Language Arts

What are we learning?

Learning about Print with Nonfiction

• Use photographs, illustrations, and text to build their understanding and teach others about a topic.
• Develop ideas about a topic and are aware that their ideas can change as they read more.
• Decide whether-or-not to accept the messages of the text.
• Use an organizational pattern that allows them to elaborate on a focused topic in pictures and words.

Home/School Connection

• What did this text get me thinking about?
• What does this author think about the topic?

Math

What are we learning?

Counting and Number Part 2

• Count forward orally by ones to 110, starting at any number between 0 and 110.
•  Write the numerals 0 to 110 in sequence and out-of-sequence.
• Count backward orally by ones when given any number between 1 and 30.
• Count forward orally by ones, twos, fives, and tens to determine the total number of objects to 110.
• Group a collection of up to 110 objects into tens and ones and write the corresponding numeral to develop an understanding of place value.
• Given up to 110 objects, compare two numbers between 0 and 110 represented pictorially or with concrete objects, using the words greater than, less than or equal to.
• **Students will learn about Money during asynchronous instruction with provided digital resources**

Home/School Connection

• What patterns do you notice when you count? What happens over and over again? 
• How do patterns help us count? 
• Why do we count and use numbers? 
• How do we know when an amount is a lot or a little? 
• What does it mean to count by groups of a number?

Science

What are we learning?

Motion and Sound

• Objects may have straight, circular, and back-and-forth motions
• Pushes or pulls can change the movement of an object
• Objects may vibrate and produce sound

Home/School Connection

• What moves straight?
• What moves circular?
• What moves back-and-forth?
• How is sound made?

Social Studies

What are we learning?

Economics and Geography

• Classify goods and services and how people are consumers and producers.
• Recognize map symbols (land, water, roads, cities, etc.).
• Use cardinal directions on maps (north, south, east, west).
• Construct simple maps that include a title, map legend, and compass rose.

Home/School Connection

• How do people get the things they want? 
• Do the maps of today have the same features as the maps of the past? 
• What features on maps help us see how places have changed and how they have stayed the same?

Important Dates and Reminders

• Celebrate the end of the year, with 14 Days of Cheer!

Positivity Project

• November 29th - December 5th: Kindness
• December 6th - 12th: OPM - Knowing my words and actions affect others
• Check out some family resources here!

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