Here you will find information on our current units of study, so that you might be kept up to date on what your child is learning in the classroom!
Reading the Weather, Reading the World This unit supports students in the skills they will need to be strong readers and researchers of informational texts. Specifically, they will learn to read for main ideas and supporting details, to identify text structures and use this information to understand texts more fully, to summarize, and to figure out meanings of unknown words and academic vocabulary.
The Arc of The Story: Writing Realistic Fiction This is a unit on revision as much as it is about narrative or imagination. If you were to walk into the classroom and see a writing lesson, you would see that most of the teaching in this unit is toward revision in some way, shape, or form. Sometimes, as in the earliest stages of the process, students are encouraged to not just take their first ideas and run with them, but rather to linger, think and refine. We encourage them to draft quickly and revise slow because the best fiction is full of characters, moments, settings and thoughts.
Place Value, Rounding, & Algorithms for Addition & Subtraction In this 25-day module, students extend their work with whole numbers. They begin with large numbers using familiar units (hundreds and thousands) and develop their understanding of millions by building knowledge of the pattern of times ten in the base ten system on the place value chart. They recognize that each sequence of three digits is read as hundreds, tens, and ones followed by the naming of the corresponding base thousand unit (thousand, million, billion).
Gorillas By: Seymour Simon
Classic movies show giant gorillas scaling tall buildings and swatting planes from the sky, but actual gorillas are gentle social animals that live together in family groups like humans. In fact, gorillas are one of the closest genetic matches to people. And just like humans, gorillas can shriek, chuckle, hiccup, and even burp! Award-winning science writer Seymour Simon brings you a full-color photographic introduction to these fascinating animals.