What we are learning this year!
First quarter
Language Arts
Reading:
Building a reading life
Following Characters into meaning
Narrative Nonfiction Reading
Writing:
Launching the Writing Workshop with Personal Narrative
Communication:
Integrated into Reading and Writing Workshop
Social Studies & Global Studies
Geography
Economics
Early Virginia
Science
Scientific Investigations
Virginia Natural Resources
Solar System
Mathematics
Problem Solving
Number Sense: Whole Numbers
Identify, Compare, Round
Whole Number Operations & Applications
Estimate, Add, Subtract, Word Problems
Equality in Addition
Elapsed Time
Patterns
Second quarter
Language Arts
Reading:
Expository Nonfiction Reading
(Weather + Revolutionary War)
Writing:
Informational Writing
Communication:
Integrated into Reading and Writing Workshop
Social Studies & Global Studies
Life of the VA colony
& Birth of a New Nation
Science
Weather
Forces, Motion, & Energy
Mathematics
Problem Solving
Elapsed Time
Number Sense: Whole Numbers
Identify, Compare, Round
Whole Number Operations & Applications
Estimate, Multiply, Divide, Word Problems
Equality in Multiplication
Multiples and Factors
Fractions
Data and Statistics
Graphing
Third quarter
Language Arts
Reading:
Biography Research Projects
Historical Fiction
Writing:
Research Based Writing
Communication:
Integrated into Reading and Writing Workshop
Social Studies & Global Studies
Life of the VA colony
& Birth of a New Nation
Science
Weather
Forces, Motion, & Energy
Mathematics
Problem Solving
Elapsed Time
Number Sense
Rational Numbers
Probability on a Line
Decimals
Patterns
Rational Number Operations
Add & Subtract Fractions and Decimals
Probability & Data Using
Rational Numbers
Graphing Analysis
Fourth quarter
Language Arts
Reading:
Nonfiction Animal Research Project
Writing:
Literary Essays: Writing about Reading
Communication:
Integrated into Reading and Writing Workshop
Social Studies & Global Studies
Virginia's Development in the 20th Century
Science
Plant Anatomy
Life Processes
Mathematics
Problem Solving
Elapsed Time
Patterns in Measurement
Weight/Mass
Length
Liquid Volume
Patterns
Plane Geometry &Transformations
Lines & Angles
Congruency & Transformations
Polygons
Review for SOLs
