Week at a Glance: April 22-25, 2024

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Project week- Informational Posters

Spelling: Review week

Writing: Research on a town that has changed

Math: Chapter 11 continues with measurement

Social Studies: Immigration Chapter continues: Research Country

Science: Lesson 2- How do plants use leaves to make food?

 

Other Highlights: 

  • Tuesday- Alex’s Lemonade Stand! Hooray- it’s showtime!
  • Monday-Thursday Our class has morning prayer for the school. 
  • Friday- No School Teachers Archdiocese Inservice

 

Spelling Words: Review words from Unit 4:

Ate, eight, minute, research, visible, flexible, likable, thirteen, search, third, earn, thirty, inspect no bonus words this week--

 

Reading: Unit 4- Week 6 Last week with Unit 4-

This week students will:

  • Research communities that have changed over time.
  • Create a poster showing a part of a city or town that has changed.

Lesson 1- Compare across texts:

Inquire:

  • Introduce Inquiry Project
  • Read “From Wood to Stone”
  • Generate questions about the topic
  • Apply Academic Vocabulary

Lesson 2

Explore and Plan:

  • Informational Writing
  • Read “Yankee Stadium: Then and Now”
  • Set a purpose, identify a topic, and a list research goals

Conduct Research:

  • Use the Library of Congress Web site
  • Gather information on a research topic

Lesson 3-Collaborate and Discuss

  • Analyze a Student Model
  • Identify features of an informational poster

Refine Research:

  • Identify source types
  • Read “History in the Making”
  • Apply identifying source types of article

Lesson 4- Extend Research:

  • Find or create images
  • Incorporate images into posters

Collaborate and Discuss

  • Revise & Edit; Clarify and Coherence
  • Peer review posters

Lesson 5- Celebrate and Reflect

  • Share your posters
  • Reflect on your project

Reflect on the Unit:

  • Reflect on your goals, reading, and writing

 

Writing:

*Daily journal entries into: Spelling Menu, April  creative writing journal, Daily April  prompts, 

*Writing an informational poster-

*Create an informational poster based on research of a town/ community that has changed using the Library of Congress website.

 

Math:  This week’s math is focused on telling time-

Chapter 11- Measuring Time: Mathematical Practices:

  • Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
  • Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
  • Model with mathematics.
  • Use appropriate tools strategically.
  • Attend to precision.
  • Look for and make use of structure.
  • Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  • Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Vocabulary words: analog and digital clock, time interval,

Monday- Lesson 4- Solve Mass Problems: Why do we measure? Students practice algebra skills with finding the mass of multiple objects. 

We completed Lesson 5- Measuring Time last week-

Tuesday- Lesson 6- Time intervals; Measurement and data; Students will determine time intervals to solve problems.

Wednesday- Lesson 7- Problem Solving Investigation- Strategy: Work Backward; Students will work backward to solve problems. 

Thursday- Practice for Assessment on Measurement-

-- Daily practice and enrichment math skills with IXL, SeeSaw assignments, and IREADY

 

Religion: Session 20- Celebrating Lent and Holy Week

Session Theme:  Lent and Holy Week are times to think of how we treat others-

Outcomes:

  • Retell the story of Jesus and the Samaritan woman at the well.
  • Explain Lent is a time to think about how we treat others.
  • Describe practices and experiences of Lent and Holy Week.
  • Define almsgiving, intercessions, and Prayer of the Faithful.

Daily prayers and devotions-

Tuesday- 8:30 Mass-  no buddies; Our class’ turn to bring up the Gifts and read the morning prayers

--Daily songs, prayers, and devotions

 

Science: Chapter 3 Lesson 3- How do plants use roots and stems to grow?

Students will know how roots and stems take in, transport, and store water and nutrients the plant needs to grow. By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to use models that describe how roots and stems help plants in their life cycles.

Words to Know: Nutrients

Chapter 3 Lesson 4- How do plants use flowers or cones to reproduce?

Students will know how plants reproduce using seeds and cones. By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to communicate how plants reproduce using seeds and cones.

Words to know: reproduce, pollinate, germinate

  • DCI-3-LS1.B.2
    Reproduction is essential to the continued existence of every kind of organism. Plants and animals have unique and diverse life cycles.
  • PE-3-LS1-1
    Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

Social Studies:

Social Studies Project- Students will be assigned a country to research (in small groups) and will have a role in their research. They will  learn the culture about the country they are immigrating from and what certain roles/ expectations were in their country and answer the following questions:

  1. Why are you leaving the county and coming to the USA?
  2. What was your role in your country? (Examples: Mom, Dad, Teacher, Student)
  3. What are some words in your native language that we could learn? (five words)
  4. What are your hopes and dreams for coming to America?

After research- students will present their immigration country to the class and classmates will record information learned from the other groups.