STUDIES

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER

JANUARY

FEBRUARY

MARCH

APRIL

MAY

JUNE

Literacy:  thematic units of study,

thinking, reading, writing, oral communication, art, technology

ALL YEAR LONG:  Daily Reading Skills

GENRE:

Historical Fiction  **The Well

Non-Fiction

**Teen Newsweek

Writing:  descriptive, scripts, realistic fiction short stories, summaries, poetry

Oral Presentation: 

**Hammer & Halton Dialogue Skit

**Respect Script

**QRI TEST

GENRE:  Historical Fiction

**The Well

Non-Fiction

**Teen Newsweek

**Out of Thin Air

**Plants, seeds, Spores & More

Writing:  descriptive, scripts, realistic fiction short stories, creative, narrative, summaries, poetry

Oral Presentation:  **Talk Show Interview

GENRE:

Realistic Fiction:  **The Cay, The Crossing, Felita

Non-Fiction

**Magnificent Journey

**Day at the Salmon Hatchery

**Salmon Web Quest

**Teen Newsweek

Writing

Informational, research skills, note-taking, script, summaries, descriptive,

poetry

Oral Presentation:  **Marketplace Commercial

GENRE:

Realistic Fiction:  **The Cay, The Crossing, Felita

Non-Fiction

**Salmon Web Quest

**Magnificent Journey

**Day at the Salmon Hatchery

**Teen Newsweek

Writing

Informational, research skills, note-taking, creative, narrative, summaries, descriptive,

poetry

Oral Presentation:  **Salmon Research w/power point

**Marketplace selling

GENRE:

Fantasy/Science Fiction

**Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH

Non-Fiction

**Teen Newsweek

Writing:

Informational, research skills, note-taking, summaries, descriptive, persuasive

**DISTRICT READING ASSESSMENT

GENRE: 

Fantasy/Science Fiction

Mrs. Frisby & the Rats of NIMH

Non-Fiction

**Teen Newsweek

**Rat Research and Studies

**Scientific Studies

Writing:

Informational, research skills, note-taking, summaries, descriptive, persuasive

Oral Presentation:

**Science Project

**Rat Project

**QRI TEST

GENRE:

Historical & Realistic Fiction:

**The Bronze Bow, The Egypt Game, The Door in the Wall

Mythology

**Greek, Roman, Egyptian

Non-Fiction

**Biographies

** Ancient Civilizations:  Greece, Rome, Egypt, China, Mexico, Africa

**Cobblestone Magazine

**Teen Newsweek

Writing:

Informational, research skills, note-taking, summaries, descriptive, biography

GENRE:

Historical & Realistic Fiction:

**The Bronze Bow, The Egypt Game, The Door

Mythology

**Greek, Roman,

**Egyptian

Non-Fiction

**Teen Newsweek

**Cobblestone Magazine

** Ancient Civilizations:  Greece, Rome, Egypt, China, Mexico, Africa

Writing:

Informational, research skills, note-taking, summaries, descriptive, biography

Oral Presentation

Living History

GENRE

Fantasy/Science Fiction

**A Wrinkle in Time

Poetry

Non-Fiction

**Teen Newsweek

**Space

Writing:

Informational, research skills, note-taking, summaries, descriptive, persuasive, poetry, narrative, creative

Oral Presentation

**Ancient Civ. Research ppoint

**Through the Years

**QRI TEST

GENRE

Fantasy/Science Fiction

A Wrinkle in Time

Poetry

Non-Fiction

**Teen Newsweek

**Space

Writing:

poetry

Oral Presentation:

**Poetry presentation

**Urban Adventure Highlights

Social Studies:  thematic units of study, thinking, reading, writing, art, technology

ALL YEAR LONG:  Daily Social Studies Skills

Civics:  The Citizen & The Constitution

**We the People

Current Events

**Teen Newsweek

Community Building

Civics:  The Citizen & The Constitution

**We the People

Current Events

**Teen Newsweek

Community Building

Civics:  The Citizen & The Constitution

**We the People

Civics & Economics

**Marketplace

Current Events

**Teen Newsweek

World Geography

**Maps & Globes

Civics & Economics

**Marketplace

Current Events

**Teen Newsweek

World Geography

**Maps & Globes

Current Events

**Teen Newsweek

World Geography

**Maps & Globes

Current Events

**Teen Newsweek

World History

**Ancient Civilizations:  Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, Mexico, Africa

**Timeline

World History

**Historical men & women

Current Events

**Teen News

World History

**Ancient Civilizations: Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, Mexico, Africa

**Timeline

World History

**Historical men & women

Current Events

**Teen News

World History

**Ancient Civilizations: Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, Mexico, Africa

Global Studies/World Issues

**Facing the Future:  People & the Plant

Current Events

**Teen News

Global Studies/World Issues

**Facing the Future:  People & the Plant

Current Events

**Teen Newsweek

Science & Health:

thematic units of study, process, thinking, reading, writing, math, art, technology

