Language Arts

What are we learning?

We will be starting our Critical Literacy unit.

In this unit our students will learn to be critical readers as they

• Notice stereotypes in text and illustrations
• Explore perspectives that are included and those that are absent. 
• Explore advantages and disadvantages of characters.  
• Determine whether or not to accept how the text is positioning them.  

 

We will also be starting our Persuasive Letter Writing unit! Our writers will learn to:

• Write persuasive letters to make the world a better place, change something,  solve a problem, or keep something the same. 
• Support their ideas with reasons
• Keep their audience in mind when writing a persuasive letter
• Talk about their ideas with partners to give and receive feedback 
• Use the structure of a letter to help communicate their ideas

Home/School Connection

Supporting Your Child with Reading at Home

Providing choice is a wonderful way to support your child with reading at home.  When students have a choice about what they read, how they read, and the time they read, it increases their motivation to read and it helps them make decisions about themselves as readers. Your child may choose to reread a favorite book 5 days in a row, only read the pictures some days, read a graphic novel,  read something that is too easy, read under the covers, read on a device, or ask you to read to them. All of these choices and experiences are helping your child develop as a reader.

 

Supporting Your Child with Writing at Home

As we begin our Persuasive Writing unit, you can support your child with thinking of ideas for their persuasive letters! You can encourage your child to think about  how they would like to make the world a better place, something they would like to change, or something they would like to keep the same. You can also encourage your child to  think about strong reasons to support their opinion.

 

Math

What are we learning?

• We are revisiting previous skills of addition and subtraction in unit 7!
  • We will continue to work on estimating sums and differences 
  • using various methods  to solve a problem. 
  • how to solve single-step and two step problems involving addition and subtraction.

Home/School Connection

• Have your student create word problems at home!

 

Science

What are we learning?

Students will be:

● investigating the effect of magnetism on the motion of other magnets or metal objects 

● predicting and testing the magnetism of various objects

 

Home/School Connection

• Have your child tst objects at home that they think have magnetism.
• If you have magnets to use to experiment, please do. Otherwise, your child can collect a small group of items to be tested in class.

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• We are finishing our lessons in Economics.

  Students will continue to:

•  Learn and discuss about Money, Trading and Barter.
• Learn about how people use money everyday.
• Learn about scarcity and how it happens.

Home/School Connection

Talk about how you decide to use money to get the resources you need vs. the things you want.

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!