Week at a Glance: February 26- March 1, 2024

Highlights of the Week:

• Reading- Unit 3 Week 5- Poetry Week
• Writing: February journals
• Spelling: Irregular plural nouns
• Math: Begin Chapter 9 
• Science: Sound energy
• Religion: Tuesday non-buddy Mass at 8:30
• Social Studies: Conclusion of Black History Month

*This week, students will complete January animal book report presentations. 

*No School Friday- Archdiocese meetings

Spelling Words: 

Wolves, knives, children, sheep, heroes, scarves, geese, calves, volcanoes, loaves-

Bonus spelling words: crises, cacti, vertebrae

Unit Vocab words: encourage, defeat, distinguish, achieve, command

Weekly Vocabulary Words:  triumphant, company challenge, twinkle, curious

High Frequency Words: ago, stood

Here is the link for Spelling City to practice spelling words

Students will practice spelling words through h/w and daily Spelling Menu activities-

**Daily practice with spelling words in spelling packets

Reading: Unit 3 Week 5- Theme- Heroes- Weekly Question- What kind of actions can be heroic? People can be heroes in many ways, big and small.

• Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.
• Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
• Identity and analyze the heroic deeds of individuals, including military and first responders such as Four Chaplains.

Questions to guide discussions:

• Which heroic actions surprised you the most?
• What are the similarities between the four heroic actions described in this infographic?
• What are the other small ways that you and your classmates can act heroically?

Objectives:

• lIsten attentively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments.
• Recognize and analyze genre specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
• Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.
• Some types of poetry to be examined include: narrative poetry, free verse, concrete-
• Parts of Speech reviewed: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs-
• Identify, use, and explain the meaning of synonyms, homophones, idioms, antonyms, and homographs in a text.

Learning Goals:

• I can learn more about themes concerning heroes and explain poetic elements in poetry.
• I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.
• Words to know to understand poetry: line breaks, stanzas, imagery, sound devices, figurative language.

**Daily Simple Solutions Grammar and Daily Oral Language packets to practice and enrich skills learned in grammar and phonics.

*IReady Reading Progress Growth Monitoring begins this week-

Writing: Students will write daily in their February creative writing notebooks and follow the writing prompts in their February Journal. 

• Daily Gratitude journals
• Discussion of Historical Fiction stories students will write next week
• Wednesday-Friday- Abolitionists study in small groups

Math: Chapter 9- Properties and Equations

Vocabulary Words: Associative Property of Multiplication, Distributive Property, equation, evaluate, expression, operations, variable, 

Mathematical  Practices:

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

Monday- Lesson 1- Hands on: Take apart to multiply- Explore how to take apart factors to multiply. Students will explore how to take apart factors to multiply.

Tuesday- Lesson 2- The Distributive Property- Apply the Distributive Property of Multiplication to find products. Students will apply the Distributive Property of Multiplication to find products.

Wednesday- Lesson 3- Hands on: Multiply Three Factors- Explore how to find the product of 3 numbers. Students will explore how to find the product of three factors. 

Thursday- Lesson 4- The Associative Property--Apply the Associative Property of Multiplication to find products. Students will apply the Associative Property of Multiplication to find products.

• Daily Simple Solutions Math Packet
• Daily practice with IReady Math lessons

Social Studies:

Conclusion of Black History Month with presentations of February book reports and students will assemble in small groups to study abolitionists and create a biographical report on the person to present in class. Wednesday-Friday will be devoted to abolitionist studies.

Students will also learn more about Harriet Tubman and other civil rights leaders

Science: What is sound energy?

By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to use models to demonstrate how different vibrations result in different sounds.

• 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 use models to demonstrate how different vibrations result in different sounds.
• Words to know: volume, pitch
• Activity- Students will observe different pitches and volume by using a rubberband, plastic tub (shoebox), and ruler.

Religion: Lenten Journey

Students will be discussing feelings and emotions during this Lenten journey by coloring a cross with different traits of Lent- We’ll also discuss, as a school family, how we can become closer by acting on these positive actions to become closer to God and each other.

• Daily songs, prayers, secret agent prayer list, pledge, and devotions
• 8:30 non buddy Mass on Tuesday