Important Notes for this week:

• Picture day is on Friday
• First Buddy Mass on Tuesday at 8:30
• Switching for Science and Social Studies starts this week!
• Daily Spelling and Math Homework
• Our Gym days are Tuesdays and Fridays!
• Spelling Test on Friday! (Spelling words will be sent home in home folders)

Math: Continuing Chapter 1-  Place Value

Math Vocabulary: hundreds, one, tens, place value, digit, round, expanded form, standard form, place value, word form

--Tuesday- Lesson 5: Round to the nearest hundred; Students will round to the nearest hundred. How can numbers be expressed, ordered, and compared?

--Wednesday- Lesson 6- Students will use the four-step plan to solve problems- The four-step plan helps students organize the given facts into a plan through which the problem can be solved.

--Thursday- Lesson 7 Chapter Review for Place Value Chapter--

--Friday- Students will participate in math centers to help practice all lessons in Chapter 1- Test will be on Monday.

Reading:

Students will continue reading the novel Third Grade Angels. Students will be working daily on completing:

• 30-page Close Reading activity packet to  students' listening skills and comprehension skills during the read aloud. (This will be usually wholegroup)
• Comprehension questions (short response, not multiple choice) per chapter. There are 17 chapters in this book, we are on chapter 6.
• A book report template
• Essay (ELA format)
• We will have 6 spelling words this week that come from the chapters we read.

ELA: 

• Daily entries in Simple Solutions Grammar packet-
• Daily work on English Prodigy and IXL.
• Seesaw will also be used for spelling this week.

Reading Groups:

Students will be reading short stories with basic comprehension questions and short answers. This will help with fluency for reading as well.

Religion: Session 2- Created to Be Together

Students will learn about:

• State Paul’s message about mutual charity in children’s own words.
• Explain that we adore and glorify the Holy Trinity when we pray the Sign of the Cross.
• Explain that by loving others we spread God’s love in the world.
• Praying the Glory Be prayer
• Define Sign of the Cross

Science: 

Students will be learning about the following this week:

Chapter 1- Forces and Motion

-By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to observe and describe patterns of how objects change position when they move.

-Your child will also learn how objects change position when they move; the effects that mass, friction, gravity, and magnetism have on motion; and the difference between balanced and unbalanced forces.

- Various sources of media will be watched to aid student understanding. (videos, audio, worksheets, reading whole group and with partners)

Vocabulary:

force friction gravity magnetism motion position speed