Week at a Glance

ELA 

  • To segment phonemes
  • To understand the concept of consonant digraphs, keywords, and sounds: wh, ch, sh, th, ck
  • To spell ck at the end of words
  • To punctuate an asking sentence with a question mark
  • To understand the narrative story form: character, setting, main events
  • To develop vocabulary knowledge of the word scholar
  • To use frequently occurring adjectives to describe visual images
  • To generate a variety of adjectives
  • To complete sentence frames with adjectives
  • To define multiple meanings for words signs and duck
  • To draw pictures for a partner to guess the new word
  • To write a narrative retelling of That Book Woman

MATH  

  • To use models to represent and solve subtraction situations
  • To subtract parts from a whole
  • To write subtraction number sentences

SCIENCE

  • To use a model to investigate why the stars are visible at night but disappear when the Sun comes out during the day. In the activity, Star Projector, students use paper cups to project stars onto a sky picture, and observe what happens to these stars when a flashlight acts as a model of the Sun.

SOCIAL STUDIES 

  • To identify similarities and differences among classmates
  • To compare and contrast classmates’ personal preferences and talents
  • To categorize classmates according to their special talents
  • To analyze the costs and benefits of different choices

RELIGION

  • To tell that God is Father to all of us
  • To explain that we show love for one another in many ways
  • To identify the Bible as God’s message to us