ELA  

• Unit 4 test on Wednesday
• Bonus letter spelling rule: ff,ll, ss, and sometimes zz.
• Glued sound: all
• Punctuation
• Start Unit 5
• Glued sounds: am, an
• Reading with accuracy and prosody
• Proofreading
• To understand that reading a book multiple times for different purposes helps readers better understand and enjoy the story
• Generate and answer questions about Green Eggs and Ham using key details from the text.
• Retell Green Eggs and Ham, including details about characters, settings, and major events.
• Identify who is telling the story at key points in Green Eggs and Ham.
• Identify interrogative sentences.
• Use sentence level context as a clue to the meaning of the words portrait, landscape, and still life.

MATH

• Subtract to find missing addends
• Chapter 4 test Thursday
• Count and write numbers 11 to 19

SCIENCE

• Students make observations of baby animals and their parents, gathering evidence that they look similar because they share many of the same traits. In the activity, Baby Bird Rescue, students help identify lost baby birds based on observations of their specific traits.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Make decisions about the best way to be a good citizen.

• Describe characteristics of being a good citizen.

RELIGION

• Explain that God wants all people to be part of his Church.
• Describe how the Holy Spirit is with us.
• Explain that the Holy Spirit gave the Apostles courage.
• Define parish and Pentecost.

Monday- Veterans Day dress down.  Students can wear red, white, and blue.

Wednesday- Regular dress down for winning the Halloween door contest!

Friday- Packers vs Bears dress down for the entire school.  If your child does not have Bears or Packers, then any team is fine.

ELA  

• Bonus letter spelling rule: ff,ll, ss, and sometimes zz.
• Glued sound: all
• Punctuation
• To understand that reading a book multiple times for different purposes helps readers better understand and enjoy the story
• Generate and answer questions about Green Eggs and Ham using key details from the text.
• Retell Green Eggs and Ham, including details about characters, settings, and major events.
• Identify who is telling the story at key points in Green Eggs and Ham.

MATH

• Relate doubles addition facts to subtraction facts.
• Write a number sentence to solve problems.
• Subtract using the make 10 to subtract strategy.
• Identify similarities in related addition and subtraction sentences.
• Identify similarities in fact families.

SCIENCE

• Lights and Sound Unit continues
• Students practice using light to communicate information. In the activity, Secret Signals, students work in pairs to build a device that solves the problem of communicating over a distance. They send secret messages to one another using light and colored markers.
• Read-Along lesson, Gabrielle sets sail with her aunt—the captain of a tugboat—and discovers how the sights and sounds on the bay can help boats find their way. Students get moving by pretending to be boats. 
• Start Animal Superpowers Unit
• Students make observations of baby animals and their parents, gathering evidence that they look similar because they share many of the same traits. In the activity, Baby Bird Rescue, students help identify lost baby birds based on observations of their specific traits.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Make decisions about the best way to be a good citizen.
• Describe characteristics of being a good citizen.

RELIGION

• Tell that the Church is found around the world.
• Explain the importance of being a good friend.
• Tell how Jesus called Peter, Andrew, James, and John to be his followers.
• Define catholic, Church, and guardian angel.

ELA  

• Bonus letter spelling rule: ff,ll, ss, and sometimes zz.
• Glued sound: all
• Punctuation
• To understand that reading a book multiple times for different purposes helps readers better understand and enjoy the story
• Analyze the main character’s feelings using key details in That Book Woman.
• Analyze characters using key details in That Book Woman.
• Use frequently occurring adjectives to describe visual images.
• Develop vocabulary knowledge of the word scholar.
• Write a narrative retelling of That Book Woman that shows how the packhorse librarian changes life for Cal.

MATH

• Math Review
• Chapter 3 Math Test on Tuesday
• Count back by 1, 2, or 3 to subtract.

