Summary of Skills

Unit 1: Life Cycles

Science

Science

• Classify and sequence organisms, objects, and events based on properties and patterns.
• Compare and contrast life cycles of other animals.
• Conduct simple investigations.
• Construct reasonable explanations and draw conclusions using information and prior knowledge.
• Describe the life cycle of living things.
• Discuss and justify merits of a decision.
• Identify the interdependence of plants and animals.
• Observe and describe cycles in nature.
• Observe and recognize that living things need food, air, and space to grow.
• Observe and record functions of animal parts.
• Observe the different stages in the life cycle of a plant or animal.
• Recognize that living things need food, air, and space to grow.
• Understand the interdependence of plants and animals.

Unit 1: Poppy

LA

Language Arts

• Analyze characters' actions and the consequences.
• Ask and answer relevant questions.
• Compose first drafts using an appropriate writing process: planning and drafting, rereading for meaning, revising to clarify, and refining writing with guided discussion.
• Connect and compare information within and across selections (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama) to expand knowledge.
• Connect experiences and ideas with those of others.
• Describe a character in own words.
• Develop vocabulary by listening to and discussing both familiar and conceptually challenging selections.
• Discuss an author's choices for nouns, verbs, modifiers, and specific vocabulary, which help the reader comprehend a text or make the text more interesting.
• Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters, and concepts among texts.
• Explain new concepts and information in own words.
• Gain increasing control of grammar when speaking and writing, such as using subject-verb agreement, complete sentences, and correct tense.
• Identify synonyms and antonyms of words.
• Increase oral and written vocabulary by listening, discussing, and composing texts when responding to literature that is read and heard.
• Locate and discuss examples of an author's use of punctuation.
• Locate and discuss examples of the author's use of paragraphs in texts and their effects on the reader.
• Make inferences and draw conclusions.
• Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products (e.g., narratives of personal experiences, creative stories, skits based on familiar stories and/or experiences).
• Present dramatic interpretations of experiences, stories, poems, or plays.
• Read expository materials for answers to specific questions.
• Recall the main idea, facts, and details from a text.
• Recognize distinguishing features of familiar genres.
• Represent text information in different ways, including story maps, graphs, and charts.
• Retell a spoken message by summarizing or clarifying.
• Summarize events in a passage.
• Use correct punctuation in own writing.
• Use personal experiences and knowledge to draw connections between literature and one's own life.
• Use personal experiences and knowledge to interpret written and oral messages.
• Use resources, references, and context to build word meaning.
• Use structural cues such as prefixes and suffixes to recognize words, for example, un- and -ly.
• Use structural cues to recognize words such as compound, base words, and inflections such as -s, -es, -ed, and -ing.
• Use technology to enhance the presentation of information to an audience for a specific purpose.
• Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.

Science

• Conduct investigations using simple tools.
• Examine food chains in nature.
• Identify characteristics of living organisms.
• Recognize cause and effect relationships.

Social Studies

• Compare similarities and differences between self and others.
• Describe the interdependence among people in a community.
• Evaluate rules and laws and appropriate consequences for noncompliance.
• Interpret maps and pictures of locations.

Unit 2: The Water Cycle

Science

Science

• Communicate explanations about investigations.
• Construct reasonable explanations and draw conclusions using information and prior knowledge.
• Describe and analyze the types of clouds and discuss their relation to weather systems.
• Describe the properties of water.
• Identify and test the use of heat to cause change.
• Investigate the different stages in the water cycle.
• Investigate the processes of evaporation, condensation, transpiration, and precipitation.
• Make decisions using information.
• Observe and record sky conditions over time.

Social Studies

• Apply geographic tools, such as maps and globes.
• Identify the absolute and relative location of communities.

