Week at a Glance: December 4-8, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

*Presentation of November book reports throughout the week*

Reading: Explore the Infographic genre

Writing: Write a how-to article

Spelling: VCe pattern words/ syllable patterns

Math: Begin Chapter 6 in Math- Patterns in Multiplication and Division

Religion: 8:30 Buddy Mass for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception

Social Studies: Begin Geography

Science: Lesson 3- Gravity

** Students will begin presenting November book reports this week and December book reports will go out on Monday.**

Spelling Words:

Dispute, expose, mistake, compete, translate, include, explode, despite, subscribe, reptile- Bonus words: incubate, stipulate, confinement

Vocabulary Words to know this week:

Habitat, solitary, multiplied, eliminated, reintroduced-

Unit Vocabulary Words:

Prefer, investigate, associate, avoid-

• Daily practice spelling words in December spelling menu

Language Arts: Unit 2 Week 4; Weekly Question- How does reintroduction of a species affect plants and animals in a habitat?

Learning Goals-

• I can learn more about themes concerning interactions by analyzing the text structure of persuasive texts.
• 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.

Objectives:

• Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrations.
• The student knows and can describe patterns, cycles, systems, and relationships within the environments.
• Teach syllable patterns- demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding multisyllabic words with closed syllables; open syllables; VCe syllables; vowel teams, including digraphs and diphthongs; r-controlled; and final stable syllables.
• Discuss how the author's use of language contributes to voice.
• Revisit compound words
• Write a response to a literary or informational text that demonstrates an understanding of a text.
• Use text evidence to support an appropriate response.

Daily practice w/ grammar/ ELA concepts with Simple Solutions Grammar

Daily practice with daily oral language skills-

Math: Begin Chapter 6- Multiplication and Division Patterns

Essential question: What is the importance of learning multiplication and division?

Vocabulary words: columns, rows, multiply, partition, skip count

Mathematical Practices:

• Model with mathematics
• Attend to precision
• Look for and make use of structure
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• Use appropriate tools strategically
• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others

 Monday- Lesson 1- Patterns in the multiplication table- Students will identify and explain patterns in the multiplication table.

Tuesday- Lesson 2- Multiply by 2’s- Students will use arrays and drawings, such as bar diagrams, to multiply by 2.

Wednesday- Lesson 3- Divide by 2- Students will use models and related multiplication facts to divide by 2.

Thursday- Lesson 4- Multiply by 5- Students will use different strategies, including patterns, to multiply by 5.

Daily use of mental math, Prodigy, IReady Math lessons, and SeeSaw math assignments-

Daily practicing of math concepts in Simple Solutions Math-

Writing:

• Daily writing in December creative writing journal-
• Daily writing in notebooks with December prompts
• Write a how-to article

Social Studies: Begin Lesson 3 about Geography

Overview: Create a brochure about the geography of your community and play a matching game to find out how people in different communities adapt to geography.

Essential Question:

How does geography affect our community?

Objectives:

Social Studies:

•  Identify and describe the physical features, climate, and natural resources of various geographic areas, including the local community.
• Compare and contrast different regions in terms of their geographical characteristics.
• Use map tools: scale, grid, key (legend), symbols, title, and compass rose.

Language Arts:

• Orally present solutions to environmental problems in response to ideas by others. (speaking, listening)
• Organize information in chart form. (writing)
• Identity examples of categories found in text. (reading)
• Write and illustrate descriptions of geographic locations. (writing)

Vocabulary: adapt, climate, conservation, natural resource, natural hazard, physical feature, physical geography, pollution, region-

Science: Lesson 3 What is gravity?

• I will know that gravity is a force that can be overcome.
• Activity- How does gravity pull an object?

Lesson overview:

• Students will observe and describe patterns of how objects change position when they move.
• Students will investigate the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
• Students will interpret data to analyze how gravity pulls objects toward one another.

 

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.

PE-3-PS2-1

Plan and conduct an investigation to provide evidence of the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.

PE-3-PS2-2

Make observations and/or measurements of an object's motion to provide evidence that a pattern can be used to predict future motion.

PE-3-PS2-3

Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.

PE-3-PS2-4

Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific ideas about magnets.*