Homework for Tuesday, 11/7/23

-- Spelling text messages worksheet

--Math worksheet- practice for Thursday's test

Tomorrow:

--Art in the morning

 

Have a lovely evening,

With Gratitude,

Mrs. Sharon Shute

Homework for Monday, November 6, 2023

-- Spelling homework w/ the new spelling words. Spelling test on Thursday since no school on Friday.

-- Good news! Everyone received a knight note for finishing their Google Slides report for their Hispanic Heritage presentation. Great job school family!

Tomorrow:

--Gym and Buddy Mass

--Math h/w will go home Tuesday and Wednesday, along with spelling, to prepare for Thursday's math test.

 

Have a lovely evening,

With Much Gratitude,

Mrs. Sharon Shute

 Week at a Glance: November 6-9, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

• Reading: Begin Unit 2- Interactions
• Writing: Continuing with our November writing packets
• Spelling: Two syllable words
• Math: Complete Introduction to Multiplication Chapter
• Science: Mystery Science Trapeze activity
• Social Studies: Lesson 2- Finding Places in the US
• Religion: Jesus Dies and Rises

No School on Friday due to Professional Development with Archdiocese-

Spelling Words:

• total, digit, talent, human, minus, defend, finish, equal, salad, famous

• Challenge spelling words: library, mishap, spiral

• Vocabulary words: patterns, nature, repeat, sequence, symmetry
• Unit 2 Vocabulary words: prefer, features, investigate, associate, avoid
• High frequency words: certain, half
• Practice w/ spelling words M-Th in November Spelling Menu packet

Reading: Unit 2 Week 1 - Patterns in Nature- How do patterns in nature help plants and animals?

Unit theme: Interactions/ Essential Question- How do plants and animals live together?

• Students will learn about informational texts by identifying main ideas and details.
• Self-selected text and read independently for a sustained period of time.
• Describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts.
• Recognize characteristics of digital texts.
• Use elements of informational text to write a how-to-article
• Understand and use graphic features

Grammar:

• Singular and plural nouns
• Irregular nouns
• Plural possessive nouns
• Main verbs and helping verbs

Writing:

• How-to-article/ compose a headline and lead
• Compose facts and details
• Brainstorm and set a purpose
• Plan how-to-article
• Continued writing in November creative writing journal and daily writing in notebook with November prompts.

Math:  Continuation of Multiplication-

Vocabulary Math Words: array, Commutative Property of Multiplication, equal groups, factors, multiplication, multiplication sentence, multiply, product, repeated addition, combination, tree diagram, 

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.
• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
• Look for and make use of structure.
• Attend to precision.
• Use appropriate tools strategically.

Monday- Check My Progress- practice vocabulary math words-Lesson 5- Students will use a make a table strategy to solve problems.- Problem solving investigation-

Tuesday- - Lesson 6- Students will use multiplication to find the total number of combinations that can be made when given two groups of objects.- Use multiplication to find combinations.

Wednesday- Chapter 4 Review and Reflect; Vocabulary Check/ Problem Solving, 

Thursday- Assessment on Chapter 4 Introduction to Multiplication

Also: Daily mental math questions, Prodigy, IXL activities throughout the week- where time allows.

Science: I will know that pushes and pulls affect motion. Continuing with Lesson 2: Last week, students demonstrated knowledge of mass affection motion by conducting experiments with a ping pong ball and rubber ball. This week, students will explore gravity and magnetism.

In this unit, students explore the forces all around them. They investigate the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces, the pushes and pulls of bridge structures, and the effects of gravity and friction on the motion of objects. Students also explore the power of magnetic forces and design solutions to everyday problems using their knowledge of these forces.

Link here for vocabulary for Lesson 2: force, motion, mass, friction, magnetism, gravity, predict, pattern, model

Copy of activity link here

• In this lesson, students investigate the patterns of motion exhibited by a trapeze. In the activity, Trapeze Tester, students build a model trapeze. They make observations and take measurements of the motion of that model and use that data to predict the motion of a real trapeze.

Mystery Science activities will be utilized along with the Science book.

Link here for standards for this Chapter

In Science book: 

• Motion and combined forces
• Magnetism- non contact force

Social Studies: Finding Places in the United States:

Overview: Build a compass and use it to find the direction of eight landmarks across the United States. They then learn how to use map scales to estimate distances from their community to famous U.S. landmarks.

Essential Question: Where in the United States is my community?

Language Arts:

• Use information gained from illustrations and the words in text to demonstrate understanding of the text. (reading)
• Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. (reading)

Key vocabulary: canyon, cardinal directions, may key, scale, symbol

Religion: Unit 2 Session 9- Jesus Dies and Rises-

Session Theme:  Through Jesus’ Death. Resurrection and Ascension, we are offered Salvation.

