Classroom News

Here are some of the units and skills/concepts we will study throughout the school year in each content area:

Writing: personal narratives, information writing, persuasive writing, fairy tales, poetry, research writing

Reading: summarizing, making connections, visualizing, characterization, inferring, theme, etc.

Math: +/- math facts, word problems, fractions, time/elapsed time, measurement, x/÷ facts, geometry, place value in whole numbers and decimals

Science:

1. Structures of Life

2. Water and Climate

3. Motion and Matter

Social Studies:

1. Geography

2. Bordentown History

3. Citizenship and Government

During the month of May, we are preparing for the NJSLA testing. This provides a great opportunity to revisit many of the reading and writing concepts we’ve learned throughout the year. We will read nonfiction and fiction passages, respond to comprehension questions, and find evidence within the text to support our claims.

In math, we are finishing Unit 6 and continuing our work on understanding and solving number stories. During this month, we will review fractions, measurement, and keep working on memorizing multiplication facts.

We are finishing our unit on Structures of Life in science. The students have done a great job learning about living things, parts of a plant, and various concepts surrounding our skeletal system. We will move on to Motion and Matter. This unit will have many opportunities to learn about how things move and create our own systems to test out.