Week at a Glance: November 13-17, 2023
Highlights of the Week:
Reading: Unit 2 Week 2 begins
Spelling: R controlled vowel words
Writing: November journal work
Math: Begin chapter on division
Religion: Our turn for morning prayer this week- and bringing up the gifts at Tuesday’s Mass
Science: Magnetism and Motion
Social Studies: Mapping landmarks of the US
Reading:
Spelling Words: morning, format, explore, cardboard, soared, darkness, alarm, adore, target, absorb; Bonus words: bargain, argument, departure
Vocabulary Words: predators, protection, immune, species, emerges
Unit Vocabulary Words: prefer, features, investigate, associate, avoid
High Frequency Words: finally, money
Reading: Unit 2 Week 2: Weird Friends: Unlikely Allies in the Animal Kingdom; Learn more about informational texts by analyzing text structure.
Learning Goals:
- I can learn more about informational texts and analyze the structure of an informational text.
- I can develop knowledge of language to make connections between reading and writing.
- I can use elements of an informational text to write a how-to-article.
Also: Students will…
- Speak coherently about the topic under discussion,employing eye contact, speaking rate, volume, enunciation, and the conventions of language to communicate ideas effectively.
- Interact with sources in a meaningful way such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
- Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
- Knows and can describe patterns, cycles, systems, and relationships within the environments.
- Identify,use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, synonyms, idioms, homophones and homographs in a text.
- Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs, and diphthongs;r- controlled syllables; and final stable syllables.
Writing:
- Students will daily input thoughts/ ideas in their November journals.
- Students will be able to glue November daily prompts in their notebook and write their ideas to match the prompt.
- This week students will write a how-to-article.
Daily work in Packets:
- Simple Solutions Grammar
- Daily Oral Language
- November Spelling Menu to practice spelling words
- Daily SeeSaw activities
Math: Begin Chapter 5-Understanding Division
inverse operations, quotient, repeated subtraction, division, divide, partition, division sentence, dividend, divisor, quotient-
Mathematical practices:
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving problems
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning.
- Model with mathematics
- Attend to precision
Monday- Lesson 1- Hands on- Model Division/ Students will explore two meanings of division.
Tuesday- Lesson 2- Division as equal sharing/ Students will model division as equal sharing.
Wednesday- Lesson 3- Relate Division and Subtraction/ Use models to relate division and subtraction.
Thursday- Lesson 4- Hands on: Relate division and Multiplication/ Explore how division and multiplication are related.
Friday- Math review of division
- Daily practice with math concepts in Simple Solutions Math book
- SeeSaw activities w/ math concepts to math this week’s lessons
Religion: Unit 2- Session 10 Celebrating Advent-
Advent is a time to prepare ourselves and our homes for the celebration of Jesus’ birth.
The liturgical year begins with Advent, which starts four Sundays before Christmas. It is a time when we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus, the Savior. During Advent, we pray and sing to welcome God the Father into our hearts as we think of the light he brought to the world through Jesus, his Son.
- Discuss how through the prophets like Isiah, God has called us to prepare the way for Jesus.
- Explain that Advent is a time to prepare our hearts and homes to celebrate the birth of Jesus.
- Define ADVENT
- Song O Come, O Come, Emmanuel link here
- Tuesday non-buddy Mass at 8:30
- Daily songs, prayers and devotions
Science: Standards
DCI-3-PS2.A.3
Each force acts on one particular object and has both strength and a direction. An object at rest typically has multiple forces acting on it, but they add to give zero net force on the object. Forces that do not sum to zero can cause changes in the object's speed or direction of motion. (Boundary: Qualitative and conceptual, but not quantitative addition of forces are used at this level.)
DCI-3-PS2.A.4
The patterns of an object's motion in various situations can be observed and measured; when that past motion exhibits a regular pattern, future motion can be predicted from it. (Boundary: Technical terms, such as magnitude, velocity, momentum, and vector quantity, are not introduced at this level, but the concept that some quantities need both size and direction to be described is developed.)
DCI-3-PS2.B.2
Objects in contact exert forces on each other.
DCI-3-PS2.B.3
Electric and magnetic forces between a pair of objects do not require that the objects be in contact. The sizes of the forces in each situation depend on the properties of the objects and their distances apart and, for forces between two magnets, on their orientation relative to each other.
Words to know: force, friction, magnetism, mass, weight, gravity
What forces cause motion? What is gravity?
Activity: How does gravity pull an object?
Social Studies: Finding Places in the United States: Lesson 2 (cont’d)
Vocabulary: cardinal directions, map key, symbols, scale,
Essential question: Where in the world is our community in the US?
Learn how to use map scales and estimate the distance from their community to famous landmarks in the US.
Objectives:
- Single out a landmark for which your community is known and commemorate it with a drawing.
- Use map skills to locate communities on a map, determine directions, and measure distances between various locations.
- Review cardinal directions and intermediate, compass rose vocabulary words
- The 50 States
- Mapping the United States- labeling a map of the US with vocabulary words
Learn more about these famous landmarks:
- The Statue of Liberty
- The Willis Tower
- The Everglades
- Mount Rushmore
- The Grand Canyon
- The Golden Gate Bridge
- Label these landmarks on map of the US in book-
- Use a ruler to and the map scale to estimate the distance between our community and the landmarks: Willis Tower, Mount Rushmore, the Everglades
