Week at a glance for the week of May 13th
Reminders for this week!
1. Spelling and Reading Test are on Friday!
2. May 14th is the due date for our book report!
3. Tomorrow students can bring a joke and wear pajamas (jammies) to school for J Day!
4. Math Test will be on Thursday!
Spelling Words:
1. awaken
2. given
3. widen
4. soften
5. sharpen
6. lengthen
7. gladden
8. brighten
9. loosen
10. lighten
BONUS WORDS: strengthen, misshapen, refasten-
Vocabulary Words: prepared, emergency, memorize, responsible, instructions
Unit Vocabulary words: analysis, threat, damage, anticipate, pollution
Reading: Unit 5 Week 3
Weekly Question: What are some ways to prepare for an emergency? Essential question: How does the world challenge us?
Objectives:
- Listen actively, ask relevant questions to clarify information, and make pertinent comments.
- Interact with sources in meaningful ways such as note taking, freewriting, annotating, or illustrating.
- Use a decision-making process to identify a situation that requires a decision, gather information, identify options, predict consequences, and take actions to implement a decision.
- Procedural text is an informational text that explains how to perform a task. Procedural text is written in a sequence of steps. Many procedural texts have one or more specific characteristics that make this text structure clear to readers.
- Use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the meaning of unfamiliar words and multiple meaning words.
- Generate questions about text before, during, and after reading to deepen understanding and gain information.
- Make connections to personal experiences, ideas in other texts, and society.
- Synthesize information to create a new understanding.
- Use text evidence to support an appropriate response.
- Recognize differences in genre’s characteristics.
- Explain the author’s use of print and graphic features to achieve specific purposes.
- Respond using newly acquired vocabulary as appropriate.
Phonics: Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding multisyllabic words with multiple sound-spelling patterns such as: /eigh/, /ough/, /en/
- Suffixes with /en/
- /EN/ suffix means- “made of” such as golden- made of gold
Writing:
- Daily writing in: Spelling Menu, Notebooks for May prompts, and May creative writing journal.
- Daily entries in Poetry Notebook as we study different types of poetry.
- Daily cursive writing in a practice notebook.
- Continue working on Poetry. We have finished limericks and will start with concrete poems.
Math: Continue Chapter 12
Monday: Lesson 7: Collect and Display Measurement Data
Tuesday: Lesson 8: Problem Solving- Solve a Simpler Problem
Wednesday: Review Chapter 12 in preparation for Test!
Thursday: Chapter 12 Test
Friday: Discuss Geometry and watch videos and interactive games to understand the start of Chapter 13 of Geometry.
Social Studies:
Continued work on the Immigration project. It has taken us a bit longer to finish our immigration suitcases, but they should be done by this week! We will also watch videos to aid in enrichment of the understanding of Immigration.
Science: Continue with Lesson 1 in Chapter 5: Ecosystems
1. By the end of this lesson, the student should be able to analyze how living and nonliving things interact within an ecosystem.
Standards
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DCI-3-LS4.C.1
For any particular environment, some kinds of organisms survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. -
DCI-3-LS4.D.2
Populations live in a variety of habitats, and change in those habitats affects the organisms living there. -
PE-3-LS4-3
Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all. -
PE-3-LS4-4
Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem caused when the environment changes and the types of plants and animals that live there may change.
Religion: Complete Unit 4 w/ assessment and begin Unit 5:
Unit 5 Morality, Our Lived Faith- The focus on this unit is on living like Jesus. In this unit, children will learn the following concepts.
Session 21- Faith, Hope, and Clarity: The virtues of faith, hope, and charity- the Theological Virtues- are gifts from God that form the foundation of our Christian life. When we practice these virtues, we grow closer to God.
Session Theme: We live like Jesus when we practice the virtues of faith, hope, and charity.