Week at a Glance: May 20-24, 2024

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Responding to Disasters

Spelling: Multi Syllable words

Writing: Continued work in Poetry

Math: Geometry continues

Social Studies: Presentation of Immigration Reports/ Q and A

Science: Lesson 3 of Chapter 4- Animal LIfe Cycles

Religion: Making Good Choices

Other Highlights:

• Last Art in the Box on Wednesday morning

ABC COUNTDOWN:

Monday- Letter O- Bring your favorite books and a blanket for outdoor reading

Tuesday- Letter P- Bring your favorite small stuffed animal pet to school and make a school family pyramid.

Wednesday- letter Q- Play a game of questions and answers

Thursday- Letter R- Wear colorful clothes (rainbow) and have an outdoor race

Friday- Letter S- Scavenger hunt

Spelling: Unit 5 Week 4

Citizen, decimal, delicious, economy, gallon, global, item, nickel, notify, 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

Students will practice spelling words by:

• Practicing spelling words in daily homework-
• Practice spelling words by using writing creatively in Spelling Menu packet

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 in third poetry packet
• Daily writing in May creative writing journal.
• Daily writing in a notebook with May prompts.
• Gratitude Journal
• SeeSaw writing activities-
• Cursive practice writing (daily)
• Complete writing (typing) in Social Studies Immigration project

Math: Geometry Chapter continues

New vocabulary words: attribute, hexagon, octagon, pentagon, polygon, quadrilateral, triangle-

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- Practice Test for Chapter 12 Data

• MondayLesson 3- Triangles: Students will describe and classify triangles by their attributes.
• Tuesday- Lesson 4- Quadrilaterals: Students will identify, describe, and classify 

quadrilaterals by their attributes. 

• Wednesday- Lesson 5- Shared Attributes of Quadrilaterals:Students will describe the shared attributes of quadrilaterals.

• Thursday- Lesson 6- Problem Solving Investigation: Guess, Check, and Revise; Students will use the guess, check, and revise strategy to solve problems.
• Math: IReady lessons, SeeSaw activities, Enrichment packet, and Simple Solutions Math practice daily

Science: Lesson 3- What are the life cycles of some animals?

Description

By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to develop and use models to describe how some animals grow and change during their life cycles.

Standards

• 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.

• DCI-3-LS3.A.2
  Many characteristics of organisms are inherited from their parents.

• DCI-3-LS3.A.3
  Other characteristics result from individuals' interactions with the environment, which can range from diet to learning. Many characteristics involve both inheritance and environment.

• 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.

• PE-3-LS3-1
  Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

• PE-3-LS3-2
  Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Life Cycle of a grain beetle through video: Here This Activity provides an opportunity for students to observe the changes a grain beetle goes through during the stages of its life cycle.

Keywords

pupa, egg, virtual lab activities, adults, grain beetle, larvae, investigate, lab, virtual lab activity, pupae, beetle, larva, insect, animals, metamorphosis, mealworms, eggs, data analysis, life cycle, grow, explore, beetles, grain beetles, develop, insects, mealworm, labs, virtual lab, life cycles, investigation, animal, adult

• Match the vocabulary words to the life cycle of a butterfly
• Comparing life cycles videos
• Listen and watch videos online of different animal life cycles and identify the various stages of life.

*Students will also present their planet reports during the week. I will send reports home after they’re presented. Thanks!

Social Studies: Presentation of Immigration Reports with Q and A

• Students will practice presentations with a friend
• Students will present Immigration Reports with the same country team. Students will share their research with the class and teach us five words in the language of their country. Each student will present their individual report and after each presentation, students will answer questions from the class about their country.
• We will compare and contrast information from our Social Studies book to information from our textbook regarding immigration.
• Wrap up chapter- Fill out a T Chart-  challenges and opportunities immigrating to the United States.

Religion- Making Good Choices- Session 22

And whatever you do, in word or in deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him- Colossians 3:17

• Discussion about Peter and how he taught followers of Jesus to show compassion, peace, and understanding to others- as Jesus would.
• How to make a moral choice- discuss temptations and how the Holy Spirit helps us.
• The Ten Commandments Teach Us- Moral laws help guide us in making good choices.
• Discussion- Jesus in the desert for 40 days and Satan’s temptations- Write a prayer of petition.
• We live our lives for God- Pray the morning offering-
• Short quiz on the 10 Commandments
• Faith Summary- Living my faith- Jesus, help me to honor my parents and answer wrongdoing with blessings.
• Assessment on this session at the end of the week

Daily devotions, prayers and songs-

Tuesday- 8:30 buddy Mass 

Homework for Thursday, 5/16/24

--Write a letter to someone using as many spelling words as possible

Tomorrow:

--Spelling, Reading and Religion tests

--Shortened STEAM class

--Talent Show! 3rd Grade is the first act of the show! 

