Reading:  Students will learn to identify the main topic of a multi-paragraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.
They will learn to recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

Math:  Students will

*Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.
*Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction.
* Mentally add 10 or 100 to a given number 100-900, and mentally subtract 10 or 100 from a given number 100-900
*-Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations.

Writing: Students will understand how to write an informative/explanatory text in which they introduce a topic by explaining the definition and purpose of an informative or explanatory text about the Miller garden.

Science: Students will plan and conduct an investigation to describe and classify different kinds of materials by their observable properties.
They will learn how different kinds of matter exist and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature. Matter can be described and classified by its observable properties.

Social Studies:  Students will use maps to describe the spatial organization of the local community by applying concepts including relative location and using distance, direction, and scale. They will describe land use in the community(e.g. where people live, where services are provided, where products are made). Students will construct maps of the local community that contain symbols, labels, and legends denoting human and natural characteristics of place.