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High Frequency Words: government, material

Develop vocabulary: heritage, immigrants, interview, permission, arrival

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

Weekly Reading: Grace and Grandma

Weekly Phonics: Understanding homophones

Reading Objectives

• Describe personal connections to a variety of sources including self-selected texts.
• Interact with sources in meaningful ways.
• Listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments.
• Identify the meaning of words with affixes.
• Identify, use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, synonyms, idioms, homophones, and homographs in a text.
• Publish written work for appropriate audiences.

Reading Standards

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Refer explicitly to the text as the basis for answers.

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Describe characters in a story.

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Describe character feelings.

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Refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text.

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Refer to parts of dramas, using terms such as scene, when writing or speaking about a text.

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Read dramas at the high end of the grades 2–3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

Math

Math: Chapter 11- Measurement

Students will be able to…

• Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

• Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

• Model with mathematics.

• Use appropriate tools strategically.

• Attend to precision.

• Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

• Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

• Look for and make use of structure.

Math vocabulary words: capacity, liquid volume, liter, metric unit, milliliter, unit, gram, kilogram, mass, 

Monday- Lesson 1- Hands On: Estimate and Measure Capacity- Students will explore estimating and measuring liquid volume using metric units of capacity.

Tuesday- Lesson 2- Solve Capacity Problems- Students will use the four operations to solve one-step word problems involving liquid volume.

Wednesday- Lesson 3- Hands On- Estimate and Measure Mass- Students will explore estimating and measuring metric units of mass.

Thursday- Lesson 4- Solve Mass Problems: Students will use the four operations to solve one-step word problems involving mass.

Friday- Review Lessons 1-4 with small groups and stations.

Science

• Finish Chapter 4: Animals

• Students will start to work on their animal research projects for their summative assessment.

Social Studies

Continuing Lesson 5- Settling in the USA

Questions to answer in this lesson:

• Why do immigrants come to the states?

• How immigrants came to the USA?

• Where did immigrants settle in the US?

• What was life like for immigrants in the US?

• How to become a US citizen-

Video: 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:

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

Show What You Know- Compare opportunities and challenges of immigration. 

Also: Students will finish presenting March Book Report Monday Morning.

Social Studies Project- Students will be assigned a country to research (in small groups) and will have a role in their research. They will  learn the culture about the country they are immigrating from and what certain roles/ expectations were in their country and answer the following questions:

• Why are you leaving the county and coming to the USA?

• What was your role in your country? (Examples: Mom, Dad, Teacher, Student)

• What are some words in your native language that we could learn? (five words)

• What are your hopes and dreams for coming to America?

After research- students will present their immigration country to the class and classmates will record information learned from the other groups. 

Writing:

• Work on writing prompts, cursive and sentence corrections daily.

• Finish Biographies project if not finished.

Religion: Session 18 Celebrating the Eucharist

Session Theme: The celebration of the Eucharist is at the center of Catholic life.

The Mass is the most important celebration of the Church. It is the heart of the Catholic life of worship. We celebrate it every Sunday, the Lord’s Day, and on holy days of obligation. In the Eucharist, we remember Jesus’ life, Death, Resurrection, and Ascension.

Students will be able to:

• Retell the story of the Last Supper.

• Explain how Jesus is present in the Mass and the Eucharist.

• Express the importance of joining God’s family at Mass.

• List days on which we especially must attend Mass.

• Define: Epistles + Worship