We are learning that the meaning of a poem is constructed by the poet and the reader interacting with text.
We are analyzing poems for figurative language that help to create imagery.
We are learning about the different poetic tools poets use to evoke feelings and produce sounds.
Home/School Connection
Share your favorite poem with your child. Read it together and discuss the imagery and meaning.
Try to determine the perspective of the poet. Compare it to yours.
Have your child tell you about the different types of figurative language that we have learned about. Create some examples together.
Math
What are we learning?
We are learning to identify an integer represented by a point on a number line
We are learning to use models to add and subtract integers
Home/School Connection
How can you use counters to add or subtract integers?
How can you use a number line to add or subtract integers?
Science
What are we learning?
We are investigating the properties of water.
We are learning that humans affect the quality, availability, and distribution of Earth’s water.
Home/School Connection
Ask your child what “we all live downstream” means?
Ask your child what contributes to the quality of water?
AAP Content
Math:
Students will work to develop an understanding of and fluency with multiple representations of functions that model a multiplicative or additive relationship.
They are learning to describe the slope, m, as the rate of change in a proportional relationship. In addition, they are learning to graph a line given the equation in the form y = mx, where m represents the slope.
Language Arts:
Readers will use a variety of strategies including determining importance, making inferences, drawing conclusions, and considering multiple perspectives to deepen understanding across content areas
Social Studies:
Students will understand and appreciate the influence of individual experiences, societal values, and traditions on historical perspectives
Students will continue tracking patterns in the fight for independence that led to the American Revolution
DBQ Online - Valley Forge: Would you have quit?
Table Talk:
What is the relationship between these two quantities? (Give student an example)
How can you represent this relationship in a table or in words?
How would you describe slope? How do you identify it?
What would you do for freedom?
How would you tell the story of conflict between England and the colonies that led to the Revolutionary War, and how a person or people (throughout history or today) are impacted by similar conflicts of power?
Would you have joined the American Revolution? Why or why not?
