HAPPY NEW YEAR!
We begin the new year with new units of study. Read below to see what your child will be learning about in his/her major subject areas.
LITERACY
Reading- Non-Fiction Unit of Study
The following are concepts your child will be learning about in the upcoming weeks and how they can help him/her to access information in a non-fiction text.
Non-fiction text features
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illustrations/photographs
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captions
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bold print
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diagrams
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index
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table of contents
Writing- Non-fiction Unit of Study
The following are concepts your child will be learning about in the upcoming weeks and how they can help him/her to research a topic of interest and write about the information he/she has learned in his/her own words.
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Selecting a topic of interest
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Writing "dash facts" about a topic
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Sources to research a topic...books, articles, internet, etc.
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Writing a paragraph on a topic
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Writing original sentences about a topic (in their own words)
MATH
Unit 5 Overview- 3 Dimensional and 2 Dimensional Shapes
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To develop the concepts of point and line segment
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To identify, name, and classify polygons
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To observe similarities and differences among 3-D shapes
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To explore symmetry