Week at a Glance: March 11-15, 2024

Week at a Glance: March 11-15, 2024

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Begin Unit 4 in reading- Theme: Events

Writing: Students will present their historical fiction stories

Phonics: R controlled vowels

Math: Continuing Chapter 9 Properties and Equations

Social Studies: Focus on Ireland

Science:

Religion: Lent/ Stations of the Cross

Other Highlights:

-Tuesday: 8:30 Mass and Carmel Spanish student visit classrooms and read a story to them (PreK-3)

-Thursday- Stations of the Cross 12:30 Service


Spelling Words: certainly, earn, return, search, swerve, termite, third, thirsty, thirteen, thirty bonus words: determine, virtual, personable-

High Frequency Words: system, brought

Develop Vocabulary:  community, donate, convince, generous, transformed-

Unit Vocabulary Words: benefit, generation, advice, consumer, familiar

Language and Conventions- possessive nouns


Reading Goals for this Unit:

Weekly question: How can one person improve a community?

Focus on Daniel Burham and Jane Addams

  • Collaborate with others to determine how communities change over time.
  • Knowing about biography and understand its elements
  • Use language to make connections between reading and writing narrative nonfiction
  • Use elements of opinion writing to write a opinion essay

Week 1- Learn more about biography and analyze text structure in a biography

Reading Workshop Minilesson bank:

  • Primary source- Daniel Burnham
  • Biography: The House that Jane Built
  • Words that explain main ideas
  • Analyze text structure
  • Correct or confirm predictions
  • Talk about it: Ask relevant questions

Reading-Writing Workshop Bridge:

  • Academic vocabulary- related words
  • Word Study- R controlled vowels: ir, er, ur, ear
  • Read like a writer- explain the use of descriptive language
  • Write for a reader-use descriptive language

Writing Workshop: Weekly Focus: Introduce and immerse-


Mini-lesson bank:

  • Opinion essay: topic, point of view and reasons, brainstorm topics and focus on opinion, plan your opinion essay.

Reading/ Writing continued: 

  • Daily writing in March  journal, notebook March prompts, Spelling Menu 
  • Daily SeeSaw entries for Math and Reading
  • Gratitude journals
  • Simple Solutions Grammar packet and daily Daily Oral Language packet

Math:

Math: Continuing Chapter 9- Properties and Equations-

Math Vocabulary words: evaluate, variable, expressions, operations, equation, estimate,

Mathematical Practices:

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

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

Tuesday:  Lesson 8- Solve Using Two-Stop Word Problems- Students will represent and solve two-step word problems using equations and a variable.

Wednesday:- Lesson 9- Problem Solving Investigation: Use logical reasoning- Students will use logical reasoning to solve problems. Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.

  • Daily SeeSaw math activities
  • Daily IReady
  • Daily Simple Solutions Math packet
  • Friday- Math multiplication games

Social Studies: Continuing Ireland Unit-

Students in both classes will engage in a month-long look at Ireland through images, videos, and story books. Each student has received a county in Ireland and that will be the county the students researches for their March book report . This week, students will continue to discuss Ireland’s culture, landscape, and landmarks.  Students will learn about the four provinces of Ireland and learn about St. Patrick- Ireland’s patron saint. Students will also learn some songs interconnected with Ireland.

**We’ll celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in the classroom on Monday, Mar 18, 2024


Science: Lesson 6 What is Electrical Energy?

Lesson Objectives: (Students will practiced with circuits in STEAM class on Friday)

  • 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
  • Practice with Chapter 2 science vocabulary cards in small groups and prepare for assessment of Chapter 2 
  • Read the online story on the book's website: How do we use energy? Also read Energy at Work to prepare for chapter 2 test

Religion:

  • Students will attend 8:30 non buddy School Mass
  • Students will discuss Stations of the Cross by creating a booklet on the different stations.
  • Students will attend the Stations of the Cross on Thursday at 12:30 Mass.
  • Students will complete the Lenten crosses with words they put on the cross to describe their Lenten journey.
  • Daily songs and prayers, this week- learning Our Lady of Knock tying in with Irealnd unit.