Week of 2/14 - 2/17

WHAT WE ARE LEARNING

LA - MRS SCHMITT

*Mrs. Schmitt was out today 2/14- this will be updated at her earliest convenience.

This week students will continue their focus on the essential questions:

•  How does the text structure help me understand the text?

• How can I learn and use academic vocabulary appropriately?

 Students will be focusing on the following skills: 

• Determine and describe the overall text structure

• Know the 5 text structures (cause and effect, chronological order/sequence, compare & contrast, description, and problem & solution)

• Context clues (affixes, roots, synonyms, antonyms, multiple meaning words)

We will be reading informational texts as a class to practice strategies in determining the structure of a text. Students will also be reading leveled texts and informational passages with the use of graphic organizers to organize and synthesize their thinking using text evidence.

Students will also be learning context clues to identify the meaning of unknown words. Students will also continue to work with prepositional phrases. Students are practicing these skills on IXL, Khan Academy, and Freckle Apps.

Homework:

Weekly Reading Log for week of 2/6-2/10. Due by Friday 2/10. The form is posted on their Language Arts Google Classroom.

Unit 9 Vocabulary Test will take place on Thursday, February 9. Vocabulary words have been posted on Google Classroom.

MATH: MRS. BENNETT

This week in Math class we will continue to work on solving 2-digit by 2-digit multiplicaiton problems using the standard algorithm. Students will explain how to use place value and regrouping to multiply two 2-digit numbers and determine a reasonable estimate. We will begin to solve multi-digit multiplication word problems, emphasizing what each number represents in the story and why it requires multiplication. 

Homework:

2/14 SS #89 & HMH dashboard assignments due 2/17

2/15 SS #90

2/16 SS #92 (we will do #91 at school)

2/17 SS Quiz & HMH Dashboard Due

SOCIAL STUDIES: MRS. CRUSH

In Math Workshop, we started a new project, "Using a Scale to Create a Map," focusing on the West and Southwest Regions. There are a few students who have states from the Midwest Region. Each student was assigned a different states and they will be creating a map with a title, cities, geographical features, compass rose, scale, and bodies of water. Using their scale, they will create multiple step math problems.  In Social Studies, we will focus on the Southwest Region and students will be doing a mini Landmark Project. 

We will continue our Research Project on Kentucky Counties. Each student will be assigned a cluster of counties. They will focus on places, government, people, and events in their cluster. Students will be working on this research project in both Social Studies and Technology for the next several weekends.  Mrs. Crush has divided the students into small groups to do check-ins and answer any questions. She will see 1-3 groups each class period.

RELIGION: MRS CRUSH

We will continue Ch. 8, "Witnesses to God's Kingdom. The students will be able to discuss experiences of unfairness, explore how worldly justice and God's justice differ, realize that we are called to live holy lives, and to identify ways we experience the Kingdom of God at Mass. 

On Friday, students will have time to start and/or complete their next Student Led Prayers. If they do not finish during class, this will be homework due on Monday, February 20. 

Test on Friday, February 24: Ch. 8 "Witnesses to God's Kingdom" (pages 121-130, faith words, We Believe statements, underlined text)

HW: 2nd Trimester Service Hours due Friday, February 17 (Students may turn in on Google Classroom or fill out paper copy)

SCIENCE: MRS JACKEL 

https://sites.google.com/ascension-parish.com/k-5science/4 

FAMOUS KENTUCKIAN TIMELINES~Math Workshop