Week at a Glance: February 12-16, 2024

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: How do challenges turn ordinary people into heroes?

Spelling: Words with suffixes

Writing: February journals

Math: Continuing Multiplication and Division

Social Studies: Civil Rights Movement

Science: Light Energy

Religion: Ash Wednesday Mass at 8:30

Other Highlights:

Tuesday: $1.00 Dress Down for Mardi Gras Gala

Tuesday- 12:30-1:30- Valentine Party

Wednesday- Ash Wednesday Mass at 8:30 Non-Buddy

Spelling: readiness, cloudy, stormy, peaceful, eagerness, illness, freshness, happiness, graceful, frightful, bonus words- plentiful, billowy, fierceness

Academic Vocabulary: horribly, furious, insisted, terribly, disturbed

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

High Frequency Words: nothing, scientists

Reading: Focus on American Heroes- Weekly Question- How do challenges turn ordinary people into heroes? See objectives below-

• Make inferences and use evidence to support understanding.
• Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
• Determine the main ideas and supporting details of a text read aloud or information  presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
• Establish purpose for reading assigned and self-selected texts.
• Recognize and analyze genre- specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
• Compare and contrast the themes, settings, plots of stories written by the same author about the same characters (e.g.,in books from a series)
• Identify a hyperbole and explain the use of-
• Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping -e, changing -y to -i, and doubling final consonants. 

Learning goals-

• I can learn more about historical fiction and infer themes in historical fiction texts.

• I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing historical fiction.

Writing:

• Daily entries in February creative writing journal.

• Daily entries in February spelling menu
• Daily entries in notebook regarding February prompts calendar
• Simple Solutions Grammar book and Daily Oral Language packet
• Cursive practice writing packet

Math: Continuing Chapter 8 Apply Multiplication and Division

Mathematical Practices:

Vocabulary: Decompose, dividend, divisor, quotient

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

Monday- Check My Progress thus far

Monday- Lesson 7- Problem Solving Investigation- Make an organized list; Students will make an organized list to solve problems. (Operations and Algebraic thinking)

Tuesday- Lesson 8- Multiply by 11 and 12- Students will use different strategies, such as patterns, models, and arrays, to multiply by 11 and 12

Wednesday- Lesson 9- Divide by 11 and 12- Students will use different strategies, such as equal groups, repeated subtraction, and related facts, to divide by 11 and 12.

Thursday- Fluency Practice- Review of Chapter 8 concepts

• Daily Simple Solutions math packet practice
• Daily IReady math lessons for at least 15 minutes

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

We will read more non fiction books about the Civil Rights Movement as we prepare for the Freedom Tea- Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman will be highlighted this week along with Dr. King.

Students will be writing what their dream of peace looks like as we begin to examine Dr. King’s I Have a Dream speech.

Science: Chapter 2 Lesson 3 How do light and matter interact?

Description

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.

Description”

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

Lesson plans here

Description:

This activity provides an opportunity for students to make observations about light and identify examples of light being reflected, refracted, and absorbed.

Keywords:

refract, reflect, absorb, light energy

Religion:  Unit 4: Sacraments, Our Way of Life

Session 16- Sacraments of Initiation:

We become members of the Church through the Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eucharist. At our Baptism, we receive the Holy Spirit and become one of the People of God. We begin a new life in Jesus. Confirmation seals the Holy Spirit’s presence in us, and through the Holy Spirit, we receive Jesus in his Body and Blood in the Eucharist.

After Jesus died, news of his REsurrection and SAscension spread, and churches were formed in places that were distant from one another. At that time, the only long distance was by writing letters. We will learn about the apostles and missionary, Saint Paul, who traveled to many of the churches and then wrote letters to those he met.

Saint- Saint Paul the Apostle and Saint Patrick

Session Theme: Through the Sacraments of Initiation, we receive the fullness of the Holy Spirit and become members of the Church. 

---Daily devotions, prayers, and songs (Freedom Tea songs)

--- Secret Agents of Kindness prayer list