Week at a Glance: April 8-12, 2024

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Narrative Nonfiction genre

Spelling: Homographs

Writing: Opinion writing

Math: Completion of Chapter 10 Fractions

Science: Continue Chapter 2- Plants

Social Studies: Continuing with Settling in the US

Religion: Celebrating Reconciliation

Other Highlights:

Spirit Week- Please check email for daily dress!

Thursday- Risk Watch Presentation in our classroom

Friday- Field Trip to Feed My Starving Children in the morning and in the afternoon, we meet w/ our 7th grade buddies in the afternoon.

Spelling: transplant, consult, finance, content, minute, digest, upset, research, incline, construct- bonus words-- entrances, manifest, invalid

Vocabulary words: destroyed, opportunity, sustainability, reclaimed, constructed-

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

High Frequency Words: equation, among

Reading: Unit 4 Week 4- How can a leader’s experiences inspire change?

Learning Goals:

• I can learn about themes concerning events by distinguishing viewpoints in narrative nonfiction.
• 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:

• 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.
• Know that information, critical information, scientific problem solving, and the contributions of scientists are used in making decisions.
• Explore timelines
• Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text. 
• Identify, use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, synonyms, idioms, homophones, and homographs in text. 
• Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence and cause and effect. 
• Introduce a topic or text, state an opinion, and create an organizational structure that lists reasons.
• Use linking words and phrases to connect opinion and reasons.
• Provide a concluding statement or section. 

Writing:

• Daily writing in journal entries
• Daily monthly prompts in notebook
• Daily SeeSaw writing activities 
• Writing an opinion essay- this will take a few weeks to completion.

Math: Completion of Chapter 10 Fractions

Objectives/ Mathematical Practices:

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• 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.

Vocabulary: denominator, equivalent fractions, numerator, is equal to (=), is greater than, is less than, 

Monday- Lesson 8- Compare fractions- Students will use models to compare 2 fractions and record the results. 

Tuesday- Lesson 9- Review fractions chapter to prepare for Thursday’s assessment

Wednesday- Chapter 10 Preparations for fraction assessment- Quiz day!

Thursday- Chapter 10 Assessment for fractions

Daily math assignments in SeeSaw, IReady Math lessons, and Simple Solutions Math Packets

Science: Chapter 3 Lesson 2- How Do Plants Make Food?

Words to Know: carbon dioxide, oxygen, photosynthesis, sugar, sun, water, variable

Lesson Objectives for Chapter 2:

• Students will classify plants into major groups, such as flowering and non flowering plants, based on physical characteristics.

• Students will develop models that describe how leaves help plants live, grow, and produce food. This week’s lesson- 

• Students will use models that describe the roots and stems of plants that take in, transport, or store water and nutrients that the plant needs to survive.
• Students will communicate how plants reproduce using seeds and cones.
• Students will develop and use models to describe how plants change during their life cycle.

Inquiry: How do plants change? Students will observe and record how plants adapt to changing conditions with pinto beans sprouting on a paper towel in a baggie. Students will choose a variable to change when the seeds grow roots. Example: Change the direction of the bag, the amount of light the bag receives, or the temperature inside the bag. 

Experiment: How does sunlight affect plant survival? Cover one leaf with foil and wait one week and observe changes in the covered leaf.

Social Studies: Continuing Lesson 5- Settling in the USA

Questions to answer in this lesson:

• Why do immigrants come to the states?
• How immigrants came to the USA?
• Where did immigrants settle in the US?
• What was life like for immigrants in the US?
• How to become a US citizen-

Video: How do history and culture shape your community?

Essential Question--How do people become part of our country?Overview: Investigate immigration in the United States by carefully analyzing visual and written primary sources from various time periods.

Objectives:Social Studies

• Analyze why and how people immigrate to the United States.
• Compare benefits and drawbacks of immigrating to the United States.
• Draw conclusions from primary and secondary sources.

Language Arts

• Identify main ideas in text. (reading)
• Describe and illustrate an idea. (writing)

Preview-Think about how it feels to move to a new place and then listen to audio clips from immigrants about their experiences. 

Hands-On Activity: Analyzing Primary Sources-Investigate immigration in the United States by carefully analyzing visual and written primary sources from various time periods.

Show What You Know- Compare opportunities and challenges of immigration. 

Also: Students will present March Book Reports: Study of Ireland

 

Religion: Celebrating Reconciliation Session 17 Unit 4 (Sacraments)

When we turn away from God the Father through personal sin, Jesus the Son calls us to forgiveness in the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation. God always forgives us and gives us the grace to be truly sorry for our sins. In this sacrament, we confess our sins to a priest, who shares with us Jesus’ gifts of forgiveness and peace.

Session Theme: When we sin and fail to love God the Father and others, Jesus the Son calls us to forgiveness through the Sacrament of Penance and Reconciliation.

• Daily prayers, devotions, and songs
• Tuesday All School Mass at 8:30 Non -buddy Mass