Week at a Glance: January 29- Feb. 2, 2024
Week at a Glance: January 29- Feb 2, 2024
Highlights of the Week:
Reading: Continuing with Hero unit- Week 2
Spelling: Abbreviations
Writing: January journals/ begin February journals
Math: Begin Chapter 8
Social Studies: Begin MLK unit
Science: Light and Matter
Religion: Christmas is reviewed
Spelling: Spelling words for this week:
A.M., ASAP, Blvdl, etc, no, P.M., P.S., Rd., vs., wt. Challenge words: dept., hrs., FYI
Develop Vocabulary words: figured, complain, patience, temper, remembered
Key Vocabulary words: humble, quietly, unshaken, rustle-
Unit Academic Vocabulary: encourage, defeat, distinguish, achieve, command
High Frequency Words- building, ocean
Reading: Unit 3 Week2 Heroes-
Weekly Question- How can a hero’s actions affect others?
Learning Goals:
- I can learn more about historical fiction and analyze plot and setting in historical fiction.
- I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading fiction and writing historical fiction.
- I can use elements of narrative text to write a historical fiction story.
Goals of the week:
- Listen attentively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments.
- Identify, use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, idioms, homophones, and homographs in a text.
- Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.
- Read on-level text with a purpose and understanding.
- Make inferences and use evidence to support understanding
- Evaluate details read to determine key ideas.
- Synthesize information to create new understanding
- Explain the author’s purpose and message within a text.
- Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding compound words, contrats, and abbreviations.
- Describe characters in a story (e.g., their traits, motivations, or feelings) and explain how their actions contribute to the sequence of events.
Writing:
- Morning Work: Daily Oral Language Packet
- Simple Solutions Grammar lessons M-F
- January creative writing packet
- January prompts for creative writing
- January Spelling Menu- M-Th spelling review lessons
Math: Beginning Chapter 8-Apply Multiplication and Division
Vocabulary words: decompose, Commutative Properties, repeated subtraction
Mathematical Practices:
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- Attend to precision.
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
- Model with mathematics
- Use appropriate tools strategically.
Monday- Chapter 7 Test on Multiplication and Division Practices
Tuesday- Lesson 1- Multiply by 6- Use different strategies, including doubling a known fact, to multiply by 6.
Wednesday- Lesson 2- Multiply by 7- Use different strategies, such as properties, arrays, and composing factors, to multiply by 7.
Thursday- Lesson 3- Divide by 6 and 7- Use different strategies, including arrays and repeated subtraction, to divide by 6 and 7.
- Daily mental math practice with IReady math lessons
- Daily Simple Solutions math lessons M-F
Social Studies: Continued discussion of the life and legacy of Dr. King and the Civil Rights Movement-
- This week we’ll introduce the following books:
- Who Was Harriet Tubman? Bu: Yona Zeldis McDonough
- What Was the Civil Rights Movement? “
- What was the Underground Railroad? “
- Through discussion, videos, songs, and books we will discuss the Civil Rights Movement and the leaders/ heroes that changed American history.
Science: How do light and matter interact? Chapter 1; Lesson 3
By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to analyze how light is reflected, refracted, and absorbed and will describe how light forms shadows.
DCI-3-ESS2.D.2
Scientists record patterns of the weather across different times and areas so that they can make predictions about what kind of weather might happen next.
PE-3-ESS2-1
Represent data in tables and graphical displays to describe typical weather conditions expected during a particular season.
How do light and matter interact? This activity provides an opportunity for students to make observations about light and identify examples of light being reflected, refracted, and absorbed.
What happens when light strikes material? This activity provides an opportunity for students to compare and contrast how light and milk reflect, refract, and absorb light.
Keywords
translucent, compare, data analysis, opaque, explore, reflection, virtual lab activities, absorption, investigate, lab, absorb, virtual lab activity, light energy, straight lines, transparent, compare and contrast, reflect, labs, virtual lab, light, investigation, straight line
Keywords
refract, reflect, absorb, light energy
Religion: Session 15- Celebrating Christmas
On Christmas, we celebrate the birth of our Savior Jesus, the Son of God, who came to us through Mary. The Christmas season begins with Mass on Christmas Eve and extends through the Feast of the Epiphany.
- Explain how Joseph learned that Mary and her child were holy.
- Describe how we celebrate the birth of Jesus on Christmas.
- Describe how we celebrate Christmas at Church.
- Explain that the name Bethlehem, the town where Jesus was born, means “house of bread” in Hebrew.
Session Theme: Christmas is a time to celebrate as a Church the birth of Jesus.
-Daily songs, prayers, and devotions
-All School Mass Tuesday at 8:30- non buddy Mass
