December 2024
Upcoming Events
- December 10, 2024: Report cards will be distributed in student’s NYC Schools Account
- December 21, 2024 – January 1, 2025: Schools closed for Winter Break
- Schools reopen on January 2, 2025.
Reading
We will be finishing our Into Reading Module 4, students will be able to answer the essential question, “Why might some stories be better told as plays?”
The reading skills covered in this module include elements of drama, as well as literary elements. Students will practice retelling stories and summarizing the details through plays and other videos.
Writing
In Module 4 of Into Reading, students will keep working on publishing a narrative. The theme of the stories will be around how family and friends can always help us.
Children will learn how to integrate narrative elements and dialogue. Students will include a problem, solution, and lesson learned as well.
During the grammar portion of our writing block, students will study pronouns, plural nouns, and the proper use of quotation marks.
Math
Students will be continuing chapters on multiplication and division. In topic 3, students will continue to learn about properties of multiplication. In topic 4, students will learn how to use multiplication to help us divide.
Please continue to work on memorizing your multiplication facts with your child.
Social Studies
In our next unit in Social Studies, we will begin a study of the country of China. We will begin by exploring the geography, and cuisine of the county along with the history. Students will also explore special holidays and cultural celebrations.
Science
Students will work to figure out the question “why does the train fall?” Students will conduct investigations and make observations to obtain and evaluate information from two books.
At the end of the chapter, students will apply what they have learned about gravity to explain and model why the train falls. Next, chapter 4 will explain why the train floats even though gravity is acting on it.
Cursive Writing
Continue to practice the following letters at home, which have been covered so far.
Lowercase: l, e, h, b, f, k, i, j, p, r, s, t, u, c, a, o, d, g, and q.