What We are Learning This Week

In Reader's Workshop we continue our unit on Resources in our Community.  Our question for this week is "How do resources get from where they come from to the people who use them?"  Our key vocabulary words are: ship, transport, deliver, local, container and purchase.  We will read books and poems to learn more about the supply chain for various resources, and how these goods get from producers to consumers.  These are some of the texts we will be reading:







In Writer's Workshop we will wrap up our Poetry unit by writing poems about ourselves, inspired by some of the poems in The Best Part of Me.



In Math, we will work more on story problems with unknown change, e.g. 6 + ___ = 9.  Students will understand and solve these problems, and use an efficient strategy to show their thinking.  We will also continue to think about equivalent expressions, and True or False equations.

In Science, we will continue to learn about how plants grow.  We planted wheat from seeds, garlic from bulbs, and this week will plant carrots from roots. 

Please feel free to ask your child about what he or she is learning this week!