Nov. 2- Nov. 5

Reading, Spelling and Writing: Unit 2 Week 2 (Weird Friends: Unlikely Allies in the Animal Kingdom)

• Learn more about informational texts and analyze the structure of an informational text.

• Develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.
• Use elements of an informational text to write a how-to article.

*Audio of the story will be shared on Google Classroom (Reading) each week!

*The Spelling List and Spelling Menu will be shared on Google Classroom (Spelling) each week!

Math: Chapter 3 Review and Chapter 4 (Understanding Multiplication)

• Review for Chapter 3 Test
• Use models to explore the meaning of multiplication.
• Relate multiplication and addition.

Social Studies: Chapter 5 (Settling in the United States)

• 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. 

Religion: Session 7

Objectives:

• Explain what Jesus wants us to do in order to follow him.
• Discuss how God calls us to follow the Ten Commandments.
• Explain how being generous helps us follow Jesus.
• Identify ways to show love for God.
• Define conversion.

October 26th- 30th

Reading, Spelling and Writing: Unit 2 Week 1 (Patterns in Nature)

• Learn more about information texts and identify the main idea and details in an informational text.
• Develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.
• Use elements of informational text to write a how-to article.

*Audio of the story will be shared on Google Classroom (Reading) each week!

*The Spelling List and Spelling Menu will be shared on Google Classroom (Spelling) each week!

Math: Chapter 3 (Subtraction): Test Tuesday Nov. 3rd

Objectives:

• Model subtraction with regrouping
• Subtract three-digit numbers
• Subtract four-digit numbers
• Subtract across zeros

Social Studies: Chapter 5 (Settling in the United States)

• 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. 

Religion: Session 6

Objectives:

• Explain the meaning of the good soil and the seed in Jesus’ parable.
• Explain why Jesus told parables.
• Describe ways we can serve God’s kingdom.
• Discuss how Saints Benedict and Scholastics served the kingdom of God.
• Define monastery.

Reading, Spelling and Writing: (Two weeks)

Book Study: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

OBJECTIVES:

• Learn more about themes concerning friendship and loyalty by analyzing descriptive language in a myth.
• Develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing 
• Use elements of narrative text to write a personal narrative
• Focus on elements of a story: beginning/middle/ending, sequencing, figurative language, making predictions, summarizing

Math: Subtraction (Chapter 3)

• Use strategies to subtract mentally.
• Estimate differences using rounding to the nearest ten or hundred.

Religion: Session 6 Jesus’ Good News

• Explain the meaning of the good soil and the seed in Jesus’ parables.
• Explain why Jesus told parables.
• Describe ways we can serve God’s kingdom.
• Discuss how Saint Benedict and Scholastica served the Kingdom of God.
• Define monastery.

Social Studies: Lesson 4 and present brochures

• Identify and describe the diverse environment of North America that were home to a variety of Native American groups.
• Discuss the ways in which physical geography, including climate, influenced how Native Americans adapted to their natural environment.
• Describe the identities, religious beliefs, customs, and various folklore traditions of Native American groups.

• Our first book report instructions came home! Please thoroughly read this and PLEASE guide your child-allowing them to do the work! This builds confidence, independence and a true sense of pride for our students. Due date for this fiction book is: November 2nd! PLEASE NO GRAPHIC NOVELS-thank you!
• The link for parent teacher conferences is coming out on October 10th. Please sign up for a timeslot to chat about the progress of your child.
• We have begun our annual pen pal program. Please ask your child to tell you all about this!

Reading, Spelling and Writing: (Two weeks)

Book Study: The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate

OBJECTIVES:

• Learn more about themes concerning friendship and loyalty by analyzing descriptive language in a myth.
• Develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing 
• Use elements of narrative text to write a personal narrative
• Focus on elements of a story: beginning/middle/ending, sequencing, figurative language, making predictions, summarizing

Math: Chapter 14-Geometry (How can geometric shapes help me solve real world problems?)

•  Lesson 5-Shared Attributes of Quadrilaterals (describe the shard attributes of quadrilaterals)
• Lesson 7-Partition Shapes (Partition shapes into equal sections and write unit fractions to represent each area)
• Chapter 14 Geometry Review
• Chapter 14 Geometry-test Thursday

Religion: Session 5 Celebrating Ordinary Time

• Discuss how we grow in God’s Love during Ordinary Time
• Explain that in Ordinary Time, we are grateful to belong to our church community.
• Discuss how we grow in community by being Christ to the world.
• Define community and missal.

Social Studies: Lesson 4 and Start presenting brochures

• Identify and describe the diverse environment of North America that were home to a variety of Native American groups.
• Discuss the ways in which physical geography, including climate, influenced how Native Americans adapted to their natural environment.
• Describe the identities, religious beliefs, customs, and various folklore traditions of Native American groups.