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Reading and Writing
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Math
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Science
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Social Studies
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September
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Overcoming Learning Challenges Near and Far
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Unit 1: Overcoming Learning Challenges - School and Education
In this first unit of the year, students use literature and informational texts that focus on the power of literacy and how people around the world overcome learning challenges.
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ALL (Additional Language and Literacy) Block:
Small group work with a focus on: -Additional Work with Complex Text;
-Reading and Speaking Fluency
-GUM (Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics); -Writing Practice; -Word Study and Vocabulary;
-Independent Reading
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Unit 1: Introducing Multiplication
Students will represent and solve multiplication problems through the context of picture and bar graphs that represent categorical data.
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Unit 1: Missing Fossil and Clues from the Past
Students become paleontologists who investigate data from fossils in order to provide evidence of the organisms and the environment in which they lived long ago. They learn about traits, inheritance, and life cycles to help them uncover the mystery of the fossil.
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Unit 1: Connecticut Geography and Native American Life
Students will be exploring Native American History through the lens of Connecticut. They will be looking at the Geography of CT and how it impacted the lives of the Native Americans. Students will also discuss how Natural Resources were vital to the survival of the Native American Tribes. They will continually focus on what kinds of things the Native Americans did that have impacted the way we live today.
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Unit 2: Overcoming Learning Challenges - Books
Students consider geography and how where one lies in the world affects how one accesses books.
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October
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Unit 3: Overcoming Learning Challenges - Reading
Students continue reading literature about characters who are motivated to learn to read and overcome struggles to do so. They then assess their own reading challenges and identify strategies to overcome these challenges.
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Unit 2: Area and Multiplication
Students will learn about area concepts and relate area to multiplication and to addition.
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November
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Adaptations and the Wide World of Frogs
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Unit 1: Poems and Pourquoi Tales about Frogs
Students will read poetry and pourquoi tales about different kinds of frogs and generate “why” questions. They will then write their own fictional pourquoi narratives.
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Unit 2: Connecticut Identify, History and Government
Students begin by thinking about why and how their families came to Connecticut. Then, students travel back in time to research why and how different people settled in Connecticut during Colonial times. Students will compare their lives to the lives of Connecticut citizens from colonial times and will examine how and why Connecticut established a government. Students will consider citizen’s rights and responsibilities and how these have changed over time for men, women, and children depending on their race and ethnicity.
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Unit 3: Wrapping Up Addition and Subtraction within 1,000
Students will use place value understanding to round whole numbers and add and subtract within 1,000. They will also represent and solve two-step word problems using addition, subtraction, and multiplication and assess the reasonableness of answers.
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December
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Unit 2: Frogs and the Research Process
Students will research to find out real answers to some of the questions they generated in Unit 1 and write paragraphs about what they have learned.
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Unit 2: Motion and Interaction of Objects
Students act as secret agents to solve the causes behind three instances of odd motion. They investigate gravitational, electrical, and magnetic forces so they can explain how each causes motion and what motion can occur.
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January
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Unit 3: Freaky Frog Text
Students will form research groups to become experts on frogs that have unusual adaptations that help them survive in extreme environments throughout the world. They will share their expertise by writing a book to be shared with other students.
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Unit 4: Relating Multiplication to Division
Students will learn about and use the relationship between multiplication and division, place value understanding, and the properties of operations to multiply and divide whole numbers within 100. They will also represent and solve two-step word problems using the four operations.
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Exploring Literacy Classics
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Unit 1: Character Development in Peter Pan
Students begin to read Peter Pan as well as information about the author and historical context. While they are reading, they make connections between the story and the issues presented in the background information.
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February
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Unit 3: Connecticut Industry and Inventions
Connecticut's role in the Industrial Age has had a lasting impact on the state, it’s people, and it’s economy. Connecticut has been a leader in innovation and invention throughout its history. Students will explore the history of industrial innovation and invention in Connecticut while making connections to their world today.
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Unit 2: An Opinion of Peter Pan
Students will write a book review for Peter Pan.
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Unit 5: Fractions as Numbers
Students will develop an understanding of fractions as numbers and of fraction equivalence by representing fractions on diagrams and number lines, generating equivalent fractions and comparing fractions.
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March
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Unit 3: Revising Scenes from Peter Pan
Students will take into consideration some of the reasons students would not recommend Peter Pan to a friend and revise a scene of the story. They also create a presentation explaining how and why they revised that scene.
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Unit 3: Case of the Missing Monarchs
Students focus on several concepts while investigating the reason behind the declining Monarch Butterfly population. They look at climate and migration as well as how different species vary in order to survive, find mates and reproduce.
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April
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Water Around the World
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Unit 1: Water Around the World
Students will learn about the importance of clean freshwater around the world and three challenges: access to water, demands on water, and water pollution.
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Unit 6: Measuring Length, Time, Liquid Volume, and Mass
Students will generate and represent length measurement data in halves and fourths of an inch on line plots. They will learn about and estimate relative units of measure including time, liquid volume, and weight, and use the four operations to solve problems involving measurement.
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Unit 4: Civic Engagement in Connecticut Over Time
Students will study how Connecticut continues to grow, develop, and contribute to our nation’s history. They will learn about three major social issues and civil rights topics from the last 125 years of Connecticut’s history, including child labor, the World Wars, and the Civil Rights movement.
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Unit 2: The Importance of Water Conservation
Students focus more closely on the three challenges to clean freshwater and possible solutions. They then write an opinion essay on water conservation using what they have learned..
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May
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Unit 7: Polygons and Perimeter
Students will reason about polygons and their attributes, with a focus on quadrilaterals. They will solve problems involving the perimeter and area of polygons.
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Unit 3: Solutions to Water Issues
Students plan and create a public service announcement to educate people about their chosen water issue.
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June
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Unit 8: Putting it All Together
Students will consolidate and solidify the major skills of the grade. They will also continue to work towards fluency with multiplication and division.
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