Week at a Glance: September 25-30, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

• Monday- Morning Prayer in gym
• Tuesday- Eucharistic Adoration at 12:30 in Church
• Tuesday- Online safety speaker
• Fun Friday/ Noodle Jar Party!

• Friday, 9/29- Autobiography book report due (poster project)

Reading: Unit 1 Week 2

Writing: Preparing to write a personal narrative

Phonics: Words ending in /es/

Math: Continuing with Addition strategies

Religion: Eucharistic Adoration on Tuesday

Social Studies: Continuing Geography

Spelling: inches, pitches, dishes,glasses, spies, fries, cities, pennies, families, faxes

High frequency words: story, draw

Vocabulary words: preparations, magnificent, brooded, rejoicing, satisfied

Unit Academic Vocabulary: competition, solve, custom, occasion, organization

Reading: Goals for the week:

• I can learn more about traditional tales and infer theme in folktale.
• I  can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing. 
• I can use elements of narrative text to write a personal narrative

Students will …

• make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.
• Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
• demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well known children’s literature such as folktales, fables, fairy tales, legends, and myths.
• use print or digital resources to determine meaning, syllabication, and pronunciation.
• identify, use and explain the meaning of idioms, homophones, synonyms, and antonyms in text.

Writing: 

• Students will write a personal narrative about their favorite place/ memory of summer.
• Students will write daily in September creative writing journal
• Students will write daily in notebooks w/ September prompts
• Students will write daily in September Spelling Menu packet
• Students will write daily in their gratitude journals

Phonics/ Grammar: 

• Spiral review: Syllable pattern VC/CV 
• Plural nouns/ possessive nouns ending in /es/ or /s/

Daily work in Simple Solutions Grammar and Daily Oral Language packet 

Math: Continuing with Chapter 2- Addition Strategies:

Math Vocabulary: reasonable, regroup, unknown, 

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively
• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
• Attend to precision.
• Look for and make use of structure.
• Model with mathematics.
• Use appropriate tools strategically.

Monday- Lesson 6-Students will use models to explore adding 3 digit numbers.

Tuesday-Lesson 7- Add 3 Digit Numbers- Students will add 3 digit numbers and use estimation to check for reasonableness.

Wednesday- Lesson 8- Add 4 Digit Numbers- Students will explore adding 3 digit numbers to four-digit numbers.

Thursday- Lesson 9- Problem Solving Investigation- Students will check for answers for reasonableness.

Friday- Math games to reflect lessons of the week-

--Daily writing in Simple Solutions Math packet

Religion:  Unit 1- Session 4- Jesus is with Us-God the Father sends his Son, Jesus, to save us.

The salvation promised in the Old Testament is fulfilled in Jesus. Jesus means “God saves.” Christ means “the anointed one,” or the one especially chosen by God to be our Savior. Mary

Became the mother of Jesus through the Holy Spirit. Joseph responded to God’s call to be the foster father of Jesus.

Outcomes of Session 4:

• Retell Jesus’ miracles of the loaves and fishes.
• Pray the next part of the Apostles’ Creed.
• Explain the meaning of Jesus’ different names.
• Define Scriptures.
• Daily prayers, religious devotions, and songs.
• Daily intentions for everyone on our Secret Agents of Kindness list

Social Studies: Continuing with Geography:

Essential question- Where in the world is our community?

Objectives:

• Locate key geographical features on a map of Earth: the equator, the prime meridian, the four hemispheres, the five oceans, and the seven continents.- Review this
• Identify countries on the map of North America.
• Identify states and communities on a map of the southeastern United States.
• Review Continents

Language Arts in SS-

• Correctly write the name of one’s own community and state.
• Write a journal entry relating to the experiences of an explorer.

Develop key vocabulary: border, capital, continent, country, equator, geography, government, ocean, prime meridian, state.

Activity: Students will make a map to represent planet Earth and label parts of the world. 

Summary of Lesson 1: Students learned how to tell where places are on Earth using maps. The names of the hemispheres, continents, countries, and states all help us to say where a place is located. Maps show borders of places. Some borders are made by mountains and rivers, but others are decided on by people.