Readers respond to poetry through performance, art, or participation in order to discover their personal interests and tastes in poetry.
Through multiple readings, readers uncover the deeper meanings and discuss how the poet chose to reveal them.
Readers explore the point of view of the poem and discuss other possible points of view.
Poets recognize how the tools of poetry (to express feelings, images, and experiences) affect the meaning of a poem.
Home/School Connection
Read poetry with your students and have them visualize what is going on in the poem.
Have your student share their poems with you.
Math
What are we learning?
Represent multiplication and division through 10 × 10, using a variety of approaches and models.
Create and solve single-step practical problems that involve multiplication and division through 10 x 10.
Identify, describe, create, and extend patterns found in objects, pictures, numbers, and tables.
Create equations to represent equivalent mathematical relationships.
Home/School Connection
Give your students a multiplication equation and have them draw a picture to match the equation.
Science
What are we learning?
Soils-Students will learn about the importance of the soil around us and how it aids the plants that grow on our planet.
Home/School Connection
As the temperatures continue to rise, consider having your child garden outside your home, and plant food, or flowers. Talk about the importance of keeping the soil damp and buying the right kind of soil.
Social Studies
What are we learning?
Ancient Greece-Students will continue to look at the important contributions this civilization made to our current way of life.
Home/School Connection
Take your child to Washington DC and explain how much of the architecture is taken from Greek architecture.
