Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Understand that media messages (advertisements, radio ads, blogs, and nonfiction articles) represent beliefs of the author and groups 
• Explore perspective of the author and details used to convince the viewer/reader

Home/School Connection

• Discuss media messages you view together and ask your student

• How does the media affect you?
•  What does the author want you to believe or do? 
•  What details did the author use to influence you?

Math

What are we learning?

• Read, write, identify decimals through the thousandths
• Round decimals to the nearest whole
• Compare and order decimals
• Add and subtract decimals
• Multiply 2-digit by 2-digit numbers
• Divide numbers with and without remainders

AAP Math

• We are beginning the addition and subtraction of fractions, finding common denominators.

Home/School Connection

• Discuss decimals as money

  • A dime is one-tenth of a dollar (.1)

  • A nickel is one-twentieth of a dollar (.20)

  • A penny is one-hundredth of a dollar (.01)

  • Compare amounts of money

• Make change
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  • Solve real life multiplication and division problems

AAP Home/School Connection

• Make up word stories for your child to solve and let them make ones for you!

Science

What are we learning?

• Reminding students that our watershed connects to the Atlantic Ocean, which is a valuable natural resource that should be protected.
• Discovering the ocean floor depth varies and has a variety of features.
• Looking at models can be used to illustrate and interpret the depth of the ocean and its major geological features

Home/School Connection

• Ask students where the creeks, streams, and storm drains go. (Potomac River, Chesapeake Bay, Atlantic Ocean)
• Have them identify the different layers of the ocean and describe why they are named that.

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• The student will explore the reasons why the colonies went to war with Great Britain and how their path to revolution connects to our modern world 
• The student will examine the various roles of Revolutionary War leaders, American Indians, enslaved African Americans, whites, and free African Americans 
• The student will evaluate the importance of the American victory at Yorktown
• The student will examine the reasons for the relocation of Virginia’s capital from Williamsburg to Richmond

Home/School Connection

• Visit Colonial Yorktown 
• Discuss why a country might want to be free from its leader.
• Ask your student why different people were treated differently in Colonial America. 
• Share your point of view on how the victory at Yorktown changed America.

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!