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4th Nine Weeks

Language Arts Writing    Science     Math    Social Studies  Health

EQ: How can I describe the life cycle of different living things?
 

Big Ideas:
• Animals have life cycles that include being born or hatched, developing into adults, reproducing, and dying.
• The stages of life cycles are different for different animals.
• These changes are caused by length of day/night and amount of sun’s energy.
• Plants have life cycles that include germination, growing, reproducing, and dying.
• The stages of life cycles are different for different plants.
• Fungi are living organisms.
• Fungi are not plants.

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Science

3rd Nine Weeks

Language Arts Writing    Science     Math    Social Studies  Health

Content
• Uses a variety of resources
• Includes relevant information (staying on topic)
• Uses organizational patterns (chronological order, similarities and differences, answering questions)
• Begins to create graphic features (charts, tables, graphs, diagrams)
• Writes text of appropriate length
• Uses increasingly complex sentence structure
• Uses specialized words appropriately to extend writing vocabulary (dictionary, thesaurus)
• Uses transition words

Conventions
• Review and reinforce all elements previously taught

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Language Arts

Language Arts - Reading

EQ: How ways can I show larger numbers? How do I break a whole into equal parts? How do I count back change?

Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings
• The size of the denominator tells you into how many parts the whole is being divided. The numerator tells you how many of that size piece you have.
• Larger numbers can be broken up into ones, tens, hundreds, thousands as well as combinations of those values e.g. 245 can be 245 ones or 2 hundreds, 4 tens, and 5 ones or 24 tens and 5 ones.
• Money has fractional connections. Making change is the fractional part that completes the whole e.g. I have 32¢ (the whole) and I spend 6¢ (fractional part) and my change (missing fractional part) is 26¢.

EQ: What is the relationship between the metric system and the customary system? How do I measure and compare lengths?
How do I measure and compare temperature? How do I show the relationship between the gathered data and the graph?

Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings
• Measurement is a comparison of the object being measured with a “unit”. Standard units are agreed upon for communication and simplified computation.
• Measurement should be taught as what it means rather than how to measure.
• Two systems of measurement, standard and metric, can be compared.

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Science

Essential Question: How do the Earth, sun, moon and stars relate to each other?

Big Ideas:

• Some stars have different attributes (size, brightness and patterns)
• Some stars are recognized in patterns called constellations.
• Stars closer to the Earth appear larger
• The sun is the closest star to the Earth. It is also the only star in our solar system.
• The sun is stationary in the sky.
• The earth revolves around the sun and rotates on its axis, it causes change to night, day, and seasons.
• The length of night and day in each season is caused by the tilt of the Earth and its rotation around the sun.
• The tilt of the sun affects how much of the sun’s heat we receive. As the moon orbits around the earth, different amounts of sun are reflected on the moon.
• The amount of sun reflected determines what is seen from the earth.

Social Studies

The learner will be able to compare and contrast the culture of the Jamestown community to our local community.

• The learner will be able to provide the location of Jamestown on a map using cardinal directions in relation to the poles, equator, and the hemispheres.
• Landforms/bodies of water The learner will be able to describe the physical characteristics of landforms (e.g., peninsulas, islands) and bodies of water (e.g., lakes, oceans, rivers) near Jamestown.
• Natural/man-made resources The learner will be able to explain the difference between natural and man-made resources in Jamestown.
• Human/natural/capital resource The learner will be able to describe the differences among human resources (people at work), natural resources (water, soil, wood, etc.), and capital resources (machines, tools, etc.).
• Producers/consumers The learner will be able to give examples of producers and consumers in Jamestown and give reason why people worked.
• Democracy The learner will be able to describe and compare the making of some class rules by direct democracy and by representative democracy.

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Health

Personal Health

The learner will be able to demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors and reduce health risks.

Nutrition

The learner will be able to demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.

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2nd Nine Weeks

Language Arts Writing    Science     Math    Social Studies  Health

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Language Arts

Language Arts - Reading

EQ: What does it mean to add numbers? What does it mean to collect and count money? How many ways can I represent a
collection of coins or bills?

Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings
• Addition is the inverse of subtraction. Finding patterns is helpful when figuring unknown facts.
• Counting money is the same as adding two-digit numbers e.g. $0.85 + $0.16 = 85 + 16
• There are many ways to represent collections of money just like numbers.

EQ: What does it mean to subtract numbers? How is subtraction different from addition? What does it mean to collect and
trade money? How many ways can I represent a collection of coins or bills?

Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings
• Subtraction is the inverse of addition. The sum in addition names the whole and subtraction names the missing part. “Think addition” is an important idea in subtraction. Using benchmark numbers to help solve subtraction problems is useful.
• Numbers can be “regrouped” (traded, exchanged, composed, decomposed) to keep the same value.
• Estimation involves taking apart and combining numbers, based on place value concepts.
• Money represents a value and can be exchanged (traded) for goods.
• Bar graphs, Venn diagrams, charts, and tables help organize data.

EQ: What do I use to measure time? What is a minute? An hour?
How can I recognize and describe different shapes/figures?

Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings
• A clock, analog or digital is a tool to measure time.
• Minutes are a smaller and more precise unit of time than hours. Hours are a smaller more precise unit of time than days.
• Shapes can be named based on how they look. Comparing attributes of shapes (figures) helps in the discovery of the properties peculiar to a specific shape. Note: Sorting, identifying, and describing various manipulative shapes will help children move beyond the appearance of the shape i.e. a square is a type of rectangle.
• Plane figures are 1-D. Solid figures are 3-D and have length, width, and depth like a box.

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Science

Enduring Understandings: What are the sources of energy and how are they used?
Big Ideas
• Energy comes in the form of light, heat, and motion.
• Energy is the ability to do work
• Energy cannot be created and it cannot be destroyed. It can only be transferred from one type to another.
• Light from the sun heats the Earth
• Any motion results in heat energy

Enduring Understanding: What is a force? How is a force used to change the location of an object and the direction in which it is moving?
Big Ideas:
• A force is something that pushes or pulls on an object to make it move.
• A force is used to change the location of an object and the direction in which it is moving.
• A force can be gravity, magnetism, moving air and water.
• Force (pushing and pulling) of an object changes the motion of that object.
• Changing the speed of an object changes the motion of that object.

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Social Studies

Eastern Woodlands and Plains Indians

The learner will be able to describe the differences between the cultures and communities of the Eastern Woodlands and Plains Indians, including how they lived, worked, and used the land.

The learner will be able to locate Eastern Woodland and Plains Indian communities on a map using cardinal and intermediate directions in relation to the poles, equator and hemispheres.

The learner will be able to compare the lifestyles of Eastern Woodlands and Plains Indians regarding food, shelter, clothing, and methods of transportation.

The learner will be able to describe the physical characteristics of landforms (e.g., peninsulas, islands) and bodies of water (e.g., lakes, oceans, rivers) in Eastern Woodlands and Plains Indian communities.

The learner will be able to explain the difference between natural and cultural resources used by the Eastern Woodland and Plains Indians.

The learner will be able to describe the differences among human resources (people at work), natural resources (water, soil, wood, etc.), and capital resources (machines, tools, etc.) used to produce different services in Eastern Woodland and Plains Indian communities.
 
The learner will be able to give examples of producers and consumers in the Eastern Woodland and Plains Indian communities and give reasons why people worked.

Plymouth Community

The learner will be able to compare and contrast the culture of the Plymouth community to our local community.

The learner will be able to provide the location of Plymouth on a map using cardinal directions in relation to the poles, equator, and the hemispheres.

The learner will be able to describe the physical characteristics of landforms (e.g., peninsulas, islands) and bodies of water (e.g., lakes, oceans, rivers) near Plymouth.

The learner will be able to explain the difference between natural and man-made resources in Plymouth.

The learner will be able to describe the differences among human resources (people at work), natural resources (water, soil, wood, etc.), and capital resources (machines, tools, etc.).

The learner will be able to give examples of producers and consumers in Plymouth and give reasons why people worked.

The learner will be able to describe and compare the making of some class rules by direct democracy and by representative democracy.

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Health

Growth and Development

The learner will be able to explain the effects of heredity and environment on growth and development.

The learner will be able to distinguish between primary and permanent teeth.

Nutrition

The learner will be able to demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting and decision-making skills to enhance health.

1st Nine Weeks

Language Arts Writing    Science  Language Arts - Reading   Math    Social Studies

Essential Question:

 How does Writing Workshop help me to become a better writer?  How do I use the writing process to communicate effectively?  How can I write simple procedures (directions) that are easy to follow?

