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

Home/School Connection

• Ask, what techniques have you learned about writing poetry? 
• Encourage students to share their poetry journals with you

Math

What are we learning?

• Place value up to 6 digits
• Practicing addition and subtraction strategies including breaking apart numbers and using a number line

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?
• How can you figure out the value of a number?

AAP Math

What are we learning?

• Identify and solve multiplication facts through 12 x 12, and the corresponding division facts
• Estimate and determine products and quotients of whole numbers

Home/School Connection

• Ask what do the words product, multiply/multiplication, estimate/estimation, digit, half, and double mean 
• Ask, when will you need to use multiplication or division in real life?

Science

What are we learning?

• Soil is made up of various components: silt, sand, gravel, clay, humus
• Plants require different soil components to grow well
• Analyze data to draw conclusions about soil mixtures

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 Greece

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

Home/School Connection

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

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