Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Plan and organize their “all about” piece
• Work on all about nonfiction books
• Use text features to help navigate through and better understand a nonfiction text

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?

• Break wholes into fractions
• Mode improper fractions and mixed numbers
• Name improper fractions and mixed numbers
• Comparing and ordering fractions

Home/School Connection

• Discuss fractions as they appear in daily life

AAP Math

What are we learning?

• Read, write and identify place value from thousands to millions
• Round whole numbers up to the hundred thousands place.
• Estimate and determine sums and differences of whole numbers 999,999 or less

Home/School Connection

• Ask, what do the words digit, place and value mean?
• Ask, when will you use really big numbers?
• Ask, can you round this big number to the nearest hundred? thousand? hundred thousand? million?

Science

What are we learning?

• Describe and organize the events in the water cycle
• Define and compare energy resources

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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