Language Arts

What are we learning?

Learning About Print through Research and Writing

• Ask questions about a line of interest.
• Use close observation to learn new information.
• Collaborate and discuss their observations and questions.
• Decide what message to send in the information piece.
• Take words apart to support reading multisyllabic words for meaning.
• Demonstrate appropriate rate, phrasing, intonation, and pausing to inform how reading sounds.

Independent Reading/Writing Project/Choice Unit

• Reading goals and standards depend on the unit of choice.*
• Writing goals and standards depend on the unit of choice.*
• Monitor and self-correct while reading.
• Take words apart efficiently and flexibly to support spelling and reading.
• Integrate appropriate rate, phrasing, intonation, pausing, and stress when reading orally.
• Please contact your child’s teacher to know which unit is being taught.

Home/School Connection

• Make a slide on google about an animal you have researched. Include what you have learned and what you already knew!
• Create a picture book about someone in your family. Ask questions to learn more about them!

Math

What are we learning?

• Create and solve single-step story and picture problems using addition and subtraction within 10.
• Recognize and describe with fluency part whole relationships for numbers up to 10.
• Demonstrate fluency with addition and subtraction within 10.
• Demonstrate an understanding of equality through the use of the equal symbol.

Home/School Connection

• Create a comic or a story of a child learning how to add or subtract.
• Help your friend! Your friend thinks you cannot add up 3 numbers to get to 10. Explain how you CAN add 3 numbers that will equal 10.

Science

What are we learning?

• Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices by:
  • Asking questions and defining problems
  • Planning and carrying out investigations
  • Interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating data
  • Constructing and critiquing conclusions and explanation
  • Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
• Investigate and understand that:
  • The sun is the source of energy and light that warms the land, air, and water
  • The sun’s relative position in the morning is east and in the late afternoon is west
  • Identification of natural resources
  • There are factors that affect air and water quality
  • Recycling, reusing, and reducing consumption of natural resources helps to conserve them
  • Changes in temperature, light, and precipitation affect plants and animals, including humans
  • There are relationships between daily and seasonal changes

Home/School Connection

• Go outside in the morning to feel the temperature. Do you feel cold or need a jacket? Then, go outside after lunch. How has the temperature changed? Has it gotten warmer or cooler the longer the sun has been up.

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• Apply the traits of a good citizen, on and offline, by working hard in school.
• Understand that the people of Virginia make contributions to their communities.

Home/School Connection

• Draw a picture of yourself doing something in a responsible way.
• Make a list of words you think of when you hear the word responsible.

Science

What are we learning?

• Demonstrate an understanding of scientific and engineering practices by:
  • Asking questions and defining problems
  • Planning and carrying out investigations
  • Interpreting, analyzing, and evaluating data
  • Constructing and critiquing conclusions and explanation
  • Obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information
• Investigate and understand that:
  • The sun is the source of energy and light that warms the land, air, and water
  • The sun’s relative position in the morning is east and in the late afternoon is west
  • Identification of natural resources
  • There are factors that affect air and water quality
  • Recycling, reusing, and reducing consumption of natural resources helps to conserve them
  • Changes in temperature, light, and precipitation affect plants and animals, including humans
  • There are relationships between daily and seasonal changes

Home/School Connection

• Go outside in the morning to feel the temperature. Do you feel cold or need a jacket? Then, go outside after lunch. How has the temperature changed? Has it gotten warmer or cooler the longer the sun has been up.

Positivity Project

• May 9th - 15th: Other People Mindset wrap up!
• Check out some family resources here! Password: P2

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