Week at a Glance: October 26-30, 2026

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Wit and Wisdom

Phonics: Completion of Unit 3

ELA: Whole group lit circles begins with The Good Dog Puppy Luck

Math: Monday Math Centers with Mrs. Sidlowski

Social Studies: That Book Woman- Appalachian Mountains

Science: Why do leaves change colors?

Lit circles:

Math: Begin Chapter 3- Addition Strategies to 20

Vocabulary words: addends, count on, doubles, doubles minus 1, doubles plus 1, number line

Monday-Lesson 1- Count on 1, 2, or 3- How do I use strategies to add numbers

Tuesday- Lesson 2- Count on Using Pennies- Students will use the pennies in the math book to count on by 1, 2,  or 3. 

Wednesday-Lesson 3-  Use a number line to add- Students will use the strategy “count on” to add numbers for a sum up to 20

Thursday- Lesson 4- Use doubles to add- Students will use addends to find the sum of the doubles. Here is a doubles number adding video-

• Students will utilize SeeSaw activities to help enrich math skills for the lessons this week.
• Students will also utilize IXL for math lessons that coordinate with daily math lessons.
• Students will work on IReady math lessons to help enrich their math skills

• Monday- Math Centers with Mrs. Sidlowski

- Foundations Phonics: Continuing with digraphs-

• Story Elements will be reviewed- character, setting, main events
• Students will read a story with phonetic words and use punctuation.
• Students will write the story and read to a partner.
• Students will summarize the story using the main events/ details from the story.
• Dictation practice- words that use digraphs and end with /ck/
• Detective practice for trick words and words with digraphs
• Trick words: to, into, as, was, we, me, she, he, or, for
• SeeSaw practice- with phonetic short vowels

ELA- Wit and Wisdom- The Book Woman

Daily, students are reading (whole group, on the rug) our book for the current reading unit. We are stopping to extrapolate key details of the story. We are utilizing the following skills:

• Story elements: characters, setting, plot, key details, problem-solution. 
• Interpret the “remote grammar” as what the words really mean.
• Review the vocabulary words in the story: remote, poke, librarian, Cal, Lark, Appalachian Mountains, duck, signs, spell, scholar 
• Analyze the characters in the story with adjectives
• Discuss words with multiple meanings in the story: remote, spell, poke
• Compare math words: loaf of bread, dozen eggs, gallon of milk
• Analyze the main character’s feelings using key details from the story.
• Contrast Cal’s feelings regarding reading from the beginning to the end of the story.
• Discuss POV (point of view) as opposed to other characters and how important it is to the story.

• Whole Group Lit circles begin with The Good Dog Puppy Luck-

• Students will daily read a chapter from this book, whole group, after recess and work on a comprehension packet altogether.

Writing: Students will write in the following:

• That Pioneer Woman- packet writing to review comprehension skills from the story and vocabulary words.
• Daily phonics worksheet for Fundations

Social Studies:

• That Book Woman opens up to life in the Appalachian Mountains. Students will compare and contrast how life is here in the suburbs vs. life in the remote places. What are the advantages and disadvantages of living in the mountains as opposed to the suburbs. 

Science: Why do leaves change color? Plant bio-diversity 

• In this mini-lesson, students discover how and why some tree leaves change color when the weather starts to get colder. In the activity, Falling for Leaves, students make crayon rubbings of tree leaves, then take a closer look to observe the characteristics of leaves in their own neighborhood.
• Why do leaves change color in the fall?
• What did this lesson make you curious about? What other questions do you have about leaves?
• Some trees lose their leaves in the fall. They stay alive without leaves. But can leaves live without trees? Try this! Ask an adult to take you outside. Pick two leaves off a tree or a plant. At home, set one leaf in a place where you can watch it. Can you think of a way to keep the other leaf alive as long as possible? Try your idea. How will you know which leaf is alive the longest?

Religion: Unit 1 Session 3-

• Session 3: God is our Father- we know God’s love for us as our Father through his Son, Jesus. Jesus tells us that God is our Father and our loving Father, too. We can be happy when we follow what God teaches us about himself and about Jesus. In praying to god, we address him as our Father. 

Outcomes for this session:

1. Explain that we show love for one another in special ways.
2. Identify the Bible as God’s special message.
3. Tell that God gave us his only Son, Jesus, to teach how much God loves us.
4. Define Jesus and Bible

• All school Mass at 9:30 with buddies on Tuesday
• Common prayers throughout the day

Week at a Glance: October 19-21, 2026

This shortened week will consist of review of all academic subjects:

Math: Conclusion of Chapter 2- Subtraction Strategies:

• Monday- Lesson 14 True or False Statements; Students will practice identifying true or false math sentences. We do this in Kahoot frequently and we’ll practice in our math book now.
• Tuesday: Prepare for math assessment on Wednesday for Chapter 2; Students will take a practice test to review lessons learned in this chapter.
• Wednesday- Math assessment for Chapter 2
• Daily practice with SeeSaw math activities, IReady math lessons, and IXL lessons that correlate to our math lessons.
• Math games pertaining to subtraction-

ELA: Wrap up My Librarian is a Camel Social Studies and Reading

• We continue to learn how other people in remote countries get library books.
• Students will work on a packet with a partner coloring the flag from the countries we are reading about and identify how people in that country get library books.
• Compare and contrast how people get library books from different countries.
• This book is intended for a brief read- unlike Biblioburro, for students to deepen their understanding of the extreme ways people get library books in different countries.