SCIENCE

• Lights and Sound Unit
• Students practice using light to communicate information. In the activity, Secret Signals, students work in pairs to build a device that solves the problem of communicating over a distance. They send secret messages to one another using light and colored markers.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Identify the purpose and benefits of having rules at school.
• Compare rules at home with rules at school and laws in the community.
• Illustrate the consequences of following and breaking rules.

RELIGION

• Identify Jesus as the Messiah.
• Describe how during Advent we prepare ourselves to welcome Jesus into our hearts on Christmas.
• Define Advent, Light of the World, and Messiah.

ELA  

• Bonus letter spelling rule: ff,ll, ss, and sometimes zz.
• Glued sound: all
• Punctuation
• To understand that reading a book multiple times for different purposes helps readers better understand and enjoy the story
• Analyze the main character’s feelings using key details in That Book Woman.
• Analyze characters using key details in That Book Woman.
• Use frequently occurring adjectives to describe visual images.
• Develop vocabulary knowledge of the word scholar.

MATH

• Act it out to solve math problems
• Use counters and ten-frame to make sums greater than 10
• Identify related addition facts.
• Add three numbers by looking for doubles or making ten

SCIENCE

• Lights and Sound Unit
• Students practice using light to communicate information. In the activity, Secret Signals, students work in pairs to build a device that solves the problem of communicating over a distance. They send secret messages to one another using light and colored markers.
• We will watch a Read-Along lesson, Gabrielle sets sail with her aunt—the captain of a tugboat—and discovers how the sights and sounds on the bay can help boats find their way. The lesson includes a short exercise where students get moving by pretending to be boats. We will  do an activity, Navigating by Sights and Sounds, where students play games to practice listening for sound cues.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Identify the purpose and benefits of having rules at school.
• Compare rules at home with rules at school and laws in the community.
• Illustrate the consequences of following and breaking rules.

RELIGION

• Identify disciples as Jesus’ friend who followed him and tried to live with him.
• Tell the story of Jesus’ Resurrection.
• Explain how Jesus is always with us.
• Define Christ, disciple, and Resurrection.

ELA  

• Concept of consonant digraph, keywords and sounds: wh, ch, sh, th, ck
• Spelling of ck at end of words
• Punctuation
• Unit 3 Test on Wednesday
• To understand that reading a book multiple times for different purposes helps readers better understand and enjoy the story
• Generate and answer questions about That Book Woman using key details from the text.
• Retell That Book Women, including key details about characters, setting, and major events.
• Define multiple meanings for words poke and spell.

MATH

• Use pennies to count on.
• Use a number line to help find the sum.
• Use the doubles to add strategy to help find the sum.
• Use the near doubles to add strategy to help find the sum.

SCIENCE

• Lights and Sound Unit
• Students investigate vibrations as a source of sound effects for movies. In the activity, Be a Sound Effects Artist, students use their hands and feet to create a "rainstorm," and then use rulers to create a “boing” sound for a cartoon bouncy ball.
• Students will watch a Read-Along lesson where Lin explores the sounds made by different kinds of instruments, and discovers what happens when vibrations start—and when they stop. The lesson includes a short exercise where students experiment with a piece of paper to make the connection between vibrations and sound. 

• SOCIAL STUDIES

• Identify the purpose and benefits of having rules at school.
• Compare rules at home with rules at school and laws in the community.
• Illustrate the consequences of following and breaking rules.

RELIGION

• Explain that Jesus shows us the way to God.
• Explain the difference between wants and needs.
• Pray the Lord’s Prayer.
• Explain forgiveness.
• Define temptation and trespass.

ELA  

• Concept of consonant digraph, keywords and sounds: wh, ch, sh, th, ck
• Spelling of ck at end of words
• Punctuation
• To understand that reading a book multiple times for different purposes helps readers better understand and enjoy the story
• Generate and answer questions about That Book Woman using key details from the text.

