Week at a Glance: November 27- Dec 1, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

• Monday- Risk Watch presentation in the classroom regarding fire safety
• Wednesday- 8:30 Mass- no buddies 
• Friday- Noodle Jar Party- Making the Christmas mural and locker decorations for Christmas-

Academic Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Unit 2 Week 3 begins! Food chain effects on plants and animals

Spelling: Compound words are practiced

Writing: Gratitude Books

Math: End of division chapter; Test on Thursday-

Social Studies: Continuation with maps and famous places in the USA

Science: Magnetism and gravity

Religion: Jesus Sends the Holy Spirit- Unitn 3 Session 11

Spelling Words- popcorn, football, moonlight, eyesight, airport, haircut, fireworks, outside, playground, rattlesnake; Bonus words: courthouse, thumbtack, teammate-

Vocabulary words for the week: depended, well-being, population, available, balance

Unit vocabulary words: investigate, prefer, associate, avoid, features-

• Daily practice in November Spelling Menu
• Work with spelling and vocabulary words in daily reading book
• M-Thursday (Wednesday this week) homework w/ spelling words

Language Arts: Unit 2 Week 3- Realistic Fiction (genre focus) Weekly Question- How can a chain affect plants and animals?

Objectives/goals:

• I can learn more about themes concerning interactions by analyzing illustrations in realistic fiction.
• I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.
• I can use elements of an informational text to write a how-to-article.
• Interact with sources in meaningful ways, such as: note taking, annotating, freewriting, and illustrating.
• Identify and describe the flow of energy in a food chain and predict how changes in a food chain affect the ecosystem such as removal of frogs from ponds or bees from a field.
• Read a story about consumers and producers.
• Use print or digital resources to determine meaning, syllabication, and pronunciation.
• Use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and multiple meaning words.
• Decode compound words, contractions, and abbreviations.
• Generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information.
• Make correct, or confirm predictions using text features, characteristics of genre, and structure.
• Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.

Writing:

• Daily writing practice in Simple Solutions Grammar book
• Daily writing in November creative writing journal
• Daily writing in notebook with November prompts

Math: Continue Chapter 5- Understanding Division-

Vocabulary:

Repeated subtraction, dividend, divisor, quotient, inverse operations, fact family, related facts

Mathematical Practices:

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Use appropriate tools and strategies
4. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
5. Attend to precision.
6. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
7. Model with mathematics.
8. Look for and make use of structure.

Monday-  Lesson 5- Inverse operations- 

• Students will divide using related multiplication facts.

Tuesday- Lesson 6- Problem Solving Investigation- Strategy: Use Models-

• Students will use models to solve problems.

Wednesday- Review in book for division chapter test: Will send homework home for extra practice on division concepts.

Thursday- Chapter 5 Assessment

Friday- Kahoot Chromebook game with class to review multiplication/ division facts

• Daily practice with Simple Solutions math concepts
• Daily practice with IReady math lessons/ progress growth monitoring
• If time, Prodigy and IXL math games

Religion: Unit 3 Session 11:The Church, Our Community in the Spirit

This unit focuses on continuing Jesus’ mission by being active members of the Catholic Church. Our first session is Jesus Sends the Holy Spirit- As he had promised, Jesus the Son sent the Holy Spirit to inspire and guide his followers as they spread the Good News and formed the Church. The Holy Spirit inspires and guides us too, and it leads us to know God the Father.

• Students will learn about Saint Katherine Drexel
• Session Theme: Jesus Sends the Holy Spirit to bring life to the Church.
• Review and explore the Fruits of the Holy Spirit
• Daily devotions, songs, and prayers

Students didn’t get to Science and Social Studies last week in my absence, we’ll cover these skills this week.

Science: Standards

DCI-3-PS2.A.3

Each force acts on one particular object and has both strength and a direction. An object at rest typically has multiple forces acting on it, but they add to give zero net force on the object. Forces that do not sum to zero can cause changes in the object's speed or direction of motion. (Boundary: Qualitative and conceptual, but not quantitative addition of forces are used at this level.)

DCI-3-PS2.A.4

The patterns of an object's motion in various situations can be observed and measured; when that past motion exhibits a regular pattern, future motion can be predicted from it. (Boundary: Technical terms, such as magnitude, velocity, momentum, and vector quantity, are not introduced at this level, but the concept that some quantities need both size and direction to be described is developed.)

DCI-3-PS2.B.2

Objects in contact exert forces on each other.

DCI-3-PS2.B.3

Electric and magnetic forces between a pair of objects do not require that the objects be in contact. The sizes of the forces in each situation depend on the properties of the objects and their distances apart and, for forces between two magnets, on their orientation relative to each other.

Words to know:  force, friction, magnetism, mass, weight, gravity

What forces cause motion? What is gravity?

Activity: How does gravity pull an object?

Social Studies: Finding Places in the United States: Lesson 2 (cont’d)

Vocabulary: cardinal directions, map key, symbols, scale,

Essential question: Where in the world is our community in the US?

Learn how to use map scales and estimate the distance from their community to famous landmarks in the US.

Objectives:

1. Single out a landmark for which your community is known and commemorate it with a drawing.
2. Use map skills to locate communities on a map, determine directions, and measure distances between various locations.
3. Review cardinal directions and intermediate, compass rose vocabulary words

• The 50 States
• Mapping the United States- labeling a map of the US with vocabulary words

Learn more about these famous landmarks:

• The Statue of Liberty
• The Willis Tower
• The Everglades
• Mount Rushmore
• The Grand Canyon 
• The Golden Gate Bridge

• Label these landmarks on map of the US in book-
• Use a ruler to and the map scale to estimate the distance between our community and the landmarks: Willis Tower, Mount Rushmore, the Everglades