Curriculum

Timeline

Week 1: March 7 March 11

Monday 3/7

Tuesday 3/8

Kelsey Jurewicz

Wednesday 3/9

Thursday 3/10

Friday 3/11

8:30 8:35

Pick up students from

blacktop & morning
announcements

Pick up students from

blacktop & morning
announcements

Pick up students from

blacktop & morning
announcements

Pick up students from

blacktop & morning
announcements

Pick up students from

blacktop & morning
announcements

8:35 8:50

Morning work

Morning work

Morning work

Grade group meeting

Morning work

Review morning work

Review morning work

Review morning work

Grade group meeting

Review morning work

Writing informational
writing (research on
animals)
Literacy skill point of
view/ authors viewpoint

Writing informational
writing (research on
animals)
Literacy skill point of
view/ authors viewpoint

Writing informational
writing (research on
animals)
Literacy skill point of
view/ authors viewpoint

Grade group meeting

(9: 40) Pick students up
from grade group prep

Writing informational
writing (research on
animals)
Spelling quiz
Skill quiz

Literacy centers / small

groups (guided reading
and strategy groups)

Literacy centers / small

groups (guided reading
and strategy groups)

Literacy centers / small

groups (guided reading
and strategy groups)

Literacy centers / small

groups (guided reading
and strategy groups)

Literacy centers / small

groups (guided reading
and strategy groups)

Recess

Recess

Recess

Recess

Recess

Prep

Prep

Prep

Prep

Prep

11:30 12:10

Lunch & recess

Lunch & recess

Lunch & recess

Lunch & recess

Lunch & recess

12:10

Pick students up from

lunch

Pick students up from

lunch

Pick students up from

lunch

Pick students up from

lunch

Pick students up from

lunch

SSR

SSR

SSR

SSR

SSR

Math message
(measurement)

Math message
(measurement)

Math message
(measurement)

Math message
(measurement)

Math message
(measurement)

Math lesson (Unit 7, L 1.1) Math lesson (Unit 7, L 1.2)

Math lesson (Unit 7, L 1.3)

Math lesson (Unit 7, L 1.4) Math lesson (Unit 7, L 1.5)

1:15 1:45

Math centers

Math centers

Math centers

Math centers

Math centers

1:45 2:00

Break

Break

Break

Break

Break

8:50 9:00
9:00 9:30
9:30 9:50
9:50 10:25
10:25 10:40
10:40 11:30

12:15 12:25
12:25 12:40
12:40 1:15

2:00 2:30

Social Studies Unit

Introduction
Read aloud Africa is Not a
Country. Create KWL
about Nigeria. Students
complete Map 1 in map
books (location of Africa
on a world map). Watch
Five Themes of
Geography video on
Flocabulary.

Library (2:10 2:40)

Trophies reading

Social Studies Where in

the world?
Watch Map Skills
Flocabulary video.
Compare unidentified
pictures of Nigeria and the
United States; see if
students can guess where
each picture is. Virtual field
trip (via Google Maps)
from Philadelphia to
Nigeria. Compare and
contrast what we see.
Students complete Map 2
in map books (location of
Nigeria in Africa).
Pack up and dismissal
Pack up and dismissal

2:30 3:00

3:00 3:15

Pack up and dismissal

Social Studies
Topography of Nigeria
Watch Landforms &
Bodies of Water video on
Flocabulary. Guided
completion of Map 3 in
map books (topographical
map of Nigeria). As
students work on
individual topographic
maps, they will be called in
pairs to assist in creating a
whole-class 3D salt dough
topographical map of
Nigeria. The guided map
creation will include a
discussion of how various
landforms affect the lives
of people living in the area.
Trophies reading

Social Studies
Resources, Part I
Watch Natural
Resources video on
Flocabulary. Using
provided research
materials, groups of
students will conduct
research on an assigned
Nigerian resource
(example: cocoa, peanuts,
cotton, rubber, palm oil,
crude oil, yams). Each
group will share their
findings with the class.

Social Studies
Resources, Part 2
Students complete Map 4
in map books
(resources/products map
of Nigeria).
While students are
completing Map 4, pairs of
students will be called to
help complete (by
painting) the classs 3D
topography map.

Trophies reading /
spelling review/ misc.

