Language Arts

What are we learning?

• Create characters, setting, and events in order to help them understand a specific historical time period.
• Write and distinguish between fact and fiction when reading and writing historical fiction

Home/School Connection

• Discuss time periods, historical figures, and places that your child is interested in and compare and contrast with current times.
• What would a child in colonial times look and act like?  What resources would they use? How would you describe their daily lives?

Math

What are we learning?

• Read, write, identify decimals through the thousandths
• Round decimals to the nearest whole
• Compare and order decimals

AAP Math

• We are adding and subtracting different levels of decimals (tenths, hundredths, and thousandths with each other)

Home/School Connection

• Discuss decimals as money
• A dime is one-tenth of a dollar (.1)
• A nickel is one-twentieth of a dollar (.20)
• A penny is one-hundredth of a dollar (.01)
• Compare amounts of money
• Make change

• Make up word stories for your child to solve and let them make ones for you!
• This could include money or just small parts of numbers in your story.

Science

What are we learning?

• We are researching and identifying the effect of extreme weather events on the environment
• We’ll be graphing weather data over time, analyzing results and determine
  patterns that may be used to make weather predictions

Home/School Connection

• Ask what the clouds they see mean for the coming weather.
• Discuss how many days it has been below freezing.
• Ask what kinds of clouds bring snow.

Social Studies

What are we learning?

• Discover how the economic motives  shape the choices people make
• They’ll discover how culture impacts the relationships people have with land
• They will define the characteristics of culture

Home/School Connection

• Share your family's culture with your child
• Ask what relationship they think they have with the land
• Share some of your economic motives in the choices you make for your family and why.

Click here to see what students are learning in Specials!