Curriculum
We teach using the common core standards to guide our instruction and best practices in our activities: (Debates, oral presentations, presentations, interviews, and graphic organizers).
Resources we use:
ELA - Reading Workshop; Lucy Calkins
-Fiction/Setting Reading Routines
-Nonfiction - Tackling Complexity
-Fantasy Book Clubs
-Argument and Advocacy
-Reading in the Content Area: The Civil Rights Movement
-Interpretation Book Clubs
Math - Eureka New York Engage
-Place Value and Decimal Fractions
-Fractions
-Order of Operations and Patterns
-Measurement and Data
-Geometry
Writing- Writing Workshop; Lucy Calkins
-Personnel Narrative
-Journalism
-Literary Essay
-Opinion Essay
-Lens of History
-Graphic Novels
Social Studies - Social Studies Weekly; MC3 Framework
-Government
-Native Americans - Three Worlds Meet
-Early American History
-Life in Colonel America
-Revolutionary War
-Becoming the United States of America
Science - Mystery Science; Next Generation Science Standards.
-Ecosystems PBL Project
-Water Cycle & Earth Systems
-Stars & the Solar System
-Chemical Reactions & Property of Matter
Resources we use:
ELA - Reading Workshop; Lucy Calkins
-Fiction/Setting Reading Routines
-Nonfiction - Tackling Complexity
-Fantasy Book Clubs
-Argument and Advocacy
-Reading in the Content Area: The Civil Rights Movement
-Interpretation Book Clubs
Math - Eureka New York Engage
-Place Value and Decimal Fractions
-Fractions
-Order of Operations and Patterns
-Measurement and Data
-Geometry
Writing- Writing Workshop; Lucy Calkins
-Personnel Narrative
-Journalism
-Literary Essay
-Opinion Essay
-Lens of History
-Graphic Novels
Social Studies - Social Studies Weekly; MC3 Framework
-Government
-Native Americans - Three Worlds Meet
-Early American History
-Life in Colonel America
-Revolutionary War
-Becoming the United States of America
Science - Mystery Science; Next Generation Science Standards.
-Ecosystems PBL Project
-Water Cycle & Earth Systems
-Stars & the Solar System
-Chemical Reactions & Property of Matter