Language Arts

What are we learning?

We are in our nonfiction unit!

• Narrative Nonfiction - Students are engaging with the narrative arc while learning information about a topic.
• Narrative Nonfiction - Students understand that literary techniques reveal images and evoke feelings to enhance a message for the reader to interpret. 
• Readers consider the perspectives of others to broaden their own thinking and conversations. 
• Readers adjust their thinking based on how the author presents and organizes information in order to understand the information - we are learning about the different structures of nonfiction text, and how the structure supports the main idea
• While reading, readers consider nonfiction text features (titles, headings, captions, images, diagrams, etc.)
• As students read, they develop their own opinions about the topic based on pre-existing beliefs and new information they learn.
• Enjoy a good book over the break!

Home/School Connection

• Read holiday stories and poems, talk about the characters in a movie and how they are developed?
• Read  a nonfiction book or website, do you notice facts or opinions?
• What is the relationship between nonfiction and the truth?

Math

What are we learning?

• AAP Math: We are revisiting adeeping our understanding of  decimals. percentages , and fractions
• Gen Ed: Students are learning to multiply and divide multi-digit numbers and solve practical problems.  After the break, students will be solving multi-step problems using Order of Operations 

Home/School Connection

• Practice converting from one form to another, make not of percentage and fraction, or decimals at home.

Science

What are we learning?

• We have learned a lot about the ocean environment, the zones, the types or currents and how different animals live in the different zones. 
• Students are understanding how our actions can positively and negatively impact the ocean ecosystem.  
• Students are learning the geological features of the ocean floor, the characteristics of each ocean zone, and the types of animals that live in our oceans.

Home/School Connection

• Watch an ocean oriented movie or documentary 
• Talk about ways we can help clean up our oceans 
• What do you see at home that are solutions?
• What do you see at home that are mixtures?

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!