--Feed My Starving Children $1.00 dress down- 

--Letter N for newspaper- Students will submit interesting news stories about our class, St. Joe's, or whatever is on their mind of importance.

 

We didn't get to finish the Air Bud movie, which is a fun one, today so we'll continue next week. 

 

Have a lovely evening,

With Gratitude,

Mrs. Sharon Shute

Homework for Wednesday, 5/15/24

--Spelling sentences to practice for Friday's test

Thanks for the awesome looking book reports on planets! They are out of this world! Presentations begin soon!

Tomorrow:

--Gym and Library- Please bring back library books

ABC Countdown- letter M- Movie Day- We are watching a G rated movie- Air Bud World Pup

--Good news- Most kids have completed IReady for third grade! Way to go, school family!

Have a lovely evening,

With Gratitude,

Mrs. Shute

Homework for Monday, 5/13/24

With Gratitude,

Sharon Shute

Week at a Glance: May 13-17, 2024

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Unit 5 Week 3- Emergency Story

Spelling: Words that end in /en/

Writing: Poetry Packets

Math: Completing Data and beginning Geometry

Social Studies: Continued work on Immigration projects

Science: Continue work in the Animal Chapter

Religion: Session 21- Morality: Faith, Hope, Charity

May 14 Science Project Due- Book Report on Planet*

ABC Countdown:

• Monday- Letter J for jammies- Wear your favorite jammies to school
• Tuesday- Letter K- Dress like a king or queen for the day- Please wear gym shoes for gym or bring a change of clothes. Also, school family Kahoot!!
• Wednesday-
• Thursday- Letter L for write letters to friends and enjoy lollipops ( I will provide)
• Friday- Letter M for movie- enjoy a movie in the class

Spelling Words: awaken, given, widen, soften, sharpen, lengthen, gladden, brighten, loosen, lighten- BONUS WORDS: strengthen, misshapen, refasten-

Vocabulary Words: prepared, emergency, memorize, responsible, instructions

Unit Vocabulary words: analysis, threat, damage, anticipate, pollution

• Daily practice of spelling words in Spelling Menu packet
• Practice of spelling words in daily writing and homework
• Go to Spelling City for additional practice here

Reading: Unit 5 Week 3

Weekly Question: What are some ways to prepare for an emergency? Essential question: How does the world challenge us?

Objectives:

• Listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments.
• Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as note taking, freewriting, annotating, or illustrating.
• Use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, identify options, predict consequences, and take actions to implement a decision.
• Procedural text is an informational text that explains how to perform a task. Procedural text is written in a sequence of steps. Many procedural texts have one or more specific characteristics that make this text structure clear to readers.
• Use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and multiple meaning words.
• Generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information.
• Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.
• Synthesize information to create a new understanding.
• Use text evidence to support an appropriate response.
• Recognize differences in genre’s characteristics.
• Explain the author’s use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes.
• Respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate.

Hands-on Reading:

• Daily reading in Reading class, SeeSaw activities and online activities
• Daily work in Simple Solutions Grammar

Phonics: Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns such as: /eigh/, /ough/, /en/

• Suffixes with /en/
• /EN/ suffix means- “made of” such as golden- made of gold

Writing: 

• Daily writing in: Spelling Menu, Notebooks for May prompts, and May creative writing journal.
• Daily entries in Poetry Notebook as we study different types of poetry.
• Daily cursive writing in a practice notebook.

Math: Chapter 14 Geometry begins and Chapter 13 Data ends (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- Practice Test for Chapter 12 Data

Tuesday-Assessment for Chapter 12 Represent and Interpret Data

Wednesday- Begin Chapter 14- Geometry; Lesson 1- Hands on- Students will explore angles of 2D shapes;

Thursday- Lesson 2- Polygons- Students will describe and classify polygons by their attributes

• Daily IReady practice and Daily SeeSaw math activities
• Daily Simple Solutions Math Packet

Social Studies:

Continued work on the Immigration project- This turned out to be much tougher than originally thought- So we are improvising the assignment to an individual report on immigration to a particular country. After the report is completed, students will present their docs in a group in front of the class. Students are typing a four paragraph doc focusing on:

• Coming to America
• Life in America
• What do you miss about your old country?
• Becoming an American citizen

This is our last big social studies project and will be graded.*

Science: Lesson 2 How are offspring like their parents?

