Students will be focusing on the following areas this week:

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 also identify the main purpose of a text, including what the author wants to answer, explain, or describe.

Writing:  Students will continue to work on informational writing using research.

Math:  Students will be able to explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations.

Science:  Students will learn how the structure, properties, and interactions of matter work together by writing examples of things that can be made with rocks.

Social Studies: Students will understand that communities are divided into places or areas where people work, play, shop, and live by organizing the map of Treeville into parts.