Unit 2: Charlotte's Web

LA

Language Arts

• Attend to spelling, mechanics, and format for final products in one's own writing.
• Combine simple sentences and use conjunctions in writing.
• Compose first drafts using an appropriate writing process: planning and drafting, rereading for meaning, revising to clarify and refining writing with guided discussion.
• Describe plot, major events, and characters in own words.
• Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters, and concepts within and across texts.
• Discuss the effective use of adverbs.
• Explain characters and author's message in own words.
• Identify and use adjectives in writing.
• Interpret information from diagrams, charts, and maps.
• Plan and make judgments about what to include in written products.
• Recall the main idea, facts, and details from a text.
• Review proper punctuation included in addresses.
• Use capitalization, punctuation, and paragraphs in own writing.
• Use editing to check and confirm correct use of conventions.
• Use expanded vocabulary to generate synonyms for commonly over-used words to increase clarity of written and oral communication.
• Use new vocabulary words in speech and writing.
• Use personal experiences and knowledge to interpret written and oral messages.
• Use technology to enhance the presentation of information to an audience for a specific purpose.
• Use text for a variety of functions, including literary, informational, and practical.
• Write narratives about personal experiences.
• Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.

Science

• Describe season and weather cycles.
• Describe the life cycle of animals in nature.
• Describe the life cycle of living things.

Unit 3: Economic Cycles

Social Studies

Social Studies

• Analyze the changing uses of a community's resources.
• Describe different types of employment and ways people earn an income.
• Distinguish between goods produced and services provided in communities.
• Distinguish between producers and consumers and identify ways people are both producers and consumers.
• Explain how work provides income to purchase goods and services.
• Explain the choices people in the U.S. free enterprise system can make about earning, spending, and saving money, and where to live and work.
• Identify the sources and uses of revenue in the community.
• Recognize the relationship between supply and demand.
• Trace the development of a product from a natural resource to a finished product.

Unit 3: The Family Under the Bridge

LA

Language Arts

• Analyze characters, including their traits, relationships, and changes.
• Compare communication in different forms such as contrasting a dramatic performance with a print version of the same story.
• Compose sentences and use the appropriate punctuation.
• Connect life experiences with the life experiences, language, customs, and culture of others.
• Demonstrate learning through productions and displays such as murals, written and oral reports, and dramatizations.
• Discuss similarities and differences in events, characters, and concepts within texts.
• Draw and discuss visual images based on text descriptions.
• Identify multisyllabic words by using common syllable patterns.
• Increase knowledge of cultures and cultural elements.
• Increase oral and written vocabulary when responding to literature.
• Locate information in text for specific purposes.
• Participate in conversations and discussions.
• Read expository materials for answers to specific questions.
• Read independently from text.
• Read orally with fluency and expression.
• Recall the main idea, facts, and details from a text.
• Respond to text in ways that reflect understanding through discussion, writing, movement, music, art, and drama.
• Retell or act out the order of important events in stories.
• Understand literary forms by recognizing and distinguishing among such types of text as stories, plays, poems, and information books.
• Use more complex capitalization and punctuation with increasing accuracy such as proper nouns, abbreviations, commas, apostrophes, and quotation marks.
• Use personal experiences and knowledge to interpret written and oral messages.
• Use published pieces as models for writing.
• Use resources such as beginners' dictionaries, glossaries, available technology, and context to build word meanings.
• Use text for a variety of functions, including literary, informational, and practical.
• Write in different forms for different purposes such as lists, letters, and stories.
• Write structured, informative presentations and narratives when given help with organization.
• Write to communicate with a variety of audiences.

Social Studies

• Analyze and evaluate the effects of responsible citizenship in a school, community, and/or other social environments.
• Compare language and oral traditions that reflect customs, regions, and cultures.
• Compare similarities and differences among cultures in various communities.
• Demonstrate responsible citizenship in a school, community, and other social environments.
• Demonstrate responsible citizenship in a school, community, and/or other social environments.
• Demonstrate responsible citizenship in the school, community, and other social environments.
• Describe different types of employment and ways people earn an income.
• Describe the interdependence among individuals, families, and the community.
• Explain how work provides goods and services.
• Explain how work provides income to purchase goods and services.
• Identify and describe attributes of responsible citizenship.
• Identify people, events, and places associated with various cultures around the world.
• Identify the sources and use of revenue in the community.
• Read classic and contemporary works.