Curriculum Update November 30, 2016
December 9 Holiday Concert at 9 am
December 15 Last student day: noon dismissal
MATH
Place Value in Whole Numbers and Decimals In Unit 5:
Children will review place value up to 5-digit whole numbers. They will read, write, compare, and order these numbers before they begin to explore larger numbers. To understand real-life applications of larger numbers, children will study population data
Science
Students are learning academic vocabulary and adding them to their “All About” Research book. The vocabulary they need to include are: Adaptation, Environment, Camouflage, Characteristic, Habitat, Hibernation, Instinct, Learned, Migration, Mimicry and Survival. Please review their book on Google Slide.
Language Arts:
In reading, students are learning "that when researchers learn about a topic, researchers look over their their resources and organize them, read an easy book to get an overview and skeam tables of contents and illustrations to glean main subtopics".
In writing, students are learning to include different ways authors use to elaborate their stories: maps, lists, drawings and photographs, captions, labels, diagrams, glossaries, quotations and definition boxes.
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