Integrated thematic units of Adaptations Exploration, Influences, and Expansion allow for our students to move from fact based learning to a hands on application of the concepts presented.

Both of us, with our own individual teaching styles, create a nurturing environment that fosters character building as well as meet the developmental needs of each of our students.

As a team, we study, analyze, and implement a variety of resources. Some of these include student friendly literature, technology, and manipulatives that support each area of study.

Quin One

Theme : Pride + Performance = Achievement

Reading Skills

-Comprehension skills: using schema, determining what is important, creating visual images, inferring, summarizing.

-Vocabulary: understanding words from context, using phonics skills to decode new words (clarifying)

-Answering comprehension questions using details from the text

-FCAT preparation

Language Arts

-Sentence review (tapes, subject/predicate)

-Using/Identifying nouns and verbs

-Punctuation review : ? . ! , '

-Paragraph form

-Narrative writing (writing that tells a story) and expository writing (writing that explains something)

-Writing from a given prompt

Spelling Skills

-Within Word Group - long and short vowel spellings blends

-Syllable Juncture Group - long and short vowel spellings blends.

-Derivation Constancy - using root words to determine spelling, Greek prefixes and other meanings.

Mathematics

-Review mental addition and subtraction strategies with small and large numbers

-Place value review

-Addition and subtraction up to five digits

-Comparing and ordering numbers

-Multiplication and division - basic facts and concepts

-Measurement skills

-Geometry - solids, shapes, drawing and describing characteristics, perimeter

-Problem solving - justifying answers

-Algebraic reasoning activities: thinking scales and hands on algebra

-Reading and interpreting graphs

Science

-Matter: Buoyancy, Density, Displacement, Physical/Chemical Changes

Social Studies

-Understanding The Pledge and the Declaration of Independence

-Naming at least twenty-five states correctly on a U.S. map

-Florida Geography and Symbols

-Indians

Quin Two

Theme: Pride + Performance = Achievement

Reading Skills

-Continue previous skills

Language Arts

-Continue previous skills

-New punctuation skill - using quotation marks

-Using figurative language in writing

-Weekly Timed Power Writing practice (preparation for FCAT Writing Test)

Mathematics

Weekly graded maintenance of all previous skills

-Multiplication of two and three digits by one digit

-Multiplication of two and three digits by two digits

-Division of two and three digits by one digit

-Geometry - area

-Fractions - comparing and ordering

-Introduction to decimals

-Introduction to fractions

-Reading and interpreting graphics (continued)

Social Studies

-European Explorers

-Colonial America

Science

-Electricity and Magnetism

-Weather Forecasting