Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Students will continue to 

• read and interpret narrative nonfiction  evaluate the author's perspective 
•  Determine how an author uses images and words to support their point of view
• Write an article encouraging readers to consider their chosen topic

Home/School Connection

• Read articles, watch the news, and discover commercials, advertising, and signs together.

• Then discuss “what does the author want us to believe?” What words or pictures are used to convey the message?” “Who is the author trying to convince/persuade about the topic/product

Science

What are we learning?

Students will:

• create and interpret marine life food webs and explaining how changes in one part of the food web would affect other organisms 
• compare the niches of several different organisms within a marine community and explaining how an organism’s niche may change at different stages in its life cycle
• utilize a simple dichotomous key to identify marine organisms

Home/School Connection

• Ask how different species interact with each other in a food web
• Ask how does the ocean support life on Earth
• Discuss how the living and nonliving parts of an ecosystem interact
• How can analyzing animal attributes in the animal classification system help us to understand their role in the ecosystem

Social Studies

What are we learning?

We will 

• Look at the ideas that actions of people and groups have consequences and can shape events.
• Discover how conflict has consequences on culture, society, or a group of people. 
• Investigate how people respond to and resolve conflicts in many different ways. 
• Understand that cause and effect can help people solve problems and make decisions.

Home/School Connection

• How can individuals stop injustice in society?
• How can the President of the United States change the course of history?
• Why might people risk their lives for a cause? 
• What effects did the conflicts between the North and South have on the people in those regions?
• How does the conflict of the Civil War continue to have lasting effects today?
• What motivates people to take advantage of others?

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