Spelling Words

1. total
2. digit
3. talent
4. human
5. minus
6. defend
7. finish
8. equal
9. salad
10. famous

Challenge words: library, mishap, spiral

Reading: Unit 2 Week 1 - Patterns in Nature

How do patterns in nature help plants and animals?

Vocabulary words: patterns, nature, repeat, sequence, symmetry

Unit 2 Vocabulary words: prefer, features, investigate, associate, avoid

High frequency words: certain, half

Unit theme: Interactions/ Essential Question- How do plants and animals live together?

This week’s objectives:

1. Students will learn about informational texts by identifying main ideas and details.
2. Self-selected text and read independently for a sustained period of time.
3. Describe personal connections to a variety of sources, including self-selected texts.
4. Recognize characteristics of digital texts.
5. Use elements of informational text to write a how-to-article
6. Understand and use graphic features

Weekly Grammar:

• Singular and plural nouns
• Irregular nouns
• Plural possessive nouns
• Main verbs and helping verbs

Writing

• Finish personal narratives
• How-to-article/ compose a headline and lead
• Compose facts and details
• Brainstorm and set a purpose
• Plan how-to-article
• Continued writing in November creative writing journal and daily writing in notebook with November prompts.

Math: Chapter 4: Multiplication

• Vocabulary Math Words:
• Array, Commutative Property of Multiplication, equal groups, factors, multiplication, multiplication sentence, multiply, product, repeated addition, combination, tree diagram.

Weekly Objectives:

1. Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
2. Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
3. Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
4. Model with mathematics.
5. Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
6. Look for and make use of structure.
7. Attend to precision.
8. Use appropriate tools strategically.

Monday- Lesson 5- Students will use a make a table strategy to solve problems.- Problem solving investigation

Tuesday- - Lesson 6- Students will use multiplication to find the total number of combinations that can be made when given two groups of objects.- Use multiplication to find combinations.

Wednesday- Chapter 4 Review and Reflect; Vocabulary Check/ Problem Solving, 

Thursday- Assessment on Chapter 4 Introduction to Multiplication

Friday- No School

Science: Continuing with Lesson 2

In this unit, students will

1. Explore the forces all around them. 
2. 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. 
3. Students also explore the power of magnetic forces and design solutions to everyday problems using their knowledge of these forces.

Weekly vocabulary: force, motion, mass, friction, magnetism, gravity, predict, pattern.

Social Studies: Finding Places in the United States

This week students will build a compass and use it to find the direction of eight landmarks across the United States. They then learn how to use map scales to estimate distances from their community to famous U.S. landmarks.

Essential Question: Where in the United States is my community?

Weekly Objective:

1. Use information gained from illustrations and the words in text to demonstrate understanding of the text. (reading)
2. Ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. (reading)

Vocabulary words: canyon, cardinal directions, may key, scale, symbol

Religion: Unit 2 Session 9- Jesus Dies and Rises-

Session Theme:  Through Jesus’ Death. Resurrection and Ascension, we are offered Salvation.

Weekly Objective:

1. Discuss Jesus’ gift of new life.
2. Discuss Jesus’ passage from Death to Resurrection.
3. Describe what Saint Paul wrote about the Paschal Mystery in his letters.
4. Explain that we show our love for others through our actions.
5. Define Paschal Mystery