Week at a Glance for 09/18- 09/21
Announcements/ Reminders of the Week
- Spelling Test on Thursday
- Religion class Review/Test on Thursday (Study guide will be on Google Classroom if students feel they need it)
- Reading Test on Thursday.
- September book report due September 29, 2023.
Spelling Words this week
(Test on Thursday)
basket
subject
lesson
Traffic
mustard
compact
absent
cosmic
disgust
fantastic
Challenge Words: (optional)
expectation, distinct, progress
Reading
(Test on Thursday)
High-Frequency Words
table
north
Unit 1 vocabulary: competition, solve, custom, occasion, organization
This week’s vocabulary: fierce, baring, flexing, crouching, swipe
Story that will be read this week: Grandma and the Great Gourd
Learning goals
- I can learn more about traditional tales and
analyze plot and setting in a traditional tale.
- I can develop knowledge about language
to make connections between reading
and writing.
- Traditional Tales
- Syllable Pattern VC/CV
(Students will also work on IXL and English Prodigy this week. Along with 1-2 cursive worksheets to keep up memory.)
Math
This week’s schedule:
Monday: Chapter 2 Lesson 2: Patterns in the addition table
Tuesday: Chapter 2 Lesson 3: Addition patterns
Wednesday: Chapter 2 Lesson 4: Add mentally
Thursday: Chapter 2 Lesson’s 1- 4 Review and Stations
Weekly vocabulary: patterns, associative, commutative, identity, mental math, parenthesis
Essential Question: How can place value help me add larger numbers?
Learning objective: Students will be able to….
- Study the addition table and find patterns to help them add.
- Add mentally to break up parts of addition.
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- Attend to precision
- Look for and make use of structure
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
- IXL, Prodigy and Splash Math will be used daily to aid in learning.
- Homework will be given Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday this week.
Writing
Learning Goals:
- I can use elements of text to write a
personal narrative.
- Choose a topic for personal narrative.
- Use a graphic organizer.
- Watch various examples/ videos of personal narratives.
- Describe who is a narrator.
- Choose settings and sequence of events.
- Brainstorm and set a purpose for personal narrative.
- Plan personal narrative.
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
Religion:
- Daily reading of Jesus Calling devotional book, daily songs, intentions, and prayers.
- All School Mass Tuesday at 8:30
- Start Session 4
- Review in class session will be on Thursday