Week of September 15

 

Language Arts

Students will be reviewing metacognitive strategies to use when they are reading.  They will become aware of fix-up strategies that readers utilize when reading comprehension breaks down. 

 

Next, students will practice using these strategies as they read independently.  Furthermore, students will learn to stop, think and react to their reading. Students will use sticky notes to keep track of their thinking.

                                    

The class will begin their study in the language arts' block of character's feelings, traits, motivations and actions.  Students will develop a better understanding of themselves through this unit. Students will also undertake a writing project in which they will write a story about a time that they had to make a choice or had an experience that impacted them as a person.

                                          



This week students will start their literature groups. Each group will read a different book and integrate the whole class lessons on character's feelings, traits, motives, actions and point of view into their small group lessons.

          

Mathematics

Students will be given charts to locate and order numbers up to l,000.  Through the use of landmark numbers, students will read and sequence numbers up to l,000.  Students will solve addition and subtraction problems with two and three digit numbers.  Students will estimate the sums of two and three digit numbers by representing numbers in groups of ten.

Science

Students will explore the respiratory system and digestive system this week.  Students will discover the function of each system, the parts associated with them as well as the organs involved in each.