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Enduring Understandings
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Essential Questions
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Sample Instructional Activities/Assessments
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Bible
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God calls His people apart, and He leads them to the promised land.
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How does our understanding of the Israelites and their journey to the promised land bring us closer to God?
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Nomad project
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Reading
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Build meaning and fluency in reading literature.
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How can we learn and apply strategies to build comprehension/fluency?
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Shared readings
Read alouds
DIBELS tests
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Spelling
Vocabulary
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Use words to strengthen comprehension and meanings.
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What are some key words (theme words) used in stories?
How can we use stories to help us understand unfamiliar words?
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Stoplight vocabulary
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Grammar
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Introduce the parts of speech.
Deepen understanding and use of adjectives, pronouns, and adverbs.
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How do we use the parts of speech to form correct sentences and speech?
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Mad libs
Group practice
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Writing
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Apply the writing process; adapt style and form to content.
Deepen paragraph-writing.
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How do we adapt our writing to convey our thoughts in the most appropriate way?
What ideas are best communicated in each forms/style?
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Speech bubble writing
Nomad information writing
Fractured fairy tale writing
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Mathematics
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Further apply our learning of addition, subtraction, and fractions.
Introduce multiplication, division, and decimals.
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What does it mean to multiply and divide?
How can we apply math practices in the outside world?
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“Ice cream” multiplication
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Science
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Explore the purposes and wonders of God’s creation in these areas: water and the water cycle, machines that work, electricity, five senses, and body parts.
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How does understanding water, machines, electricity, the senses, and our bodies lead us to know and praise our Creator?
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Friction race
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Social Studies
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Deepen our understandings of the eight strands of social studies, especially as they apply to peoples and communities.
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What key components form a community?
How do communities differ?
How do God’s people form a Christian community?
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“Bonnemaville”
3rd grade mall
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Christian Conduct
Service
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We do our best, “working as unto our Lord.”
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Did we do our best for God today?
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Redo’s
Clean up our classroom and school grounds
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