East Elementary School
Weekly Update
Kindergarten
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending March 13, 2020
This week in reading we:
- will identify fiction and non fiction texts
- will identify features of non fiction texts
This week in writing we:
- are tapping out CVC words
- will draw and write facts about a topic
This week in math we:
- will identify more than/fewer than
- are practicing number formation
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First Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending March 13, 2020
This week in reading we:
- Students will understand that main topics are supported by identifying the relevant, key details in a text and by asking and answering questions about the text.
This week in writing we:
- Students will plan their nonfiction question and answer books by listing five topics they are interested in learning more about.
This week in math we:
- Students will collect, sort, and organize data; then ask and answer questions about the number of data points.
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Second Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending March 13, 2020
In reading students will:
- become familiar with how to read poetry in ways that capture the expression, feelings, and ideas by examining and practicing different poems.
In writing students will:
- see and describe familiar objects in a fresh, new way by looking at the object with a new lens.
In math students will:
- measure various objects using inch rulers and yard sticks.
Other notes or information:
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Third Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending March 13, 2020
In reading students will:
- Notice the similarities and differences between two texts by comparing and contrasting texts pertaining to the same topic.
In writing students will:
- Draft body paragraphs of each section of their research.
In math students will:
- Compare fractions and whole numbers on a number line.
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Fourth Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending March 13, 2020
In reading students will:
- Readers continue to self-monitor comprehension by annotating a text when close reading.
- Readers continue to understand a question by identifying its purpose.
In writing students will:
- Writers continue to gain a thorough understanding of the expectations of a short response by analyzing the short response with a rubric.
- Writers continue to analyze their own short response baseline in alignment with the short response rubric.
In math students will:
- Recognize lines of symmetry for given two-dimensional figures.
- Identify line-symmetric figures, and draw lines of symmetry.
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Fifth Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending March 13, 2020
In reading students will:
- Growing readers use a variety of strategies to support their comprehension of a passage by purposefully annotating the text. Readers will focus on:
• Identifying main idea
• Identifying meaning of unknown words and phrases using context
• Infer character feelings, analyze character change and responses to challenge
• Identify perspective, point of view, and speaker
• Internal conflict that connects to the theme
• Text structure
In writing students will:
- Writers answer short response questions by utilizing the Boxes and Bullets graphic organizer.
- Writers draft their short responses by using details from their bullets into an organized paragraph.
- Writers utilize details in the text to enhance their writing by referring back to the text for relevant, well-chosen details (eliminating irrelevant) to show BEST examples.
In math students will:
- Convert mixed unit measurements and solve multi-step word problems.
- Explain the size of the product and relation fraction and decimal equivalence to multiplying a fraction by 1.
- Compare the size of the product to the size of the factors.
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