Religion

Students will:

• Begin learning about the season of Advent

Math

Students will:

• Take Chapter 3 test on 2-digit addition
• Participate in different Thanksgiving activities

Phonics

Students will:

• continue reading and spelling VCE words

Reading/Writing

Students will:

• learn about the Wampanoag Native Americans and their influence on the Pilgrims
• Complete different Thanksgiving activities

Religion

Students will:

• tell about how Jesus welcomed children.
• identify Jesus as the Good Shepherd who cares for us.
• explain the meaning of the parable of the lost sheep.
• describe how Jesus cares for us through the leaders of the Church.
• define deacon and psalm.

Math

Students will:

• add 2 two-digit numbers with the standard algorithm
• rewrite horizontal addition problems vertically to add.
• add three and four two-digit numbers
• make a model to solve problems
• review 2-digit addition

Phonics

Students will:

• spell multisyllabic words with closed syllables and glued sounds; spell multisyllabic words with suffixes
• Spell words with VCE syllables (magic e or super e)
• Read words with VCE syllables
• Discriminate between VC and VCE words
• Spell and read trick words only, house, move

Reading/Writing

Students will:

• Revise an informative paragraph using a checklist
• combine evidence from two texts in a verbal paragraph about how changes in fall impact people
• Describe knowledge and skills gained from studying texts
• Demonstrate understanding of unit 1 vocabulary by analyzing correct or incorrect use in context

Science

Students will:

• explore the phenomenon of flash floods
• create an explanation of why these severe weather events are more or less likely in different regions.
• locate and explain a unique region in Texas known as Flash Flood Alley
• develop a map to document how land and water interact across the state

Religion

Students will:

• Identify Peter as the Church’s first leader.
• Describe how Jesus used parables to teach lessons about how to be closer to God. 
• Define bishop, crosier, parable, and pope.

Math

Students will:

• break apart numbers to add (using expanded form)
• regroup ones for tens to add 2-digit numbers
• add two- and one-digit numbers with the standard algorithm (and base-ten blocks)
• add 2 two-digit numbers with the standard algorithm

Phonics

Students will:

• Read and spell words with suffixes -full, -less, -ment, -ness, -ish, -en, -able
• Learn trick words: always, often, once
• Read decodable stories and answer comprehension questions
• Create sentences using words the handful and kindness
• Practice reading and writing trick words
• Read words with different prefixes

Reading/Writing

Students will:

• Determine the central message of a text
• Plan and draft an informative paragraph
• combine evidence from two texts in a verbal paragraph about how changes in fall impact people
• Demonstrate understanding of vocabulary by analyzing correct or incorrect use in context

Science

Students will:

• investigate the effects of rocks tumbling in a river
• Answer the question “why is there sand at the beach?”
• pretend to be a river and tear up pieces of construction paper to model what happens to rocks as they travel along the river

Religion

Students will:

• discuss how our church remembers those who have died and how we can follow the examples of the lives of the saints.

Math

Students will:

• identify sums of doubles.
• practice repeated addition and arrays
• Review Chapter 2 concepts for test on Friday 11/3

Phonics

Students will:

• Spell and read multisyllabic words
• Apply the -ic vs -ick rule to multisyllable single syllable words
• Spell and read trick words

Reading/Writing

Students will:

• Infer meaning of unknown words
• Define multiple-meaning words
• Generate and respond to student-generated questions about Sky Tree
• Revise a sample paragraph about trees by inserting missing sentences
• Sequence key details
• Analyze how authors develop imagery
• Describe the structure of Sky Tree
• Analyze how an author uses varied structure to give a text rhythm

Science

Students will:

• Begin new unit on weathering and erosion
• discuss patterns of how water and rivers flow.
• discuss what rivers have in common
• participate in an activity where we model how rivers flow