Theme Study

Social Studies

This year's units are:

• Native American way of life in Massachusetts
• Pilgrims; their trip and settlement in Massachusetts
• Puritans settlement in Massachusetts
• biographies of people from the Colonial Period 1600s and 1700s
• events that led up to the Revolutionary War
• the beginnings of the Revolutionary War

At home you can enrich your child's knowledge of this topic by reading stories that connect to this period of our history.  Even simple stories can provide the hook for some understanding for your child.

Science

States of Matter

We have begun our study of this topic.  We reviewed what students remembered.  The topic was covered in 1st grade, but students don't remember "states of matter"; they do remember Solids, Liquids, and Gases.  We have worked in groups to sort materials into their appropriate state of matter.  Students were very insightful, noting that a balloon was a solid while the air inside of it was a gas.  We are striving to identify the properties that make a solid a solid, a liquid a liquid and a gas a gas.  Later we will clarify these properties and move on to sort a whole list of items into their appropriate state of matter.

Future units:

• solar system
• earth
• rocks and minerals

Again, these topics provide more areas for you to supplement your child's learning with reading.

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