History & Geography

This week we will continue to learn about Westward Expansion Before the Civil War. Our objectives will be:

• Explain the significance of the Alamo
• Describe the significance of the Oregon Trail, the use of wagons, and the hardships endured by travelers.
• discover art and music from the nineteenth century
• Understand why the United States went to war against Mexico.

Mathematics

This week we will begin learning about the Properties of Triangles and Four-Sided Figures. Our objectives will be:

• classify triangles by their side lengths and angle measures
• Understand and apply the property that the sum of the angle measures of a triangle is 180°
• Understand and apply the properties of right, isosceles, and equilateral triangles

Literatura

Congratulations to our students on their outstanding presentations of our literature studies’
final project, La llamada de la selva. Once again, we were moved by the level of the quality of
our student’s work! We are ready and excited to kick off our narrative studies through our last
book club of the year, Béibol en abril.

Science

In science, students have been learning ways that animals communicate through sound, visual
displays, and smell. We have been studying the role that instinct and learned behaviors play in
the life of living organisms. We studied the monarch butterflies and their instinctive migration
over several generations.
This week students will be participating in a collaborative writing assignment. If your child
hasn’t yet, please have them choose an animal they would like to do their research on. Students
will be studying that over long periods of time, species must gradually adapt to meet the
challenges of their environment, or they will not survive. They will address the difference
between physical and behavioral adaptations, as well as distinguishing between behaviors that
are instincts and those that are learned.
Students have been developing their independent science research projects. This
week we will discuss all the details about this end of the year science project.
Continue to:
● Read books in www.Kidsa-z.com
● Read books in www.getepic.com
● Book Club with Maestra Paola on Fridays!