During this unit we will be learning about the American frontier and the explorers that played an important role in the westward exapansion of the United States.
The New World Video
The Legend of Betsy Ross
Review
During this unit we will be learning about the elements of a fairy tale--what makes a story a fairy tale.
Fairy tales have the following things:
During this unit we will learn a lot about many different animals and their habitats.
We have started our next unit, which covers the history of the Earth. We will be learning about the following items:
During our astronomy unit we will learn about the following things.
We will also be creating an astronomy journal over the course of our unit. Some of this will be done at school, but there will be a time when the journal will come home and your child will need to draw what the sky looks like at night. When the day arrives for the journal to come home, it will come home in your child’s yellow folder.
We will begin to learn about three early American civilizations. We will compare and contrast their way of life and what made them civilizations.
Students will be comparing and contrasting Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt. We will also learn about three major religions of the world.
When we learn about Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt we will focus on the following items that made them a civilization.
Three Major World Religions
We are starting our third unit of study this week. We will be reading many different stories that are similar but come from different countries around the world. Students will be comparing and contrasting the stories by looking at where the story is from, who the characters are, what the setting is, and what happens in the plot. Our focus will be on the following stories:
During this unit we learned about the different body systems as well as how to stay healthy.
Body Systems
Healthy Habits
We also discovered how the body is a network of systems and how we can help our body stay healthy. We looked at how germs cause disease and how vaccination can help prevent disease. Two people we learned about were Edward Jenner and Louis Pasteur.
During this unit we read many different fables and stories. Through these stories we learned valuable lessons about ethics and behavior. We focused on key elements and parts of a story.
Fables:
Stories: