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.