Week at a Glance: April 15-19, 2024


Highlights of the Week:

Spelling: Homophones

Reading: Reading a drama

Writing: Writing work in our packets

Math: Begin Measurement Unit

Social Studies: Immigration Project

Science: Plant power

Religion: Celebrating the Eucharist


Spelling- 

Ate, eight, cell, sell, dear, deer, duel, dual, pause, paws, bonus words: weather, whether, seize

Vocabulary Words: heritage, immigrants, interview, permission, arrival

High Frequency Words: government and material

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

  • Daily practice with spelling words- Spelling Menu book
  • Daily practice of vocabulary words- Reading

Reading: Unit 4 Week 5- Weekly Question: How do people support each other in difficult times?

Learning Goals:

  • I can learn more about themes concerning events by reading a text that helps me identify elements in a drama.
  • 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:

  • Describe personal connections to a variety of sources  including self-selected texts.
  • Interact with sources in a meaningful way such as note taking, freewriting, or illustrating.
  • Listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information and make pertinent comments.
  • Discuss elements of a drama, such as characters, dialogue, setting, and acts.
  • Identify the meaning of words with affixes such as im(into), non (dis), pre-, -ness, -y, and -ful.
  • Identify, use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, synonyms, idioms, homophones, homographs in text. 
  • DIscuss specific ideas in the text that are important to the meaning. 
  • Use text evidence to support an appropriate response.
  • Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by identifying and reading high-frequency words from a research based list.
  • Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza; describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections.
  • Discuss author’s purpose of story

**IReady Reading lessons

Writing:

  • Daily writing in April creative writing journal
  • Daily writing in notebook with April prompts
  • Daily writing in spelling menu
  • Daily Oral Language Packet
  • Simple Solutions Grammar Packet

Math: Chapter 11- Measurement

Mathematical Practices this week:

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

Math vocabulary words: capacity, liquid volume, liter, metric unit, milliliter, unit, gram, kilogram, mass, 

Monday- Lesson 1- Hands On: Estimate and Measure Capacity- Students will explore estimating and measuring liquid volume using metric units of capacity.

Tuesday- Lesson 2- Solve Capacity Problems- Students will use the four operations to solve one-step word problems involving liquid volume.

Wednesday- Lesson 3- Hands On- Estimate and Measure Mass- Students will explore estimating and measuring metric units of mass.

Thursday- (after field trip)- Lesson 4- Solve Mass Problems: Students will use the four operations to solve one-step word problems involving mass.

---Daily practice with math skills SeeSaw and IReady math skills practice

--- Daily practice with Simple Solutions Math Packet




Religion: Session 18 Celebrating the Eucharist

Session Theme: The celebration of the Eucharist is at the center of Catholic life.

The Mass is the most important celebration of the Church. It is the heart of the Catholic life of worship. We celebrate it every Sunday, the Lord’s Day, and on holy days of obligation. In the Eucharist, we remember Jesus’ life, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension.

Outcomes:

  • Retell the story of the Last Supper.
  • Explain how Jesus is present in the Mass and the Eucharist.
  • Express the importance of joining God’s family at Mass.
  • List days on which we especially must attend Mass.
  • Define: Epistles + Worship

--Tuesday All School Mass

--Daily prayers and devotions



Science: Chapter 3 Lesson 2- How Do Plants Make Food? We didn’t get to this last week due to a busy schedule. Anthony, Leo, and Nate are ready for their projects!

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- ALMOST COMPLETE- 2 left!

Social Studies Project- Students will be assigned a country to research (in small groups) and will have a role in their research. They will  learn the culture about the country they are immigrating from and what certain roles/ expectations were in their country and answer the following questions:

  1. Why are you leaving the county and coming to the USA?
  2. What was your role in your country? (Examples: Mom, Dad, Teacher, Student)
  3. What are some words in your native language that we could learn? (five words)
  4. What are your hopes and dreams for coming to America?

After research- students will present their immigration country to the class and classmates will record information learned from the other groups.