**God the Father loves us so much that he sent his only Son, Jesus, to save us. Saint Paul wrote letters proclaiming the Paschal Mystery of Jesus’ Death, Resurrection, and Ascension through which we are saved. We proclaim our belief in the Paschal Mystery when we pray the Apostles’ Creed. Through the grace of the Holy Spirit, we are called to be faithful to Jesus and serve others. *Look at an online flip book for symbols for Jesus.*

Outcomes of this Session:

• Discuss Jesus’ gift of new life.
• Discuss Jesus’ passage from Death to Resurrection.
• Describe what Saint Paul wrote about the Paschal Mystery in his letters.
• Explain that we show our love for others through our actions.
• Define Paschal Mystery

Daily songs, devotions, and prayers-

8:30 Tuesday Mass- Buddy Mass

Homework for Thursday, 11/2/23

-- Spelling- Write spelling words as fancy and colorful as you wish!

Tomorrow:

--Spelling, Reading, and Religion tests

--STEAM tomorrow

--Check out books first period- please bring back any older library books you have.

 

Have a lovely evening,

Mrs. Sharon Shute

Homework for Wednesday, 11/1/23

--Spelling sentences to practice for Friday's spelling test- All review words, no bonus words, 13 words total.

 

--Today student's wrote their personal narratives, some typed them. Busy day indeed, tomorrow we'll present some of the character pumpkins.

--Gym and Library tomorrow-please bring back library books.

 

Homework for Monday, 10/23/30

-- Spelling words practice- This week is a review of the past 5 weeks of spelling words. No bonus words and there are 13 words this week instead of 10.

--October book club pumpkin character report due tomorrow

--Halloween party in the afternoon- can't wait. 

No h/w tomorrow.

 

With Gratitude,

Mrs. Shute

 

Week at a Glance: October 30-November 3, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Last week in Unit 1 of Reading

Spelling: Review of spelling words from this unit

Writing: Write personal narratives about an important event

Math:  Begin Chapter 4- Understand Multiplication

Religion: All Saints Day Mass on Wednesday

Social Studies: Present Hispanic Heritage famous person

Science: Continuing with Force, Friction, Motion

Other Highlights:

• Presentation of October book reports beginning Wednesday- 
• Halloween party on Tuesday from 12:30-1:30

Spelling Words (a review of past words)-

fantastic, lesson, absent, families, glasses, pennies, beginning, dragging, carried, easier, dream, shadow, maintain ---13 words this week but no bonus since this is a review week.

Reading: Unit 1 Week 6

Monday- Lesson 1- Compare across texts; Answer the inquiry question:

• Introduce Inquiry project
• Read “What Makes a Playground Safe?”
• Build Background

Tuesday- Lesson 2- Explore and Plan

• Argumentative writing
• Read: “Getting Outside”
• Apply characteristics of text
• Conduct field research
• Apply field research

Wednesday- Lesson 3- Collaborate and Discuss

• Analyze a Student Model
• Identify features of argumentative texts
• Identify Primary and Secondary Sources
• Read “Discovering Great Smoky Mountain National Park”
• Apply primary and secondary research sources to article

Thursday- Lesson 4- Extend Research:

• Analyze structure of a thank you note
• Incorporate plans to write a thank you letter
• Collaborate and Discuss
• Revise, Edit: Adding Details
• Peer review letters

Friday- Lesson 5- Celebrate and Reflect

• Present your letters; Reflect on project
• Reflect on your goals, reading, and writing

Friday- Reading Test- Unit 1

Writing:

• Writing in October Spelling Menut
• Writing in October Creative writing journal
• Writing in notebook- short stories with October prompts
• Writing in graphic organizers and writing personal narratives

Math: Begin Chapter 4 Multiplication

Objectives:

• 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.
• Use appropriate tools strategically.

New Vocabulary: equal groups, multiplication, multiplication sentence, multiply, factors, product, Commutative Property of Multiplication, 

Monday- Lesson 1- What does multiplication mean? Students use models to explore the meaning of multiplication- 

Tuesday-Lesson 2-  Multiplication as repeated addition- Students will relate multiplication and addition.

Wednesday- Lesson 3- Students will use arrays to explore and model multiplication.- Multiplication with arrays-

Thursday- Lesson 4- Arrays and Multiplication: Students will use arrays to multiply-

•  Reflect on learned lessons with multiplication and extra practice with SeeSaw activities and Prodigy

Science: I will know that pushes and pulls affect motion. Continuing with Lesson 2: Students participated in an experiment in what makes bridges so strong.

