May 2025
Important Dates and Reminders
- May 1, 2025: Parent Teacher Conferences
- May 8, 2025 – May 9, 2025: Math State Test
- May 26, 2025: No School, Memorial Day
Math
Chapter 12: During the next few weeks, students will relate both fractions and money to place value and will learn how to rename fractions as decimals. We will also add fractional parts of 10 and 100 and compare decimals through hundredths.
Chapter 13: Students will be learning about customary and metric units of length, weight/mass, and liquid volume.
Science
Unit 3 Waves, Energy and Information: Students will study sound wave by using simulations as well as using reading materials to gather information to answer the unit question.
The unit question is: how does a mother dolphin communicate with her calf across a distance?
Social Studies
Colonial and Revolutionary Period in New York: Students study the arrival of European settlers and their fight for freedom from England in the Revolutionary War.
Reading
Reading Module 9. Essential Question: What can people do to protect our planet?
Students will be developing these reading strategies within this module by reading both fiction and non-fiction texts:
- Text and graphic features
- Inferencing
- Theme
- Figurative language
Writing
In module 9, students will conduct research, gather facts and cite the sources used to write a research report. The students will be using the idea that understanding our world helps us protect it. They will support this claim through researching an endangered animal.