Week at a Glance: January 22-26, 2024

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Begin Unit 3- Heroes

Writing: January journals

Spelling: Words with prefixes are highlighted

Math: Chapter 7 Multiplication and Division

Social Science: Begin Civil Rights unit

Science: Complete Lesson 2- How does energy change forms?

Also: January book report due on Wednesday, 1/24

Other highlights this week:

• Monday- Students go to the Book Fair to get a sneak peak and fill out wish lists
• Tuesday- All school Mass with buddies
• Friday- Pep rally in the afternoon
• *No Media or Library this week due to the Book Fair

Please make sure Chromebooks are charged nightly as we are taking the IReady Diagnostic tests this week in reading and math*

Spelling Words: prepay, nonstop, disagree, nonfiction, preapprove, indirect, imperfect, impolite, insecure, incorrect- Bonus words: impossibility, indefinite, disqualify

Vocabulary Words: abandon, appeared, enormous, interfered, stationary

Unit Vocabulary Words: encourage, defeat, distinguish, achieve, command-

Reading: Begin Unit 3- Heroes:

Unit 3 Goals:

• Essential Question- What makes a hero?

• Unit theme: Collaborate with others to determine what makes a hero?
• Reading: Understand historical fiction and its elements.
• Reading-Writing- Use language to make connections between reading and writing historical fiction. 
• Writing goal- Use elements of a narrative text to write a historical fiction story.

Week 1 - Historical Fiction

Reading Workshop:

• Primary sources- Steps on the Moon- read short story
• Historical Fiction- Below Deck, a Titanic Story
• Words that describe plot and setting
• Correct or confirm predictions
• Talk bout it: Support an opinion

Reading- Writing- Workshop Bridge- 

• Related words
• Prefixes: pre-, dis-, in-, im-, non-
• Explain the use of illustrations and use illustrations to understand the story

Writing Workshop:

• Introduce and immerse- historical fiction
• Identify character and setting
• Develop  plot
• Brainstorm ideas
• Plan your historical fiction story

Spelling- 

• Spell prefixes: pre-, dis-, im-, non-

Language and Conventions:

• Subject verb agreement

Writing:

• Daily Writing in Daily Oral Language packet
• Daily writing in January creative writing journal
• Daily writing in notebook with January prompts
• Daily writing in Gratitude journal
• M-F Daily work in Simple Solutions Grammar book
• Cursive writing practice

IReady reading diagnostic test this week; Please make sure Chromebooks are charged-

Math: Chapter 7-Division and Multiplication

Vocabulary words for this week: decompose, known fact, equal groups, Zero Property of Multiplication, Identity Property of Multiplication, dividend, divisor

Mathematical Practices:

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

Monday- Check My Progress with vocabulary check and division check

-- Lesson 6- Problem Solving Investigation- Students will solve a problem by identifying extra or missing information. Strategies utilized- Make a table, Look for a Pattern, Use Models-

Tuesday- Lesson 7- Multiply by 0 and 1- Students will use different strategies, such as equal groups, patterns, and properties, to multiply by 0 and 1.

Wednesday- Lesson 8- Divide with 0 and 1; Students will use division rules to divide with 0 and 1. Students will also work on fluency with multiplication and division problems.

Thursday- Review Chapter 7 lessons and practice fluency with multiplication and division problems.

*** Daily work with IReady Math and Math SeeSaw activities

***Simple Solutions Math Lessons M- F-

IReady Math Diagnostic Test this week- Please make sure Chromebooks are charged-

Social Studies: Civil Rights Month

Goal: Students will read and discuss historical fiction and make connections between text and primary sources [photographs] that provide evidence of social conditions in the past. Students will follow guidelines from worksheets adapted from the National Archives and Records Administration. At the end of the unit, students will “blog” or make a written entry into a classroom writing folder where the question is: “What is worth standing up for?” Objectives: Students will be able to define primary sources, investigate evidence of past events through analysis of photographs and develop new vocabulary in context. Students will be able to make connections between primary sources and historical fiction text as they relate to the Civil Rights Movement. 

Book: Here- The Other Side by Jacqueine Woodson will be the basis for our discussion

Also, Dr. King will be introduced this week through stories, videos and songs.

Science: Finish Lesson 2 How Energy Changes 

By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to observe and communicate how energy can change into many forms.

Standards:

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-LS1-1

Develop models to describe that organisms have unique and diverse life cycles but all have in common birth, growth, reproduction, and death.

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.*

SEP-3-5-2-2

Build simple models to represent events and design solutions.

Experiment: What can produce energy? Designed for testing potential energy

Lesson 2 Quiz

Religion: Session 14- Mary is Holy- Unit 3-The Church, The Community in the Spirit-

Session Theme: Mary is our model and teacher of faith and love.

The Church is united before God in the Communion of Saints, Mary, the mother of Jesus and the Mother of the Church, is our model. Through her life she shows us how to believe and how to love. When praying the Rosary, we remember the principal events in the lives of Jesus and Mary. 

Outcomes:

• Describe how Mary responded to the shepherd’s news.
• Identify Mary as the Mother of God and the Mother of the Church.
• Describe the Rosary as a way of honoring Mary.
• Discuss the prayer of the Magnificat
• Define: Annunciation, Communion of Saints, Rosary, and Visitation

Daily prayer, devotions, and song-

Tuesday- All School Mass with buddies at 8:30