Reading Workshop/Social Issues

• Readers notice the groups that their characters belong to by jotting down on post its

• Readers are on the lookout for things that aren’t fair by putting post its on places

• Readers are on the lookout for stereotypes by marking places where one character is stereotyping another character

• Readers consider how there are often 2 sides of an issue
 

Writing Workshop - Poetry

• Writers will read the ‘Great Kapak Tree’ & write features of the rain forest

• Writers find information by using nonfiction planning squares

• Writers use a think aloud to clarify Q & A

• Writers add dialogue craft element

PUBLISH
 

Units discussed:

• To estimate products

• To multiply 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers w/o regrouping

• To choose the best strategy to solve a problem

• To multiply 3 & 4 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers w/regrouping

• Measure length to the nearest centimeter & millimeter

• Estimate & measure metric units of capacity; mass

• Game Day

The following topics to be discussed:

• What are vertebrates / invertebrates?

• What are the different types of ecosystems?

• How do ecosystems support plants & animals?

 

Topics to be discussed:

• The United Kingdom

• Vocabulary – London, Buckingham Palace, Prime Minister, Big Ben