We are developing creative headings for our research projects.
We are incorporating text features such as maps, diagrams, italics, and glossaries in order to enhance the student’s intended message of their research projects.
Home/School Connection
Ask your child to think about why a news source might use a certain heading- how is this heading trying to capture the reader’s attention?
Math
What are we learning?
We are learning to identify the Unit Rate in real life scenarios.
We are determining the missing value in a ratio table that includes the unit rate.
Students are learning to determine whether or not a table or graph of values are proportional or non-proportional.
Home/School Connection
Ask your child to help you find the unit rate of items that you are buying at the grocery store.
Practice simplifying fractions/ratios to make them easier to work with.
Have your child help you determine the amount of ingredients you might need if you made two or three times the amount of food you typically make for a meal.
Science
What are we learning?
We are researching facts as well as the positives and negatives of various energy sources. (Geothermal, solar, wind, and hydropower)
We are learning to recognize the differences between energy sources and why they are or are not renewable.
Home/School Connection
Who uses renewable energy in Reston? How is it being used?
Social Studies
What are we learning?
We are learning to locate on a map the states that seceded from the Union and those that remained in the Union.
We are learning to describe the roles of Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Lee, Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, and Frederick Douglass in the events leading to and during the war.
We are learning to describe critical developments in the war, including the location of major battles.
Home/School Connection
How can the President of the United States change the course of history?
What effects did the conflicts between the North and the South have on the people in those regions?
What can we learn about our past by exploring diverse perspectives?
