This week’s announcements:

1. Spelling and Reading Test on Friday
2. On Tuesday there is an 8:30 Mass and Carmel Spanish students visit classrooms and read a story to students.
3. Thursday- Stations of the Cross 12:30 Service

Spelling Words: 

• certainly

• earn

• return

• search

•  swerve

•  termite

•  third

•  thirsty

•  thirteen

• thirty 

bonus words: determine, virtual, personable

High Frequency Words: system, brought

Develop Vocabulary:  community, donate, convince, generous, transformed-

Unit Vocabulary Words: benefit, generation, advice, consumer, familiar

Language and Conventions- possessive nouns

Reading

Weekly question: How can one person improve a community?

Focus on Daniel Burham and Jane Addams

• Collaborate with others to determine how communities change over time.
• Knowing about biography and understand its elements
• Use language to make connections between reading and writing narrative nonfiction
• Use elements of opinion writing to write a opinion essay

Week 1- Learn more about biography and analyze text structure in a biography

This week we will learn about:

• Primary source- Daniel Burnham
• Biography: The House that Jane Built
• Words that explain main ideas
• Analyze text structure
• Correct or confirm predictions
• Talk about it: Ask relevant questions

Reading-Writing Workshop Bridge:

• Academic vocabulary- related words
• Word Study- R controlled vowels: ir, er, ur, ear
• Read like a writer- explain the use of descriptive language
• Write for a reader-use descriptive language

Writing

1. Finish Historical Fiction rough drafts
2. Start on Final Drafts and the editing process.
3. Once finished, students will present them if they feel comfortable,

Math:

1. We will be continuing Chapter 9- Properties and Equations-
2. Vocabulary words: evaluate, variable, expressions, operations, equation, estimate,

Students will be able to:

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

Monday- Lesson 7- Write Expressions- Students will represent one- and two step word problems using equations and a variable.

Tuesday:  Lesson 8- Solve Using Two-Stop Word Problems- Students will represent and solve two-step word problems using equations and a variable.

Wednesday:- Lesson 9- Problem Solving Investigation: Use logical reasoning- Students will use logical reasoning to solve problems. Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.

Thursday and Friday- Review sessions 1-9 for test next week

Social Studies: Continuing Ireland Unit-

Students in both classes will engage in a month-long look at Ireland through images, videos, and story books. Each student has received a county in Ireland and that will be the county the students researches for their March book report . This week, students will continue to discuss Ireland’s culture, landscape, and landmarks.  Students will learn about the four provinces of Ireland and learn about St. Patrick- Ireland’s patron saint. Students will also learn some songs interconnected with Ireland.

Science

1. This week we will start to learn about living and nonliving animals in Chapter 4.
2. Lesson 1: How can you classify animals? 
3. Videos and worksheets for enrichment activities.
4. Activity: How does a back bone move? How can you classify animals? (video and virtual lab).

Learning Objectives

DCI-3-LS3.A.2

Many characteristics of organisms are inherited from their parents.

DCI-3-LS3.A.3

Other characteristics result from individuals' interactions with the environment, which can range from diet to learning. Many characteristics involve both inheritance and environment.

PE-3-LS3-1

Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence that plants and animals have traits inherited from parents and that variation of these traits exists in a group of similar organisms.

PE-3-LS3-2

Use evidence to support the explanation that traits can be influenced by the environment.

Religion:

• Students will attend 8:30 non buddy School Mass
• Students will discuss Stations of the Cross to prepare for Thursday.
• Students will attend the Stations of the Cross on Thursday at 12:30 Mass.