Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Understand the components of fiction (setting, characters, plot, theme, problem, solution)
• Create a fictional story using all elements of a story
• Explore test taking strategies such as slash the trash, reread the question/passage, look at context clues to discern the meaning of a word

Home/School Connection

• Identify key elements in a story, show, and/or movie. Investigate how a character can choose a variety of different solutions to a problem.
• Discuss how the setting (time, seasons, year, place) can influence fiction
• Highlight important or unfamiliar vocabulary and use strategies such as context clues and glossary search to better understand the text

Math

What are we learning?

• Determine elapsed time
• Analyze and interpret bar and line graphs
• Determine the probability of events based on possible outcomes
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• Identify and describe the diameter, radius, chord, and circumference of a circle
• Classify and measure right, acute, obtuse, and straight angles
• Classify triangles as right, acute, or obtuse and equilateral, scalene, or isoscele
• Investigate the sum of the interior angles in a triangle and determine an unknown angle measure

Home/School Connection

• Discuss the best unit for measuring different things- when to measure with inches, pounds, or kilometers. 
• Practice telling how much time has passed or what time it will be in ___ hours and ___ minutes. 
• Discuss the likelihood of events using probability vocabulary: certain, likely, equally likely, unlikely, and impossible

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• Find circles and triangles in the home and identify their parts and/or names.
• IF a protractor is available, have them measure angles of triangles.

Science

What are we learning?

• They should be able to describe the major characteristics of the sun.
• We’ll compare and contrast the surface conditions of Earth, the moon and the sun.
• They’ll find out about the contributions of the NASA Apollo missions to our knowledge of the moon.

Home/School Connection

• Ask about our solar system's star and have them describe it.
• Discuss the NASA missions to the moon and what they discovered by landing on the moon.
• Ask why the moon and earth have different surfaces.

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• Identify ideas and actions of people and groups have consequences and can shape events.
• Understand that conflict has consequences on culture, society, or a group of people. 
• Realize that people respond to and resolve conflicts in many different ways. 
• Develop an understanding of cause and effect and how it can help people solve problems and make decisions.

Home/School Connection

• What did freedom mean to Virginians after the Civil War? How did its meaning change over time?
• How can individuals stop injustices in society?
• Will there always be resistance to equality?
• What does it mean to be free? What does it mean to be oppressed? 
• How do people draw on their culture and family to resist oppression?

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