Phonics/ Fundations:

• We continue to practice words (CVC) and sentences on dry erase boards.
• Students complete worksheets that deepen their understanding of CVC words and the trick words in Unit 2. 
• Students determine which short vowel sounds go in each word.
• Continued practice in identifying CVC and non-CVC words, and building fluency in writing words with more confidence.

Lit Circles:

• Group 1- Dragontales by Dav Pilkey
• Group 2- Mr. Putter and Tabby Fly the Plane
• Group 3- Completion of Days with Frog and Toad packet/ They’ll be reading a Magic Tree House:book soon.
• All groups will work on a comprehension packet to help deepen their understanding of the story elements.

Mystery Science/ Scholastic News: Here Comes the Firefighters:

Key Ideas and Details: Here is the link to see the complete lesson

• Analyze how and why individuals, events, or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text.
• Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.
• Determine central ideas or themes of a text and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and ideas.
• Mystery Science: Continuing Animal Superpowers discussing animal traits w/dogs matching parents to their offspring.

Religion: God Gives us Peace: Session 4 Outcomes:

1. Demonstrate sharing a sign of peace.
2. Tell that Jesus brings us God the Father’s love.
3. Explain that the Holy Spirit brings up God the Father’s gift of peace.
4. Define: Holy Spirit and Trinity
5. All School Mass on Tuesday at 9:30
6. Daily prayers and songs to help keep our doors open to Jesus’ light/ love

Social Studies: 

Catch up with Hispanic Heritage Month famous people who have made a difference in our lives and our country’s lives. 

Also, Social Studies and ELA combine with our story My LIbrarian is a Camel as we are learning about different countries and cultures.

Week at a Glance: October 12-16, 2026

Highlights of the Week:

Monday: Begin a new story in reading-

Tuesday: All School Mass at 9:30

Wednesday: Food Pantry Collection

Thursday: Math Chapter 2 Review Day

Friday: Dress Down day- $1.00 for Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Math- We will complete Chapter 2 Subtraction-

Monday- Lesson 11-Subtraction- Subtract 9- Students will subtract numbers 0-9 from 9.

Tuesday- Lesson 12- Subtract from 10- Students will subtract numbers from 10; 

Tuesday- Lesson 13- Relate Subtraction and Addition- Students will find related addition and subtraction facts- We’ll be discussing related facts/ fact families for quite some time- this lesson will be the introduction.

Wednesday- Lesson 14- True and False Statements- Students will determine whether math statements are true or false.

Thursday- Lesson 15- Students will dedicate math time to math fluency with subtraction facts

• Students will daily play math subtraction games to build fact fluency
• Students will complete two IXL lessons per day based on math lesson of the day
• Students will complete a math worksheet on the previous day to build fluency
• Students will complete a math worksheet on the current lesson to enrich skills.

ELA: Completion of Unit 2 and moving onto Unit 3

Fundations: Begin Unit 3 

Trick words: as, has, to, into, we, he, she, be, me, for, or

• Students will have an assessment for: words and sounds we have practiced.
• Assessment for sentences with short vowel words (CVC) 
• Assessment for consonant and vowel sounds

Unit 3 Goals:

• Phoneme segmentation
• Concept of consonant digraphs, keywords and sounds: Wh, ch, sh, th, ck
• Spelling of /ck/ at end of words
• Punctuation marks- period and question marks
• Narrative story form: character, setting, main events.
• Reading with accuracy and prosody
• Retelling with pictures notes and visualization

Reading- Wit and Wisdom- Lessons 13-16 and Social Studies:

We begin a new storybook- My Librarian is a Camel here is the link, if you’d like to preview the story.

Learning Goals: Generate questions about the new story (listed above) using key details from the text. Focus Question: How do people around the world get books?

• Content framing question: What is happening in the story?

• The first thing students do with the new story is ask questions in order to show everything they have learned about asking and answering questions. 
• Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in the current story.
• Vocabulary word- remote-find examples of remote places in the story.
• Vocabulary word- mobile- look for examples of mobile in the story and decide on a definition using context clues. 
• Discuss mobile and remote and how they are related- develop a deeper understanding
• Use illustrations to make connections to the word.
• Make personal connections to the words.
• Identify how pictures and captions communicate key details in the story.
• How to listen to stories with whole body,

Who- tells about people

Where- Tells about places and Why- tells about reason or cause

First reading- What do you notice and wonder about? Generate a list of questions from observations throughout the story.

• Identify- Identify countries on the world map that are in the story.

