Week at a Glance: March 18- 22, 2024

Week at a Glance: March 18-22, 2024

Highlights of the Week:

Reading- Week 2 Unit 4- Learn more about Fredrick Douglass

Spelling-- 2 syllable words with VCCCV pattern

Grammar- VCCCV Pattern

Math- Fractions begin!

Social Studies- Continuing Ireland unit

Science- Complete Chapter 2 on Energy

Religion- Celebrate St. Joseph Day wear red on Tuesday


Spelling:

Surprise, pilgrim, subtract, control, sample, insect, contrast, employ, exclaim, athlete bonus words*** contraction, embrace, completion

Vocabulary Words: slavery, abolitionist, violence, equality, influential

Unit vocab words: benefit, generation, advice, consumer, familiar

High frequency words: common, though

  • Daily practice with spelling words through spelling menu
  • Daily h/w w/ spelling words

Reading: Unit 4 Week 2- How can personal stories change society?

Learning Goals:

  • I can learn more about biography and identify the main idea and key details in a biography.
  • I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.
  • I can use elements of opinion writing to write an opinion essay.

Objectives:

  • Use text evidence to support an appropriate response.
  • Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating. 
  • Describe individuals, events, and ideas that have changed communities, past and present.
  • Develop oral language through speaking, listening, and discussion. 
  • Recognize characteristics and structure of informational text. 
  • Identify use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, synonyms, idioms, homophones, and homographs in text. 
  • Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding words using knowledge of syllable division patterns such as VCCV, VCV, VCCCV with accent shifts.
  • Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including sections, tables, graphs, timelines, bullets, numbers and bold and italicized front to support understanding.
  • Review r-controlled words from last week..
  • Author’s purpose to achieve specific purpose.
  • Make inferences and use evidence to support understanding.

Students will be learning about Fredrick Douglass and Sojourner Truth through reading biographies.


Grammar:

  •  Daily work in Simple Solutions packet
  • Teach VCCCV pattern- Words with the VCCCV pattern have a vowel, three consonants, then another vowel. Two of the consonants form a digraph or a blend. Syllables of these words divide between the blend or digraph and the other consonant. 

Writing:

  • Daily writing in March journal and in a notebook with March daily prompts.
  • Daily writing in Gratitude journals
  • Students begin making a list of abolitionists to prepare for creating a Canva report on-

Math: Begin Chapter 10- Fractions: How can fractions  be used to represent numbers and their parts?

New vocabulary: fraction, unit fraction, denominator, numerator

Mathematical practices: 

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

Monday- Lesson 1- Students will explore and model with unit fractions- Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.

Tuesday- Lesson 2- Parts of a whole- Students will read and write fractions that name part of a whole. 

Wednesday-Lesson 3- Parts of a set- Students will use models to represent fractions that name part of a set.- 

Thursday- Multiplication and Division games

  • Daily IReady math lessons for enrichment
  • Daily SeeSaw math activities
  • Daily Simple Solutions Math packet 

Religion: 

Celebration the life of Saint Joseph with small group research to find:

  • Key events in St. Joseph’s life to create a timeline
  • Fill out a question and answer fact sheet on St. Joseph through research.
  • Write an opinion piece on the importance of the life of our patron saint, Saint Joseph
  • Daily songs, prayers and devotions.
  • Tuesday- buddy Mass at 8:30 for Saint Joseph
  • Daily songs and prayers, this week- learning Our Lady of Knock tying in with the Ireland unit.






Social Studies: 

Continuation of our Ireland Unit- through videos, songs, stories students will explore their chosen county through Google Images and books on Ireland in the classroom. Students will also learn about the culture of Ireland and famous landmarks of Ireland, specifically their county.

--SeeSaw assignment to make a slideshow of their chosen country- listing some facts and images.


Science:

Standards:

  • DCI-3-PS2.B.3
    Electric and magnetic forces between a pair of objects do not require that the objects be in contact. The sizes of the forces in each situation depend on the properties of the objects and their distances apart and, for forces between two magnets, on their orientation relative to each other.
  • PE-3-PS2-3
    ideas about magnets.*
  • Ask questions to determine cause and effect relationships of electric or magnetic interactions between two objects not in contact with each other.
  • PE-3-PS2-4
    Define a simple design problem that can be solved by applying scientific 
  • 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
  • Students listen to and read the following stories about energy as we close this chapter in Science:
    • Forms of Energy
    • How We Use Energy
    • Energy at Work

By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to investigate how electricity moves through circuits and will identify some materials that conduct electricity.