Religion

Students will:

• Tell the story of Pentecost
• Expression appreciation for the things in our lives
• Describe how the Holy Spirit guides us in decision making
• Define faith, grace, Holy Spirit, Messiah, and Temple

Math

Students will:

• Add 3 numbers
• Write a number sentence to solve problems
• Practice solving different word problems
• Use different strategies to solve addition problems

Phonics

Students will:

• Spell words with bonus letters f, l, s
• Spell words with glued sounds am, an, all, ing, ink, ang, ank, ong, onk, ung, unk
• Read words with r-controlled vowels ar, or, er, ir, ur
• Spell trick words full, pull, shall, talk, walk, both
• Spell words with closed syllable exceptions (ild, ind, old, olt, ost)
• Read words with vowel teams ai, ay, ea, ee, ey, oi, oy

Reading/Writing

Students will:

• Orally retell the story The Little Yellow Leaf
• Explain why evidence is important in informative writing
• Understand shades of meaning and how word choice affects the story
• Orally complete sentence frames about a story’s beginning, middle, and end
• Write about how the problem and solution to the beginning and end of a narrative story
• Explain how adjectives help readers visualize action and meaning in a text
• Explain what lesson the main character learns in the story
• Write an informative paragraph about how the character changes changes throughout the story
• Describe nature during fall using adjectives from the text

Social Studies

Students will:

• Recognize the different elements of a community and the role our homes play in the community. Design a community that includes places to live, work, play, and solve problems.

Religion

Students will:

• Explain the prayer Jesus taught his disciples
• Explain how God provides for his creation
• Recognize that Jesus wants us to trust God our Father with our cares
• Define petition and praise

Math

Students will:

• Start chapter 1: addition and subtraction strategies
• use the Commutative Property and Identity Property to find sum
• use a number line to count on when adding
• use doubles and near doubles to find sums
• make a 10 to solve addition problems

Phonics

Students will:

• Read and spell words that have am, an, ang, ank, ing, ink, ong, onk, ung, unk (glued sounds)
• Read and spell words with ar controlled vowels
• Review trick words, full, pull, shall
• Practice new trick words - both, talk, walk

Reading

Students will:

• Identify evidence in the text, How Do You Know It’s Fall?, to answer the question “how do the changes in fall weather impact people and nature?
• Build understanding of sentence elements by identifying the verbs that correspond with the subject
• Begin to write an informative paragraph answering the question, “how do the changes in fall weather impact people and nature?
• Combine their learning about change in fall and informational texts
• Combine simple sentences into compound sentences about fall using conjunctions
• Compare the whole message and partial message in conversations
• Use information from illustrations and text to ask and answer questions about The Little Yellow Leaf
• Orally retell the story of The Little Yellow Leaf using sentence frames
• Explain why evidence is important in informative writing
• Understand shades of meaning and how word choice affects the text

Science

Students will:

• investigate which kinds of birds are likely to visit a bird feeder based on what they eat.
• draw their own bird feeder design to attract a specific type of bird
• build a prototype of their bird feeder using available materials

Religion

Students will:

• discuss why and how Catholics pray the rosary
• recite the Hail Mary, Glory Be, and Our Father prayers

Math

Students will:

• skip count by 5s, 10s, and 100s
• compare numbers to 1,000 using >, <, =
• Review Chapter 5 place value for test on Thursday

Language Arts

Students will:

• Spell words with “bonus letters” ff, ll, ss
• Spell words with glued sounds all, am, an, ang, ing, ong, ung, ank, ink, onk, unk
• Spell words with r-controlled vowels (/ar/ /or/)

Reading

Students will:

• Discuss new knowledge they learn.
• Discuss the purpose of topic statements, how they work, and how they help organize thoughts in an information paragraph.
• Define the meaning of keywords about change and the season of fall.

Science

Students will:

• learn to identify frogs by their unique calls and investigate which of two locations has a greater variety of frogs
• create words that will remind them of the frog sounds, and then use those words to identify frog sounds in different environments

Religion

Students will:

• Tell about the angels appearing to Mary and Joseph
• Identify Jesus as God’s most precious gift and as our Savior, Emmanuel
• Recognize that Jesus is present in the Blessed Sacrament
• Define Blessed Sacrament, Consecration, Emmanuel, genuflect, Savior, and tabernacle

Math

Students will:

• Continue working on place value
• write numbers in expanded form to 1,000
• use logical reasoning to solve problems
• read and write numbers to 1,000

Language Arts

Students will:

• Encode and decode /k/ sound
• Use ck at the end of the words
• Review rule for using ck, comes after a short vowel → thick, shack
• Review closed syllables

Reading

Students will:

• Examine the piece of visual art: Marc Chagall’s I and the Village
• Describe how Marc Chagall uses color and shape to tell a story in I and the Village.
• Generate questions and observations about the poem “Weather”
• Identify what changes in the poem “Weather”
• Demonstrate repeated fluency
• Analyze how the author’s use of multiple-meaning word flick helps us tell the story of rain in “Weather”
• Identify important knowledge about change and seasons, citing evidence from “Weather” and visual art