Week at a Glance: March 4-8, 2024

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Last week of Unit 3 in Reading; Project Week!

Writing: Historical Fiction story and Opinion speech-two big writing projects this week!

Spelling: 13 Review words from Unit 3 in Reading

Math: Continue Chapter 9

Social Studies: Begin unit on Ireland/ Present Feb. book reports

Science: Open and closed circuits

Religion: Lenten activities and Reconciliation on Tuesday

Spelling Words: Review of Unit 3- no new words or no bonus words- all review words:

Wolves, choose, geese, heroes, balloon, rescue, happiness, graceful, peaceful, impolite, nonfiction, children, incorrect

• Daily writing in spelling words practice packet
• Daily spelling words homework.

Reading: Unit 3- Week 6: Project based learning week

This week students will

• write an opinion speech about why it is important to take advantage of heroic opportunities.
• research evidence that supports their claim and persuades their audience.

Lesson 1 Compare Across Texts Inquire

•  Answer the Essential Question • Introduce Inquiry Project
• • Read “Heroes Aren’t Just for Comic Books”

• • Generate questions
• • Apply Academic Vocabulary

Lesson 2 Explore and Plan Conduct Research-- Argumentative Writing

• • Read: “I’m a Volunteer!”
• • Apply characteristics of text
• • Using a search engine
• • Identify keywords to research

Lesson 3 Collaborate and Discuss Refine Research- Read a Student Model

• • Identify features of argumentative texts
• • Paraphrasing and Quoting
• • Read “A Helping Hand”
• • Apply paraphrasing and quoting to article

Lesson 4- Extend Research Collaborate and Discuss-Investigate a variety of media

• • Incorporate media into opinion speech
• • Revise & Edit: Relevant Details
• • Peer review opinion speeches

Lesson 5 Celebrate and Reflect Reflect on the Unit-- Present your opinion speeches

• • Reflect on your project
• • Reflect on your goals
• • Reflect on your reading
• • Reflect on writing

Writing: Big week for our class this week in writing:

• Write a historical story based on previously read stories: Below the Deck: A Titanic Story, Granddaddy’s Turn to Vote, Little House on the Prairie, By the Shores of the Silver Lake, or Mama Mira using a graphic organizer and type the final piece.
• Write an opinion piece on a charity or organization that means a lot to the students. Students will work in small groups to research a charity to write about and persuade the class to want to learn more and do more.
• Daily writing in March creative writing journal, March prompts in notebook, and Gratitude journals.

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

Tuesday- Check my Progress thus far in the chapter- 2 page review; Lesson 5- Write Expressions- Students will write expressions using the 4 operations-

Wednesday- Lesson 6-Evaluate Expressions- Students will write, then find the value of expressions. 

Thursday- Lesson 7- Write Expressions- Students will represent one- and two step word problems using equations and a variable.

Friday- Review of math concepts learned this week-

• Daily SeeSaw math enrichment activities
• Daily IReady Math Lessons
• Daily Simple Solutions Math lessons
• Multiplication and Division facts practice

Social Studies: Ireland Unit Begins-

Students in both classes will engage in a month-long look at Ireland through images, videos, and story books. Each student will receive a county in Ireland and that will be the county the students researches for their March book report (due Thursday, April 4, 2024) . This week, students will research fish that swim in the Shannon River, the longest river in Ireland, and create the fish for our model river. Students will research the four provinces of Ireland and learn about St. Patrick- Ireland’s patron saint. Students will also learn some songs interconnected with Ireland.

Science: Lesson 6 What is Electrical Energy?

Lesson Objectives:

• Students will classify and compare different forms of energy and will investigate how energy causes motion and creates a change.V
• 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 shadows.
• 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.
• Students will read about: Electric Charges, Conductors and Insulators- Vocabulary: closed circuit, open circuit 
• Video here to show experiment with circuits

Religion: Lent Discussion Continues:

Students will discuss the importance of Lent and a special time to get closer to Jesus through activities and discussions. Through coloring a cross in a stained glass style and coloring an Easter egg with traits of Lenten hopes/ goals.

• Daily prayers, devotions and songs to help us get closer to Jesus.
• Gratitude Journals for reflections of the day’s goodness.

Reconciliation on Tuesday afternoon at Church