MATH

• Chapter 2 test Tuesday

• Count on from the greater number to find the sum

SCIENCE

• Students will watch a Read-Along lesson, Ryan’s camping trip with his dad includes a night of stargazing, and a mystery to solve. The lesson includes a short exercise where students imagine what they might see looking through a telescope. 

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Identify the purpose and benefits of having rules at school.
• Compare rules at home with rules at school and laws in the community.
• Illustrate the consequences of following and breaking rules.

RELIGION

• Explain that Jesus shows us the way to God.
• Explain the difference between wants and needs.
• Pray the Lord’s Prayer.
• Explain forgiveness.
• Define temptation and trespass.

ELA  

• Concept of consonant digraph, keywords and sounds: wh, ch, sh, th, ck
• Spelling of ck at end of words
• Punctuation
• To understand that reading a book multiple times for different purposes helps readers better understand and enjoy the story
• Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of the words and phrases in My Librarian Is A Camel.
• Determine the meaning of the word remote and mobile.
• Identify how pictures and captions communicate key details in My Librarian Is A Camel.

MATH

• Subtract numbers from nine
• Subtract numbers from ten
• Find related addition and subtraction
• Determine whether math statements are true or false

SCIENCE

• Students will use a model to investigate why the stars are visible at night but disappear when the Sun comes out during the day. In the activity, Star Projector, students use paper cups to project stars onto a sky picture, and observe what happens to these stars when a flashlight acts as a model of the Sun.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Identify the purpose and benefits of having rules at school.
• Compare rules at home with rules at school and laws in the community.
• Illustrate the consequences of following and breaking rules.

RELIGION

• Tell that the Beautitudes are ways to live in the world.
• Tell that Jesus gave us the Lord's Prayer.
• Pray the first half of the Lord’s Prayer.
• Explain that being kind to others is doing God’s will.
• Define Beautitudes, heaven, Kingdom of God, and prayer.

Field Trip Wednesday! 

Please send your child in their gym uniform for our field trip. 

We will eat at the farm so, your child will need a paper bag lunch.

ELA  

• Unit 2 test Tuesday

• Phoneme segmentation

• Concept of consonant digraph, keywords and sounds: wh, ch, sh, th, ck
• Spelling of ck at end of words
• Punctuation
• To understand that reading a book multiple times for different purposes helps readers better understand and enjoy the story
• Speak about how Waiting For The Biblioburro adds to knowledge of how books change lives.
• Generate questions about My Librarian Is A Camel using key details from the text.
• Ask and answer questions to help determine or clarify the meaning of words and phrases in My Librarian Is A Camel.

MATH

• Compare groups of up to nine objects
• Subtract numbers from four and five
• Subtract numbers from six and seven
• Subtract numbers from eight

SCIENCE

• Students explore all of the different shapes of the Moon that can appear on different nights. In the activity, My Moon Book, students observe photos of the Moon taken over the course of four weeks and draw pictures of the Moon's phases in their book. They use these observations to discover patterns in how the Moon’s shape changes and predict when the next full moon will appear.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Identify similarities and differences among classmates.
• Compare and contrast classmates’ personal preferences and talents.
• Categorize classmates according to their special talent.
• Analyze the cost and benefits of different choices.

RELIGION

• Demonstrate a way to show respect for Jesus’ name.
• Tell the story of Jesus’ birth
• Identify Jesus, Mary, and Joseph as the Holy Family.
• Define Angel, Holy Family, Joseph, and Mary.

