Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Beginning to draft All About books
• Plan and organize their “all about” piece
• Use text features to help navigate through and better understand a nonfiction text
• Identify the main idea and text structure(s) when reading nonfiction texts

Home/School Connection

• Ask, what nonfiction books are you reading?
• Talk about the difference between fiction and nonfiction
• Have students share their “all about” nonfiction ideas and/or writing

Math

What are we learning?

• Identify and draw representations of points, lines, line segments, rays, and angles
• Define polygon
• Identify and name polygons with 10 or fewer sides

Home/School Connection

• What shapes do you see around you?
• When do you use geometry in real life?

AAP Math

What are we learning?

• We are cycling back to addition and subtraction
• Students will extend their knowledge of place value to numbers in the millions

Home/School Connection

• FInd numbers in everyday life (to include money) and ask students how they can make that number
• Example: 247
  • 2 hundreds, 4 tens rods, and 7 ones
  • 200 + 40 + 7
  • $100 + $100 + $20 + $20 + $5 + $1 $1

Social Studies

What are we learning?

Ancient Egypt

• Explain how the contributions of ancient Egypt continue to influence our world today (architecture, inventions, the calendar, and written language)
• Explain how Ancient Egyptians had to adapt to their environment

Home/School Connection

• Ask, how did the Ancient Egyptians contribute to life today?
• Ask, how did people adapt to survive in Ancient Egypt?

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