Language Arts
What are we learning?
- We are learning to scan and survey functional texts for key information.
- Students are chunking functional texts to look at specific sections, and then determining the overall main idea and purpose of the texts.
Home/School Connection
- Find some functional texts in your mail or online to survey and scan with your child.
- Ask your child to tell you the purpose and main idea of each text.
- Ask them how the text may apply to them, and who is the targeted audience.
Math
What are we learning?
- We are learning to identify examples of the following algebraic vocabulary: equation, variable, expression, term, and coefficient.
- We are learning to model and solve one-step equations using a variety of concrete materials.
- We are learning to solve one-step equations, demonstrating the steps algebraically.
Home/School Connection
- What’s the difference between an algebraic expression and an equation?
- How can we represent a variable?
- How would you solve this problem?
Social Studies
What are we learning?
- We can evaluate territorial expansion and how geographic and economic factors influenced the westward movement of settlers.
- We can analyze the cause and effect relationships of westward expansion and its impact on American Indians.
Home/School Connection
- Why did the United States expand westward?
- How do a nation’s borders impact people?
- Why do some treaties fail?
- What does it mean to remove a people group?
- How do people survive and resist oppression?