ELA 

• To practice letter- keyword- sound for consonants and vowels
• To practice sound recognition 
• Phonemic awareness skills: sound manipulation (initial, final, medial)
• Segmenting and spelling three-sound short vowel words
• Sentence dictation procedures: capitalization, punctuation
• To understand that reading a book multiple times for different purposes helps readers better understand and enjoy the story
• To discuss that different readers enjoy different types of books
• Analyze Ana’s dreams using key details in Waiting for the Biblioburro.
• Identify root words and inflectional ending -ing
• Write a narrative retelling of Waiting for the Biblioburro that shows how the Biblioburro changes life for Ana.
• Develop vocabulary knowledge of the word inspire

MATH

• Write subtraction number sentences
• Subtract 0 or find a difference of 0
• Subtract across and down
• Draw a diagram to solve problems

SCIENCE

• Students watch a read aloud about Arushi who wonders why she has to go to bed while the sun is still up, and learns that the sun stays up longer on some days than others. The lesson includes a short exercise where students get moving by acting out a bedtime routine. 

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Identify similarities and differences among classmates.
• Compare and contrast classmates’ personal preferences and talents.
• Categorize classmates according to their special talent.
• Analyze the cost and benefits of different choices.

RELIGION

• Identify psalms as songs and poems of prayer.
• Explain that Ordinary Time is a time to show our thanks for God’s creation and for the gifts God gives us.
• Discuss the images of God’s creation- especially wheat and grapes that become bread and wine- displayed during Ordinary Time.
• Define celebrate, liturgical year, and Ordinary Time.

ELA 

• To practice letter- keyword- sound for consonants and vowels
• To practice sound recognition 
• Phonemic awareness skills: sound manipulation (initial, final, medial)
• Segmenting and spelling three-sound short vowel words
• Sentence dictation procedures: capitalization, punctuation
• To understand that reading a book multiple times for different purposes helps readers better understand and enjoy the story
• To discuss that different readers enjoy different types of books
• Generate and answer questions about Waiting for the Biblioburro, using key details from the text.
• Retell Waiting for the Biblioburro, including key details about characters, setting, and major events.
• Identify and generate verbs.
• Add -ed to verbs to make them past tense.

MATH

• Identify math statements as true and false
• Chapter 1 test Wednesday
• Use models to represent and solve subtraction situations
• Subtract parts from a whole 

SCIENCE

• Students develop a model of the sun’s daily path across the sky, then use this model to help someone who’s lost. In the activity, Sun Finder, students create a mobile paper model of the sun and earth to illustrate the position of the sun throughout the day.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Identify similarities and differences among classmates.
• Compare and contrast classmates’ personal preferences and talents.
• Categorize classmates according to their special talent.
• Analyze the cost and benefits of different choices.

RELIGION

• Demonstrate sharing a sign of peace.
• Explain that the Holy Spirit brings us God the Father’s gift of peace.
• Tell that God the Father sent his only Son, Jesus, to teach us how much God loves us.
• Define Holy Spirit and Trinity.

ELA 

• To practice letter- keyword- sound for consonants: l, h, k, v, w, y, x, z, qu
• To practice correct letter formation
• To practice sound recognition 
• To understand that reading a book multiple times for different purposes helps readers better understand and enjoy the story
• To discuss that different readers enjoy different types of books
• Distinguish between what Thomas imagines and what is real in Thomas and the LIbrary Lady.
• Write a narrative retelling of Thomas and the Library Lady that shows how library books change life for Thomas.
• Develop vocabulary knowledge of the word imagination.

MATH

• Use counters to make sums of 6 and 7 in different ways.
• Use counters to make sums of 8 in different ways.
• Use counters to make sums of 9 in different ways.
• Use a ten-frame and counters to make sums of 10 in different ways.
• Identify missing parts of 10.

SCIENCE

• In this Read-Along lesson, Jada explores why her shadow changes over the course of a day at the beach. The lesson includes a short exercise where students act out the movement of shadows with their bodies. Students trace their shadows using colored chalk and track the shadow’s changes throughout the day.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Identify students’ responsibilities to one another in the school community. 
• Identify the benefits of four ways of cooperating in school. 
• Explain what it means to play fairly and be a good sport.

RELIGION

• Tell that God is Father to all of us.
• Explain that we show love for one another in many ways.
• Identify the Bible as God’s message to us.
• Tell that God the Father sent his only Son, Jesus, to teach us how much God loves us.
• Define Bible, Jesus, Scripture, and Word of God.

