Week at a Glance
ELA
- To practice phonemic awareness skills: sound manipulation (initial, final, medial)
- To blend and read three-sound short vowel words
- To segment and spell three-sound short vowel sounds
- To practice sentence dictation procedures: capitalization, punctuation (period) and proofreading procedures
- To relate the author’s note to the story
- To connect stories to real life
- To record knowledge
- To complete a new-read assessment
- To notice details
- To generate and answer questions
- To locate countries
- To examine proper nouns
- To examine complete sentences
- To add the inflectional ending -ing to root words
- To compare and contrast characters
- Vocabulary Deep Dive: inspire
MATH
- To build number sense with number of the day
- To focus on ways to make the sums: 4-10
SCIENCE
- To explore all of the different shapes of the Moon that can appear on different nights. In the activity, My Moon Book, students observe photos of the Moon taken over the course of four weeks and draw pictures of the Moon’s phases in their book. They use these observations to discover patterns in how the Moon’s shape changes and predict when the next full moon will appear.
SOCIAL STUDIES
- Identify students’ responsibilities to one another in the school community.
- Identify the benefits of four ways of cooperating in school.
- Explain what it means to play fairly and be a good sport.
RELIGION
- To tell that Jesus is the greatest gift from God the Father
- To explain that God wants us to help others feel welcome
- To tell that we show our love for God when we care for others
- To define liturgy, Mass, and praise