• Discuss- Discuss what you notice about the world map

• Compare and Contrast- Compare Our Librarian is a Camel to Biblioburro- 

• Generate- a list of remote places

• Discover how children get books from remote locations

Declarative Sentences- Sentences have to have a subject (noun) and verb. Declarative sentences tell us information.

Proper nouns- learn about proper nouns- specifics nouns that are capitalized

Social Studies: Hispanic History Month 

Students will learn about famous Hispanic Americans who made/make a difference in our country. So far we’ve learned about: Frida Kahlo, Cesar Chavez, Ellen Ochoa, and Sonia Sotomayor.

-- We will also learn about Columbia- where Biblioburro takes place (our current reading story)

Science: Mystery Science Unit 1 continues 

• To deepen understanding of observations of characteristics and traits- using these skills to help identify which animal is which
• Help identify parent and baby based on observations of characteristics, behaviors, and animal’s traits
• To determine “animal superpowers” by characteristics and traits

• Here is the link for this week’s edition of Scholastic News about Baby Bats

Religion: Session 3- God is our Father: We know of God’s love for us as our Father through his Son, Jesus Jesus tells us that God is his Father and our loving Father, too. We can be happy when we follow what God the Father reveals to us about himself and about Jesus. In praying to God, we address him as our Father. We learn about St. Francis of Assisi in Session 3. Session Theme: Jesus tells us that God is his Father and our loving Father, too. Session out comes: 1) Tell that God is the Father to all of us. 2) Explain that we show love for one another in many ways. 3) Identify the Bible as God’s message to us. 4) Tell that God the Father sent his only son, Jeus, to teach us how much God loves us. 5) Define: Bible, Scripture, and Word of God.

Week at a Glance: October 5-9, 2026

Highlights of the Week:

Monday- Lit Circles Continue with novels

Tuesday- 9:30 Buddy Mass

Wednesday- Lockdown practice with Libertyville PD

Thursday- Create a character from Biblioburro and write about that character

Friday- Hispanic Heritage Month and Scholastic news- Apples

Math: Continuation of Chapter 2 Subtraction

Math Vocabulary: subtraction number sentence, difference, minus, subtract, related facts

Monday-  Lesson 7- Compare groups: Students will compare groups of up to nine objects.

Tuesday- Lesson 8- Subtract 4 and 5- Students will subtract 4 and 5; Example- 4-2=

Wednesday-Lesson 9- Subtraction- Subtract 6 and 7- Students will take away 6 and 7 from a group of numbers. 

Thursday-  Lesson 10- Subtraction- Subtract 8- Students will minus 8 from a larger group and 

Check my progress page- Recheck of past subtraction skills learned.

Friday: Math work with: IXL, SeeSaw math activities, and IReady Math- and new math games in small groups!

ELA and Social Studies: Biblioburro this week!

• Lesson 10- Make subject/ verb agreement about Ana; Students will begin writing sentences.
• Lesson 10 continues- Dramatize the dream scene from Biblioburro story and what it represents. 
• Lesson 11- Write a narrative retelling Waiting for Biblioburro that shows how the Biblioburro changes life for Ana- Students will write a collective narrative about this story and illustrate their part of the story. 
• Lesson 11: Social Studies: Students will explore the culture of Columbia, where our story takes place.
• Lesson 12- Write and speak about Waiting for Biblioburro adds to knowledge of how books change lives.

Students will work in their Biblioburro packets and complete comprehension questions about the story, review vocabulary words from the story, and complete a writing activity related to the story.

--Students will take an assessment on learned skills for Waiting for Biblioburro

--Students will review in small groups for the assessment through writing activity called Scoot

Fundations- Phonics-Continued from last week

Review of the sounds, trick words, and sentences we practiced last week and practice CVC words through practice on Foundations worksheets

1. Deep practice of writing in practice books: words with short vowels 
2. Write sentences with trick words and short vowels on magnet boards
3. Nonsense words vs. real words

• Trick words thus far: and, a, the, is, his, of

Religion: Session 2: God Cares for Us- God loves us and wants the best for us-

The Bible tells us that we are created in God’s image and likeness. We are most like God when we act in service to him, as expressed through loving and serving others.

Outcomes of Session 2:

1. Tell that Jesus is the greatest gift from God.
2. Explain that God wants us to help others feel welcome.
3. Tell that we show our love for God when we care for others.
4. Define: liturgy and praise

Also: 9:30 Tuesday Buddy Mass; Songs and Prayers devoted to God and the Holy Family

Social Studies: Hispanic History Month 

Students will learn about famous Hispanic Americans who made/make a difference in our country. Frida Kahlo, Cesar Chavez, Ellen Ochoa, and Sonia Sotomayor are some of the people we will learn about. 

-- We will also learn about Columbia- where Biblioburro takes place (our current reading story) and tie this into Hispanic Heritage Month learning.

Science: Mystery Science Unit 1 begins

• To deepen understanding of observations of characteristics and traits- using these skills to help identify which animal is which
• Help identify parent and baby based on observations of characteristics, behaviors, and animal’s traits
• To determine “animal superpowers” by characteristics and traits

• Scholastic News- Students will learn about apples-