Valley Cottage School

• Balance of informational texts and literary texts
• High-quality, complex texts for close reading
• Text-dependent questions and tasks
• Using textual evidence in writing and answering questions
• Grammar
• Spelling
• Phonics
• Handwriting
• Weekly writing instruction that models the writing process from pre-writing through publishing.

 Topics include but are not limited to the following:    
              1.  What is a community?
              2.  How are communities Different?
              3.  How do we use maps?
              4.  What is Geography?
              5.  How do people use our environment?
              6.  What are goods and services?
              7.  How do communities change?  How can one person make a difference in a community? How do leaders help their communities?
              8.  What does a good citizen do?
              9.  What do communities share?

Investigations is designed to engage students in making sense of mathematical ideas. 

STemScopes: Diversity of Living Things

• Plant and Animal Dependence
• Forms of Water
• Quick Changes to Land
• Slow Changes to Land
• Properties and States of different materials
• Building Blocks of Matter
• Changes of Heat