Week at a Glance: January 22 - January 16

Reminders for this week: 
- Students will be taking iReady tests this week. 
 
Math: We will start this week by reviewing the first six lessons from Chapter 6. On Tuesday the students will take the Lesson 1-6 quiz. The rest of the week we will cover lessons 7 - 10. 
Objectives:
- Determine where to place the first digit when dividing.
- Solve division problems with greater numbers.
- Solve division problems that result in quotients that have zero. 
 
Social Studies: In Social Studies this week we are going to start exploring the Midwest. We will complete a geographical activity, introduce new vocabulary, and complete the unit inquiry activity. 
Objectives: 
- Apply map skills to locate geographical sites of the Midwest
- Categorize key elements of the economy, geography, transportation, history, and people of the Midwest over time. 

Religion: We are finishing Unit 3 in religion this week by covering how we can serve God and serve others. We finished the week by completing the Unit 3 activity packet. 
Objective: 
- Consider how Scripture and Traditions can deepen our understanding of the content.
 
LA/Reading: We are starting U3W3 in our MyView books this week. The focus is still on diversity, but the question this week is, how does music bring people together? We will read an autobiography this week, Trombone Shorty by Troy Andrews.. The vocabulary words for this week are: inspiration, create, heritage, festival, and performance.. Our language convention for this week is irregular verbs. The U3W3 test will be on Friday.
Objectives:
- Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrations. 
- Use appropriate fluency when reading-grade level text.
- Recognize and analyze genre-specific characteristics, structures, and purposes within and across increasingly complex, traditional, contemporary, classical and diverse texts.
- Analyze the author’s use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes. 

Spelling: U3W3 words focus on words with final stable syllables, such as pollute.. Students will have two word choice activities and one spelling worksheet to help them prepare for the test on Friday.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge.
- Demonstrate and apply spelling knowledge.
 
Science: Check out Ms. Arnold’s page!