Week at a Glance for 09/18- 09/21

Announcements/ Reminders of the Week

  1. Spelling Test on Thursday
  2. Religion class Review/Test on Thursday (Study guide will be on Google Classroom if students feel they need it)
  3. Reading Test on Thursday.
  4. 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

  1. I can learn more about traditional tales and

analyze plot and setting in a traditional tale.

  1. I can develop knowledge about language

to make connections between reading

and writing.

  1. Traditional Tales
  2. 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….


  1.  Study the addition table and find patterns to help them add.
  2. Add mentally to break up parts of addition.
  3. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
  4. Reason abstractly and quantitatively 
  5. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
  6. Attend to precision
  7. Look for and make use of structure
  8. 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:

  1. I can use elements of text to write a

personal narrative.

  1. Choose a topic for personal narrative.
  2. Use a graphic organizer.
  3. Watch various examples/ videos of personal narratives.
  4. Describe who is a narrator.
  5. Choose settings and sequence of events.
  6. Brainstorm and set a purpose for personal narrative.
  7. 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