Our Neighbors,

Our Friends

Science

I do not teach science

MT: Identify the components of a habitat and ecosystems, producers, consumers, decomposers, predators; understand food webs, changes in the environment effect organism in different ways, and how human activity impacts the environment.

Social Studies

- Students will use maps, an atlas, pictures, and supplemental reading material to explore the geographical aspects of Canada.

-Students will form groups and create a poster comparing and contrasting the United States and Canada.

-Students will work in groups using Encyclopedias, trade books, maps, and the internet to create a travel brochure for a specific province of Canada. Groups will present them to the class.

-Students will write poems from the perspective of a migrant child in the United States.

- Students will create a poster comparing and contrasting the Maya Indians and the Aztec Indians.

-Students will read about Mexico City and create a chart showing five good reasons why they would want to travel their on vacation and five reasons why they would not.

Arts

-Students will read about different artists and art forms of Canada and Mexico.

-Students will design a mural.

-Students will listen to music common among Mexico and Canada.

Special Events

- Students will create and display a class mural about being a friend.

-Guest speaker from Canada.

Math

-Students will solve problems involving scale factors, using ratio and proportion.

-Students will communicate their mathematical thinking coherently and clearly to peers, teachers, and others.

-Students will recognize and generate equivalent forms for simple algebraic expressions and solve linear equations.

-Students will practice using an atlas and a map to find and research different countries from around the world.

-Students will apply and adapt a variety of appropriate strategies to solve problems.

Literature

-Students will make connections with the read aloud text: The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child By Franciso Jimenez

-Students will meet daily in literature circle groups where they will engage in meaningful literature discussions by:

-Demonstrating new ways of interpreting and analyzing text, practicing critical thinking skills, and increasing an overall enjoyment for reading.

-Students will identify characteristics of non-fiction while reading informational trade books on Canada and Mexico.

-The Circuit: Stories from an Immigrant Child by Francisco Jimenez, America Street: A Multiculture of American Stories by Anne Mazer, Maniac Magee by Jerry Spinelli, and Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz.

Language Arts

-Students will write daily journal entries using writing prompts about friendship.

-Students will use summarizing strategies t o create shortened versions of articles about Canadian and Mexican artists.

-Students will use a Venn Diagram to write a short essay comparing and contrasting the cultures of the U.S. and Mexico.

- Students will use detailed pictures of Canada and Mexico as prompts for descriptive writing.

-Students will examine the characters, setting, conflict, and solution of multicultural anthologies from the book America Street by Anne Mazer.