Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Continue writing all about nonfiction books
• Edit and revise their all about nonfiction books
• Use text features to help read and better understand a nonfiction text

Home/School Connection

• Ask, what nonfiction books are you reading?
• Talk about the difference between fiction and nonfiction
• Have students share their “all about” nonfiction topic and/or writing

Math

What are we learning?

• Create and solve practical multiplication and division problems
• Represent multiplication and division in a variety of ways
• Explore the relationship between multiplication and division

Home/School Connection

• Discuss equal groups in real life experiences
• Describe how numbers can be divided equally in real life experiences

AAP Math

What are we learning?

• Read, write and identify place value from thousands to millions
• Create and solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of whole numbers
• Estimate and determine sums and differences of whole numbers 999,999 or less

Home/School Connection

• Ask, how do you say this number (when given a really big number)?
• Ask, what word problem can you write using really big numbers? Will you use addition or subtraction in your word problem?
• Ask, can you round this big number to the nearest hundred? thousand? hundred thousand? million?

Science

What are we learning?

• Describe and organize the events of different cycles in nature like the water cycle, moon phases and the seasons.
• Define and compare energy resources

Home/School Connection

• Ask, when do we see cycles in our lives?
• Ask, what happens in the water cycle?
• Ask, what are the phases of the moon?

Social Studies

What are we learning?

Continue thinking about economics

Home/School Connection

• What are some economic choices you have made?

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