Week at a Glance: April 1-4, 2025
Highlights of the Week:
Reading: How do big ideas change communities?
Spelling: Words with suffixes
Writing: Use to tone when writing
Math: Continuing Chapter 10 on Fractions
Social Studies: Back to the book for Settling in the USA
Religion:Back to the Book:
Spelling: Unit 4 Week 3 Words to know:
Anticipation, civilization, convertible, dependable, flexible, likable, movable, terrible, usable, visible. Bonus words: traceable, invincible, inspiration
High Frequency words: language, clear-
- Daily work with spelling words in spelling menu and homework-
Unit Academic Words: benefit, generation, advice, consumer, familiar
This week’s vocabulary words: succeed, determined, impressed, eventually, imagined-
- Daily homework practice with spelling words
- Daily assignments on SeeSaw to practice spelling words
Reading: Unit 4 Week 3- How do big ideas change communities?
Learning goals:
- I can learn more about biography and explain the author’s purpose in a biography.
- I can develop knowledge about language to make connections between reading and writing.
- I can use elements of opinion writing to write an opinion speech
Objectives:
- Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as note taking, annotating, freewriting, or illustrating.
- Describe how individuals, events, and ideas have changed communities, past and present.
- Listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments.
- Recognize characteristics and structures of informational text.
- Use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and multiple meaning words.
- Identify, use, and explain the meaning of antonyms, synonyms, idioms, homophones, and homographs in a text.
- Distinguish the literal and nonliteral meanings of words and phrases in context.
Word Study-
- Decode words with Latin suffixes.
- Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding words using knowledge of suffixes, including how they can change base words such as dropping -e, changing -y to -i, and doubling final consonants.
- Suffixes- -able, -ible, -ation
Writing:
- Write for a reader- using tone and choice words to show feeling
- Writing in Gratitude Journals
- Daily writing in Simple Solutions Grammar and Daily Oral Language Packet
Math: Continue Chapter 10- Fractions: How can fractions be used to represent numbers and their parts?
New vocabulary: fraction, unit fraction, denominator, numerator, equivalent fractions
Mathematical practices:
- Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
- Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.
- Model with mathematics.
- Use appropriate tools strategically.
- Attend to precision.
- Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
- Look for and make use of structure.
- Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
- Use strategies such as:
- Make a table
- Look for a pattern
- Use models
Tuesday: Lesson 5- Hands on- Fractions on a number line- Students will represent fractions on a number line. Also, Check My Progress page to see how things are going thus far in the chapter. Also: Check my progress- refresher pages for the first set of chapters.
Wednesday- Lesson 6: Equivalent fractions- Students will use models to find equivalent fractions. Additional practice in SeeSaw and IReady lessons
Thursday- Lesson 7: Vocabulary: denominator, equivalent fractions, numerator, is equal to (=), is greater than, is less than- Fractions as one whole- Students will express whole numbers as fractions and recognize fractions equivalent to whole numbers.
- Daily work in Simple Solutions Math packet
- Daily work in SeeSaw on math activities
- Daily work in IReady and IXL math lessons
Religion: Unit 4 Session 16- Sacraments of Initiation
Session Theme: Through the Sacraments of Initiation, we receive the fullness of the holy Spirit and become members of the Church.
We become members of the Church through the Sacraments of Initiation: Baptism, Confirmation, and the Eurcharist. At our Baptism, we receive the Holy Spirit and become one of the People of God. We begin a new life in Jesus. Confirmation seals the Holy Spirit’s presence in us, and through the Holy Spirit, we receive Jesus in his Body and Blood in the Eurcharist.
Outcomes of this chapter:
- Tell the story of Jesus sending his disciples out to baptize.
- Tell the story of Philip inviting the court official to follow Jesus.
- Define: chrism, People of God
*Daily devotions and prayers, and songs
*Tuesday- 8:30 buddy all school Mass
Social Studies: Back to the Book-
Students will be presenting Ireland Reports slowly but surely!
Essential Question
How do people become part of our country?
Overview of the chapter: Investigate immigration in the United States by carefully analyzing visual and written primary sources from various time periods.
Objectives
Social Studies
- 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 chapter with: 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.
Complete the Unit Inquiry supporting question that corresponds to the lesson, play the lesson game, and create an assessment using TCI questions or your own in the test builder.
