Listed below are topics and skills that we have explored or will be learning about this week:
- Reading Literary Text
- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers
- Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text
- Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events
- Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a text, distinguishing literal from non-literal language
- Compare and contrast the themes, settings, and plots of stories written by the same author about the same or similar characters (e.g., in books from a series)
- Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats
- Ask and answer questions about information from a speaker, offering appropriate elaboration and detail
- Writing Narrative Text
- Write narratives to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details, and clear event sequences
- Use dialogue and descriptions of actions, thoughts, and feelings to develop experiences and events or show the response of characters to situations
- Use temporal words and phrases to signal event order
- Provide a sense of closure
- Science: Aquarium Habitats Unit
- Explain that the sun is the main source of energy that causes the changes in the water on Earth
- Explain that characteristics of an organism affect its ability to survive and reproduce
- Explain that individuals of the same kind differ in their characteristics, and sometimes the differences give individuals an advantage in surviving and reproducing
- Explain that sometimes changes in an organism’s habitat are sometimes beneficial and sometimes harmful
- Explain ways that individuals and groups of organisms interact with each other and their environment
- Explain that some likenesses between parents and offspring are inherited (such as eye color in humans, nest building in birds, or flower color in plants) and other likenesses are learned (such as language in humans or songs in birds. )
- Math: Representing Multiplication
- Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a total number of objects can be expressed as 5 × 7
- Use multiplication within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem
- Apply properties of operations as strategies to multiply and divide.2 Examples: If 6 × 4 = 24 is known, then 4 × 6 = 24 is also known. (Commutative property of multiplication.) 3 × 5 × 2 can be found by 3 × 5 = 15, then 15 × 2 = 30, or by 5 × 2 = 10, then 3 × 10 = 30. (Associative property of multiplication.) Knowing that 8 × 5 = 40 and 8 × 2 = 16, one can find 8 × 7 as 8 × (5 + 2) = (8 × 5) + (8 × 2) = 40 + 16 = 56. (Distributive property)
- Multiply one-digit whole numbers by multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (e.g., 9 × 80, 5 × 60) using strategies based on place value and properties of operations
- Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement
- A square with side length 1 unit, called "a unit square," is said to have "one square unit" of area, and can be used to measure area
- A plane figure which can be covered without gaps or overlaps by n unit squares is said to have an area of n square units
- Measure areas by counting unit squares (square cm, square m, square in, square ft, and improvised units)
- Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition
