Language Arts

What are we learning?

Poetry

• Respond to a variety of poems through movement, performance, or participation in order to discover their personal interests and tastes in poetry.
• Through multiple readings, readers explain their personal interpretation.
• Determine whether they agree with the ideas in the text.
• Poets use tools (rhythm, repetition, line-breaks) to express feelings and experiences.
• Use multiple sources of information in order to solve, monitor, self-correct, and confirm.
• Use known words and word parts to read new words.

Home/School Connection

• Write a poem about your favorite color.
• Listen to some poems from this MyOn book Pucks, Clubs, and Baseball Gloves. Write a poem about your favorite sport.
• Create an illustration and write a poem about it.

Math

What are we learning?

Addition and Subtraction Part 2 

• Create and solve single-step story and picture problems using addition and subtraction within 10.
• Recognize and describe with fluency part whole relationships for numbers up to 10.
• Demonstrate fluency with addition and subtraction within 10.
• Demonstrate an understanding of equality through the use of the equal symbol.

Home/School Connection

• Make a song that teaches you how to add or subtract numbers.
• Be a teacher! Using legos or a drawing record yourself teaching others how to add or subtract.

Science

What are we learning?

Living Things

• Animals need adequate air, food, water, shelter, and space (habitat)
• Animals, including humans, have many different physical characteristics
• Plants and animals can be classified according to a variety of characteristics
• Plants need nutrients, air, water, light, and a place to grow
• Plants have parts with specific functions
• Changes in temperature, light, and precipitation affect plants and animals, including humans

Home/School Connection

• Think of an animal. Create or draw a picture of their shelter (where they live).
• Share your All About Animal Book with someone that lives with you or over the phone.

Social Studies

What are we learning?

Being an American: Courage

• Apply the traits of a good citizen, on and offline, by:
• Focusing on fair play, good sportsmanship, helping others, treating others with respect
• Recognizing the purpose of rules and practicing self-control
• Describe and make connections to the work of Martin Luther King Jr.

Home/School Connection

• Think about leaders in your community. Write a list of traits that make them a leader.

Important Dates and Reminders

• February 15th - Presidents Day (no school)

Positivity Project

• Humility: February 14-20
• Cheering Others’ success: February 21-27
• Check out some family resources here! Password: P2

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