This week's announcements

• Religion: Tuesday non-buddy Mass at 8:30
• Social Studies: Conclusion of Black History Month
• Finish January animal book report presentations. 
• Spelling and Reading Test on Thursday
• Science Project and Writing of Historical Fiction starts this week.
• There is no School Friday due to Archdiocese meetings!
• iReady progress monitoring starts this week!

 

Spelling Words: 

1. wolves

2. knives

3. children

 4. sheep

5. heroes

6. scarves,

7. geese, 

8. calves,

9. volcanoes, 

10. loaves

Bonus spelling words: crises, cacti, vertebrae

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Unit vocab words: encourage, defeat, distinguish, achieve, command

Weekly Vocabulary Words:  triumphant, company challenge, twinkle, curious

High Frequency Words: ago, stood

 

Reading: Unit 3 Week 5- Theme- Heroes- Weekly Question- What kind of actions can be heroic? People can be heroes in many ways, big and small.

• 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.
• Identity and analyze the heroic deeds of individuals, including military and first responders such as Four Chaplains.

Reading Objectives:

• lIsten attentively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments.
• Recognize and analyze genre specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex traditional, contemporary, classical, and diverse texts.
• Read grade-level prose and poetry orally with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression.
• Some types of poetry to be examined include: narrative poetry, free verse, concrete-
• Parts of Speech reviewed: nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs-
• Identify, use, and explain the meaning of synonyms, homophones, idioms, antonyms, and homographs in a text.

Learning Goals:

• I can learn more about themes concerning heroes and explain poetic elements in poetry.
• I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.
• Words to know to understand poetry: line breaks, stanzas, imagery, sound devices, figurative language.

 

Writing: 

- Students will start planning there historical fiction narratives.

- Weekly cursive, handwriting and sentence corrections.

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Math: Chapter 9- Properties and Equations

Vocabulary Words: Associative Property of Multiplication, Distributive Property, equation, evaluate, expression, operations, variable, 

Mathematical  Practices:

• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
• Look for and make use of structure.
• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
• Attend to precision.
• Look for and make use of structure.
• Model with mathematics

Monday- Lesson 1- Hands on: Take apart to multiply- Explore how to take apart factors to multiply. Students will explore how to take apart factors to multiply.

Tuesday- Lesson 2- The Distributive Property- Apply the Distributive Property of Multiplication to find products. Students will apply the Distributive Property of Multiplication to find products.

Wednesday- Lesson 3- Hands on: Multiply Three Factors- Explore how to find the product of 3 numbers. Students will explore how to find the product of three factors. 

Thursday- Lesson 4- The Associative Property--Apply the Associative Property of Multiplication to find products. Students will apply the Associative Property of Multiplication to find products.

• Daily Simple Solutions Math Packet
• Daily practice with IReady Math lessons

 

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Social Studies:

1. Conclusion of Black History Month with presentations of February book reports.

2. Start Unit 2: History: Lesson 5 Settling in the United States

Compelling Questions:How do history and culture shape your community?

Essential Question

How do people become part of our country?

 

Overview

Investigate immigration in the United States by carefully analyzing visual and written primary sources from various time periods.

 

Objectives

Social Studies

• Analyze why and how people immigrate to the United States.
• Compare benefits and drawbacks of immigrating to the United States.
• Draw conclusions from primary and secondary sources.

 

Language Arts

• Identify main ideas in text. (reading)
• Describe and illustrate an idea. (writing)

 

Preview [10 min]

Think about how it feels to move to a new place and then listen to audio clips from immigrants about their experiences. 

 

Hands-On Activity: Analyzing Primary Sources [45 min]

Investigate immigration in the United States by carefully analyzing visual and written primary sources from various time periods.

 

Show What You Know [10 min]

Compare opportunities and challenges of immigration. 

 

Science: Conclude Chapter 3: Plants

1. Create your own plant project.

(Students will show their understanding of this unit by making their own plant and describing what it needs to survive)

 

Religion: Lenten Journey

Students will be discussing feelings and emotions during this Lenten journey by coloring a cross with different traits of Lent- We’ll also discuss, as a school family, how we can become closer by acting on these positive actions to become closer to God and each other.