Students will begin Domain 4: Our Planet: Cycles in Nature. Through this introduction to the natural cycles that make life on Earth possible, students will learn how the seasonal, plant, animal, and water cycles are connected and interdependent. Nature poems by Emily Dickinson and Robert Louis Stevenson provide a literary perspective on these topics. Students will use domain-specific vocabulary to sequence and summarize their knowledge about the life cycles of plants, animals, and insects. In grammar, students will learn and practice reflexive pronouns as well as complete a syntactic awareness activity to strengthen their understanding of adverbs.

Students will continue Unit 2: Adding and Subtracting within 100. Students extend their work with place value and addition within 100 by finding the values of groups of coins and solving problems involving money. Next, they subtract within 100 and are introduced to subtraction by place with decomposing. Although the focus is on decomposing to set the stage for work with larger numbers, students have opportunities to use other subtraction strategies that make sense to them. Then they interpret, represent, and solve one-step Compare story problems with unknowns in all positions, including ones in which the language seems to suggest the opposite operation. Finally, students interpret, represent, and solve one- and twostep story problems and write equations to represent them 

Students will learn about United States democratic ideals and how people living in a democracy work for the common good. They will also identify some of the roles and problem-solving powers of the local, state, and  federal government. 

Students will be focusing on Social Studies for the beginning of the quarter.