Week at a Glance: October 9-13, 2023

Week at a Glance: October 9-13, 2023

Highlights of the Week: 

Reading: Non-fiction story about people living in the desert

Spelling: Focus on vowel digraphs

Writing: Using conjunctions in sentences

Math: Begin Chapter 3 Subtraction 

Religion: Jesus’ Good News

Social Studies: Continue Geography and Hispanic Heritage project


Other Highlights:

  • All school Mass Tuesday at 8:30
  • Lockdown practice- Wednesday afternoon

Reading: Unit 1 Week 4:

Spelling Words: peaches, owner, charcoal, asleep, dream, braided, maintain, agree, shadow, display- bonus words: freedom, entertain, tomorrow

High Frequency Words: voice, south

Develop Vocabulary Words: shield, lack, exposure, nomadic, landscape

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

Question of the Week: What creative solutions do people come up with to survive in their environment?

Learning goals for the week:

  • I can learn more about themes concerning environments by analyzing text features in an informational text.
  • 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 (pn)

Objectives:

  • Use text evidence to support an appropriate response.
  • Interact with sources in  meaningful ways such as: note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
  • Identify can compare how people in different communities adapt to or modify the physical environment in which they live such as deserts, mountains, wetlands, and plains.
  • Generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information. 
  • Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in text, and society.

Writing:

  • Daily writing entries in October journal
  • Daily entries in Spelling Menu Packet
  • Daily entries in Daily Oral Language Packet
  • Daily writing Simple Solutions Grammar packet
  • Writing about a famous Hispanic American 


Math: Begin Chapter 3- Subtraction:

Math vocabulary: difference, subtract, estimate, inverse operations, regroup

Monday- Show what you know about subtraction page-

Monday also, Lesson 1- Subtract mentally: Use strategies to subtract mentally

Tuesday- Lesson 2- Estimate Differences- Estimate differences using rounding to the nearest ten or hundred.

Wednesday: Lesson 3- Problem Solving Investigation: Estimate or exact answer: Determine whether an estimate or an exact answer is needed to solve a problem.

Thursday- Lesson 4- Hands on: Subtract with regrouping: Model subtraction with regrouping.

Thursday- Check what you know: Half way through the chapter recheck on past lessons

*Each day, students will work on math enrichment activities in Simple Solutions and daily worksheets to reteach lessons.


Religion: Begin Unit 2 Session 6- Jesus’ Good News- Jesus the Son teaches us about the Kingdom of God the Father through parables.

Jesus tells parables through which he reveals the Kingdom of God to us. In the parables of the mustard seed and the yeast, Jesus the Son compares the kingdom to tiny things that become large manifestations of God the Father’s love. He teaches us to serve the kingdom by showing our love of God, our neighbors, and ourselves through acts of kindness.

Here is the link for 

Here is the link for Session interactive questions/ Daily prayers, songs, and devotions


Social Studies:

We are taking a day this week to focus on Hispanic Heritage Month. Students will conduct research on a famous Hispanic American person and later make a Google slide about that person. We will share our research with Mrs. Leonhardt for Spanish class. 

Also: Continuing our Geography chapter: 

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.

Goal this week: Make a map of the world with labels on paper-

Next week: Lesson 2- Finding Places in the United States- If time permits, we’ll begin this lesson this week.