Literacy & Writing
Students will be selecting one event, person, or topic from the American Revolution to research. Students will be learning how to pull the most important parts of informational text and use to organize notes. Students will collaborate with each other to draft, edit, and publish a non-fiction writing piece about their selected topic from the American Revolution. Through this literacy and writing integration unit students will use their skills of identifying the main idea, summarizing a text, exploring character traits, and sequencing events while thinking at a higher level to study, research, and write about the American Revolution.
Math
Students will be adding, subtracting, and comparing fractions with like and unlike denominators. By the end of the unit students will be able to compare fractions by placing fractions on a number line to find equivalent fractions. After our fractions unit students will begin to represent and compare decimals by using their knowledge of fractions to make connections.
Science
Students will know that light travels in a straight line. They will also be able to explain how light reflects and refracts and how certain objects can absorb light. Students will be completing experiments in groups to help understand how light travels. After student learn about light they will move onto forces and motion and how magnetism effects the motion of certain objects.
Social Studies
Through our literacy and writing unit on the American Revolution students will continue how the American Revolution has shaped North Carolina.
In preparation for our field trip to Raleigh March 10th, students will begin to learn about the rights and responsibilities of citizens as well as North Carolina state symbols.
In preparation for our field trip to Raleigh March 10th, students will begin to learn about the rights and responsibilities of citizens as well as North Carolina state symbols.