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1ST GRADE
Unit 5: Length: Comparing, Ordering, and Measuring
Unit 6: Geometry: Analyzing, Composing, and Partitioning Shapes
Reading
UNIT 5 THEME: Beyond My World
- Essential Question: How do the seasons affect us?
- Reading Workshop: Read informational text and understand the elements of the genre.
- High Frequency Words: Week 1) would, buy, people, about, write; Week 2) once, done, water, wash, upon; Week 3) sentence, off, because, laugh, open; Week 4) move, learn, eight, house, only; Week 5) today, warm, years, should, would; Week 6) mother, father, another, through, picture
Science
They have completed their science textbook!
We will be working on a science kit about the physics of sound.
Social Studies
They have completed their social studies textbook!
We will be learning about the Lewis and Clark Expedition leading up to our field trip.
Arts
In art, we are focusing on several elements of space: positive, negative, overlapping, and vanishing point. In music, we are continuing Chapter 8: Songs and preparing for our end of year concert.
2nd Grade
Unit 4: Length
Measurement, Addition and Subtraction, and Line Plots
Unit 5: Shapes and Arrays
Partitioning and Tiling Shapes, Arrays, Evens and Odds
Reading
UNIT 5 THEME: Our Incredible Earth
- Essential Question: How does Earth change?
- Reading Workshop: Read different kinds of informational text and understand their features and structures.
- High Frequency Words: Week 1) heard, door, sure; Week 2) become, across, during; Week 3) hours, products, happen; Week 4) color, questions, area; Week 5) horse, problem, complete; Week 6) toward, against, numeral
Science
They have completed their science textbook!
We will be working on a science kit about the physics of sound.
Social Studies
They have completed their social studies textbook!
We will be learning about the Lewis and Clark Expedition leading up to our field trip.
Arts
In art, we are focusing on several elements of space: positive, negative, overlapping, and vanishing point. In music, we are continuing Chapter 8: Songs and preparing for our end of year concert.
3rd Grade
Unit 5: Measurement
Time, Liquid Volume, and Mass
Unit 6: Shapes
Attributes and Categories, Perimeter and Area, and Partitioning
Reading
UNIT 5 THEME: Solutions
- Essential Question: How does the world challenge us?
- Reading Workshop: Know about different types of informational text and their elements.
- Trade Book: Do Tornadoes Really Twist? - Due June 8
- Unit Academic Vocabulary Words: analysis, threat, damage, anticipate, pollution
- Week 6 Project: Create a travel brochure that persuades readers to visit, or not visit, a place that is likely to be affected by a natural disaster.
Science
Topic 7: Fossil Evidence
How have living things and environments changed?
Social Studies
She has completed her social studies textbook!
We will be learning about the Lewis and Clark Expedition leading up to our field trip.
Arts
In art, we are focusing on several elements of space: positive, negative, overlapping, and vanishing point. In music, we are continuing Chapter 8: Songs and preparing for our end of year concert.
5th Grade
Unit 4: Measurement, Data, and Geometry: Converting Units, Using Data, and Classifying Figures
Unit 5: Algebraic Thinking and the Coordinate Plane: Expressions, Graphing Points, Patterns and Relationships
Reading
UNIT 5 THEME: Systems
- Essential Question: How do elements of systems change?
- Reading Workshop: Know about different types of informational text and understand the features and structures.
- Trade Book: Into the Volcano - Due June 8
- Unit Academic Vocabulary Words: disturb, cycle, impact, composed, engineer
- Week 6 Project: Create a public service announcement to persuade people to help the environment.
Science
Topic 9 - Matter and Energy in Ecosystems
Essential Question: How can you model the interaction of living things in ecosystems?
Social Studies - America's Past
Topic 9 - Civil War and Reconstruction
What is worth fighting for?
Arts
In art, we are focusing on several elements of space: positive, negative, overlapping, and vanishing point. In music, we are continuing to work through our music book and learn our sheet music for festival and our end of year concert. Festival is May 18th at West Valley School. Concert start time is 6:30.
6th Grade
Unit 6: Positive and Negative Numbers
Absolute Value, Inequalities, and the Coordinate Plane
Unit 7: Statistical Thinking
Data Distributions and Measures of Center and Variability
Reading
UNIT 4 THEME: Imagination
Essential Question: Where can imagination lead?
Trade Book: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Due June 8
Writing: Short Story - What might happen if a fictional character were to come into the real world?
Science - Life Science
Topic 8: Atoms and the Periodic Table
How do atoms combine to form extended structures?
Topic 9: Chemical Reactions
How can you determine when a chemical reaction has occurred?
Topic 10: Forces and Motion
How is the motion of an object affected by forces that act on it?
Social Studies - Middle School American History
Topic 13 - Prosperity and Depression (1919-1939)
What should governments do?
Topic 14 - World War II (1935-1945)
When is war justified?
Arts
In art, we are focusing on several elements of space: positive, negative, overlapping, and vanishing point. In music, we are continuing to work through our music book and learn our sheet music for festival and our end of year concert. Festival is May 18th at West Valley School. Concert start time is 6:30.
8th Grade
Unit 6: Real Numbers:
Rational Numbers, Irrational Numbers, and the Pythagorean Theorem
Unit 7: Statistics: Two-Variable Data and Fitting a Linear Model
Reading
UNIT 5 THEME: Inventions
Essential Question: Are inventions realized through inspiration or perspiration?
Trade Book: Self Choice - Time Machine and Invisible Man or 2,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Due June 8
Writing: Argumentative Essay - Which invention described in this unit had the biggest impact on humanity?
Science - Life Science
Topic 8: Atoms and the Periodic Table
How do atoms combine to form extended structures?
Topic 9: Chemical Reactions
How can you determine when a chemical reaction has occurred?
Topic 10: Forces and Motion
How is the motion of an object affected by forces that act on it?
Social Studies
Ch. 18 - The Great Depression Transforms Montana (1929-1941)
The Big Picture - "The Great Depression brought tremendous hardship to Montana towns and families. Just as hard times transform a person, the Great Depression changed Montana’s personality." (Pg. 353)
Ch. 19 - World War II in Montana
The Big Picture - "World War II changed the priorities of the entire nation and transformed many people’s attitudes about themselves, one another, and their world." (Pg. 375)
Arts
In art, we are focusing on several elements of space: positive, negative, overlapping, and vanishing point. In music, we are continuing to work through our music book and learn our sheet music for festival and our end of year concert. Festival is May 18th at West Valley School. Concert start time is 6:30.
