Mrs. Leiby

Our Specials Schedule:

Monday:  gym     Tuesday:  spanish     Wednesday:  art/library    Thursday:  music     Friday:  STEM/guidance

Instrumental Music - Friday      

Announcements For Room 207

• We will be discussion the 

🎃Week of :  October 26-30🎃

ELA:

Essential Question:  How do animal characters change familiar stories?

Genre:  Drama

Shared Read:    "The Ant and the Grasshopper"

Anchor Text: "Renita The Frog Princess" 

Paired Text: "Pecos Bill and the Bear Lake Monster" 

Vocabulary Words: 

annoyed   attitude   commotion   cranky   familiar   frustrated   selfish   specialty

Please make sure your child reviews the vocabulary words/definitions.

Vocabulary Strategies:

antonyms

Reading Skills & Strategies:

theme

plot

story elements:  play

inference

Text Features:

dialogue

stage directions

characters

Writing:

Multi-paragraph Opinion Essays - using two texts to cite evidence.  We will be looking at the opinion essay scores that were written for the Benchmark.  Students will use the checklist/rubric to make improvements on their writing pieces.

Math: 

Module 6 & 7 - Understand division by 1 digit numbers 

• represent division

• understand division with regrouping

• solve multistep multiplication & division problems

Students must be able to divide one, two, three, and four digit numbers by one divisor with or without remainders. See Anchor Chart below.

✖️Please make it a part of your child's nightly routine to practice multiplication facts.✖️

Science:

Living Things & Their Environments

We will discuss abiotic and biotic factors as it relates to an organism's survival, along with climate and its impact on ecosystems, humans and their impact on the environment, and types of changes that impact an ecosystem: human, environment, and animals.  

Social Studies:

🎃Week of :  October 19-23🎃

ELA:

▶️Test on October 21, 2026◀️

Essential Question:  What helps an animal to survive?

Genre:  Expository

Shared Read:    "Animal Adaptations"

Anchor Text: "Spiders" 

Paired Text: "Anansi & the Birds" 

Vocabulary Words: 

camoflaged   dribbles    extraordinary    poisionous    pounce    predator    prey    vibrations

Vocabulary Strategies:

prefixes

Reading Skills & Strategies:

main idea & details

summarize

Text Features:

photographs & captions

headings

Writing:

Multi-paragraph Opinion Essays - using two texts to cite evidence. 

Opinion Writing to Text

Paragraph #1 - Opinion (3 sentences)

1.  Hook (question, onomatopoeia or set the scene)

2. State your opinion,

3. List 2 reasons (don’t go into detail)

Paragraph #2 - Reason #1 (4 sentences)

1. RA - Transition, state your first reason in your own words

2. C -Evidence from the text (According to the passage….)

3. E -Example (from your head - expand on evidence)

4. S - Sum it Up 

Paragraph #3 - Reason #2 (4 sentences)

1. RA - Transition, state your second reason in your own words

2. C -Evidence from the text (According to the passage….)

3. E -Example (from your head - expand on evidence)

4. S - Sum it Up 

Paragraph #4  - Restate your opinion

1. Restate your opinion

2. Call your reader to action!

** Make sure you have included evidence from both sources!

** If you have more than two reasons, add a third paragraph following the same structure as paragraph 2.

Math: 

Module 6 & 7 - Understand division by 1 digit numbers 

• represent division

• understand division with regrouping

• solve multistep multiplication & division problems

Students must be able to divide one, two, three, and four digit numbers by one divisor with or without remainders. See Anchor Chart below.

✖️Please make it a part of your child's nightly routine to practice multiplication facts.✖️

Science:

We will be taking the science interim this week.

Social Studies:

Geography/Map skills: 

Compass Rose, cardinal & intermediate directions, & relative location 

As we continue to explore the surface of the Earth, we will learn about the different landforms found around the world.  Students will explore map skills as we learn about these landforms

🎃Week of :  October 12-16🎃

ELA:

▶️Test on October 21, 2026◀️

Essential Question:  What helps an animal to survive?

Genre:  Expository

Shared Read:    "Animal Adaptations"

Anchor Text: "Spiders" 

Paired Text: "Anansi & the Birds" 

Vocabulary Words: 

camoflaged   dribbles    extraordinary    poisionous    pounce    predator    prey    vibrations

Vocabulary Strategies:

prefixes

Reading Skills & Strategies:

main idea & details

summarize

Text Features:

photographs & captions

headings

Writing:

Multi-paragraph Opinion Essays - using two texts to cite evidence. 

