Our Learning Goals
Unit 3 Water and Precipitation: In this unit, students will learn about different types of weather, the effects weather has on people and the environment, and journaling and tracking weather.
Lines of Inquiry (What questions are we trying to answer?): How do the seasons affect the weather? How does the weather affect people's lives? How can we observe and report on changing weather?
Skills we are learning: Making weather observations, Describing various types of weather, Explaining the effects of weather, Researching to find answers to a question, Illustrating information learned in a text, Naming a topic and providing facts about it, and Using vocabulary in writing.
Text(s): Sunshine Makes the Seasons, Franklyn M. Branley; School Bus, Donald Crews; Sail Away, Donald Crews
Text-Focusing Question(s): How does the weather change throughout the year? How does the weather affect us?
Phonemic Awareness:
Target skills:
Phonemic Awareness is a foundational skill for learning to read and write. Each day, students will participate in a short lesson to help them develop an awareness of the sounds of our language.
Students will learn to:
●isolate sounds in words
●blend sounds to make words
●segment words into sounds
●manipulate sounds in spoken words
Reading Target Skills:
I can recall information from a text to answer a question.
I can describe the relationship between illustrations and the text in which they appear.
I can use words I learned from texts and discussions in my work.
I can express my ideas and thoughts in a way that others can understand.
Writing: Students will write an informational picture book teaching their peers about different types of weather. They will draw a picture of cold or warm weather (or a season), then write an informative sentence about the picture.
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Writing Target Skills:
I can draw a picture and supply facts about a topic.
I can print upper and lowercase letters correctly.
Social Studies:
Students will examine the physical features of the city and how they have changed throughout our history. They will explore the question, "What makes our city special?" as they look at different neighborhoods, monuments, and resources in Washington, DC.
Science:
Students will plan and conduct an investigation to compare the effects of different push and pull strengths or directions on the motion of an object.
Math:
Target Skills:
Module 3: Comparison To-D and Three-D
We will:
Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.
Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has "more of"/"less of" the attribute, and describe the difference.
Order and match numeral and dot cards
from 1 to 10. State
1 more
than a given number.
(Lesson 29)
Objective 2: Make
math stairs
from 1 to 10
in cooperative groups.
(Lesson 30)
Objective 3:
Arrange, analyze, and draw
1 more
up to 10
in configurations other than towers.
(Lesson 31)
Objective 4:
Arrange, analyze, and draw sequences of quantities of
1 more,
beginning with numbers
other than 1.
(Lesson 32)
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from 1 to 10. State
1 more
than a given number.
(Lesson 29)
Objective 2: Make
math stairs
from 1 to 10
in cooperative groups.
(Lesson 30)
Objective 3:
Arrange, analyze, and draw
1 more
up to 10
in configurations other than towers.
(Lesson 31)
Objective 4:
Arrange, analyze, and draw sequences of quantities of
1 more,
beginning with numbers
other than 1.
(Lesson 32)
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