Important Dates & Reminders

• December 4, 2023: Reading Virginia Growth Assessment (VGA)
• December 11, 2023: Math Virginia Growth Assessment (VGA)
• December 14, 2023: Young Scholars Field Trip with Mr. Tucker

What are we learning?

Language Arts

• Reading: Elements of nonfiction texts (finding the main idea, comparing and contrasting, etc.)
• Writing: Creating non-fiction feature articles

Math

• Learning new strategies to multiply and divide

Social Studies

• Completing a Document Based Question (DBQ) about early Jamestown
• Learning about colonial life in 18th-century Virginia

Questions to ask your child at home.

• What are two ways to represent “2 x 3” using pictures?
• How can you find the main idea of a nonfiction text?

Second Step

• We begin unit 2 of the Second Step lessons on Wednesday, December 6, 2023.