Vocabulary Words: inherit, instinct, differentiate, learned behavior, inherited characteristics, acquired characteristics- Continue Chapter 4 Living Things:  How do living things grow and change?Lesson Objectives: Lesson 1 Students will classify animals into major groups based on inherited traits and behavior.Lesson 2: Students  will use observations and evidence to explain that some traits are inherited and some traits are learned or acquired.Lesson 3- Students will develop and use models to describe how some animals grow and change during their life cycles. 

.Words to know for lesson 3: larva, pupa, metamorphosis, life cycles, mammal

• Standards for these lessons:PE-3-LS3-1
  Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.
• PE-3-LS3-2
  Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
• Description: By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to classify animals into major groups based on inherited traits and behavior.

Standards for Lesson 3:

• 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.
• DCI-3-LS3.A.2
  Many characteristics of organisms are inherited from their parents.
• DCI-3-LS3.A.3
  Other characteristics result from individuals' interactions with the environment, which can range from diet to learning. Many characteristics involve both inheritance and environment.
• 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.
• PE-3-LS3-1
  Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.
• PE-3-LS3-2
  Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

•  

Religion: Complete Unit 4 w/ assessment and begin Unit 5:

Unit 5 Morality, Our Lived Faith- The focus on this unit is on living like Jesus. In this unit, children will learn the following concepts.

Session 21- Faith, Hope, and Clarity: The virtues of faith, hope, and charity- the Theological Virtues- are gifts from God that form the foundation of our Christian life. When we practice these virtues, we grow closer to God.

Session Theme:  We live like Jesus when we practice the virtues of faith, hope, and charity.

--Daily prayers, songs, devotions, and Thursday All School Mass 8:30

Homework for Thursday, 5/9/24

--Art work worksheet to practice spelling words for tomorrow's test

Field Trip tomorrow! Students need to wear school uniforms tomorrow with gym shoes for the field trip. Monday is a dress down for King and Queen day!

Tomorrow:

--Spelling, Reading, and Religion tests before the field trip. We will repeat today's Holy Day tomorrow as our social studies research project was too interesting to stop.

 

Have a lovely evening,

With Gratitude,

Mrs. Sharon Shute

Homework for Wednesday, 5/8/24

-- Wednesday Sentences to prepare for Friday's test

Tomorrow:

Have a lovely evening,

With Gratitude,

Mrs.Sharon Shute

• ABC Countdown- Letter G- Maybe take guinea pigs out in their play pen and games. I have the games you don't need to send in anything.
• Art - Students will be bringing home their Mother's Day gifts tomorrow.
• Social Studies Immigration project-
• IReady Math and Reading Diagnostic Tests- Please make sure Chromebooks are charged and ready to go for the testing. Thanks!

Homework for Monday, May 6, 2024

--Monday spelling h/w for words with /ei/

Tomorrow:

--Continued work in Poetry packet part 2

--May Crowning at 9:30

--GYM 

--Letter F for ABC Countdown- I changed the activity to Fruit Snacks (I will supply) and fun games. Crossing fingers we can go outside to play the games.

 

Have a Lovely Evening,

With Much Gratitude,

Mrs. Sharon Shute

Week at a Glance: May 6-10, 2024

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Unit 5 Week 2-

Math- Continuing Chapter 12- Data

Spelling: Words with /ei/

Writing: Continue Poetry unit

Religion- Tuesday- May Crowning at 9:30

Social Studies- Continue Immigration Project

Science- Animal Unit Begins!

Other Highlights:

• Tuesday- 9:30 May Crowning
• Friday- Botanic Gardens Field Trip

ABC Countdown for the Week:

• Monday- E Extra Recess
• Tuesday- F- Fruit Snacks and Fun games
• Wednesday- G- Guinea pigs outside
• Thursday- H- Holy Day
• Friday-- Ice pops in the park (after field trip)

Spelling Words: eight, eighteen, weigh, weight, weightless, neighbor, ceiling, receive, height, freight BONUS: perceive, paperweight, leisurely

Vocabulary words: analysis, threat, damage, anticipate, pollution, surface, landforms, processes, damaging, produces

High Frequency Words- built, square

• Daily practice with spelling words in Spelling Menu book
• Daily practice with spelling word through weekly writings

Reading: Unit 5 Week 2 

Essential Question: How do changes on Earth affect the environment?

