Our Learning Goals
Unit 4 Elements of a Story: In this unit, students will learn that stories are written with characters, settings, and major events that include a problem and a solution, and authors convey information about characters in a story through their appearances, behavior/actions, interests, ways of speaking, and other mannerisms. Our life experiences and the books we read will naturally lead us to stories we want to share, whether they are fictional or based on true events.
Lines of Inquiry (What questions are we trying to answer?): In what ways do authors help me get to know a character? How do authors use story elements to create an enjoyable story.
Skills we are learning: We are working on these skills: listening and answering questions about characters, settings, and main events in stories; comparing characters who learn important lessons; retelling and summarizing stories; and responding to literature.
Text(s): My Brother Charlie - Holly Robinson Peete and Ryan Elizabeth Peete; The Three Little Pigs - James Marshall
Text-Focusing Question(s): How do the authors help the reader understand Callie and Charlie, both on the inside and outside? How did the pigs protect themselves from the wolf?
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 identify the characters, setting, and major events in a story.
I can ask and answer questions about key details in a text. .
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 a book review of a unit text. They will choose a book to review and share their opinion of the text.
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Writing Target Skills:
I can produce and expand complete sentences.
I can print upper and lowercase letters correctly.
I can use a combination of writing and drawing to tell my opinion of a book.
Social Studies:
Who are We! In this unit, students will explore the unique identities of people in their classroom and community, and learn about the importance of showing respect for everyone.
Science:
We will also look at what plants and animals need to live and how their needs are similar or different. This includes learning about what people need to survive, too.
Math:
Target Skills:
Module 4: T-D and Three-D
We will:
Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes.
Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.
Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1).
Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.
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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