•Ask and answer such questions as who, what, where, when, why, and how to demonstrate understanding of key details in both fiction and nonfiction texts.

•Recount stories from diverse cultures and determine the central message or moral.

•Describe how characters in a story respond to major events and challenges.

•Describe the connection between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.

•Represent and solve addition and subtraction word problems, within 100, with unknowns in all positions, by using representations and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem

• Measure the length of an object in standard units by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.

• Measure the length of an object twice, using length units of different lengths for the two measurements; describe how the two measurements relate to the size of the unit.

• Estimate lengths in using standard units of inches, feet, yards, centimeters, and meters. 

• Measure to determine how much longer one object is than another, expressing the length difference in terms of a standard length unit.

•Use addition and subtraction, within 100, to solve word problems involving lengths that are given in the same units, using equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

•Animal life cycles(change)

•Similarities and differences of animals of the same species (connection)

•Human impact on natural cycles (responsibility)