Learning Goals for March 14th to the 18th!

Math:
3-D shape review, identify sides, corners and edges of a cone, cube, pyramid and cylinder.
Make a tally chart and bar graph.
Interpret data from a graph
Addition facts (sums to 18)
Subtraction facts 
Telling time to the quarter hour
Parts of a fraction
Expanded notation


Phonograms: oa, ow, ew, u, ar, or, er, ai, ay, o


Spelling: See your child's homework.


Language Arts:
Langston Hughes and various poems
Making text-world connections
Using vocabulary to make mental images using Thanksgiving on Thursday. 


History:
The American Revolution: The original 13 colonies, the Boston Tea Party
Paul Revere's Ride
Minutemen and the Redcoats
Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence
Important holidays: Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Veterans Day
Benjamin Franklin as a patriot, inventor and writer.


Science:
Review circuits and how they work
Thomas Edison life and work


Also thank you for your tremendous effort with learning sight words! I am thoroughly impressed on how many sight words they have mastered this school year. Keep up all of your hard work!


We will be having a guest speaker on Friday to talk to the class about electricity!