Week at a Glance: December 18-22, 2023

Last Week at a Glance for 2023*

Highlights of the Week:

• Last week of school before Christmas break-
• No spelling this week-
• Instead of the traditional Reading week, we will be reading passages and learning about Christmas around the world.
• Math will continue as usual-
• NO homework this week-
• Christmas party on Thursday morning- thanks to all involved!

Also, the December book report due Wednesday- Students will present their reports on Wednesday- Friday morning

 

Reading: Christmas and Winter Holidays around the World

Here are the celebrations. traditions we’ll focus on this week:

• America
• Australia
• Brazil
• Germany
• Japan
• Liberia
• Mexico
• Italy
• Canada
• Spain
• England
• Sweden

We’ll look at videos of these different celebrations and fill out learned information in our Christmas Around the World packet.

Writing:

Students will be writing in:

• Travel around the World Packet
• Christmas around the World packet
• Christmas activity workbook for Christmas

ELA and Math:

Students will work in a group to construct a gingerbread house and present to class-

Students will need to:

• Use math skills to determine what materials and supplies are needed to build their paper gingerbread house.
• Students will use persuasive language to write about gingerbread houses to get peers to choose their house to buy.

• Students will write stories about their gingerbread house to prospective buyers.

Math: Conclusion on Chapter 6 Multiplication and Division Patterns:

Mathematical Practices:

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively
• Model with mathematics
• Use appropriate tools and strategies
• Attend to precision
• Look and make use for structure

Vocabulary: unknown, 

Monday- Lesson 9- Students will use different strategies, including related multiplication facts, to divide by 10.

Tuesday: Check for understanding before Wednesday’s assessment

Wednesday- Chapter 6 assessment on multiplication and division patterns

Thursday- Multiplication and division facts practice sheet

Religion:

• Mass on Friday at 8:30
• Discussion of different ways different cultures celebrate winter holidays
• Comparing and contrasting our traditions to those of other cultures.
• Daily devotions, prayers, and songs

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-

• Work with a partner to create a planning table about our state, Illinois, including information on: physical geography, natural resources, and climate. Students will then create a brochure to present to class based on facts in the planning table.

• Students will complete work w/ partner on their Libertyville travel brochure. Tuesday afternoon- Mrs. Macdonald will bring her class to ours so our students can present their brochures to them, and teach the 2nd graders about Libertyville.

Science: (didn’t get to this last week)

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.*

Here is the link for the story How Things Move

Here is a link for the story we will read together: Forces and Motion All Around Us

This story will review key concepts and vocabulary for this chapter.

• Play a card game with vocabulary words from this chapter
• Biography- Learn about The Wright Brothers