Week at a Glance
ELA
- To recognize and spell Memory Words: oh, any, day, good, very, want
- To understand and use Unit 7 Words to Know: speedy, swiftly, distance, skilled
- To encode CVCe + -s words
- To complete sentences using good, better, and best
- To read and discuss a grade-level informational text
- To listen to and discuss a complex informational text
- To identify main topic and retell key details
- To recognize patterns
- To understand vocabulary
- To read dialogue with expression
- To discuss the parts of a friendly letter
- To discuss ideas for a friendly letter
- To write a friendly letter
- To decode CVCe words with -ing and -ed endings
- To identify CVCe base words
- To understand and use interjections
- To understand and use abbreviations
MATH
- To use counters and a ten-frame to make sums greater than 10
- To identify related addition facts
- To add three numbers by looking for doubles or making a ten
SCIENCE
- Students practice using light to communicate information. In the activity, Secret Signals, students work in pairs to build a device that solves the problem of communicating over a distance. They send secret messages to one another using light and colored markers.
SOCIAL STUDIES
- To explain that families have different cultural traditions
- To show respect for families and cultures that are different than ours
RELIGION
- To tell that the Beatitudes are ways to live in the world
- To tell that Jesus gave us the Lord’s Prayer
- To pray the first half of the Lord’s Prayer
- To explain that being kind to others is doing God’s will
- To define Beatitudes, heaven, Kingdom of God, and prayer