Week at a Glance: October 30-November 3, 2023

Highlights of the Week:

Reading: Last week in Unit 1 of Reading

Spelling: Review of spelling words from this unit

Writing: Write personal narratives about an important event

Math:  Begin Chapter 4- Understand Multiplication

Religion: All Saints Day Mass on Wednesday

Social Studies: Present Hispanic Heritage famous person

Science: Continuing with Force, Friction, Motion

Other Highlights:

• Presentation of October book reports beginning Wednesday- 
• Halloween party on Tuesday from 12:30-1:30

Spelling Words (a review of past words)-

fantastic, lesson, absent, families, glasses, pennies, beginning, dragging, carried, easier, dream.

Reading: Unit 1 Week 6

Monday- Lesson 1- Compare across texts; Answer the inquiry question:

• Introduce Inquiry project
• Read “What Makes a Playground Safe?”
• Build Background

Tuesday- Lesson 2- Explore and Plan

• Argumentative writing
• Read: “Getting Outside”
• Apply characteristics of text
• Conduct field research
• Apply field research

Wednesday- Lesson 3- Collaborate and Discuss

• Analyze a Student Model
• Identify features of argumentative texts
• Identify Primary and Secondary Sources
• Read “Discovering Great Smoky Mountain National Park”
• Apply primary and secondary research sources to article

Thursday- Lesson 4- Extend Research:

• Analyze structure of a thank you note
• Incorporate plans to write a thank you letter
• Collaborate and Discuss
• Revise, Edit: Adding Details
• Peer review letters

Friday- Lesson 5- Celebrate and Reflect

• Present your letters; Reflect on project
• Reflect on your goals, reading, and writing

Friday- Reading Test- Unit 1

Writing:

• Writing in October Spelling Menut
• Writing in October Creative writing journal
• Writing in notebook- short stories with October prompts
• Writing in graphic organizers and writing personal narratives

Math: Begin Chapter 4 Multiplication

Objectives:

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
• Model with mathematics.
• Use appropriate tools strategically.

New Vocabulary: equal groups, multiplication, multiplication sentence, multiply, factors, product, Commutative Property of Multiplication, 

Monday- Lesson 1- What does multiplication mean? Students use models to explore the meaning of multiplication- 

Tuesday-Lesson 2-  Multiplication as repeated addition- Students will relate multiplication and addition.

Wednesday- Lesson 3- Students will use arrays to explore and model multiplication.- Multiplication with arrays-

Thursday- Lesson 4- Arrays and Multiplication: Students will use arrays to multiply-

Science: I will know that pushes and pulls affect motion. Continuing with Lesson 2: Students participated in an experiment in what makes bridges so strong.

Words to know: force, friction, magnetism

In this unit, students explore the forces all around them. They investigate the effects of balanced and unbalanced forces, the pushes and pulls of bridge structures, and the effects of gravity and friction on the motion of objects. Students also explore the power of magnetic forces and design solutions to everyday problems using their knowledge of these forces.

Lesson 2- How does force affect motion link here

Link here for vocabulary for Lesson 2: force, motion, mass, friction, magnetism

Copy of activity link here

• In this lesson, students investigate the patterns of motion exhibited by a trapeze. In the activity, Trapeze Tester, students build a model trapeze. They make observations and take measurements of the motion of that model and use that data to predict the motion of a real trapeze.

Mystery Science activities will be utilized along with the Science book.

Link here for standards for this Chapter

In Science book: 

• Motion and combined forces
• We’ll play tug o war on Friday to demonstrate unbalance forces
• Magnetism- non contact force
• How does mass affect motion?  Experiment with a book, ruler, rubber ball, table tennis ball

Social Studies: How can you use geography skills to solve problems?

• Students will complete their Google slide report,on their chosen famous person, for Hispanic Heritage month on Monday in Media.
• Students will present their Google slides to class on Wednesday with Mrs. Leonhardt present. 
• In book: Label continents, poles, oceans and other countries on map in book.
• Create a flat map of the world with pictures from the book. Label continents and oceans.
• Essential question for Lesson 1: Where in the world is our community?
• This lesson teaches students where places are on Earth using maps. The names of hemispheres, continents, oceans, countries, and states all help us to say where a place is located. Maps show borders of places. Some borders are made by mountains and rivers, but others are decided on by people.

Religion: Session 8 Unit 2- Jesus Gathers Disciples-

Session Theme- Jesus invites his followers to enter the Kingdom of God.

Jesus the Son invites his followers to work together to spread the Good News of the kingdom. The Twelve Apostles accepted the mission that Jesus gave them: to proclaim the Kingdom of God. We too are called to work together as disciples of Jesus and proclaim the Kingdom of God.

• Discuss how Jesus gathered the disciples.
• Tell the story of how Jesus chose Peter to follow him.
• Explore why Jeus needed apostles and disciples to help him. 
• Discuss reasons why we need to work together to serve the kingdom.
• Define Gospel and mission.