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.

October 5-9th  2026

Reading, Spelling and Writing: Unit1 Week 5 The Golden Flower (Myth)

• Learn more about traditional tales and analyze 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.

*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 14 Geometry

• Describe and classify polygons by their attributes
• Describe and classify triangles by their attributes
• Identify, describe, and classify quadrilaterals by their attributes.

Social Studies: Lesson 4

• 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.

Religion: 

Session 5

Objectives:

• 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.