Week at a Glance: February 20-23, 2024

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Unit 3 Week 4- Genre: Biography

Spelling: Vowel teams

Writing: February journal writing/ test prompt

Math: Conclusion of Chapter 8: Apply Multiplication and Division

Social Studies: Freedom Tea practice/ Civil Rights

Science: Thermal and light energy

Religion: Discussion of Lent/ 8:30 Tuesday Mass

Other Highlights:

• Friday is our Freedom Tea for Third Grade!
• Friday- February book report due for Black History Month

Reading: Reading: Unit 3 Week 4; Weekly Question- Why do people need heroes?

Learning Goals:

1. I can learn more about themes concerning heroes and analyze text structure in a biography.
2. I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading fiction and writing.
3. I can use elements of narrative text to write a historical fiction story.

Objectives:

• Develop social communication such as conversing politely in all situations.
• Identify and compare the heroic deeds of state and national heroes.
• How do heroes distinguish between them? What are some ways heroes encourage each other?
• Learn about Malala Yousafzai for someone who is brave and courageous here is a video about her life.
• Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text.
• Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meaning of words and phrases in context.
• Using figurative language such as similes.

Phonics: Vowel teams for this week: oo, ew, ue, ui, eu-

Language of the Biography Genre vocabulary words: historical time, time order, facts, details, story elements

Vocabulary words: ceremonies, tradition, medicine, lamenting, offering-

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

Spelling Words: balloon, choose, feud, newest, recruit, rescue, spooky, statue, suitable, threw-- bonus words: soothe, renewal, nuisance-

Writing:

• February creative writing journal
• February spelling menu
• February daily prompts for journal
• Friday- Typed response to question in assessment

Math: Chapter 8-Apply Division and Multiplication

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

Vocabulary Words: dividend, divisor, quotient

•  Tuesday: Lesson 8- 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.
• Wednesday- Review Chapter 8 skills/ lessons learned and practice fluency in multiplication/ problem solving and reflect on the chapter.
• Thursday-  Chapter 8 Assessment
• Daily IReady practice in math, mental math problems, and multiplication fluency practice-
• Simple Solutions Math Packet

Science: What are heat and light energy? How can energy change?

Words to know: heat and thermal energy

Lesson objectives:

• Students will classify and compare different forms of energy and will investigate how energy causes motion and creates change.
• Students will observe and communicate how energy can change into many forms.
• Students will analyze how light is reflected, refracted, and absorbed and will describe how light forms shadow.
• Students will investigate how heat and light energy affect matter and how heat and light can be produced.
• Students will use models to demonstrate how different vibrations result in different sounds.
• Students will investigate how electricity moves through circuits and will identify some materials that conduct electricity.

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.

Social Studies: Civil Rights Movement continued-

Continuing our Civil rights unit with discussions about Dr. King, Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman- Through stories and songs, we look and learn about the consequences of segregation and inequalities. This week we’ll focus on Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.

 

Religion: Practice for the Freedom Tea and Lent Discussion:

This week students will practice for the Freedom Tea for Friday’s special event. Both classes will practice Wednesday morning in the Koenig Center. Students have written their views of what world peace would look like from their perspective and will share at the Freedom Tea.

Also, we will discuss Lent with video explaining Lent, Almsgiving, and fasting; Lent questions answered in this video by Father Tim. Mary Katherine Nelson, the school’s after school religious coordinator, sent the students one more video to watch to gain more insight into Lent.

Daily songs (Freedom Tea) and devotions, and prayers