Curriculum Matrix

Theme:
Culture / Social Studies / Math / Language Arts / Health
Whole Group /
  • Comprehension Strategy—Determining Importance using World Book Encyclopedia text on Peru.
  • Guided Practice—Determining Importance using World Book Encyclopedia text on Utah..
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  • Division as sharing and repeated subtraction.
  • Division and multiplication as inverse operations.
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  • Summarizing—create a time line of the Peru’s history in order to summarize important events and details in sequence.
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  • Character Education class discussion

Technology Station /
  • Create a PhotoStory 3 about Peru using the pictures at the following link:
  • Include a text description or voice recorded description of each image.
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  • Mental Division Web Activity
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  • Identify meanings of words using prefixes and suffixes.
  • Latin root words exploration
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  • Model behaviors that foster healthy interpersonal relationships.

Exploration 1 /
  • Make Lenguas de Gato (Cat Tongues Cookies):
  • Compare these cookies to your favorite cookie using a T-chart.
/ Too Many Tamales (E-Media). Use division to determine how many tamales each child will need to eat to find the ring. /
  • Read about Utah’s state symbols.
  • Record each fact and complete an illustration in your Social Studies notebook.
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  • Create a cultural menu: Make sure that you show respect for various cultures and nutrition.
  • Determine the nutritional value of a meal.

Exploration 2 /
  • Complete a South America activity page.
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  • Write a division story based on a family tradition.
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  • Learn about acrostic poems.
  • Create an acrostic poem about Peru or Utah.
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  • Create a cultural sidewalk square representing Utah or Peru.

Literacy Station /
  • Use the information from our whole group instruction, on determining importance, to create a Venn diagram of Peru and Utah.
  • Compare and contrast at least 10 facts.
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  • Brainstorming how to make tamales.
  • Story map—Too Many Tamales.
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  • Summarize—create a time line of Utah’s history.
  • Write a compare and contrast paragraph, which should include 5 comparisons between Utah and Peru. Information can be used from the time lines or determining importance activity.
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  • In partners, read Verdi by Janell Cannon or The Great Kapook Tree by Lynn Cherry.
  • Journal entry: How did the characters learn to accept and respect each other?