Skills

(Fundations, Spelling)

Fundations Intro

Unit 1- Week 1-2

Lowercase letters

Fine motor skills forming skyline letters, print/word awareness

Unit 1 Week 3-6

Lowercase letters

Fine motor skills forming lowercase letters, print/word awareness, story retelling, rhyming books

Unit 1 Week 7-10

Lowercase letters

Lowercase letters

Fine motor skills forming lowercase letters, print/word awareness, beginning and final sounds, rhyming books

Unit 1 Week 11-12

Unit 1 Test

Unit 2 Week 1

fluency and phrasing choral reading, teach to tap, blending, abc order, reading CVC

Unit 2 Week 2-4

Unit 2 Test

Unit 3 Week 1

+Uppercase letter formation

Literacy Learning

(Domains/Modules)

Module One: Becoming a Close Reader and Writing to Learn

Week 1-2: Unit One

Haudenosaunee: The Great Peacemakers

• Mystery Symbol: The Iroquois Flag
• The (Really) Great Law of Peace
• Short Selections - Iroquois Constitution
• Write Explanatory Paragraphs

Module One: Becoming a Close Reader and Writing to Learn

Weeks 1-2 Unit Two 

What is important to the Haudenosaunee?

• Read The Iroquois: The Six Nations Confederacy with a focus on central ideas, supporting details, and context clues
• Write explanatory paragraphs

Week 3-4

• Read Eagle Song with a focus on setting, character, and theme

Performance Task:

• A Constitution for Our School Community

Module One: Becoming a Close Reader and Writing to Learn

Week One: Lesson 6-7

• Writing to Explain: Gathering Details and Organizing Paragraphs
• Writing to Explain: Drafting Strong Paragraphs

Week Two: Lesson 8-9

• Writing to Explain: Concluding and Polishing Strong Paragraphs
• End of Unit Assessment: Paragraph to Explain Symbols on My Flag

MODULE 1:

UNIT 2: Building the Power of Reading

Week 1 Lesson 1-2

• Text Features: Introduction to the Iroquios: The Iroqouis: The Six Nations Confederacy
• Taking Notes Using a Graphic Organizer

Week 2: Lesson 3-4

• Taking Notes: Using a Graphic Organizer (Making Inferences)
• Capturing Main Ideas and Details: How Life is Changing for the Iroquios

Week 3: Lesson 5-6

• Paragraph Writing
• Mid-Unit Assessment: Reading, Note Taking and Paragraph Writiing

Lesson 1 Text Features: Introduction to The Iroquois:

The Six Nations Confederacy

Module 1

Unit 2: Building the Power of Reading

Week 1: Lesson 7-8

• Close Reading and Charting: The Iroquois People in Modern Times PART I
• Close Reading and Charting: The Iroquois People in Modern Times PART I

Week 2: Lesson 9-10

• Reading Literature: Introduction to Eagle Song
• Central Conflict in Eagle Song

Week 3: Lesson 11-12

• Comparing "The (Really) Great Law of Peace" and Chapter 3 of Eagle Song
• Rereading Portions of the Iroquois Constitution and Eagle Song "Sombody In Wanted But So" 

Week 4: Lesson 13-14

• Learning from Aionwahtha and Danny's father (Ch. 4)
• How Danny responds to Conflict (Ch. 5)

Writing

Unit 1 Writing the Main Idea

• Determining the Main Idea of a Text: Explain How it is Supported by Key Details.
• Provide Reasons that are Supported by Facts or Details

Unit 2

Writing Explanatory Paragraphs

• Introduce a topic clearly and group related information in paragraphs
• Provide reasons that are supported by facts and details

Unit 3

Writing to Explain: Drafting Small Paragraphs

• Develop the topic with facts, definitions, concrete details, quotes, and examples
• Use precise language and domain specific vocabulary

Unit 4

Writing about Characters, Setting and Events

• Describe in depth a character, setting, or event in the story, drawing on specific details in the text

Unit 5

Persuasive Essay A River Ran Wild

• Provide reasons that are supported with facts and details
• Link opinion and reasons using words and phrases

Vocabulary

Lesson 1-3

Lessons 4-8

Review Lessons 1-8

Lessons 9-10

Lessons 11-13

Lesson 14-16

Grammar

• Use relative pronouns and relative adverbs
• Form and use the progressive verb tenses

• Use modal auxiliaries to convey various conditions
• Order adjectives within sentences according to conventional patterns

• Form and use prepositional phrases
• Produce and complete sentences, recognizing and correcting inappropriate fragments and run-ons

• Correctly use frequently used words
• Use correct capitilization

• Use commas and quotation marks to mark direct speech and quotations from a text
• Use a comma before coordinating conjunction in a compound sentence