Words to know: force, friction, magnetism

In this unit, students explore the forces all around them. They investigate the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces, the pushes and pulls of bridge structures, and the effects of gravity and friction on the motion of objects. Students also explore the power of magnetic forces and design solutions to everyday problems using their knowledge of these forces.

Lesson 2- How does force affect motion link here

Link here for vocabulary for Lesson 2: force, motion, mass, friction, magnetism

Copy of activity link here

• In this lesson, students investigate the patterns of motion exhibited by a trapeze. In the activity, Trapeze Tester, students build a model trapeze. They make observations and take measurements of the motion of that model and use that data to predict the motion of a real trapeze.

Mystery Science activities will be utilized along with the Science book.

Link here for standards for this Chapter

In Science book: 

• Motion and combined forces
• We’ll play tug o war on Friday to demonstrate unbalance forces
• Magnetism- non contact force
• How does mass affect motion?  Experiment with a book, ruler, rubber ball, table tennis ball

Social Studies: How can you use geography skills to solve problems?

• Students will complete their Google slide report,on their chosen famous person, for Hispanic Heritage month on Monday in Media.
• Students will present their Google slides to class on Wednesday with Mrs. Leonhardt present. Students either reported on: Sonia Sotomayor, Ellen Ochoa, Ronaldo, Frida Kohler,  or Messi.
• In book: Label continents, poles, oceans and other countries on map in book.
• Create a flat map of the world with pictures from the book. Label continents and oceans.
• Essential question for Lesson 1: Where in the world is our community?
• This lesson teaches students where places are on Earth using maps. The names of hemispheres, continents, oceans, countries, and states all help us to say where a place is located. Maps show borders of places. Some borders are made by mountains and rivers, but others are decided on by people.

Religion: Session 8 Unit 2- Jesus Gathers Disciples-

Session Theme- Jesus invites his followers to enter the Kingdom of God.

Jesus the Son invites his followers to work together to spread the Good News of the kingdom. The Twelve Apostles accepted the mission that Jesus gave them: to proclaim the Kingdom of God. We too are called to work together as disciples of Jesus and proclaim the Kingdom of God.

• Discuss how Jesus gathered the disciples.
• Tell the story of how Jesus chose Peter to follow him.
• Explore why Jeus needed apostles and disciples to help him. 
• Discuss reasons why we need to work together to serve the kingdom.
• Define Gospel and mission.

All School Mass on Wednesday for All Saint’s Day (non buddy Mass)

Daily prayers, songs, and devotions to God.

Secret Agents of Kindness prayers

Homework for Thursday, October 26, 2023

--Spelling words story

Tomorrow:

--Spelling and Reading test

--Science and Social Studies

--Buddy time- writing Halloween stories with buddies- this is our fun Friday activity

 

Have a dry and lovely evening,

With Gratitude,

Mrs. Sharon Shute

Homework for Wednesday, 10/25/23:

--Spelling Sentences to prepare for Friday's spelling test

--Math fluency sheet to practice for our math test tomorrow

 

Tomorrow:

--Gym first period

--Haunted House presentations on SeeSaw; Class will watch and vote for which Haunted House they want to buy.

--New Lit circle book for group 3! Group 1 will begin a new book soon, too-

 

Have a lovely day,

With Gratitude,

Mrs. Sharon Shute

Homework for Tuesday, 10/24/23

-- Spelling text messages to prepare for Friday's spelling test.

--Math fluency worksheet to prepare for Thursday's math test.

 

 

Monday, 10/23/23

Homework:

--Spelling homework

Tomorrow:

--Gym

--Grandparent's Day Mass- students are allowed to sit with Grandparents at the Mass and stay for the reception.

--We read our myth story in ELA-Goldenflower

 

Have a lovely evening,

Mrs. Shute

Week at a Glance: October 23-27, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

Math: Continuing Subtraction Chapter 3

Reading: Week 5 highlights The World Around Us

Spelling: Words with vowel digraphs

Writing: Prepping for writing a personal narrative

Religion: Grandparent’s Day Mass and Following Jesus

Social Studies: Continuing work on project in Media

Science: Force

Other Highlights:

• Grandparent’s Day on Tuesday- Hope to see lots of grandparents at the 8:30 Mass. Mrs. Lombardo has provided us with a list of students who will be participating. 
• Friday we meet with our buddies and create a spooktacular story

Math: Completion of Chapter 3- Subtraction

• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• Model with mathematics.
• Attend to precision.
• Look for and make use of structure.

