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DECEMBER, 2009 |
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JANUARY, 2010 |
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FEBRUARY 2010 CURRICULUM CHART

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Mystery
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Readers
identify the crime solver and client
and ask ‘what is the mystery?
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Readers
ask ‘what have we noticed about
mysteries
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Readers
re read and re think using post its
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Readers
keep a list of people they suspect
could have committed the crime
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Readers
realize that rereading the text can
lead to new ideas
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Writing Workshop
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Writers
find major concerns by asking what
is important to them
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Writers
add to seed idea by adding reasons
why
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Writing
partners help their partner by
asking questions
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Writers
write a persuasive essay on a
response
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Revise,
edit & publish
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Units discussed:
- To estimate and
measure customary units of capacity, weight
- To determine the
volume of a figure
- To identify,
classify and describe 3-D figures
- To solve a
problem by solving a simpler problem
- To identify
geometric patterns and use them to make
predictions and solve problems
- Game Day
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Light and Sound
Energy
- Vocabulary-
prism, spectrum, absorb, reflect, translucent
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Topics to be
discussed:
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California Gold Rush
Vocabulary – ghost towns, railroad,
‘forty-niners’, Boomtowns
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