Problem solving activities are a daily experience. Students develop problem solving strategies. Math concepts are developed through hands-on activities and practiced with learning games. Children study animals from the farm. They compare and contrast literature, develop vacabulary, and learn economic concepts of needs producer, product and opportunity cost.
Children begin writing factual and non-factual stories.
This unit covers skeletons and our skeletal system, mummies and Egyptology, nocturnal animals and caves. Children experience suspense stories. This unit is based on our country's history. Students compare life of today versus life in the past. Children learn about the cooperation between pilgrims and Native Americans and transfer those skills to their lives.