Important Dates

• 5/18 - Math SOL Test

Language Arts

What are we learning?

• The students will understand that contributing, listening, and responding are equally important roles in a conversation. 
• The students will understand that engaging in an exchange of ideas about books deepens your understanding of the text and broadens perspectives.
• The students will understand that school reading provides opportunities to build positive reading identities, habits, and communities.

Home/School Connection

Questions to ask your student:

• What’s worth talking about?
• How do we create reading communities?

Math

What are we learning?

• The students are learning to represent the mean of a data set graphically as the balance point. 
• The students are learning to determine the different measures of center, and determine when to use each one with a set of data.

Home/School Connection

• Ask your student to look at a set of data like how many minutes of screen time they take part in each day for a week and determine the mean (average). 
• Ask your student what happens to the measure of center when you take the lowest or highest number out of a set of data.

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• The students are taking a closer look at the Battle of Gettysburg to determine how it was a turning point in the Civil War.
• The students are looking at the general effects of the war on all Americans.

Home/School Connection

• Ask your students to give you 2 to 3 reasons why the Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the war. 
• Ask your student to explain how the war affected all Americans.

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