Trophies quiz / weekly

tickets/ classroom store

Pack up and dismissal

Pack up and dismissal

Week 2: March 14 March 18

Monday 3/14

Tuesday 3/15

Wednesday 3/16

Thursday 3/17

Friday 3/18

8:30 8:35

Pick up students from

blacktop & morning
announcements

Pick up students from

blacktop & morning
announcements

Pick up students from

blacktop & morning
announcements

Pick up students from

blacktop & morning
announcements

Pick up students from

blacktop & morning
announcements

8:35 8:50

Morning work

Morning work

Morning work

Grade group meeting

Morning work

Review morning work

Review morning work

Review morning work

Grade group meeting

Review morning work

Math (Unit 7, L 1.6)

Writing informational
writing (focus on strong
opening)
Literacy skill main idea and
key details (integrate
nonfiction text about
Nigeria)
Literacy centers / small
groups (guided reading and
strategy groups)

Writing informational
writing (focus on strong
opening)
Literacy skill main idea
and key details (integrate
nonfiction text about
Nigeria)
Literacy centers / small
groups (guided reading
and strategy groups)

Grade group meeting

(9: 40) Pick students up

from grade group prep

Writing informational
writing (focus on strong
opening)
Spelling quiz
Skill quiz

Literacy centers / small

groups (guided reading
and strategy groups)

Literacy centers / small

groups (guided reading
and strategy groups)

10:25 10:40 Recess

Recess

Recess

Recess

Recess

Lunch (until 11:10)

SSR (until 11:25)
Social Studies
Proverbs & Fables,
Part I
Introduce proverbs and
the role of storytelling
in Nigerian culture.
11:30 12:10 Examine popular US
proverbs. Watch
African Proverbs
Flocabulary video and
interpret/analyze
Nigerian proverbs from
the video.
12pm dismissal (half
12:10
day for PD)

Prep

Prep

Prep

Prep

Lunch & recess

Lunch & recess

Lunch & recess

Lunch & recess

Pick students up from lunch

Pick students up from

lunch

Pick students up from

lunch

Pick students up from

lunch

8:50 9:00
9:00 9:30

9:30 9:50

9:50 10:25

10:40 11:30

Literacy skill main

idea and key details
(integrate nonfiction
text about Nigeria)
Literacy centers / small
groups (guided reading
and strategy groups)

12:15 12:25 Half day (PD)

SSR

SSR

SSR

Half day (PD)

Math message
(measurement)
Math lesson (Unit 7, L 2.1)

Math message
(measurement)
Math lesson (Unit 7, L 2.2)

1:15 1:45

Half day (PD)

Math centers

Math centers

Math message
Math message
(measurement)
(measurement)
Math lesson (Unit 7, L 2.3) Math lesson (Unit 7, L
2.4)
Math centers
Math centers

1:45 2:00

Half day (PD)

Break

Break

Break

Break

Half day (PD)

Library (2:10 2:40)

Social Studies Fable

literature circles
Groups of students will be
assigned a fable, based on
reading levels. After
reading the fable
independently, they will
discuss the story and agree
upon the moral. Groups
will share a quick
summary of their fable and
moral with the rest of the
class.

Social Studies Writing

celebration
Students will complete
the final copies of their
fables. Students who
wish to share-out will
present their fable to the
rest of the class.

Half day (PD)

Social Studies Proverbs &

Fables, Part II
Introduce fables. Read aloud
Nigerian fable The Famine.
Students will determine the
moral of the story.
Pack up and dismissal

Trophies reading

Social Studies
Introduce fable
assignment
Provide overview of
assignment: students will
be writing and illustrating
a short fable to go along
with a Nigerian proverb
(using the proverb as the
moral of the fable).
Students will complete
graphic organizer (story
map) for their fable;
choices will be provided
for various elements of
the fable, including
setting, characters,
proverb, etc.
[Students will write a
rough draft of their fable
for homework tonight].
Trophies reading /
spelling review/ misc.

Pack up and dismissal

Pack up and dismissal

12:25 12:40
12:40 1:15

Half day (PD)

2:00 2:30

2:30 3:00

3:00 3:15

Half day (PD)

Pack up and dismissal

SSR

Trophies quiz / weekly

tickets/ classroom store