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Social Studies
Our focus will shift back in time to the world's earliest communities. We will learn about this prehistoric time before people learned to write. We will learn how early people lived, and we will discuss the similarities and differences between our civilization and theirs. We will also learn about the farming practices of these early people, as well as how these practices changed the land.


Science
We will spend the first part of the week learning about the scientific process in greater detail (i.e. how scientists gather evidence to prove their conclusions), so that we can spend the latter half of the week developing and carrying out our own student-designed experiments on solids and liquids. There will be a quiz on Wednesday, which will be a review of the properties and molecular configuration of solids, liquids, and gases. Your child's science notebook, which includes notes from class and lab sheets from experiments, is the best study tool for this quiz.

Math Workshop

Our class is wrapping up our work with the Math Investigations unit about patterns and functions called Stories, Tables, and Graphs. In this unit the students learn about situations that involve change and ways to mathematically describe and represent this change. They will use tables and graphs to represent how one quantity changes in relation to another quanitity. A family letter was sent home on Tuesday, January 4th that included the benchmark goals for this unit and examples of graphs and tables with example questions for each. The students will have the end of unit assessment on Friday.