Week at a Glance
ELA
- To decode CVVC words with -ing and -ed endings
- To read an informational text
- To decode difficult words from an informational text
- To review and decode short- and long-vowel patterns
- To review spelling patterns for short and long vowel words
- To spell Memory Words: would, could, some, one, new, were
- To connect texts: Reader and Super-Duper
- To understand and use homophones
- To determine the meaning of key vocabulary words: dab, fangs, antennas, vanished
- To review good listening skills
- To use Unit 8 Words to Know: exactly, create, category
MATH
- To use subtract using the make 10 to subtract strategy
- To identify similarities in related addition and subtraction sentences
- To identify similarities in fact families
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 learn what the president does and who can become president
RELIGION
- To identify the number 40 as important in the Bible
- To tell that Lent, including Holy Week, is a time to grow closer to God
- To explain that we are called to care for others as Jesus does
- To define Alleluia, Holy Week, and Lent