Important Info/Reminders

• Feb. 4 Global Play Day

• Feb. 9 Delayed Opening

• Feb. 12 Early Release Day

• Feb. 13 Staff PD-No school

• Feb. 16 Presidents Day-No School

A Look at Our Learning

Readers’ Workshop – Research Clubs: Elephants, Penguins, and Frogs, Oh My!

Here is what we are learning in this unit:

• Organize and understand what we are learning by noticing and using text structures.

• Prepare for reading a nonfiction text by reading the title, subtitles, and skimming the text.

• Use questioning techniques to grow ideas about nonfiction.

• Ask "I wonder" questions about the nonfiction topic to help develop thinking skills.

• Compare and contrast the traits of animals within a topic and across topics.

• Synthesize the information from various sources.

Writer’s Workshop – The Art of Information Writing

In this unit, students will:

• pick a topic that they are experts in and write about that topic to teach others 

• use narrative and nonfiction text structures to write their informational piece

• communicate to an audience of their peers in a way that grabs the reader's attention

• plan and revise their draft and then publish their writing piece for an audience

Mathematics – Unit 4 Multiplication & Division

In this unit, students will learn to:

• identify shapes based on their relevant attributes and sort shapes into categories based on their attributes

•  justify why a shape belongs in a category

• measure area by counting unit squares

• compute area by multiplying given side lengths

• measure the area of an irregular shape by counting unit squares including decomposing and composing partial square units as needed.

Social Studies - Global Connections

In this unit, we will explore the question: How can we act as global citizens?

Is it possible to connect with a country and its people without ever setting foot there? From the label on a t-shirt to the sticker on a banana, we encounter evidence every day that the items we use have been harvested, manufactured, or produced by people from all over the world.

Students will examine how they are connected to distant places through the movement of people, goods, and ideas, gaining a deeper understanding of their role in a global community.