Writing Process
•	Prewrites to generate ideas
•	Uses ideas to produce a rough draft
•	Rereads writing
•	Revises to add details
•	Edits to make corrections

Content
•	Self selects ideas
•	Writes text of appropriate length
•	Uses chronological order
•	Uses transition words
•	Practices author’s craft
•	Writes clear coherent text 
•	Describes an experience
•	Uses a variety of resources
•	Uses legible handwriting

Conventions
•	Uses common rules of spelling
•	Uses capital letters
•	Uses ending punctuation
•	Begins to use commas
•	Begins to use subject-verb agreement

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Language Arts

Language Arts - Reading

Essential Question:

How do I use letters or groups of letters to figure out words when 

reading, writing, and speaking?

Working With Parts of Words
•	Regular Plurals  
•	All r-controlled vowels
•	Compound words
•	Multi-syllabic words
•	Contractions
•	Silent letters
•	Blends

Application
•	Recognize, read, and write words and word parts
•	Applies learned phonics skills when reading and writing

How can I be sure I am listening carefully?

Listening 
•	Interprets information presented and seeks clarification when needed
•	Listens to and views a variety of media 
•	Expands vocabulary as interests and knowledge increase

Speaking
•	Asks questions for clarification
•	Uses oral language to inform, persuade, and entertain
•	Uses complex language patterns and sentence structure
•	Uses an expanded vocabulary

How do I use new words to read, write, and speak?

Word Usage
•	Reads and listens to a variety of texts and uses new words 

Word Identification
•	Recognizes homophones, homographs, antonyms, and synonyms
•	Uses context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words
•	Recognizes grade appropriate words with multiple meanings

How can I learn to read smoothly and with expression?

Accuracy/Rate
•	Decodes quickly and accurately
•	Recognizes high frequency words and familiar words in text
•	Self corrects errors made in grade level text
•	Reads 2nd grade text at a target rate of 90 words correct per minute.

Expression
•	Reads familiar text with expression
•	Uses punctuation as a guide in determining expression
•	Uses voice inflection when appropriate

What does it mean to be an independent reader?

Reading Strategies
•	Reads and listens to a variety of texts 
•	Makes predictions 
•	Generates questions 
•	Recalls and infers facts (explicit and implicit) 
•	Summarizes
•	Distinguishes fact from fiction 
•	Identifies main idea and details
•	Integrates meaning, structure, and visual clues
•	Uses word parts to determine meanings (prefixes, root words, compounds)

Text Features
•	Narrative elements  (plot, setting, character)
•	Genre elements
•	Title, table of contents, chapter headings 

Essential Questions:

What can I do with numbers?  How many ways can I show a number? 

Big Ideas:

·  Numbers help us count and order things.  Numbers can be grouped in sets of ten to make them easier to count.  The place of the digit in numbers tells us which size group they count.

·  Picture graphs represent things we count.

EQ: What does it mean to add numbers? What does it mean to collect and count money? How many ways can I represent a
collection of coins or bills?

Big Ideas/Enduring Understandings
• Addition is the inverse of subtraction. Finding patterns is helpful when figuring unknown facts.
• Counting money is the same as adding two-digit numbers e.g. $0.85 + $0.16 = 85 + 16
• There are many ways to represent collections of money just like numbers.

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Science

Essential Questions:

·          How can we describe matter?

·          How can matter change?

Big Ideas:

·          Everything is made of matter and can change.

·          Things can be done to matter which may change their properties.

·          Not all matter changes the same way.

Changes occur and affect our surroundings.

Three States of Matter

·          Identify, describe, and classify the three states of matter: solids, liquids, and gases according to their properties.

·          All matter takes up space and has mass.

Physical Changes of Matter 

·          That all matter does not change in the same way.

·          Identify how change affects the properties of matter.

Changes in Surroundings 

·          Weather, people, animals, and plants cause changes that affect the earth’s surface.

·          Things change in some ways and stay the same in other ways.

·          Sometimes changing one thing causes changes in something else.

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Social Studies

Essential Questions:

How can I identify general characteristics of neighborhood and communities, including political and cultural values?

Big Ideas:

Characteristics

Democracy

Diversity

Ways to live
 

Essential Question

How can I locate our local community, and identfy natural and cultural resources in the community?

Big Ideas

Cardinal Direction

Natural and Cultural resources

Producers and Consumers

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