Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Plan and organize their research piece
• Edit and revise their research piece 
• 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 research nonfiction writing

Math

What are we learning?

• Place value up to six digits
• Addition and subtraction with sums up to 9,999
• Rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, and thousand
• Estimating

Home/School Connection

• When would you need to use addition and subtraction in your everyday world?
• When would you need to use estimation in your everyday world?

AAP Math

What are we learning?

• Estimate and determine products of whole numbers (1 digit × 1 digit and 1 digit × 2 digits)
• Demonstrate fluency with multiplication facts through 12 x 12, and the corresponding division facts
• Estimate and determine quotients of whole numbers, with and without remainders (1 digit divisor and 2 digit dividend)

Home/School Connection

• Ask students where they see arrays in their daily lives (example: carton of eggs)

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?

• Ancient China

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

Home/School Connection

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

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