Week at a Glance for 10/9-10/13
Spelling Words: peaches, owner, charcoal, asleep, dream, braided, maintain, agree, shadow, display
bonus words: freedom, entertain, tomorrow
Reading
High Frequency Words: voice, south
Develop Vocabulary Words: shield, lack, exposure, nomadic, landscape
Unit Vocabulary Words: competition, solve, occasion, organization, custom
Question of the Week: What creative solutions do people come up with to survive in their environment?
Learning goals for the week:
- I can learn more about themes concerning environments by analyzing text features in an informational text.
- I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.
- I can use elements of narrative text to write a personal narrative (pn)
Objectives:
- Use text evidence to support an appropriate response.
- Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as: note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
- Identify can compare how people in different communities adapt to or modify the physical environment in which they live such as deserts, mountains, wetlands, and plains.
- Generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information.
- Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in text, and society.
Writing:
- Daily writing entries in October journal and ELA packet
- Daily entries in Spelling Menu Packet
- Writing about a famous Hispanic American
Math: Begin Chapter 3- Subtraction:
Math vocabulary: difference, subtract, estimate, inverse operations, regroup
Monday- Show what you know about subtraction page-
Monday also, Lesson 1- Subtract mentally: Use strategies to subtract mentally
Tuesday- Lesson 2- Estimate Differences- Estimate differences using rounding to the nearest ten or hundred.
Wednesday: Lesson 3- Problem Solving Investigation: Estimate or exact answer: Determine whether an estimate or an exact answer is needed to solve a problem.
Thursday- Lesson 4- Hands on: Subtract with regrouping: Model subtraction with regrouping.
Thursday- Check what you know: Half way through the chapter recheck on past lessons
Religion: Begin Unit 2 Session 6- Jesus’ Good News- Jesus the Son teaches us about the Kingdom of God the Father through parables.
Jesus tells parables through which he reveals the Kingdom of God to us. In the parables of the mustard seed and the yeast, Jesus the Son compares the kingdom to tiny things that become large manifestations of God the Father’s love. He teaches us to serve the kingdom by showing our love of God, our neighbors, and ourselves through acts of kindness.
Science:
1. Start on Chapter 1 Lesson 2
2. By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to investigate the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces on the motion of an object.
3. Vocab Words: force, friction, magnetism
Standards for the week: