Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Respond to a variety of poems through movement, performance, or participation in order to discover their personal interests and tastes in poetry.
• Through multiple readings, readers explain their personal interpretation.
• Determine whether they agree with the ideas in the text.
• Poets use tools (rhythm, repetition, line-breaks) to express feelings and experiences.
• Use multiple sources of information in order to solve, monitor, self-correct, and confirm.
• Use known words and word parts to read new words.

Home/School Connection

• Read a poem and illustrate it.
• Write a funny poem with rhyming words. Use the poem Avocado? Avocado! For inspiration.

Math

What are we learning?

• Represent and solve practical problems involving equal sharing with two or four sharers.
• Represent and name fractions for halves and fourths, using models.

Home/School Connection

• Create a commercial explaining how fractions (halves) are used in real life.
• Look at a recipe book. See how many fractions you can find in the ingredients list.

Science

What are we learning?

• Plants and animals can be classified according to a variety of characteristics
• Plants need nutrients, air, water, light, and a place to grow
• Plants have parts with specific functions
• Changes in temperature, light, and precipitation affect plants and animals, including humans
• There are relationships between daily and seasonal changes

Home/School Connection

• Design your own green house or garden. Think about the 5 needs of a plant to make sure it has what it needs to grow!

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• Apply the traits of a good citizen, on and offline, by:
• Focusing on fair play, good sportsmanship, helping others, treating others with respect
• Recognizing the purpose of rules and practicing self-control

Home/School Connection

Make a poster describing how to be a leader at home or in school. Think about how you can help others and treat others with respect.

Important Dates and Reminders

• Spring Break - March 29-April 2

Positivity Project

• Humor - March 22-26
• Check out some family resources here! Password: P2

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!