Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Readers notice that poems can look, sound, and feel different from other texts
• Poets make deliberate choices about the conventions, techniques, and language they use in their writing
• Readers determine the main ideas or the purposes of the text 
• Learn language to report and describe information

Home/School Connection

• Ask, what have you noticed about the poems you have read? 
• Encourage students to share their poetry journals with you.

Math

What are we learning?

• Represent multiplication and division in a variety of ways
• Explore the relationship between multiplication and division
• Identify, describe, create, and extend patterns found in objects, pictures, numbers and tables

Home/School Connection

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

AAP Math

What are we learning?

• Begin to develop an understanding of decimal numbers 
• Read, write, draw, show decimals to thousandths place
• Round decimals to the nearest whole number
• Compare and order decimals

Home/School Connection

• Ask, what do these math vocabulary words - decimal, tenths, hundredths, thousandths, whole, digit mean?
• Discuss the difference between the pronunciation and spelling of tens/tenths, hundreds/hundredths & thousands/thousandths
• Ask, when you see a decimal number, what do you look for to help you round that to the nearest whole number? 
• Ask, how do you compare 2 decimal numbers? How do you know which one is greater/less?

Science

What are we learning?

• Investigate and understand how soil is important in ecosystems

Home/School Connection

• Ask, what are the different components in soil? 
• Ask, why is soil important to plants? Why is soil important to animals?

Social Studies

What are we learning?

Ancient China

• Contributions from Ancient China (architecture, inventions, the calendar, and written language)

Home/School Connection

• Ask, what were some of the contributions from Ancient China?
• Ask, how the contributions of Ancient China continue to influence our world today?

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