Week at a Glance for 9/25-9/29

 

Reminders for this week:

  • Monday- Morning Prayer in gym
  • Tuesday- Eucharistic Adoration at 12:30 in Church
  • Tuesday- Online safety speaker
  • Friday, 9/29- Autobiography book report due (poster project)
  • Friday 9/29- Spelling and Reading Test

Spelling Words are…..

 inches, pitches, dishes, glasses, spies, fries, cities, pennies, families, faxes 


Reading

Challenge Words: countries, mysteries, varieties

High frequency words: story, draw

Vocabulary words: preparations, magnificent, brooded, rejoicing, satisfied

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

This week we will be reading “Why the Sky is Far Away”.


Reading: Goals for the week:

  • I can learn more about traditional tales and infer themes in folktale.
  • 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

Students will …

  • make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.
  • Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
  • demonstrate knowledge of distinguishing characteristics of well known children’s literature such as folktales, fables, fairy tales, legends, and myths.
  • use print or digital resources to determine meaning, syllabication, and pronunciation.
  • identify, use and explain the meaning of idioms, homophones, synonyms, and antonyms in text.

Writing: 

  • Students will write a personal narrative.
  • Students will write daily in September Journal Packets.
  • Students will write daily in September Spelling Menu packet

Phonics/ Grammar: 

  • Spiral review: Syllable pattern VC/CV 
  • Plural nouns/ possessive nouns ending in /es/ or /s/
  • Work in September ELA packet
  • Work in Cursive packet

Math: Continuing with Chapter 2- Addition Strategies:

Math Vocabulary: reasonable, regroup, unknown

Students will be able to…..

  • 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.
  • Model with mathematics.
  • Use appropriate tools strategically.

Monday- Lesson 5: Estimate Sums

Tuesday-Lesson 6: Hands on: Use models to add

Wednesday- Lesson 7: Add three digit numbers

Thursday- Lesson 8: Add four digit numbers

Friday- Math games/ stations to review lessons 5-8

--Daily writing in Simple Solutions Math packet


Religion: Unit 1- Session 4

The salvation promised in the Old Testament is fulfilled in Jesus. Jesus means “God saves.” Christ means “the anointed one,” or the one especially chosen by God to be our Savior. Mary

Became the mother of Jesus through the Holy Spirit. Joseph responded to God’s call to be the foster father of Jesus.

What will be learned in Session 4

    • Retell Jesus’ miracles of the loaves and fishes.
    • Pray for the next part of the Apostles’ Creed.
    • Explain the meaning of Jesus’ different names.
    • Define Scriptures.
  • Watch videos of Bible Scriptures and passages.

Science: Continue with Chapter 1 Lesson 1 and finish 

(Chapter 1 Forces of Motion)