Language Arts

What are we learning?

As readers, students are working on:

• Think about what they already know about a topic to prepare themselves to read a new book.
• Use text features to help them determine what is most important about a topic. 
• Recognize that authors of nonfiction might include their opinions.
• Use their knowledge about how the information in nonfiction books is organized  to figure out the big ideas of the text. 

We will be moving onto Poetry within our next unit!

Home/School Connection

Having conversations with your child about what he/she is reading can improve their nonfiction comprehension and help them develop critical thinking and language skills. Here are some questions to help you have great reading discussions with your child:

• What do you already know about this topic?
• Why do you think this topic is important?
• What new things did you learn?
• What are you wondering about?
• What else would you like to learn about this topic?
• What pictures or illustrations did you find interesting? Why?
• Is this book like any other book that you have read? If so, how are they alike? How are they different?

Math

What are we learning?

• We are learning to find the sum and difference of two-digit numbers.
• We are learning to estimate.
• We are learning to write and solve multi-step word problems

Home/School Connection

• Ask us about the ST math challenge

Science

What are we learning?

• Students are learning that measuring, recording, and interpreting weather data allows for identification of weather patterns and to prepare for storms.
• Students are learning different types of storms have specific characteristics that can be used to identify them.
• Students are learning that weather and seasonal changes affect plants, animals, and their surroundings.

Home/School Connection

• Talk about the different weather patterns we have had in the last 3 weeks. The end of December was unseasonably warm. A few days later we had snow! What did the snowstorm affect? How could you help plants and animals in the winter months? Write a paragraph using describing words!

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• We will learn about and compare the lives and contributions of three American Indian cultures of the past and present with an emphasis on the Powhatan of the Eastern Woodlands and the Lakota of the Plains.
  • We will talk about the geography, climate, environment and culture of the the Powhatan of the Eastern Woodlands and the Lakota of the Plains
• We will learn about natural, human, and capital resources specifically related to the Lakota of the Plains

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!