Week at a Glance: October 16-18, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

• No spelling or reading tests this week-
• Tuesday- All School Mass with buddies

• Wear pink on Wednesday for $1.00 dress down in support of Breast Cancer Awareness

• Wednesday- Pick a pumpkin in the St. Joe’s pumpkin patch.

We are taking advantage of this shortened week by utilizing enrichment activities in ELA with:

• Phonics packets to review sounds, consonant blends, vowel digraphs, and parts of speech.
• Continued work with writing in October creative writing journal and October prompts
• Continued Lit Circles with comprehension packets
• Haunted House Project (below)

Math: Continuing with Subtraction: Chapter 3

• Lesson 5- Subtract 3 digit numbers; Students will subtract three-digit numbers with regrouping. Also- reteach worksheet on same skills-
• Lesson 6- Subtract 4 digit numbers; Students will subtract 4 digit numbers with regrouping + enrichment worksheet.
• Math activities designed to enrich subtraction knowledge
• Haunted House project (below)
• IXL and Prodigy math lessons

Haunted House project:A special project based learning based project to combine reading, math, and writing skills. Students will work in a small group to design a haunted house. They will have a budget to buy equipment to build the house, design the floorplan, and buy spooky things to decorate the house. Then, they will sell the house and create a newspaper ad to sell the house. My goal is to have each group be able to present their haunted house to the class.

For Religion: We focus this week on the parables of Jesus, including:

• What is a parable? here
• The parable of the Good Samaritan here
• The parable of the mustard seed here
• The parable of the lost sheep here
• The parable of of the seed and the farmer here and the parable of the wedding banquet here

Daily prayers, devotions, intentions with a focus this week on the Secret Agents of Kindness. Our SAK will create cards for some of the people on our prayer list. Our current list has 45 people/ pets occupying our hearts and minds, so we’ll get to put our prayers into action by making cards/ letters for some of those people. 

All School Mass on Tuesday at 8:30- buddy Mass

Social Studies:

Last week, our focus was on researching famous Hispanic Americans in celebration of`Hispanic Heritage Month- tomorrow our students will take their research to Media class and Mrs. Hoglund will teach the students how to make a Google Slides presentation. Students did a fabulous job on this project! If time permits, we’ll look at the presentations in class.

Also, we’ll return to our book this week with continued study of maps and geography. Students will be creating their own map of the world and identifying continents, oceans, and equator.