Language Arts

What are we learning?

• We are evaluating how literary techniques impact our interpretations of the text.
• We as readers will take a critical stance while reading, analyzing the author’s explicit and implicit beliefs and comparing them against their own. 
• As writers we will use literary or narrative techniques to enhance the readers’ understanding of the information and develop our message.

Home/School Connection

• What would be a unique perspective to use when writing Non-Fiction?
• What books have you been reading in school? How is the information being presented?
• What is a non-fiction topic that you know a lot about and would like to share with others?

Math

What are we learning?

• We are demonstrating multiple representations of multiplication and division of fractions and mixed numbers.
• We are solving single-step and multistep practical problems involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions and mixed numbers

Home/School Connection

• How can you model and solve problems involving multiplication and division with fractions? 
• Encourage your student to use fraction strips and circles to solve problems.

AAP Content

What are we learning?

We will continue to form generalizations of patterns through our work in each subject area. 

• Math
  • We will evaluate expressions for given replacement values of the variables
  • We will represent and solve two-step linear equations with one variable using a variety of concrete materials and pictorial representations and will confirm our solutions algebraically
• Science
  • Students will take a closer look at patterns in the atmosphere. The local weather that impacts our daily lives results from large global patterns in the atmosphere caused by the interactions of solar radiation, Earth's large ocean, diverse landscapes, and motion in space.
• Social Studies
  • Students will describe the characteristics of West African Societies (Ghana, Mali, and Songhai) and evaluate their role in the European exploration of North America. We will work to identify the religious and economic conditions that led to the colonization of America.
• Language Arts
  • Students will explore the idea that Reading and writing is transactional: readers’ thinking patterns and beliefs impact how they interpret text and the text informs the reader's beliefs about the world.

Home/School Connection

• How can we use patterns to show a relationship?
• What patterns can we find in literature?
• How do patterns of shared beliefs and values shape a culture?
• How do cultural universal patterns differ among cultures? How might they be similar?
• How do we determine weather patterns?
• To what extent are current global weather patterns typical or unusual?
• Why is it important for us to understand the relationship between patterns and weather phenomena?

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