Reminders:

• Check the weekly email from your child’s teacher for specific updates and reminders.

What We Are Learning 

Letterland

• Students will work with short vowels, blends, digraphs, closed and open syllables, magic e syllable, suffix -ed and with vowel teams syllables

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• Students will build on their understanding of schools around the world by engaging in close read-alouds of the text Off to Class: Incredible and Unusual Schools around the World by Susan Hughes

• Students will learn about schools around the world and the challenges some communities face in sending their students to school and how they solve these challenges.

• Students will write an informative paragraph that describes what makes it hard for children to go to school in a particular community, and how that community solves that problem so children can go to school.

Math

• Students will demonstrate fluency in addition by making connections between partners of 10 and partners of 100. 

• Students will solve word problems within 100 using their knowledge of place value to add and subtract efficiently. 

• Students will make connections between skip counting and addition. 

•  Students will also compose and decompose numbers, to help them add and subtract flexibly and efficiently. 

•  Students will solve subtraction problems using the relationship between addition and subtraction.  

• Students will use strategies based on place value and properties of operations to solve problems.

Social Studies/Science 

• Students will explain how principles of democracy have shaped the government of America.

• Students will compare the structure and function of the three branches of government at the national level

Science 

• Students will understand the properties of solids and liquids and the changes they undergo.

• Students will analyze and interpret data to compare the amount (volume and weight) of water in a container before and after freezing.

• Students will analyze and interpret data to compare the amount (volume and weight) of water left in an open container over time to the