Life Science & Scientific Method & Variables

**Plants

Life Science & Scientific Method & Variables

**Plants

Environmental Science

**Salmon

**Current Health

Environmental Science

**Salmon

Life Science & Scientific Method & Variables

**Plants

**Current Health

Environmental Science

**Salmon

Life Science & Scientific Method & Variables

**Plants

**Current Health

Nutrition & Scientific Method/Variables

**Rat & Nutrition experiment

Health

**Current Health

Nutrition/The Scientific Method & Variables

**Rat & Nutrition experiment

**Science Fair Project DUE

**Current Health

Physical Science

Levers & Pulleys

Health Studies

**HIV/AIDS

**Human Growth Dev.

**Current Health

Physical Science

Levers & Pulleys

**Health

Current Health

Earth Science

**Solar System

Health

**Current Health

Earth Science

**Solar System

Health

**Current Health

STUDIES

SEPTEMBER

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Math:

units of study, thinking, reading, writing, problem solving, computation, art, technology

Strands:

Number Sense, Computation, Problem Solving, Written Communication

Connected Math Unit:  Prime Time

4th/6^th/7th^h Grade Arithmetic Done Daily (ADD)

**MATH PLACEMENT TEST

Strands:

Number Sense, Computation, Probability, Statistics, Geometric Sense, Measurement, Algebraic Sense, Problem Solving, Written Communication

Connected Math Unit:  Prime Time and Shapes and Designs

4th/6^th/7th^h Grade Arithmetic Done Daily (ADD)

Strands:

Probability, Statistics, Algebraic Sense, Problem Solving, Written Communication

Connected Math Unit:  Data About Us

4th/6^th/7th^h Grade Arithmetic Done Daily (ADD)

Marketplace Math

Strands:

Number Sense, Computation, Probability, Statistics, Algebraic Sense, Problem Solving, Written Communication

Connected Math Unit:  Data About Us

4th/6^th/7th^h Grade Arithmetic Done Daily (ADD)

Marketplace Math

Strands:

Number Sense, Computation, Problem Solving, Written Communication, Algebraic Sense, Probability & Statistics

Connected Math Unit:  Bits and Pieces I – Rational Numbers

4th/6^th/7th^h Grade Arithmetic Done Daily (ADD)

Strands:

Number Sense, Computation, Problem Solving, Written Communication, Algebraic Sense

Connected Math Unit:  Bits and Pieces I – Rational Numbers

4th/6^th/7th^h Grade Arithmetic Done Daily (ADD)

**MATH ASSESSMENT

Strands:

Number Sense, Computation, Geometric Sense, Problem Solving, Written Communication, Algebraic Sense

Connected Math Unit:  Shapes & Designs

4th/6^th/7th^h Grade Arithmetic Done Daily (ADD)

Strands:

Number Sense, Computation, Measurement, Problem Solving, Written Communication, Algebraic Sense

Connected Math Unit: Covering & Surrounding

6^th Grade Arithmetic Done Daily (ADD

Strands:

Number Sense, Computation, Problem Solving, Written Communication, Algebraic Sense

Connected Math Unit:  Bits & Pieces II – Using Rational Numbers

4th/6^th/7th^h Grade Arithmetic Done Daily (ADD)

**MATH ASSESSMENT

Strands:

Number Sense, Computation, Problem Solving, Written Communication, Algebraic Sense

Connected Math Unit:  Bits & Pieces II – Using Rational Numbers

4th/6^th/7th^h Grade Arithmetic Done Daily (ADD)

Homework & Homework Projects, Art, Field Trips

Daily Homework Assignments

Daily Plan Book

Art:  Respect Posters

Field Trip:  SCT Play Disney's High School Musical (9/26)

Weekly Homework Assignments

Daily Plan Book

Marketplace Work

SCIENCE PLANT EXPERIMENT HOMEWORK ANCHOR TASK ASSIGNED

Art:  Depicting a scene using watercolor, self portraits, still life with plants

Weekly Homework Assignments

**Science Plant Experience Homework DUE 11/7

REFLECTIONS HOMEWORK PROJECT ASSIGNED 11/7

DUE 11/28

Marketplace Work

Daily Plan Book

Field Trip:  Sultan Salmon Hatchery (11/6)

Art:  Self-portraits, still life with plants

Weekly Homework Assignments

Marketplace Work

Daily Plan Book

Art:  Marketplace Ads/Display, Gingerbread Houses, Poinsettias with oil pastels

MARKETPLACE FESTIVITIES (12/18& 12/19)

Weekly Homework Assignments

ETHNIC ARTISTS RESEARCH AND ART PROJECT ASSIGNED 1/23

DUE 2/27

Daily Plan Book

Weekly Homework Assignments

Daily Plan Book

Ethnic Artists Research and Art Project DUE 2/27

MLE Open House & Math Night (2/21)

Field Trip:  SCT Play The Hundred Dresses and EMP (2/27)

Weekly Homework Assignments

Daily Plan Book

LIVING HISTORY HOMEWORK PROJECT ASSIGNED 3/6

DUE 4/10

Art:  Living History

WASL TESTING

Daily Plan Book

SCIENCE ROCKIN’ ROLLIN’ ROADSTER EXPERIMENT ASSIGNED 4/10 DUE 4/17

THROUGH THE YEARS HOMEWORK PROJECT ASSIGNED 4/17

DUE 5/29

Living History Project DUE 4/10

Art: Picasso

Art Extravaganza

WASL TESTING

Daily Plan Book

Through the Years Homework Project DUE 5/29

Field Trip:  Overnight Urban Adventure (5/23 & 5/24)

URBAN ADVENTURE SCRAPBOOK HOMEWORK ASSIGNED 5/29

DUE 6/5

Daily Homework Assignments

Daily Plan Book

Urban Adventure Scrapbook DUE 6/5

Field Trip:  6^th grade picnic (6/11)

6^th Grade Graduation (6/16)