We have Saturday school on May 3rd.
Report cards went home today, April 28th.
We need:
Clorox wipes
Kleenex
Pencils
Black Expo Markers
Anything you can provide us with is much appreciated.
Quarter 4
This quarter, we will cover the following in each subject...and much, much more!
Math
- Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; and relate the strategy to a written method.
- Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations
- Partition a rectangle into rows and columns of same-sized squares and count to find the total number of them
- Partition circles and rectangles into two, three, and four equal shares, describe the shares using the words: halves, thirds, half of, a third of, etc.
- Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes
- Estimate lengths using units of inches, feet, centimeters, and meters
- Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another
- Represent whole numbers as lengths from 0 on a number line diagram with equally spaced points
- Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units
- Draw a picture graph and a bar graph to represent a data set with up to four categories
- Generate measurement data by measuring lengths of several objects to the nearest whole unit
Language Arts
- Read with sufficient accuracy and fluency to support comprehension
- Compare and contrast the most important point presented by two texts on the same topic
- Ask for clarification and further explanation as needed about the topics and texts under discussion
- Recount and describe key ideas or details from a text read aloud or information presented orally or through other media
- Describe how reasons support specific points the author makes in a text
- Ask and answer questions about what a speaker says in order to clarify comprehension
- Produce complete sentences when appropriate to task and situation in order to provide requested detail or clarification
- Read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science & technical texts in the grade 2-3 text complexity band
- Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or technical procedures in a text
- Recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral
- Write opinion pieces in which a topic is introduced, an opinion is stated, reasons are supplied to support the opinion, linking words (ex: because, and, also, etc.) are used to connect the opinion and reasons, and a concluding statement is provided
- Write informative/explanatory texts in which a topic is introduced, facts and definitions to develop the points are used, and a concluding statement is provided
Research
- Understand animal life cycles
- Summarize the life cycle of animals including: birth, developing into an adult, reproducing, and aging & death
- Compare life cycles of different animals such as, but not limited to, mealworms, ladybugs, crickets, guppies, and frogs
- Remember that organisms differ from or are similar to their parents based on the characteristics of the organisms
- Identify ways in which many plants and animals closely resemble their parents in observed appearances and ways they are different
- Recognize that there is variation among individuals that are related
- Interpret maps of the school and community that contain symbols, legends, and cardinal directions
- Interpret the meaning of symbols and the location of physical and human features on a map (cities, railroads, countries, continents, oceans, etc.)
- Give examples of ways in which people depend on the physical environment and natural resources to meet basic needs
- Explain how people positively and negatively affect the environment