ELA: In May, third grade students will continue their work on the module, "A New Home." Students will continue to explore the immigrant experience through the lens of stories. Throughout the unit, students will ask, "How do stories help us understand immigrants' experiences?" Please see the parent tip sheet for more information.
Math: 3rd grade students will conclude their Topic 7 math work, which focused on reading and making scaled picture graphs and scaled bar graphs that represent data sets. Towards the end of May, students will begin their work in topics 15. Topic 15 focuses on attributes of two-dimensional shapes, especially quadrilaterals. Your child will learn that shapes in different categories may share attributes that place them in a larger or smaller category.
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ELA: In May 4th grade students will continue their work in the "Extreme Settings," module. During this module students will examine how people react to extreme environments. Throughout the unit, they will ask and answer the question, "How do humans survive against the odds?" See the parent tip sheet for additional information
Math – 4th grade students will conclude their work in topics 15 and 16, which focused on geometry concepts. In mid-May they will shift to topic 13, which focuses on converting measurements from larger to smaller units within one system of measurement, customary or metric. It also focuses on solving real-world problems involving distance or area and perimeter. See the parent tip sheets for more information on any of the topics: Topic 15 , Topic 16 , topic 13
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ELA - 5th grade students will continue their work in the module, "Breaking Barriers." Throughout this module, students will consider the power that sports have to affect how people view each other, create opportunities, and help people overcome challenges and barriers. Please see the parent tip sheet for more information.
Math – In May, 5th grade students will begin work in Topic 13, which focuses on developing understanding of the order of operations and how to use it to translate, evaluate, and explain numerical expressions with grouping symbols (parentheses, brackets, and braces).
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We are excited to focus on Creativity throughout the month of May! One way to think about Creativity is “using your imagination to create something new or solve a problem.” Opportunities to be Creative are all around us! How can you find ways to be Creative as a family this month?
Creativity is 1 of 3 traits we will focus on throughout the year that helps students Be Well. Throughout the school, students will be developing skills like emotion regulation, positive self-talk, and stress-management.
Please see the following parent resources for more information
creativity_grade3_family_newsletter.pdf
creativity_grade4_family_newsletter.pdf
creativity_grade5_family_newsletter.pdf
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3rd grade: Students will begin a unit on butterflies, where they will observe butterflies and radish plants through their life stages—birth, growth, reproduction and death—and study how inherited traits help organisms survive, find mates and reproduce.
4th grade: Students will conclude their unit called, "A Walk in the Park," where students model how animals in a park process sensory information and react. Around mid-May they will shift to a social studies unit on Westward Expansion and Industrialization.
5th grade: Students will conclude their unit on the government, where they have examined different types of government, as well as examine our own government and how the 3 branches work together to balance responsibility. They will then begin a unit that focuses on exploration.
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