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Social Studies
In the Westward Expansion Unit, students will:
Describe how the United States changed due to the war of 1812. Students will also explain how American Indians were impacted by the desire to have our country grow. Students will use the enduring understanding of Individuals, Groups and Institutions as they learn about the Trail of Tears, the Battle of Little Bighorn, and the relocation of American Indians to reservations. Then students will look at how the geography of the United states changed with the Louisiana Purchase, the Lewis and Clark expedition, and the acquisitions of Texas (Alamo), Oregon (Oregon Trail), and California (Gold Rush).
- Begin the Civil War Unit
Science we will be studying the Stars and Star Patterns, and the Earth, Moon, and Solar System.
In Writing, we are working on opinion pieces that name the topic or book that we are talking about, state our opinion, give reasons for our opinion, and includes a sense of closure. We are also working on narrative pieces to develop real or imagined experiences or events using effective technique, descriptive details and clear event sequences.
Math
Fraction Equivalents / Operations with Fractions / Fractions and Decimals
- Understand representations of simple equivalent fractions.
- Compare fractions with different numerators and different denominators.
- Identify visual and written representations of fraction.
- Understand representations of simple equivalent fractions.
- Understand the concept of mixed numbers with common denominators to 12.
- Add and subtract fractions with common denominators.
- Add and subtract mixed numbers with common denominators.
- Convert mixed numbers to improper fractions and improper fractions to mixed fractions.
- Understand a fraction a/b as a multiple of 1/b. (for example: model the product of 3/4 as (3 x 1/4 ).
- Understand a multiple of a/b as a multiple of 1/b, and use this understanding to multiply a fraction by a whole number.
- Solve word problems involving multiplication of a fraction by a whole number, e.g., by using visual fraction models and equations to represent the problem.
- Multiply a whole number by a fraction.
- Make a line plot to display a data set of measurements in fractions of a unit (1/2, 1/4, 1/8).
- Solve problems involving addition and subtraction of fractions by using information presented in line plots.
- Solve multi-step problems using the four operations.
- Express fractions with denominators of 10 and 100 as decimals.
- Understand the relationship between decimals and the base ten system.
- Understand decimal notation for fractions.
- Use fractions with denominators of 10 and 100 interchangeably with decimals.
- Express a fraction with a denominator 10 as an equivalent fraction with a denominator 100.
- Add fractions with denominators of 10 and 100 (including adding tenths and hundredths).
- Compare decimals to hundredths by reasoning their size.
- Understand that comparison of decimals is only valid when the two decimals refer to the same whole.
- Justify decimals comparisons using visual models.
In Reading, students will read narrative and informational texts and practice determining the main ideas and key details and examles, determining the theme, describing characters, setting, or events, making connections between the text and visual or oral presentations, comparing and contrasting texts from different cultures, determining the meaning of words and phrases in Greek mythology, etc.
In Language Arts, students will be practice identifying a firsthand and a secondhand account, identifying and telling the meaning of figures of speech, and using conventions of standard English like using correct captialization, punctuation, using a comma before a conjunction in a compound sentence, using commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech, and spelling grade appropriat words correctly.