Our Learning Goals
Unit Theme: Unit 5: Conservation
In this unit, students will learn that people impact the earth positively and negatively and that it is our responsibility to protect it. They will also study the modes of conversation—reduce, reuse, recycle—and employ ways to protect the earth, such as recycling and reusing products.
Lines of Inquiry (What questions are we trying to answer?): How do people impact the earth? What are the different ways people can protect the earth? Why is conservation important?
Text(s): Mama Miti - By Donna Jo Napoli and Kadir Nelson This text is a fiction story based on Wangari Maathai’s actual life. This story and subsequent lessons provide students an opportunity to learn how trees have a lasting impact on our environment and the earth.
Text-Focusing Question (s): There will be opportunities for the students to work with and in the text through annotating, illustration discussions, sequencing, etc.
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 that will help them develop 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:
With prompting and support, ask and answer questions about key details in a text
With prompting and support, retell familiar stories, including key details.
Actively engage in group reading activities with purpose and understanding.
Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities.
Writing: Students will write an informational picture book teaching their peers about different types of weather.
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Target Activity and Skills:
With guidance and support from adults, recall information from experiences or gather information from sources to answer a question.
Students will print many upper and lowercase letters, use capitalization, and space between words.
Science:
Student will communicate solutions that will reduce the impact of humans on the land, water, air, and/or other living things in the local environment.
Math:
Target Skills:
Module 4: Number Pairs, Addition, and Subtraction to 10 To-D and Three-D S
Topic D: Subtraction from Numbers to 8
We will:
Use objects and drawings to find how many are left.
Solve take from with result unknown expressions and equations using the minus sign with no unknown.
Represent subtraction story problems using objects, drawings, expressions, and equations.
Decompose the number 6 using 5-group drawings by breaking off or removing a part, and record each decomposition with a drawing and subtraction equation.
Decompose the number 7 using 5-group drawings by hiding a part, and record each decomposition with a drawing and subtraction equation.
Decompose the number 8 using 5-group drawings and crossing off a part, and record each decomposition with a drawing and subtraction equation.
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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