Science

Soils Rocks and Landforms

Week 1-2: Soils and Weathering

Week 3-4: Landforms

Soils, Rocks and Landforms

Week 1-2: Rocks and Minerals

Week 3-4: Natural Resources

Energy and Magnetism

Investegation One

• Lighting a Bulb
• Energy on the Move
• Conductors and Insulators
• Presence of Energy

Investigation Two: Series and Parallel

• Building Series Circuts
• Building Parallel Circuits
• Solving the String of Lights Problem
• Solar Cells in Series and Parallel

Energy and Magnetism

Investigation 3: The Force of Magnetism

• Magnets and Materials
• Magnets Interact
• Magnetic Fields
• Magnetic Force

Energy and Magnestism

Investigation 4: Electromagnets

• Building an Electromagnet
• Changing the Strenghth of an Electromagnet
• Reinventing the Telegraph

Investigation 5:

• Light Travels
• Seeing Colors

Social Studies

New York and its First People

New York's Regions and Geography-Mapping

Rivers and Lakes

New York's Climate and Vegetation

Resources of New York

Map Skills

Political Map of New York

New York State's Early People

• New York's First People - Haudenosaunee and Algonquian
• Geographical Influences on Native Americans of New York
• Organization and Governence of Native American Groups
• The Iroquois League
• Clan Structure

Europeans Explore New York

• Looking for New Routes
• The Dutch Settle New York

New York Becomes an English Colony

• New York's Transition from a Dutch to an English Colony
• African Americans in New York
• French and Indian War
• Events Leading to the American Revolution

Chapter 4: Life in Colonial New York

Week 1

• Lesson 1: Farmers and Townspeople
• Lesson 2: Colonial Government in New York

Week 2

• Lesson 3: Life in New York Colony
• Chapter 4 Review

Week 1

Chapter 6: A New State

• Lesson 1: Forming a Government
• Lesson 2: The Economy of New York State
• Chapter 6 Review

Week 2

Chapter 7: New Yorkers Move West

Lesson 1:

• The Life of Settlers

Week 1

Chapter 8: The Civil War

Lesson 1-2

• Freedom's Call
• New York and The Union

Week 2:

• Chapter 8 Review

Week 3: Chapter 9: Life Changes in New York

Lesson 1-2

• Inventions and Industries
• Coming to the United States

Mathematics

Week 1-4

Topic 1: Multiplication and Division: Meanings and Facts

Domain: Operations and Algebraic Thinking

Cluster: Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.

Week 1-2

Topic 2:Generate and Analyze Patterns

Domain: Operations and Algebric Thinking

Cluster: Use the four operations with whole numbers to solve problems.

Cluster: Generate and analyze patterns

Week 3-4

Topic 3: Place Value

Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten

Cluster: Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers

Week 1-2

Topic 4: Addition and Subtraction of Whole Numbers

Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten

Cluster: Generalize place value understanding for multi-digit whole numbers.

Week 3-4

Topic 5: Number Sense: Multiplying by 1-Digit Numbers

Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten

Cluster: Use place value understanding and properties of operations to perform multi-digit arithmetic.

Weeks 1-3

Topic 6: Developing Fluency: Multiplying by 1- Digit Numbers

Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten

Weeks 1-2

Topic 7: Number Sense: Multiplying by 2-Digit Numbers

Domain: Number and Operations in Base Ten

Weeks 2-4

Topic 8: Developing Fluency: Multiplying by 2-Digit Numbers 

Mentor Texts

ELA -

The "Really" Great Law of Peace

The Iroquois Constitution (The Great Law of Peace)

"Overview and Background the Oral Tradition"

Math -

Pearson Envisions

Science -

Foss Science Stories Measurement

Social Studies

New York, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

ELA-

The Iroquois Constitution

The Iroquois: The Six Nations Confederacy, Mary Engle

The "Really" Great Law of Peace

Eagle Song, Joseph Bruchac

Math -

Pearson Envisions

Science-

Foss Measurement Stories

Social Studies

New York, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

ELA-

"Most Frequent Ways of Being Bullied iin School"

The Iroquois: The Six Nations Confederacy

Math - Pearson Envisions

Science - Foss Energy and Electromagnetism

Social Studies-

New York, Mcmillan/McGraw-Hill

ELA-

The Iroquois:The Six Nations Confederacy

 Math=

Pearson Envisions

Science-

Foss Energy and Electromagnetism

Social Studies-

New York, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill

ELA-

Eagle Song, Joseph Bruchac

The Iroquois Constitution

The Iroquois: The Six Nations Confederacy

Math -

Pearson Envisions

Science-

Foss Energy and Electromagnetism

Social Studies-

New York, Macmillan/McGraw-Hill