Focus for the Week of 12/16

Reading: Student will learn to recount stories, including fables and folktales from diverse cultures, and determine their central message, lesson, or moral.

Math:  Students will compare and count within 1000; skip-count by 5s, 10s, and 100s.

Writing: Students will understand how to write an opinion paper. They will work on the steps in the writing process from drafting, revising, editing to publishing.

Science: Students will learn about the structure and properties of matter. They will learn that different kinds of matter exist and many of them can be either solid or liquid, depending on temperature. Students will learn that matter can be described and classified by its observable properties A great variety of objects can be built up from a small set of pieces.

Social Studies:  Students will use components of culture (e.g., foods, language, religion, traditions) to describe diversity in the local community.