Objectives: 

• I can learn more about informational texts and analyze text structure informational text. 
• 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.
• Listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments.
• Describe and explain variations in the physical environment, including climate, landforms, natural resources, and natural hazards.
• Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including organizational patterns such as cause and effect and problem and solution.
• Use print or digital resources to determine meaning, syllabication,and pronounciation.
• Identify, use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, synonyms, idioms, homophones, and homographs in a text. 
• Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns such as: eigh, ough, and en
• Generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information.
• Make, correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of the genre, and structures 
• Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.
• Recognize characteristics and structures of informational texts, including organizational patterns and such as problem and solution, cause and effect.
• Discuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning.
• Use text evidence to support an appropriate response.
• Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding multisyllabic words with multiple sound spelling patterns such as eigh, ough, and en.

SeeSaw activities regarding objectives in this week’s reading.

Writing:

• Daily writing in May creative writing journals
• Daily writing in notebook corresponding to Mayl prompts
• Writing work in reading books, SeeSaw activities and student Poetry books.
• Writing for Social Studies Project

Math: Continuing Chapter 12-  Represent and Interpret Data:

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

Vocabulary words: line plot, half inch (½, quarter inch ¼)

Monday- Lesson 5- Draw and analyze line plots- Students will draw, organize, and analyze data in line plots.

Tuesday- Lesson 6- Measure to halves and fourths of an inch: Students will measure half inch and nearest quarter inch.

Wednesday- Lesson 7- Collect and Display Measurement Data: Students will collect and display measurement data to fractions of an inch.

Thursday- Lesson 8- Solve a Simpler Problem- Students will solve problems by solving a simpler problem.

--SeeSaw- Daily math activities related to the current math chapter-

--Daily IReady Math Practice

Science:: Begin Chapter 4 Living Things:  How do living things grow and change?Lesson Objectives: Lesson 1 Students will classify animals into major groups based on inherited traits and behavior.Lesson 2: Students  will use observations and evidence to explain that some traits are inherited and some traits are learned or acquired.Lesson 3- Students will develop and use models to describe how some animals grow and change during their life cycles.

• Standards for these lessons:PE-3-LS3-1
  Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.
• PE-3-LS3-2
  Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.
• Description: By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to classify animals into major groups based on inherited traits and behavior.

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:

Why are you leaving the county and coming to the USA?

What was your role in your country? (Examples: Mom, Dad, Teacher, Student)

• What are some words in your native language that we could learn? (five words)

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. 

Here are the guidelines for this project

Religion: Session 20- Last chapter in this unit!

Session 20- Celebrating Lent and Holy Week (Review)

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

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

--Daily prayers, devotions, and Tuesday- May Crowning 9:30 Mass

--As much as possible: Religious songs, Prayer list (Secret Agents)

Homework for Thursday, 5/2/24

--Spelling Words Story to practice for tomorrow's test

Tomorrow:

--ABC Countdown- Letter D- Disney Dance Party

--STEAM Class

--Religion, Social Studies, and Science

--Poetry introduction

 

Have a Lovely Day!

Mrs. Sharon Shute

 

Wednesday, 5/1/24

--H/W- Wednesday Spelling Sentences to practice for Friday's test

--Ask your child about the police presentation we had today on Stranger Danger- very good tips!

 

Tomorrow:

--Gym and Library- Please remember to bring back library books- thanks!

--C Day for the ABC Countdown- Please bring a blanket, book, small pillow and flashlight (if wanted) for some fun camping time.

 

Have a lovely day,

With Gratitude,

Mrs. Sharon Shute

Homework for Tuesday, 4/30/24

--Texting Tuesday h/w

Tomorrow:

--The local police will speak to the students about outdoor safety/ stranger danger during our art time so I am not sure if the kids will go to Art.

 

All students completed their Google Slideshow presentations about cities that have changed over time. They were sensational! Very proud of our researchers!

 

Have a lovely afternoon,

Mrs. Sharon Shute

Homework for Monday, 4/29/24

--Spelling- practice writing the spelling words to prepare for Friday's test

Tomorrow:

Have a lovely evening,

Mrs. Shute

P.S. Thanks to the Hease family for providing Trixie and Pixie with Kale and the sweetest birthday card for the piggies! They surely enjoyed it all!