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October 13, 2025
Week at a Glance
Reading, Spelling and Writing: Unit 2 Week 3 Wolf Island (realistic fiction)
OBJECTIVES:
- Learn more about themes concerning interactions by analyzing illustrations in realistic fiction
- I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing
- Use elements of informational text to write a how-to-article
- Students will learn how to identify compound words
Math:
Monday-Wrap up Chapter 3 Subtraction
Tuesday-Chapter 3 Review
Pgs. 179-181 Together pg. 179, Ind pgs. 180-81 (offer guidance/help) Go over answers.
Homework: review for test
Wednesday Chapter 3 Subtraction Test!
-Fun Math-Halloween pgs./Centers
Religion: Unit 1 Session 5-Celebrating Ordinary Time
Objectives:
- Discuss how we grow in God’s love during Ordinary Time.
- Explain that in Ordinary Time, we are grateful to belong to our church community.
- Discuss how we grow in community by being Christ to the world.
- Define community and missal.
Social Studies:
Objectives:
- Identify and describe the physical features, climate, and natural resources of various geographic areas, including the local community.
- Compare and contrast different regions in terms of their geographic characteristics.
- Use map tools: scale, grid, key (legend), symbols, title and compass rose.
Reminders:
- Conferences are October 16-Please sign up for a time to come chat!
- No School October 17!
- Please-Charge your chrome book every night! Bring your Clever badge back!
- Bring a healthy snack each day!
- Wednesday is $1 dress down.
October 8, 2025
October 7, 2025
October 6, 2025
Spelling Unit 2 Week 2
Spelling Unit 2 Week 2:
- morning
- format
- explore
- cardboard
- soared
- darkness
- alarm
- adore
- target
- absorb
Bonus Words: bargain, argument, departure
Vocabulary:
predators- animals that live by eating other animals
protection- safety
immune- not affected by something, such as an illness
species- a group of living things that are the same most ways
emerges- comes out of a hidden place
Reading, Spelling and Writing:
Unit 2 Week 2 Weird Friends (Informational Text)
OBJECTIVES:
- Learn more about informational texts and analyze the structure of an informational text.
- I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing
- Use elements of informational text to write a how-to-article
- R-controlled vowels
Math: CHAPTER 3 SUBTRACTION
Students will be able to-
- Lesson 5-subtract 3 digit numbers with re-grouping
- Lesson-6 subtract 4 digit numbers with re-grouping
- Lesson-7 Subtract across zeros
- Fluency Practice-subtraction
Religion: Finish Session 4-Jesus is With Us
Objectives:
- Retell Jesus’ miracle of the loaves and fishes
- Pray the next part of the Apostles’ Creed
- Explain the meaning of Jesus’ different names
- Define Scriptures
Social Studies:
Objectives:
- Locate key geographic features on a map of Earth: the equator, the prime meridian, the four hemispheres, the five oceans, and the seven continents
- Use map skills to locate a state and country on the map.
- Identify and describe the physical features, climate, and natural resources of various regions.
- Work on state brochures.
Reminders:
- Conferences are October 16-Please sign up for a time to come chat!
- No School October 17!
- Book reports due October 20!
- Please-Charge your chrome book every night! Bring your Clever badge back!
- Bring a healthy snack each day!
- Spelling menus will be due every Friday (Choose 3 activities-time given in class to do. Students will finish at home if necessary.)
- Students are expected to have done 40-45 minutes in each Reading and Math for I-Ready practice lessons every week! They are given plenty of time in class throughout the week, but can finish at home if the goal is not met.
October 1, 2025
September 30, 2025
September 29, 2025
September 29, 2025
Spelling Unit 2 Week 1:
- total
- digit
- talent
- human
- minus
- defend
- finish
- equal
- salad
- famous
Bonus Words: library, mishap, spiral
Vocabulary:
patterns- sets of things that repeat in order
nature- parts of the world that are not made by people: land, mountains, trees, etc.
repeat- to say or do something the same way again
sequence- the order of something
symmetry- the appearance of something that is the same on both sidesWeek at a Glance
Reading, Spelling and Writing: Unit 2 Week 1 Patterns in Nature
OBJECTIVES:
- Learn more about informational texts and identify the main idea and details in an informational text
- I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing
- Use elements of informational text to write a how-to-article
- I will understand Singular and Plural noun
Math: CHAPTER 3 SUBTRACTION
Students will be able to-
- Lesson 2- estimate differences using rounding to the nearest ten or hundred
- Lesson 3- determine whether an estimate or an exact answer is needed to solve a problem
- Check My Progress
- Lesson 4 Model subtraction with re-grouping
Session 4-Jesus is With Us
Objectives:
- Retell Jesus’ miracle of the loaves and fishes
- Pray the next part of the Apostles’ Creed
- Explain the meaning of Jesus’ different names
- Define Scriptures
Social Studies:
- Identify and describe the physical features, climate, and natural resources of various geographic areas, including local communities.
- Compare and contrast different regions in terms of their geographic characteristics.
- Use map tools: scale, grid, key (legend), symbols, title, and compass rose.
- Pick a state and create a brochure to describe its physical features, climate, and natural features.
- Friday, October 3rd-NO SCHOOL! Staff in training!
- Please-Charge your chrome book every night! Bring your Clever badge back!
- Bring a healthy snack each day!
- Spelling menus will be due every Friday (Choose 3 activities-time given in class to do. Students will finish at home if necessary.)
- Students are expected to have done 40-45 minutes in each Reading and Math for I-Ready practice lessons every week! They are given plenty of time in class throughout the week, but can finish at home if the goal is not met.