Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Beginning to draft fractured fairy tales
• Readers analyze how elements of a text are used to convey different messages and beliefs

Home/School Connection

• Ask, what books are you reading?
• Talk about different fairy tales that you have read.
• Have students share their fairy tale ideas and/or writing
• After reading a text with your child, ask students how they interpret the theme or main idea

Math

What are we learning?

• Show multiplication in a variety of ways including pictures, arrays, number lines, and equations 
• Explore the relationship between multiplication and division
• Determine if two math expressions are equal or unequal

Home/School Connection

• Discuss equal groups in real life experiences
• Describe how numbers can be divided equally in real life experiences

AAP Math

What are we learning?

• Read, write, represent, and identify decimals expressed through the thousandths
• Round decimals to the nearest whole number
• Compare and order decimals
• Add and subtract with decimals

Home/School Connection

• Link decimals to money at the store or at home.  Have students round money to the nearest dollar, add money, or find out how much change would be leftover.

Science

What are we learning?

Describe and organize the events in the water cycle

Home/School Connection

• Ask, when do we see cycles in our lives?
• Ask, what happens in the water cycle?

Social Studies

What are we learning?

Continue thinking about economics

Home/School Connection

• What are some economic choices you have made?

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