Week at a Glance: October 23-27, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

Math: Continuing Subtraction Chapter 3

Reading: Week 5 highlights The World Around Us

Spelling: Words with vowel digraphs

Writing: Prepping for writing a personal narrative

Religion: Grandparent’s Day Mass and Following Jesus

Social Studies: Continuing work on project in Media

Science: Force

Other Highlights:

• Grandparent’s Day on Tuesday- Hope to see lots of grandparents at the 8:30 Mass. Mrs. Lombardo has provided us with a list of students who will be participating. 
• Friday we meet with our buddies and create a spooktacular story

Math: Completion of Chapter 3- Subtraction

• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• Model with mathematics.
• Attend to precision.
• Look for and make use of structure.

Math Vocabulary Words: digit, hundreds, tens, thousands, regroup, 

Monday- Lesson 7- Subtract across zeros- Students will subtract across zeros

Tuesday- Lesson 8- Fluency practice and Review of chapter-

Wednesday- Practice test for Chapter 

Thursday- Assessment for Chapter 3 Subtraction- Subtraction

Friday- Math practice reteach lessons reviewing subtraction concepts

• Daily mental math
• Daily Simple Solutions Math Lesson
• Daily IXL math, Prodigy, and IReady lessons-

Spelling Words: 

Thousand, shower, power, enjoy, bounce, avoid, appoint, annoy, proud, fountain

Bonus words: pronounce, surroundings, turmoil

High Frequency Words: unit, figure

Develop Vocabulary: pouch, globe, murmuring, mountainside, footpath

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

Also: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs

• Daily practice with October Spelling Menu- activities to promote correct spelling of words.

Reading: Unit 1 Week 5- Question of the week: Why should we appreciate our environment?

Goals: I can learn more about traditional tales and analyze descriptive language in a myth.

I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.

I can use elements of a narrative to write a personal narrative.

Objectives:

-Develop oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

-Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.

-Interact with sources in a meaningful way such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.

-Recognize characteristics of digital texts.

-Apply critical thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including electronic technology.

Writing:

• Daily entries in October journal
• Daily entries in October prompts
• Personal narratives- We will begin filling out a graphic organizer to prepare for next week’s writing assignment.
• Daily writing in DOL packet (daily oral language)

Phonetic Awareness:

• Vowel diphthongs: ou, ow, oi Review of; ee, ea, ai, ay, ow, oa

Religion- Session 7- Unit 2- Following Jesus

Theme- Jesus the Son call us to love God the Father and one another

Outcomes:

• Explain what Jesus wants us to do in order to follow him.
• Discuss how God calls us to follow the Ten Commandments.
• Explain how being generous helps us follow Jesus.
• Define conversation

Daily prayers, songs, devotions, opportunities to grow closer to Jesus and God.

Also, focus on our Secret Agents of Kindness prayer list-

Social Studies:

For the past few weeks, our focus was on researching famous Hispanic Americans in celebration of`Hispanic Heritage Month- Monday our students will continue creating Google Slides for their Hispanic Heritage famous person  Students had a very productive Media session last week so hopefully they will complete the six slides on Monday and be ready to present in class. Mrs. Leonhardt will be in our class for the presentations- thrilled about this!

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.

Science: I will know that pushes and pulls affect motion.

Words to know: force, friction, magnetism

In this unit, students explore the forces all around them. They investigate the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces, the pushes and pulls of bridge structures, and the effects of gravity and friction on the motion of objects. Students also explore the power of magnetic forces and design solutions to everyday problems using their knowledge of these forces.

Lesson 2- How does force affect motion link here

Link here for vocabulary for Lesson 2: force, motion, mass, friction, magnetism

Copy of activity link here

• In this lesson, students investigate the patterns of motion exhibited by a trapeze. In the activity, Trapeze Tester, students build a model trapeze. They make observations and take measurements of the motion of that model and use that data to predict the motion of a real trapeze.

Mystery Science activities will be utilized along with the Science book.

Link here for standards for this Chapter