January

January

= **Math:** = Money, time, measurement, geometric shapes(classify and compare polygons, parallel, perpendicular, angles/acute/right/obtuse, symmetry, congruent, tile or tessellate a region or shape) Draw and interpret maps with coordinate systems, shapes, or pictures Multiplication(0,1,2,5,10) CMT multi-step problems(25)

**Reading:**
//Before Reading: Choose the appropriate text for a specific purpose. Articulate what is known about the text topic based on the title, author, pictures, illustrations, prior knowledge. Make relevant predictions about waht will probably happen in a story(fiction) or what will be learned(nonfiction)based on title, cover, chapter headings, illustrations, etc.//

//During Reading: Make predictions and connections. Ask and answer questions. Describe the mental imagery that occurs while reading. Identify specific words or phrases that cause comprehension difficulties and self monitor. Explain first-, second-, and third-person point of view. Interpret graphical information(charts, tables, diagrams). Make inferences based on explicit information in the text; provide justification for those inferences.//

//After Reading: Describe characters' physical and personality traits. Develop a new title that best fits the text. Describe he conflict faced by a character in the story. State the main idea with supporting details in informational text. State the theme in literary text.//

//Developing an Interpretation: Explain similarities and differences in a story. Draw conclusions based on implicit or explicit evidence from text. Decide an author's purpose for including particular information in text. Interpret meaning based on charts, graphs, maps, illustrations, photos in text. Identify and explain text structures, e.g., sequence, main idea/details, compare/contrast, cause and effect//

**Begin Theme 4: Determination**

Spelling: yawn, taught, salt, lawn, halls, hauls, hawks, squawk, bought, bawls, drawing, caused, paused, crawled, coughing, joyful, coins, spoiled, walrus, autumn Grammar: The verbs have, do, and be   Also idioms Jan. 3: Seven Spools of Thread(getting along) Spelling (/ou/): found, town, shout, owl, couch, bow, scout, round, plow, crowd, proud, clouds, ground, louder, bounce, drawing, lawn, hauls, snowplow, outline. Grammar: Linking Verbs

Jan. 10 Washington Weed Whacker(protecting our natural resources) Spelling (soft c and soft g): cell, gems, age, place, gyms, city, cents, price, space, nice, giant, changes, pages, gentle, message, crowd, clouds, found, giraffe, celebrate Grammar: Helping Verbs


 * My Very Own Room(a place of my own) Skip this selection, do skills as needed

Spelling (plurals): years, twins, trays, states, ashes, foxes, inches, flies, cities, ponies, bunches, alleys, lunches, cherries, daisies, sale, rode, you're, heroes, libraries Grammar: Contractions

Jan. 18 Here's My Dollar(getting involved) *ALSO give the Unit 4 test this week contractions & apostrophes
 * Spelling (homophones): sale, sail, beet, beat, rode, road, rowed, its it's your, you're, there, they're, peace, piece, city, gems, space, seen, scene**
 * Grammar: Irregular Verbs,**

Jan. 24, 31 Prepare for CMT(use Soaring Scores prep. booklet), Science/Soc. Studies

Desert Animals

__Writing__
Poetry: look at different forms(free verse, quatrain, limerick, speak with clarity, voice, fluency) Simile Personification Timed Prompt(fountain) Writing a complete story Editing and Proofreading Pronoun: I versus me

Science/Social Studies:
Region: Desert Group: Navajo(To adapt to the natural resources available in the desert, the Navajo learned how to grow crops, raise livestock, weave, and make hogans.) (Understand cause and effect of migration and settlement related to the American frontier and the Native Americans. Recognize how diversity has caused conflict in the past.)**

CHANGE this unit has been switched with the rock unit because Audubon could only do Rocking out in March. Polymer Power and states of matter will switch with rocks) Science: Begin unit on states of matter(//Materials have properties that can be identified and described through the use of simple tests. Heating and cooling cause changes in some of the properties of materials. Describe the effect of heating on the melting, evaporation, condensation, and freezing of water. Sort and classify based on properties such as dissolving in water, sinking/floating, conducting heat, attracting magnets.)// Also: Soggy Paper Experiment