Opinion Writing to Text

Paragraph #1 - Opinion (3 sentences)

1.  Hook (question, onomatopoeia or set the scene)

2. State your opinion,

3. List 2 reasons (don’t go into detail)

Paragraph #2 - Reason #1 (4 sentences)

1. RA - Transition, state your first reason in your own words

2. C -Evidence from the text (According to the passage….)

3. E -Example (from your head - expand on evidence)

4. S - Sum it Up 

Paragraph #3 - Reason #2 (4 sentences)

1. RA - Transition, state your second reason in your own words

2. C -Evidence from the text (According to the passage….)

3. E -Example (from your head - expand on evidence)

4. S - Sum it Up 

Paragraph #4  - Restate your opinion

1. Restate your opinion

2. Call your reader to action!

** Make sure you have included evidence from both sources!

** If you have more than two reasons, add a third paragraph following the same structure as paragraph 2.

Math: 

▶️Test on October 16, 2026◀️

Module 5 - Multidigit Multiplication

Multiply 2, 3 & 4 digit by 1 digit & 2 digit by 2 digit using area model & distributive property

See explanation/examples of area model & distributive property with multiplication below ⬇️hyperlink

✖️Please make it a part of your child's nightly routine to practice multiplication facts.✖️

Social Studies:

Geography/Map skills: 

Compass Rose, cardinal & intermediate directions, & relative location 

As we continue to explore the surface of the Earth, we will learn about the different landforms found around the world.  Students will explore map skills as we learn about these landforms

🎃Week of :  October 5-9🎃

ELA:

Essential Question:  What helps an animal to survive?

Genre:  Expository

Shared Read:    "Animal Adaptations"

Anchor Text: "Spiders" 

Paired Text: "Anansi & the Birds" 

Vocabulary Words: 

camoflaged   dribbles    extraordinary    poisionous    pounce    predator    prey    vibrations

Vocabulary Strategies:

prefixes

Reading Skills & Strategies:

main idea & details

summarize

Text Features:

photographs & captions

headings

Writing:

Multi-paragraph Opinion Essays - using two texts to cite evidence. 

Opinion Writing to Text

Paragraph #1 - Opinion (3 sentences)

1.  Hook (question, onomatopoeia or set the scene)

2. State your opinion,

3. List 2 reasons (don’t go into detail)

Paragraph #2 - Reason #1 (4 sentences)

1. RA - Transition, state your first reason in your own words

2. C -Evidence from the text (According to the passage….)

3. E -Example (from your head - expand on evidence)

4. S - Sum it Up 

Paragraph #3 - Reason #2 (4 sentences)

1. RA - Transition, state your second reason in your own words

2. C -Evidence from the text (According to the passage….)

3. E -Example (from your head - expand on evidence)

4. S - Sum it Up 

Paragraph #4  - Restate your opinion

1. Restate your opinion

2. Call your reader to action!

** Make sure you have included evidence from both sources!

** If you have more than two reasons, add a third paragraph following the same structure as paragraph 2.

Math: 

Module 5 - Multidigit Multiplication

Multiply 2, 3 & 4 digit by 1 digit & 2 digit by 2 digit using area model & distributive property

See explanation/examples of area model & distributive property with multiplication below ⬇️hyperlink

✖️Please make it a part of your child's nightly routine to practice multiplication facts.✖️

Social Studies:

Geography/Map skills: 

Compass Rose, cardinal & intermediate directions, & relative location 

As we continue to explore the surface of the Earth, we will learn about the different landforms found around the world.  Students will explore map skills as we learn about these landforms

✏️Week of:  September 28- October 2🎃

ELA:

Essential Question:  How do your actions affect others?

Genre:  Realistic Fiction

Paired Text: "Speaking Out to Stop Bullying" 

Vocabulary Words: 

accountable   advise   desperately   hesitated   humiliated   inspiration   

self-esteem   uncomfortably

Vocabulary Strategies:

figurative language (idioms & similies)

Reading Skills & Strategies:

plot:  conflict (problem) /resolution (solution)

make predictions

author's purpose

Writing:

Multi-paragraph Opinion Essays - using two texts to cite evidence. 

Opinion Writing to Text

Paragraph #1 - Opinion (3 sentences)

1.  Hook (question, onomatopoeia or set the scene)

2. State your opinion,

3. List 2 reasons (don’t go into detail)

Paragraph #2 - Reason #1 (4 sentences)

1. RA - Transition, state your first reason in your own words

2. C -Evidence from the text (According to the passage….)

3. E -Example (from your head)

4. S - Sum it Up (expand on evidence)

Paragraph #3 - Reason #2 (4 sentences)

1. RA - Transition, state your second reason in your own words

2. C -Evidence from the text (According to the passage….)

3. E -Example (from your head)

4. S - Sum it Up (expand on evidence)

Paragraph #4  - Restate your opinion

1. Restate your opinion

2. Call your reader to action!

** Make sure you have included evidence from both sources!

** If you have more than two reasons, add a third paragraph following the same structure as paragraph 2.

Math: 

