Units of Study - 2015
Math Place value, number stories and basic facts
In this unit, children become proficient with basic facts. They solve number stories and investigate place value concepts.
Children will learn:
Number models can represent stories
numbers are written with digits that have meaning
some addition facts are automatically known
Children will learn:
* to solve simple addition and subtraction number stories
* Automatically know +0, +1 facts, doubles facts
* Write numbers to 100
Science: Life Cycles
Skills:
Students will observe, draw or write about what changes they see.
Students will communicate their findings with appropriate science vocabulary.
Process:
Through the investigation of a life cycle, students will show respect to living things.
Writing: Non-fiction 2015
In this unit students examine All About Books and work on their own books to teach others about a topic. Students begin with a topic they consider themselves an expert in.
Essential Questions
* How is non-fiction different from fiction?
* What am I an expert about?* How can I organize my information for my readers?
Students will learn
* Writers write non-ficion to teach something
* Writers plan topics and organize pieces and use appropriate paper
Non-fiction Reading 2015
Students read non-fiction to learn. Students will understand that nonfiction includes a variety of informational texts. Readers read non-fiction differently than fiction books.
Essential Questions:
What is non-fiction?
How are non-fiction and fiction books similar and different?
What strategies will help me read and learn from non-fiction?
How can I share what I learn?
Students will understand:
You read non-fiction to learn
Non-ficiton has many different types of text
Non-fiction books has many specific features (eg contents page, glossary, index)Units of Study - October/November 2014
Writing: Personal Narratives
Children will learn:
* Everyone has stories to tell about their life
* Writers think and plan before they write
* Writers re-read and revise their writing
Reading: Readers Choose Just Right Books
Choice is a powerful and motivating teaching tool. Teaching students book-matching strategies helps them select appropriate books independently. Students also learn how to evaluate whether a book is at the right reading level and length for their abilities and purpose i.e. just-right.
Children will learn:
· readers will grow most as readers by reading lots of appropriate texts
· readers understand that they will grow most as readers by reading lots of appropriate texts.
· readers determine "just-right" books by self monitoring for accuracy, fluency and making meaning.
Math: Unit 2 – We Use Numbers Every Day
In this unit children are introduced to several everyday uses of numbers - in particular, telling time and counting money. They will take part in activities designed to prepare them for addition and subtraction, as a computational skill and as a tool for problem solving. The problem solving strategy to emphasize is to use a picture or use objects to model their thinking.
There are four main areas of focus:
• To explore the uses of number
• To introduce the analog clock
• To practice finding the values of various combinations of pennies and nickels
• To introduce number models
• To practice finding the values of various combinations of pennies and nickels
• To introduce number models
Children will learn:
• Everyone uses numbers everyday
• We need numbers when using clocks and coins
• Numbers can be used to show when things change to more or less
Social Studies - Hong Kong
The world has not always been the way it is today.
The desire to understand their historical roots and to locate themselves in place and time is common to all peoples. Such understanding involves knowing what things were like in the past and how things change and develop. This is a 5 week unit beginning with exposing students to the concept of past and present and things changing over time in Hong Kong (history). These concepts may include: transportation, homes and the sea.
Essential Questions
- Why do things change over time?
- In what ways have things changed in Hong Kong?
- What is history?
Students will learn:
Students will understand that things change over time.
Students will understand that they live in a community that changes over time and will continue to change.
Unit of inquiry – Christianity – Hope for the Future
In this unit, students will explore the life of Joseph (Old Testament) and three miracles of Jesus (New Testament). Students will discuss how Christians consider the Bible to be God’s Word and is the Christian Holy Book. Students will be able to identify how God was faithful to Joseph over time and often in unexpected ways. Students will identify how God was faithful to people through the life and miracles of Jesus.
Units of Study - August/September 2014
Writing: Launching Writer’s Workshop using pattern books
The goals of this unit are to build students' image of themselves as writers and to enable them to be successful while the systems of workshop are being established. Students will use familiar text with strong patterns to create their own pieces. They will write adaptations and innovations of these familiar text using the structure and language provided in the text.
Children will learn:
* Writers talk about their writing.
* Writers learn from other writers and use some of their techniques.
* Writers have writerly habits
Reading: Readers Build Good Habits
This unit will focus on the importance of establishing classroom reading routines. The unit will explore why people read, and how people treat books. Additionally, partner talk routines will be introduced, stressing the value of readers discussing what they’ve read with others.
Children will learn:
- Reading is a window to the world
- Readers choose texts for a variety of purposes
- Readers care for books
- Readers learn through discussing what they’ve read
In this unit we will establish an active learning environment in which children build mathematical knowledge in cooperation with their peers and the teacher. Routines are introduced that will be followed throughout the year and in later grades to provide a structure within which the students will work at the mathematical activities.
There are four main areas of focus:
• Practice counting on a number line
• Practice comparing pairs of numbers
• Practice using daily routines to mark on slates and calendars
• Represent data using tally counts
Children will learn:
• Mathematics involves many different activities, beyond adding and subtracting
• Mathematicians can use tools to solve problems
• Numbers can be compared
• Data can be represented in different ways
We believe that the social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum. We also believe that the greatest cognitive growth occurs through social interaction. Therefore children need a set of social skills in order to be successful. These skills are based on cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy and self-control.
Children will learn:
* Within our classroom, each of us has roles and responsibilities.
* We all deserve to be treated fairly and respectfully.
* Rules are designed to help our classroom community work together for the common good.
* We all deserve to be treated fairly and respectfully.
* Rules are designed to help our classroom community work together for the common good.
* To work independently and cooperatively to accomplish goals.
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