Instructional Units
At a Glance

Reading Stories and Skills 

UNIT # 1     THEME:   “CHANGE”  (9 Weeks)
Roberto Clemente                                  
Skill: Draw Conclusions
Iditarod Dream                                       
Skill: Draw Conclusions
Island of the Blue Dolphins                 
Skill: Narrative Elements
Woodsong                                                  
Skill: Summarize/Paraphrase
Across the Wide Dark Sea                          
Skill: Connotation/Denotation
Lewis and Clark                                              
Skill: Cause and Effect
The Case of the Flying Saucer People                        Skill:  Main Idea/Details

UNIT #2   THEME: “DIVERSITY”  (9 Weeks)
Sees Behind Tree                                           
Skill: Narrative Elements
Yang the Third                                                           
Skill: Prefix/Suffix/Root Word
Elena                                                              
Skill: Narrative Elements
Satchmo’s Blues                                             
Skill: Fact/Opinion
Seth of the Lion                                              
Selection in Media Center

UNIT # 3 THEME:  “COMMUNITIES”  (9 Weeks)
Seeing Earth From Space                               
Skill:  Graphic Aid
Earth’s Song                                                   
Skill:  Graphic Aid
Oceans                                                                       
Skill:   Main Idea/Details
Climate and Seasons                                      
Skill:   Main Idea/Details
Frindle                                                            
Skill:   Author’s Purpose/Perspective
Off and Running                                             
Skill:  Compare/Contrast

UNIT # 4 THEME: “ MAKING YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS”    (9 Weeks)
Summer of Fire/Smoke Jumpers                   
Skill: Graphic Aid
What’s the Big Idea Ben Franklin                  
Skill: Connotation/Denotation
The Fun They Had                                          
Skill: Draw Conclusions
Name That American                                    
Skill: Cause/Effect
William Shakespear/Globe                            
Skill: Fact/Opinion
Black Frontiers                                               
Skill:  Summarize/Paraphrase

Math Units

Unit # 1- Number and Number Sense  
(Numbers and Operations) 
-Place Value of whole numbers and Decimals (5 days)
-Odd, Even, Prime, and Composite Numbers/Divisibility Rules (7 days)
-Add and Subtract whole numbers and Decimals (8 days)
Unit # 2- Multiply/Divide Whole Numbers/Decimals
Numbers and Operations
(30 days total) 
Unit # 3 & 4- Fraction Concepts (45 days)
Unit # 5 & 6- Measurement and Geometry (40 days)
Unit # 7- Algebra (10 days)
Unit # 8 Data Analysis and Probability (15 days)


   

Writing Units
Unit # 1 Theme: Diversity 
(Writing Process-  6 weeks)
August 15th  to October 3rd , 2011
Unit # 2 Theme: Communities   (Narrative)
 October 4th to November 18th, 2011
Unit # 3 Theme: Change    (Informational)
November 21st  to December 22, 2011
Unit # 4 Theme: Journeys   (Persuasive)
 January 9th to February 17th 2012
Unit # 5 Theme: Make Your Contribution
(Poetry, Response to Literature/Drama)
February 20th to March 30th, 2012
Unit # 6—Theme:  Power of Organization
Review all Genre’s
April 2nd, 2012 to end of the school year

Science Units

Unit # 1: Classification of Organism (12 days)
(S5L1 a, b)
Aug. 22 – Sept. 9, 2011
Unit # 2: Plant and Animal Cells (10 days)
(S5L3 a-c) 
Sept. 12- Oct. 7, 2011
Unit # 3: Beneficial and Harmful Microorganisms
(8 days) 
(S5L4 a, b)
Oct. 10 – Oct. 28, 2011
Unit # 4: Heredity (9 days)
(S5L2 a, b)  
Oct. 31 – Nov. 25, 2011
Unit #5: Constructive and Destructive Processes  (18 days)
( S5El a-c) 
Nov. 28- Jan. 13, 2012.
Unit #6: Whole as Sum of It’s Parts.   (8 days) 
(S5Pl a, b)
Jan. 16 – Feb. 3, 2012.
Unit #7: Physical and Chemical Changes (12 days )
Feb. 6 – Feb 24, 2012
Unit # 8: Electricity and Magnetism ( 15 days) 
(S5P3 a-d) 
Feb 27, - March 23, 2012
Social Studies Units
Map/Globe Skills (5days)    Aug. 15th – Aug 22nd, 2011
Unit # 1: Civil War (SS5H1  a)     (2 weeks)  
Unit #2: Reconstruction (SS5H 2 a-c)  (2 weeks)
Unit # 3: Turn of the Century (SS5H 3 a-d) (2 weeks)
Unit # 4: World War I (SS5H 4 a) ( 2 weeks) 
Unit # 5: The Great Depression/New Deal (2 weeks) (SS5H5 a-c) (SS5H5 a-c)
Unit # 6: World War II (SS5H  6 a-f) ( 2 weeks)   
Unit # 7: The Cold War (SS5H 7 a-c) ( 2 weeks)  (SS5H 8 a) 
Unit # 8: America Since 1975 (SS5H8 b-d) (SS5H9 a-b) 
(2 weeks) 
Unit # 9: Personal Finance (SS5E  1,2,3,4  a-f)  (2 weeks)

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