Week at a Glance: May 19-23, 2025
Highlights of the Week:
Reading: Responding to Disasters
Spelling: Multi Syllable words
Writing: Continued work in Poetry
Math: Data Chapter Ends and Geometry begins
Social Studies: Presentation of Immigration Reports/ Q and A/ Immigration Projects
Religion: Making Good Choices
Other Highlights:
ABC COUNTDOWN:
Monday- Letter O- Bring your favorite blanket for outdoor work time today!
Tuesday- Letter P- School Family’s Play- Colette takes the lead!
Wednesday- letter Q- Play a game of questions and answers
Thursday- Letter R- Read poetry to the class and extra recess
Friday- Letter S- School Family Day! Celebrate this most special class!
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
- SeeSaw writing activities-
- Cursive practice writing
- Complete writing (typing) in Social Studies Immigration project
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: Shute’s Class
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.*
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
