Semester 1 ~ What we hope to cover...

 

Mathematics:

 

• Unit 1: Geometry: lines, rays, line segments, points, angles, triangles, quadrangles, parallelograms, polygons, circles

• Unit 2: Using Numbers and Organizing Data: place value, organizing and displaying data (mode, median, range, minimum, maximum), adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers, bar graphs

• Unit 3:  Multiplication and Division: multiplication and division rules, fact practice, number stories, number sentences (true and false), open sentences with variables  

• Unit 4: Decimals: values of digits in whole numbers and decimals, comparing decimals, estimating sums of decimals, data landmarks, writing decimals, measuring to the nearest centimeter and millimeter, automaticity of multiplication facts

Reading:

 

• Review reading strategies

• Determining importance in text

• Book club

• Asking questions

• Inferring

• Summarizing

• Visualizing

• Reading for meaning (Time for Kids)

• Independent reading: choosing just right books and exploring different genres

• Fluency

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Writing:

• Poetry

• Free writing – fast and furious

• Personal Narratives (showing not telling, powerful beginnings and endings, deliciously descriptive words, focusing on important details…not every detail!)

• Review of conventions (especially punctuation and capital letters)

• Commas, apostrophes, homophones, contractions, nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs

• Onomatopoeias, alliterations, oxymoron, metaphors

• Spelling rules, activities, and tests

• Paragraphs

• Introduction to report writing

 

Science:

Ecosystems:

• Food webs/chains

• Classifying living and non-living things

• What does an ecosystem need to survive?

• Different types of ecosystems

• Scientist of the week

• Inquiry science

 

Energy:

• Sound, Light, Magnetic, Heat, Chemical, and Electrical

• Potential and kinetic

• Building a circuit and an electromagnet

• Renewable and non-renewable sources

• Inquiry-asking scientific questions!

 

Social Studies:

• Geography of Colorado

• Symbols of Colorado

• American Indians

• Explorers, Trappers, and Traders

• Settlers

• Pikes Peak Gold Rush