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Newsletter #1: Sharing The Planet
UOI 6: Sharing The Planet
An inquiry into rights and responsibilities in the struggle to share finite resources with other people and with other living things; communities and the relationships within and between them; access to equal opportunities; peace and conflict resolution.
Central idea: Living things have needs which help them grow and stay healthy.
Key concepts: Reflection, Form, Responsibility
Related concepts: Characteristics, structures, similarities, differences, animals, behaviors, needs
Lines of inquiry
- Characteristics of living things (Reflection)
- Needs of plants and animals (Form)
- How to protect the well-being of living things (Responsibility)
UOI Field Trip
- Robinson's Nature Center
- Animal Shelter
- Flower and Plant Nurseries
What Are We Learning This Unit?
Math
- Students will compare two numbers between 1 and 20 using greater than and less than signs EX: 2>1
- Students will develop understanding of ordinal numbers (first second,third... through tenth) through activities, games, and word problems
- Continue identifying tens and ones. EX: How many tens and ones are in 16 (1 ten and 6 ones).
Module 6:
- Compose simple shapes to form larger shapes. For example, “Can you join these two triangles with full sides touching to make a rectangle?”
Analyze, compare, create, and compose shapes using 2D, 3D, flat, solid shapes with different types of objects and materials.
Model shapes in the world by building shapes from components (e.g., sticks and clay balls) and drawing shapes.
English Language Arts
- Students will retell familiar stories, including key details by writing, illustrating and acting.
- Students will learn about and share different types of texts such as storybooks, fiction, non-fiction and poems
- Students will continue to explore the story elements of characters, setting, problem and solution.
- students will actively work in small groups and with partners to discuss story details and build comprehension.
- students will continue to participate in activities to count, pronounce, blend, and segment syllables.
- Students will recognize and practice CVC words ending in /l/, /r/, or /x/.)
SPEAKING AND LISTENING:
- Students will practice building cooperation skills through collaboration activities.
- Students will add drawings or other visual displays to descriptions as desired to provide additional detail of their information.
WRITING:
- Students will use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts in which they name what they are writing about and supply some information about the topic.
- Students will learn to write a friendly letter to a friend.
- Students will practice editing skills by learning to check and recheck work and give peer advice.
- Students will recall information from experiences or gather information from provided sources to answer a question.
LANGUAGE:
- Students will form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes).
- Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how).
- Capitalize the first word in a sentence and the pronoun I.
- Identify new meanings for familiar words and apply them accurately (e.g., knowing duck is a bird and learning the verb to duck).
- Demonstrate understanding of frequently occurring verbs and adjectives by identifying them to their opposites (antonyms)
Science
- Use observations to describe patterns of what plants and animals (including humans) need to to survive.
- Compare living and non-living things.
- Students will observe the behavior and structure of worms, bugs, animals and plants.
- Student will observe Isopod (pill bugs) behaviors and design a "race track" to predict their behaviors.
Arabic
- Students will explore animals and the different habitats they live in.
- Students will continue to expand their reading and comprehension skills through reading and listening activities such as books and educational videos.
- Students will also perfect their handwriting skills through games and group activities.
Standards:
- I can state the names of familiar people, places, and objects in pictures and posters using words or memorized phrases.
- I can match a character in a headline to a supporting visual.
- I can occasionally understand isolated words that I have memorized, particularly when accompanied by gestures or pictures
Qur'an
- Students will continue with their memorization of the Quran starting from Surah Takathur.
- Students will learn the meaning of the ayahs along with the proper ASL hand signals to help them remember the meaning.
- Students will also continue learning how to read from the Quran.
Standards:
- Memorize Surah Takathur
- Understand the meaning of Surah Takathur
Islamic Studies
- Students will earn all about how we as Muslims, should treat animals and our environment.
- Students will listen and learn through stories of Prophet Sulaiman and the ant, as well as various hadith about Allah putting trust in us to take care of our planet.
- Students will put some of these new skills into action by showing kindness to class pets and keeping our classroom clean.
Standards:
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· Muslims keep their surroundings clean and tidy even if it is not their mess.
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· Muslims should be kind to animals.
Art
- Students will create recycled paper.
- Using Tempera paint students will paint animals in their environment.
- Using recycled materials students will create artworks.
Targeted MSDE Standards:
1.0 Perceiving and Responding: Aesthetic Education –
- Students will demonstrate the ability to perceive, interpret, and respond to ideas, experiences, and the environment through visual art.
- b. Represent observed form by combining colors, lines, shapes, and textures
2. Identify and compare ways in which selected artworks represent what people see, know, feel, and imagine
KG Team
- Ms.K- akarachiwalla@tarbiyahacademy.org (Hmrm)
- Ms. Ms. Taame - otaame@tarbiyahacademy.org (Art)
- Ms Sanchez - jsanchez@tarbiyahacademy.org (Arabic, Q,IS)
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