Language Arts- Mrs. Phelps
Our comprehension skill of the week will continue to be finding main idea based on the key details in the text. We will learn strategies for finding the main idea of a story and how to use details to support our claim. This week we will apply this skill to non-fiction texts. It is important students know the main idea is about one sentence that tells what the text is mostly about and not a retelling of every detail. I look forward to students reading non-fiction texts on interesting topics. This can be tricky for good readers to do initially, so this will be a skill we work on all year long. This is also a great skill that transfers really well into writing explanatory pieces.
In class, we are now doing morphology every day of the week and building a card set of prefixes, suffixes, Greek bases and Latin bases. We have started something called the "3 part drill" that we do 3 times a week. It involves auditory, visual and kinesthetic ways to review and learn morphemes. This week, we will add the -ed suffix and this will be assessed on the vocabulary quiz.
Homework: Study for Vocabulary quiz on Friday!
Math-Mrs. Bennett
This week in math class, students will learn that area is an attribute of 2-dimensional figures and talk about scenarios in which finding the area of a figure is needed. Using 1 inch square tiles, students will tile different sized figures creating rows/columns. Then students will use repeated addition or multiplication to find the area of a rectangle. Students will also learn the importance of a square unit since we are measuring with a non-linear unit. We will look a different square units like a square inch, square foot, square yard and compare these units.
Homework:
10/2 SS #25
10/3 SS #26
10/4 SS #27
10/5- SS #28 (the practice quiz will be posted to Google Classroom- optional)
10/6- SS Quiz #7
Social Studies- Mrs. Crush
In Social Studies, we will continue our Geography, Humans, and the Environment Unit. We have completed ours studies the different parts of a map and will apply them to different activities and assignments. The students started their "Barefoot Island" projects. They will complete those during class this week.
Religion- Mrs. Crush
We will complete Chapter 2, "God Is Love," in our Word of Life workbooks. In this chapter, students will know that God reveals Himself to us as the Blessed Trinity, a perfect communion of love, recall that God has a plan to share His love with us and that He invites us to be in communion with Him, know that the theological virtues gives us the ability to be holy, and begin to know that we were created for true happiness that comes from the gift of self to God and others.
Ch.2 Test: Thursday, October 5
What to study:
*Highlighted and bold sentences on page 15-26 in Word of Life workbooks
*Vocabulary words, on Google Classroom+written on notebook paper inside their SS/Religion folder
*Chapter 2 Review, page 24 (We will complete on Monday during class).
1st Trimester Service Hours + Reflection due Wednesday, Nov. 1