Math Vocabulary Words: digit, hundreds, tens, thousands, regroup, 

Monday- Lesson 7- Subtract across zeros- Students will subtract across zeros

Tuesday- Lesson 8- Fluency practice and Review of chapter-

Wednesday- Practice test for Chapter 

Thursday- Assessment for Chapter 3 Subtraction- Subtraction

Friday- Math practice reteach lessons reviewing subtraction concepts

• Daily mental math
• Daily Simple Solutions Math Lesson
• Daily IXL math, Prodigy, and IReady lessons-

Spelling Words: 

Thousand, shower, power, enjoy, bounce, avoid, appoint, annoy, proud, fountain

Bonus words: pronounce, surroundings, turmoil

High Frequency Words: unit, figure

Develop Vocabulary: pouch, globe, murmuring, mountainside, footpath

Unit Academic Vocabulary Words: competition, solve, occasion, organization

Also: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs

• Daily practice with October Spelling Menu- activities to promote correct spelling of words.

Reading: Unit 1 Week 5- Question of the week: Why should we appreciate our environment?

Goals: I can learn more about traditional tales and analyze descriptive language in a myth.

I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.

I can use elements of a narrative to write a personal narrative.

Objectives:

-Develop oral language through listening, speaking, and discussion.

-Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.

-Interact with sources in a meaningful way such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.

-Recognize characteristics of digital texts.

-Apply critical thinking skills to organize and use information acquired from a variety of valid sources, including electronic technology.

Writing:

• Daily entries in October journal
• Daily entries in October prompts
• Personal narratives- We will begin filling out a graphic organizer to prepare for next week’s writing assignment.
• Daily writing in DOL packet (daily oral language)

Phonetic Awareness:

• Vowel diphthongs: ou, ow, oi Review of; ee, ea, ai, ay, ow, oa

Religion- Session 7- Unit 2- Following Jesus

Theme- Jesus the Son call us to love God the Father and one another

Outcomes:

• Explain what Jesus wants us to do in order to follow him.
• Discuss how God calls us to follow the Ten Commandments.
• Explain how being generous helps us follow Jesus.
• Define conversation

Daily prayers, songs, devotions, opportunities to grow closer to Jesus and God.

Also, focus on our Secret Agents of Kindness prayer list-

Social Studies:

For the past few weeks, our focus was on researching famous Hispanic Americans in celebration of`Hispanic Heritage Month- Monday our students will continue creating Google Slides for their Hispanic Heritage famous person  Students had a very productive Media session last week so hopefully they will complete the six slides on Monday and be ready to present in class. Mrs. Leonhardt will be in our class for the presentations- thrilled about this!

Also, we’ll return to our book this week with continued study of maps and geography. Students will be creating their own map of the world and identifying continents, oceans, and equator.

Science: I will know that pushes and pulls affect motion.

Words to know: force, friction, magnetism

In this unit, students explore the forces all around them. They investigate the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces, the pushes and pulls of bridge structures, and the effects of gravity and friction on the motion of objects. Students also explore the power of magnetic forces and design solutions to everyday problems using their knowledge of these forces.

Lesson 2- How does force affect motion link here

Link here for vocabulary for Lesson 2: force, motion, mass, friction, magnetism

Copy of activity link here

• In this lesson, students investigate the patterns of motion exhibited by a trapeze. In the activity, Trapeze Tester, students build a model trapeze. They make observations and take measurements of the motion of that model and use that data to predict the motion of a real trapeze.

Mystery Science activities will be utilized along with the Science book.

Link here for standards for this Chapter

Hello Everyone!

Great day today! Lots of good things accomplished in Room 13!

-Wonderful art in the box with Mrs. Kujundzic ad Mrs. Kennedy- see note in your child's folder.

-Almost completed our haunted house project- 

-Created cards for people on our prayer list- the delivery was an exciting experience for some of the kids.

-- No homework

Next week we go back to regular schedule w/ academics.

 

Have a lovely evening!

With Gratitude,

Mrs. Shute

Homework for Tuesday, 10/17/23

-- More math IXL homework- 

 

Tomorrow:

-- Art class

--Our first Art in the Box!

--Secret Agents of Kindness work

-- Round 2 of June's Halloween Bingo (with Karlee assisting)

-- Hopefully, completion of the Haunted House project... so much fun. The class is really enjoying creating these houses to sell. We'll soon see if they have any buyers.

--No homework tomorrow

 

Have a lovely evening,

With Gratitude,

Mrs. Shute

Homework for Monday, 10/16/23

-- Place Value homework 

No spelling h/w

Tomorrow:

--Gym

--All School Mass at 8:30

--Group project work on haunted houses- so much fun!

 

Have a lovely day!

With Gratitude,

Mrs. Shute