Students are involved in the writing process from first draft through the editing phase to a completed final draft. Students' writing includes complete thoughts, punctuation, capitalization, and sequence of events. Spelling Students learn to spell high-frequency words. Math Students are involved in data analysis, computation, geometry and measurement. 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.