/

• The grapheme DGE spells the sound /j/

ELA

• Week 5: What can people from the past teach us about helping others?

• Reading: Eleanor Roosevelt

• Writing: Personal Narrative

• Language & Conventions: Verbs, compound sentences

**Folk Dance Festival Tuesday 5/5

Math

• Students describe and design squares composed of smaller squares

• Students explore line and rotational symmetry as they create and compose composite squares

• Students partition paper squares and rectangles into 2 & 4 equal shares

• Students partition circles into 2 & 4 equal shares

• Students partition circles into 2 & 4 equal shares and compose the fractional parts

Foundational Skills:

• The grapheme y says the long /i/ sound at the end of one-syllable words

• The grapheme y says the long /e/ sound at the end of one-syllable words

ELA

• Week 6: Inquiry Project - Why is the Past Important - Interview of a person from a different generation to compare/contrast what Elementary School was like.

**Y-Koda Field Trip on Thursday 5/14

**NO SCHOOL Friday 5/15

Math

• End of Year Assessments

Foundational Skills:

• Reading and Spelling words with the -le ending

ELA

• Wrap up inquiry Project

• End of Year Assessments