Week at a Glance

ELA 

  • To combine sentences using the conjunction and
  • To identify key details
  • To identify topics of a grade-level text
  • To read and discuss a grade-level text
  • To understand vocabulary words from a grade-level text
  • To decode all words
  • To listen to and discuss a complex informational text
  • To identify main topic and retell key details
  • To use prepositional phrases to add details to sentences
  • To recognize aw spelling patterns
  • To encode aw words
  • To develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a story
  • To read a story with expression
  • To read Memory Words with automaticity: come, coming, they, our, put
  • To understand and use unit 12 Words to Know: puzzled, collapse, steep, system
  • To discuss characteristics of descriptive writing
  • To select a topic
  • To plan descriptive details

MATH  

  • To compare the lengths of objects using indirect measurement
  • To compare and order the lengths of objects
  • To measure the lengths of objects using nonstandard units
  • To guess, check, and revise to solve problems

SCIENCE

  • To carry out an investigation to determine the relationship between the shape of different bird beaks and the food each bird eats. In the activity, Find the Best Beak, students experiment with long pointy beaks that are great for picking up seeds and wide flat beaks that are good for scooping. They discover that different beaks are best for different kinds of food.

RELIGION

  • To explain the meaning of Holy Week and what happens during that time
  • To retell the events of Holy Week in order.