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Social Studies
This week we will examine the geography of Earth's land and water. We will focus on three popular landforms: plains, plateaus, and hills. We will discuss how different landforms affect the communities near them. In addition, we will discuss the benefits of living near water (i.e. salt water or fresh water). The quiz will be on Friday of this week. Please encourage your child to take advantage of the opportunity to bring home their blue folder to study each night.


Science
We've spent the past week germinating (sprouting) bean seeds and researching how the four main parts of a plant (root, stem, leaf, and flower) each have a function (job) in helping the plant survive. Ask your child about their plant. How has it changed during the last week? What have they observed? Discuss the role of the leaves and roots in the survival of the plant. This week we will continue investigating the functions of the stem and flowers, while developing our own plant investigations.

Math Workshop
We will continue developing our knowledge of the Base Ten Number System up to 1,000, while learning to represent the structure of 3-digit numbers as being composed of 100s, 10s, and 1s (i.e. standard form to expanded form). We will work to develop our ability to solve addition problems by breaking numbers down (decomposing) and recombining them. Read the following situation to your child and discuss how they would go about finding a solution: Miss P and Miss Hoffmann are collecting books. Miss P has 68 books. Miss Hoffmann ahs 234 books. If they put their book collections together, how many books will they have in their combined collection?
The district benchmark will be administered (in lieu of the diagnostic) on Friday of this week.