Reading:
- In this unit, students are introduced to the module topic, athletes as leaders of change, through the lens of Jackie Robinson. Students will read the book, Promises to Keep, identifying factors that led to Robinson's success in breaking the color barrier in baseball.
- Skills Focus: Main Ideas and Supporting Details & Summarizing Informational Texts
Writing: Drafting and Revising Opinion Essays
Grammar: Simple, Progressive and Perfect Verb Tenses
Math: Multiplying Decimals by Whole Numbers, Tenths and Hundredths
IB Unit of Study: Students will begin planning their Exhibition projects. This is done by all students at authorized IB Primary Years Schools. The Exhibition will include collaborative groups. The entire student body in the fifth grade will work together to write and design the central idea and the lines of inquiry. The purpose of the Exhibition is for students to develop and implement their own planner, conduct their own inquiry, and apply all the skills they have learned through the previous years as an IB student at Willard. This year, the students will conduct the Exhibition in the transdisciplinary theme of ‘Sharing the Planet.’
Social Studies - Slavery in the Americas
Science: Earth Systems - (biosphere, atmosphere, geosphere & hydrosphere)
In the science lab, students will use estimation and graphing to discover the surprising difference between fresh and salt water on Earth.
