School-to-Home Newsletter myWorld Interactive © Pearson Education, Inc., All Rights Reserved Chapter 3 Communities Build a Nation How does our past affect our present? Here are the main ideas we are learning: • American Indians were the first people to settle in North America. • European explorers sailed in search of new lands, riches, and trade routes. • The first Spanish, French, and English explorers reached North America in the late 1400s and early 1500s. • Spanish explorers came in search of a fountain of youth and gold. • The French explored and settled throughout North America, not just along the coast. • The United States more than doubled its size when it bought the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803. • English settlers formed 13 colonies along the eastern coast of North America. • The American Revolution, or the War for Independence, was fought between the American colonies and the British. Talk Together Just as in the 1400s and 1500s, many people are still moving to what is now known as the United States. Why do you think people want to move to our country today? Learn Together Help your child understand how history influences the community in which you live. • Find out how early settlers to your area influenced your region. You might think about architectural styles, types of foods and restaurants, and different art forms. • Explore your city’s history. When was it established? Why was it founded? Who founded it? Make a timeline of your community’s history. • Pretend you and your family are the first settlers in a new land. What rules would you create? Read Together The Very First Americans by Cara Ashrose Animals Christopher Columbus Saw: An Adventure in the New World by Sandra Markle Roanoke: The Lost Colony--An Unsolved Mystery from History by Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple and Jane Yolen FAMILY ACTIVITIES Chapter Literacy Skills Students are learning about sequence. Writers often present information in a certain order, or sequence. To help show a sequence of events, they might use dates or time-order words such as first, then, now, and later. Readers can understand what they read when they pay attention to these words. THANK YOU for supporting your child’s education!

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School-to-Home NewslettermyWorld Interactive

Chapter 3Communities Build a NationHow does our past affect our present?

Here are the main ideas we are learning:

• American Indians were the first people to settle in North America.

• European explorers sailed in search of new lands, riches, and trade routes.

• The first Spanish, French, and English explorers reached North America in the late 1400s and early 1500s.

• Spanish explorers came in search of a fountain of youth and gold.

• The French explored and settled throughout North America, not just along the coast.

• The United States more than doubled its size when it bought the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803.

• English settlers formed 13 colonies along the eastern coast of North America.

• The American Revolution, or the War for Independence, was fought between the American colonies and the British.

Talk TogetherJust as in the 1400s and 1500s, many people are still moving to what is now known as the United States. Why do you think people want to move to our country today?

Learn TogetherHelp your child understand how history influences the community in which you live.

• Find out how early settlers to your area influenced your region. You might think about architectural styles, types of foods and restaurants, and different art forms.

• Explore your city’s history. When was it established? Why was it founded? Who

founded it? Make a timeline of your community’s history.

• Pretend you and your family are the first settlers in a new land. What rules would you create?

Read TogetherThe Very First Americans by Cara Ashrose

Animals Christopher Columbus Saw: An Adventure in the New World by Sandra Markle

Roanoke: The Lost Colony--An Unsolved Mystery from History by Heidi Elisabet Yolen Stemple and Jane Yolen

FAMILY ACTIVITIES

Chapter Literacy SkillsStudents are learning about sequence. Writers often present information in a certain order, or sequence. To help show a sequence of events, they might use dates or time-order words such as first, then, now, and later. Readers can understand what they read when they pay attention to these words.

THANK YOUfor supporting your child’s education!