ELA: Unit of Study: Polar Bears and Penguins

Essential Question: How do animals adapt to their physical environment?

Big Idea: Students understand that animals grow and change over time.

Resources

What Comes First? (MONDO)

MONDO Focus:

• Students will be reading fiction and nonfiction texts.
• Students will be learning how to make predictions, make simple inferences, identify main idea, and retell a story.

Writing: Opinion Writing

• Students will use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose opinion pieces in which they tell a reader the topic and state an opinion or preference about the topic.  

Go Math!: 

Chapter 5: Students will explore subtraction.

• Use expressions to represent subtraction
• Solve problems by using the strategy act it out and draw a picture
• Use objects and drawings to solve subtraction word problems
• Solve subtraction word problems and record the equation

Chapter 6: Students will explore subtraction as taking away and taking apart.

• Use expressions to represent subtraction
• Solve problems by using the strategy act it out and draw a picture
• Use objects and drawings to solve subtraction word problems
• Solve subtraction word problems and record the equation

Common Core Learning Standards:

K.OA.A.1 - Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.

K.OA.A.2 - Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.

K.OA.A.3 - Solve addition and subtraction word problems, and add and subtract within 10, e.g., by using objects or drawings to represent the problem.

K.OA.A.4 - Decompose numbers less than or equal to 10 into pairs in more than one way, e.g., by using objects or drawings, and record each decomposition by a drawing or equation (e.g., 5 = 2 + 3 and 5 = 4 + 1).

K.OA.A.5 - Fluently add and subtract within 5.