Week at a glance for the week of May 20th
Reminders for this week:
1. Last Art in the Box on Wednesday morning.
2. Abc countdown continues!
Monday is Ocean day! Students can show and tell to school something they have that is ocean themed. (book, stuffed animal, seashell, etc)
Spelling Words: Unit 5 Week 4
1. citizen
2. decimal
3. delicious
4. economy
5. gallon
6. global
7. item
8. nickel
9. notify
10. travel
BONUS WORDS- synthesis, precedent, president
Vocabulary words: survived, astonished, dangerous, piteously, relief-
Unit Vocabulary Words: analysis, threat, damage, anticipate, pollution
High Frequency Words: ready, anything
Reading: How should people respond during a disaster?
Learning Goals:
- I can learn more about themes concerning solutions by analyzing point of view in historical fiction.
- I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.
- I can use knowledge of the sound and shape of poetry to write a poem.
Objectives for the week:
- Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.
- Interact with sources as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
- Listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information and make pertinent comments.
- Recognize and analyze genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
- Respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate.
- Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams; including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled syllables; and final stable syllables.
- Identify point of view (including first-and third-person point of view); distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
- Explain the author’s use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes.
- Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns such as: eigh, ough, en
- Use text evidence to support an appropriate response.
- Simple Solutions Grammar- daily
- Daily Oral Language packet- daily
Writing:
- Write a response to a literary or informational text that demonstrates an understanding of a text.
- Continuing writing different types of poetry, finish concrete poems.
- Cursive practice writing (daily)
- Sentence corrections, need handwriting practice
1. By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to use models to describe how energy flows through ecosystems in food chains and food webs.
When the environment changes in ways that affect a place's physical characteristics, temperature, or availability of resources, some organisms survive and reproduce, others move to new locations, yet others move into the transformed environment, and some die.
DCI-3-LS4.C.1
For any particular environment, some kinds of organisms survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
DCI-3-LS4.D.2
Populations live in a variety of habitats, and change in those habitats affects the organisms living there.
PE-3-LS4-3
Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.
PE-3-LS4-4
Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.*
Chapter 14: Geometry (we are skipping one chapter to get in geometry)
Essential Question- How can geometric shapes help me solve real word problems?
Vocabulary Words: triangle, hexagon, quadrilateral, pentagon, equal parts, partition, angle, attribute, endpoint, attribute, octagon, parallel, parallelogram, polygon, ray, right angle, rectangle, square, vertex
Mathematical Practices:
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively
- Model with mathematics
- Attend to precision
- Look for and make use of structure
- Use appropriate tools strategically
- Construct reasonable arguments and critique the reasons of others-
Monday- Chapter 14: Lesson 1- Hands on- Students will explore angles of 2D shapes.
Tuesday- Lesson 2 Polygons- Students will describe and classify polygons by their attributes.
Wednesday- Lesson 3 Triangles: Students will describe and classify triangles by their attributes.
Thursday- Lesson 4 Quadrilaterals: Students will identify, describe, and classify quadrilaterals by their attributes.
Friday: Review Lessons 1-4
1. How to make a moral choice- discuss temptations and how the Holy Spirit helps us.
2. The Ten Commandments Teach Us- Moral laws help guide us in making good choices.
3. Faith Summary- Living my faith- Jesus, help me to honor my parents and answer wrongdoing with blessings.