November 5

LANGUAGE ARTS

Readers will:

• Identify the topic and details of an informational (expository) text- words and/or illustrations will guide readers to identify the topic and details of texts.

• Refer to words and/or illustrations to understand the topic and details

• Retell important facts in a text

• Discuss the ways that authors group their information;

• Use cover (titles and cover illustrations) and illustrations to make predictions and inferences about text;

• Understand the purpose of an Informational text (expose or explain information about a topic).

• Monitor and adjust comprehension using background knowledge and rereading a portion aloud;

• Ask and respond to questions about text.


Writers will:

• Identify lists and captions and understand their purpose;

• Write invitations to request someone to attend a function (when it fits with class activities or units);

• Plan a first draft by generating ideas for writing through class discussion;

• Develop drafts by sequencing the action or details in their stories (picture plans);

• Revise and edit for spaces between letters and words in personal stories;

• Share writing with others.

MATH

Number Sense is an important aspect that children must develop. Number sense is the exploration of numbers, its uses, and its relationship to one another.

Why is number sense essential for every child to develop?

• It facilitates the understanding and expression of numbers contained in this world.

• The world is filled with numbers, and in order to understand what these numbers mean and what their purposes are, number sense must be gradually and continually developed throughout one’s lifetime.

• Number sense allows an individual to comprehend both, basic and complex mathematical operations.

• Number sense facilitates one to learn how to solve problems not just those with numbers involved, but also problems contained in the bigger world.

The following skills will be covered during this unit:

• Counting (one-to-one) tells how many objects are in a set. The last word, in a counting sequence, names quantity for the set.

• The position of a thing in a sequence can be described using words such as first, second, and third.

• Numbers are related to each other through a variety of number relationships.

• Numbers can be separated and put together in a variety of ways.

• Small whole numbers can be quickly recognized in patterned arrangements of dots.

• Computation problems can be solved in a variety of ways.

• Thinking strategies can be represented with physical models.


SCIENCE

Students will observe and record the effects of heating and cooling. Students will know that adding or taking away heat energy will change materials.

• Heating materials can cause them to melt or change in some other way.

• Cooling materials can cause them to freeze or change in some other way.
• We can record observations and discuss how materials are changed by heating and cooling

& Force & Motion

How do magnets and various materials interact?

How can we use magnets to explore the properties of materials

How can we describe the ways that everyday objects can move?

SOCIAL STUDIES

Students will establish the foundation for responsible citizenship by examining the difference between needs and wants and how citizens in a community provide those needs and wants.