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Check out our guiding questions and learning goals in reading, writing, math, and science!
Building a Reading Life*Readers choose good fit books.
*Readers discuss books. *Reading partners work together to lift each other up. *Readers give themselves comprehension checks. *Readers retell the story before reading on. *Readers ask questions and make predictions. Math Tools, Time, and Multiplication
*I use strategies to subtract within 1,000.
*I tell and write time to the nearest minute. *I draw a scaled bar graph to represent data within several categories. *I use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 and 100. *I use multiplication and division to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups and arrays. *I solve one-step word problems involving mass. |
Crafting True Stories*Personal narrative writers generate ideas.
*Personal narrative writers organize an event sequence that unfolds naturally. *Personal narrative writers use dialogue and description of actions, thoughts, and feelings. *Personal narrative writers describe images around the storyteller. *Personal narrative writers write an introduction that introduces the narrator and an event that starts the story. *Personal narrative writers write a conclusion that is related to the story. *Personal narrative writers use temporal words and phrases to show changes in time when appropriate Mindset for Learning
*What is optimism?
*What is flexibility? *What is resilience? *What is persistence? |