ELA 

• To practice letter- keyword- sound for consonants: g, d, s, r, p, j
• To practice letter- keyword- sound for vowels: a,e
• To practice correct letter formation
• To practice sound recognition 
• To retell Tomas and the Library Lady, including key details about setting
• To identify and generate common nouns
• To retell events of the story through the lens of problem and solution
• To identify and generate proper nouns

MATH

• To write addition facts horizontally and vertically
• To write a number sentence to solve problems
• To use counters to make sums of 4 and 5
• To use counters to make sums of 6 and 7

SCIENCE

• To investigate what it takes to make a stationary object’s shadow move. In the activity, Moving Shadows, students use flashlights and paper gnomes to explore how moving the position of a light makes shadows move. Students relate these observations to shadows changing throughout the day and the Sun’s position moving across the sky.

SOCIAL STUDIES

• Identify students’ responsibilities to one another in the school community. 
• Identify the benefits of four ways of cooperating in school. 
• Explain what it means to play fairly and be a good sport.

RELIGION

• To tell that Jesus is the greatest gift from the God the Father
• To explain that God wants us to help others feel welcome
• To tell that we show our love for God when we care for others
• To define liturgy, Mass, and praise

Week at a Glance

ELA Unit 11 test on Wednesday

• To understand the concept of syllable in multisyllabic words
• To understand compound words
• To apply syllable division rules
• To read and spell words with two closed syllables or closed and v-e syllables
• To read with prosody and accuracy
• To understand paragraph structure

• To generate and answer questions about Feel the Wind using key details from the text
• To define the word powerful and make real-life connections to the word
• To orally complete a sentence frame using words that represent things that are powerful
• To identify the main topic and retell key details of sections of Feel the Wind
• To explain the importance of using multiple sources when researching
• To define the word soar and identify real-life connections to the word

MATH  Chapter 5 test on Friday

• To compare two two-digit numbers using symbols
• To make groups of hundreds, tens, and ones
• To count numerals up to 120
• To read and write numbers up to 120

SCIENCE

• To examine structures like roots, branches, and leaves that keep trees from blowing down. In the activity, Wind-Proof Umbrella, they use their observations to create their own tree-inspired umbrellas that stay up in the wind.

RELIGION

• To tell that Jesus wants us to love one another as he loves us
• To explain that the sacraments are signs of Jesus’ love for us
• To describe how Jesus welcomed and blessed children
• To define priest, sacrament, Sacraments at the Service of Communion, Sacraments of Healing, and Sacraments of Initiation

ELA

• To encode and decode the syllable pattern: vowel- consonant- e
• To add a suffix to vowel-consonant-e words
• To recognize long vowel sounds
• To differentiate between narrative fiction and informational books
• To read with accuracy and prosody
• To distinguish between module texts that provide information and those that tell stories
• To generate and answer questions about Feel the Wind using key details from the text
• To define the word powerful and make real-life connections to the word
• To orally complete a sentence frame using words that represent things that are powerful
• To identify the main topic and retell key details of sections of Feel the Wind
• To explain the importance of using multiple sources when researching
• To define the word soar and identify real-life connections to the word

MATH 

• To write numbers to 100 in different ways
• To identify the numbers that are ten more and ten less than a given number
• To use nickels to count by fives
• To compare two two-digit numbers
• To compare two two-digit numbers using symbols

SCIENCE

• To examine structures like roots, branches, and leaves that keep trees from blowing down. In the activity, Wind-Proof Umbrella, they use their observations to create their own tree-inspired umbrellas that stay up in the wind.

RELIGION

• To tell that Jesus wants us to love him and pray to him
• To explain that the Holy Spirit guides us
• To describe ways to find God
• To define Baptism, Confirmation, grace, Holy Spirit, pray