PACE News
Trimester 2
Reading
Grade 3-
- American Tall Tales by Mary Pope Osborne- Study Focus: Elements of Tall Tales, pair with non-fiction text involving United States land forms
- The Krakatau Eruption by Peter Benoit-Study Focus: Nonfiction text structures & features
- Short non-fiction texts to support weather unit
- Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling- Study Focus: Theme study, folktale elements
Grade 4-
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle - Study Focus: Elements of Science Fiction
- Lincoln: A Photobiography- by Russell Freedman- Study Focus: Nonfiction (Biography) text structure and features, collaborative learning through literature Circles
- Bull Run by Paul Fleischman- Point of View, Compare same topic in fiction & nonfiction
Grade 5-
- The Wright Brothers: How They Invented the Airplane by Russell Freedman- Study Focus: Nonfiction Features, biography
- D'Aulaires' Book of Norse Myths by- Study Focus: Elements of Mythology, compare/contrast with Greek myths, paired non-fiction texts
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D. Taylor- Study Focus: Elements of historical fiction paired with non-fiction text
Mathematics
Units Covered
3rd
- Multiplication of whole numbers with one and two digit divisors-area model
- Measurement, time, and graphs
- Continue to explore fractions
- Equations and Word Problems
4th
- Multiply & divide and work with fractions
- Multiply & divide and work with decimals
- Multiply & divide whole numbers
- Operations and Word Problems
5th
- Operations with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
- Surface Area of Prisms and Pyramids
- Volume of Rectangular Prisms
- Expressions and Equations
- Problem Solving