Week at a Glance: November 6-9, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

• Reading: Begin Unit 2- Interactions
• Writing: Continuing with our November writing packets
• Spelling: Two syllable words
• Math: Complete Introduction to Multiplication Chapter
• Science: Mystery Science Trapeze activity
• Social Studies: Lesson 2- Finding Places in the US
• Religion: Jesus Dies and Rises

No School on Friday due to Professional Development with Archdiocese-

Spelling Words:

• total, digit, talent, human, minus, defend, finish, equal, salad, famous

• Challenge spelling words: library, mishap, spiral

• Vocabulary words: patterns, nature, repeat, sequence, symmetry
• Unit 2 Vocabulary words: prefer, features, investigate, associate, avoid
• High frequency words: certain, half
• Practice w/ spelling words M-Th in November Spelling Menu packet

Reading: Unit 2 Week 1 - Patterns in Nature- How do patterns in nature help plants and animals?

Unit theme: Interactions/ Essential Question- How do plants and animals live together?

• Students will learn about informational texts by identifying main ideas and details.
• Self-selected text and read independently for a sustained period of time.
• Describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts.
• Recognize characteristics of digital texts.
• Use elements of informational text to write a how-to-article
• Understand and use graphic features

Grammar:

• Singular and plural nouns
• Irregular nouns
• Plural possessive nouns
• Main verbs and helping verbs

Writing:

• How-to-article/ compose a headline and lead
• Compose facts and details
• Brainstorm and set a purpose
• Plan how-to-article
• Continued writing in November creative writing journal and daily writing in notebook with November prompts.

Math:  Continuation of Multiplication-

Vocabulary Math Words: array, Commutative Property of Multiplication, equal groups, factors, multiplication, multiplication sentence, multiply, product, repeated addition, combination, tree diagram, 

Mathematical Practices:

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

Monday- Check My Progress- practice vocabulary math words-Lesson 5- Students will use a make a table strategy to solve problems.- Problem solving investigation-

Tuesday- - Lesson 6- Students will use multiplication to find the total number of combinations that can be made when given two groups of objects.- Use multiplication to find combinations.

Wednesday- Chapter 4 Review and Reflect; Vocabulary Check/ Problem Solving, 

Thursday- Assessment on Chapter 4 Introduction to Multiplication

Also: Daily mental math questions, Prodigy, IXL activities throughout the week- where time allows.

Science: I will know that pushes and pulls affect motion. Continuing with Lesson 2: Last week, students demonstrated knowledge of mass affection motion by conducting experiments with a ping pong ball and rubber ball. This week, students will explore gravity and 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.

Link here for vocabulary for Lesson 2: force, motion, mass, friction, magnetism, gravity, predict, pattern, model

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

In Science book: 

• Motion and combined forces
• Magnetism- non contact force

Social Studies: Finding Places in the United States:

Overview: Build a compass and use it to find the direction of eight landmarks across the United States. They then learn how to use map scales to estimate distances from their community to famous U.S. landmarks.

Essential Question: Where in the United States is my community?

Language Arts:

• Use information gained from illustrations and the words in text to demonstrate understanding of the text. (reading)
• Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. (reading)

Key vocabulary: canyon, cardinal directions, may key, scale, symbol

Religion: Unit 2 Session 9- Jesus Dies and Rises-

Session Theme:  Through Jesus’ Death. Resurrection and Ascension, we are offered Salvation.

**God the Father loves us so much that he sent his only Son, Jesus, to save us. Saint Paul wrote letters proclaiming the Paschal Mystery of Jesus’ Death, Resurrection, and Ascension through which we are saved. We proclaim our belief in the Paschal Mystery when we pray the Apostles’ Creed. Through the grace of the Holy Spirit, we are called to be faithful to Jesus and serve others. *Look at an online flip book for symbols for Jesus.*

Outcomes of this Session:

• Discuss Jesus’ gift of new life.
• Discuss Jesus’ passage from Death to Resurrection.
• Describe what Saint Paul wrote about the Paschal Mystery in his letters.
• Explain that we show our love for others through our actions.
• Define Paschal Mystery

Daily songs, devotions, and prayers-

8:30 Tuesday Mass- Buddy Mass