2011-2012 Year Plan - Laura Venger, Grade 3-4 North Haven Community School

rev. 10-16-11

ELA

FALL WINTER SPRING writing opinion pieces----informative/explanatory texts----narrative---research papers-----------------------------------instruction and feedback: complete sentence features, paragraph scaffolding model, writing process, spelling activities: writing logs, snippets, Word of the Week, Word Wall Words, experiment write ups, content reports, book summaries, lit circle jobs, reflections, letter writing, cursive penmanship reading genre... explicit information.... drawing conclusions... vocabulary in context... predicting... character... setting... sequence... plot... cause and effect.. main idea... classify & categorize... compare & contrast... fact & opinion... point of view... authors purpose... voice... figurative language... theme Guided Reading---comprehension skills (connections, questioning, inference modeled through Snippets, I Wonder Books and teacher modeled think aloud)--- literature circles ---Just Right books----content reading speaking share ------ poetry circle-----project presentations-----Knowledge Fair----------------------------------listening --read aloud----speakers---circle--- class discussions---literature circles---content media DVDs---student presentations ----peer editing word study -----developmental word patterning exercises ---synonyms---homonyms---compound words---antonyms--------

MATH Gr. 3 --- Numbers and Operations: Whole Numbers, Fractions --- Geometry and Measurement --- Patterns and Function ---Data Analysis
Gr. 4 -- Numbers and Operations: Whole Numbers, Fractions -- Geometry and Measurement --- Patterns and Function ---Data Analysis and Probability

SOCIAL STUDIES geography ---Maine Counties (construction of regional physical maps) -- Google Earth --- regional weather reports lat/long civics & gov. ---class norms----product descriptors---performance guides----rubrics-----problem solving-----------------------history ---------North Island kids of the past ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY life science -------ecosystems------compost--------ocean plants-----------------------land plants/greenhouse-------------------physical --Solar System---Energy------------------------waves------------------------------------------------------------------technology CoCoRaHS precipitation monitoring --- Google Earth ---NERACOOS buoys-- Google Docs --- imovie HD--games-ASSESSMENT diagnostic - Words Their Way spelling inventories, Developmental Reading Assessment (DRA) normative - NWEA, NECAP Knowledge Fair - K-4 house oral presentation rubric Product Descriptors - Greeting Cards, Complete Sentence, Word Wall Words, Word of the Week Portfolio - minimum of two analytic rubric assessed pieces in each of the content areas