Unit: 4.2 Title: Winds of Change
Essential Question Reading: How do you know what a character is feeling and when these feelings change?
Essential Question Math:
What is the process of measurement? Why is iteration important? How can I organize and represent data so I can interpret it?
Essential Question S. Studies: Who are famous Americans and how did they affect our lives?
Essential Question Science: How was light invented and by whom? What is a shadow?
Technology
pebblego.com
Biographies
YouTube:
Standard/NonStandard
Measurement
IPAD – APP on Measuring
Popplets: Student can begin
making Popplets to review
books so to demonstrate
understanding of a concept.
Word Study/Phonics
Focus:
Vowel Diagraphs
(oa) (ow) (oe)
RF.1.2, RF.1.3
Sight Words:
Boat, goat, snow, grow, toe,
bold, *was, *were, *would,
*could
Math
Shared Reading
Focus:
-Students will process
measurement and organize
and interpret data.
-Measuring with non-standard
units.
-Estimate, measure, compare
lengths of body parts (fingers,
arms) using cubes.
-Measure with standard units
(inches/centimeters)
1MD.1, 1.MD.2, 1.0A.5, 1.0A.6
Activities:
-Measure items around the
room & put 3-items in order
from shortest to longest.
-Ground Hog’s Garden
-Mathland Activities
CGI Word Problem: Mrs.
Campbell had some pencils. She
gave 8 to Mrs. Russell. Now
Mrs. Campbell has 7 left. How
many did Mrs. Campbell have
to start.
Math Vocabulary
Linear Measurement
Focus: Students will sequence stories, retell
Standard
stories, identify character traits and text
features.
Non-standard
RL.1.3, RL.1.4, RI.1.8, RF.1.4, L.1.4, L.1.4b, c, L.1.5.d
Ruler
Read Alouds
Inches
Focus: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible,
No Good Very Bad Day
Activity: Vocabulary: terrible, horrible
-Summarize the story, sequence the story,
and make a character web for Alexander
Activity: Compare/contrast to Alexander
Feelings by Aliki
Activity: Shades of meaning feeling words –
Writing
Focus: Narrative writing – Begin edit with teachers
Zero Point
Social Studies
When Sophie Get’s Angry
happy, glad, gleeful, angry, mad
Centimeters
Demonstrate
rights/responsibilities of being a
citizen.
E.8.1.2, E.8.1.1, E.9.1.5, E.9.1.4
Science
Compare/Contrast Heat/Light
Sources
Activity: Shadows – Related
concept to Ground Hog Day. What
makes a shadow?
and peers.
Activities:
-Explain Ground Hog Day
-How to have an early spring
-How to have a good day
W.1.7, W.1.5, W.1.3, W.1.8, L.1.2, L.1.1
Leader In Me
Let’s Be Enemies
When Sophie Gets Angry – Proactive/Reactive
Activities:
Demonstrate the rights/responsibilities of being a
good citizen (Think Win-Win)