Quarter 1 · Week 1
Foundations: Place Value, Stories, Forces & Communities
- What we're learning
- Children build on second grade with place value, adding and subtracting within 1,000, and their first multiplication facts. In reading they study story elements, characters and traditional tales, then use text features and main ideas in nonfiction, and write their first opinion paragraphs. Science explores pushes, pulls, friction and magnets. Social studies looks at communities, maps and landforms, the Native nations who lived here first, and how early communities began.
- Math focus
- Place value, + and − within 1,000; multiplication facts ×2–×9
- ELA focus
- Story elements, traditional tales, text features, main idea, opinion writing
- Science focus
- Forces, friction, magnets and an engineering challenge
- Social Studies focus
- Communities, maps, Native peoples and early settlement
- How to help at home this week
- Ask your student to teach you one new thing from each subject. Curiosity beats quizzing — let them lead.