Students will continue Domain 3: Legends and Heroes: Greek Myths. Building on the Birthplace of Democracy: Ancient Greece domain, students explore several well-known Greek myths and mythical characters. Characters include Prometheus, Pandora, Demeter and Persephone, Arachne the Weaver, Oedipus and the Sphinx, Theseus and the Minotaur, and others. Students examine story elements in myths and learn about common characteristics in these compelling stories. They also practice sequencing story events and use information from the text to make predictions about the events in a Greek myth.

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.