Module 3 - Interpret & solve problem situations

• explore multiplicative comparisons

• distinguish between multiplicative & additive comparisons

• use division to solve multiplicative comparison problems

• use comparisons to solve problem situations

• solve multistep problems with multiplication & division

Module 5 - Multidigit Multiplication

Multiply 2, 3 & 4 digit by 1 digit & 2 digit by 2 digit using area model & distributive property

See explanation/examples of area model & distributive property with multiplication below ⬇️hyperlink

✖️Please make it a part of your child's nightly routine to practice multiplication facts.✖️

Social Studies:

Geography/Map skills: 

Compass Rose, cardinal & intermediate directions, & relative location 

As we continue to explore the surface of the Earth, we will learn about the different landforms found around the world.  Students will explore map skills as we learn about these landforms

Area Model/Distributive Property Multiplication Examples:

Area Model Anchor Charts/Reference 

✏️Week of:  September 21-25🏫

Essential Question:  How do your actions affect others?

Genre:  Realistic Fiction

Shared Read:    "The Talent Show"

Anchor Text: "Experts, Incorporated"  

▶️Vocabulary/Comprehension Test Friday, September 25th◀️

Paired Text: "Speaking Out to Stop Bullying" 

Vocabulary Words: 

accountable   advise   desperately   hesitated   humiliated   inspiration   

self-esteem   uncomfortably

Vocabulary Strategies:

figurative language (idioms & similies)

Reading Skills & Strategies:

plot:  conflict (problem) /resolution (solution)

make predictions

author's purpose

Writing:

Read & responding to a prompt using text evidence to support & answer a prompt using the RACES strategy.

R - restate the question

A - answer the question

C - cite text evidence

E - explain your evidence/proves your answer

S - summarize/sum it up

Math: 

Module 3 - Interpret & solve problem situations

• explore multiplicative comparisons

• distinguish between multiplicative & additive comparisons

• use division to solve multiplicative comparison problems

• use comparisons to solve problem situations

• solve multistep problems with multiplication & division

✖️Please make it a part of your child's nightly routine to practice multiplication facts.✖️

Science:    (earth & space) 

We will explore:

• Earth's surface has specific characteristics and landforms that can be identified.

• The surface of Earth changes due to weathering.

• The surface of Earth changes due to erosion and deposition.

Social Studies:

Geography/Map skills: 

Compass Rose, cardinal & intermediate directions, & relative location 

As we continue to explore the surface of the Earth, we will learn about the different landforms found around the world.  Students will explore map skills as we learn about these landforms

✏️Week of:  September 14-18🏫

Essential Question:  How do your actions affect others?

Genre:  Realistic Fiction

Shared Read:    "The Talent Show"

Anchor Text: "Experts, Incorporated" 

Paired Text: "Speaking Out to Stop Bullying" 

Vocabulary Words: 

accountable   advise   desperately   hesitated   humiliated   inspiration   

self-esteem   uncomfortably

Vocabulary Strategies:

figurative language (idioms & similies)

Reading Skills & Strategies:

plot:  conflict (problem) /resolution (solution)

make predictions

author's purpose

Writing:

Read & responding to a prompt using text evidence to support & answer a prompt using the RACES strategy.

R - restate the question

A - answer the question

C - cite text evidence

E - explain your evidence/proves your answer

S - summarize/sum it up

Math: ▶️Module 2 Test Friday, September 18th◀️

Module 2 - Addition & Subtraction of Whole Numbers:

• use the standard algorithm to add whole numbers & find the difference between two whole numbers & assess reasonableness using mental math & estimates

• Interpret & solve comparison problems using addition & subtraction by drawing bar models

• use a formula to find the perimeter of a rectangle or find an unknown side given the perimeter & the length of one side

✖️Please make it a part of your child's nightly routine to practice multiplication facts.✖️

Science:    (earth & space) 

We will explore:

• Earth's surface has specific characteristics and landforms that can be identified.

• The surface of Earth changes due to weathering.

• The surface of Earth changes due to erosion and deposition.

✏️Week of:  September 8-11🏫

ELA: ▶️Vocabulary/Comprehension Test Friday, September 11th◀️

(this has changed due to the Calamity Day last week)

Essential Question:  How do people respond to natural disasters?

Genre:  Expository text

Shared Read:    "A World of Change"

Anchor Text: "Earthquakes"

Vocabulary Words: 

alter, collapse, crisis, destruction, hazard, severe, substantial, unpredictable

Vocabulary Strategies:

multiple meaning words

homographs

Reading Skills & Strategies:

compare/contrast

Text Features:

diagrams

headings

Math: ▶️Module 1 Test Tuesday, September 8th◀️

Unit 1 Module 1 (We will be taking a pre-assessment before beginning this module)

Place Value:

understanding place value relationships, read/write multi-digit numbers using base ten numerals, number names, & expanded form to 1,000,000.

We will begin:

Module 2 - Addition & Subtraction of Whole Numbers:

• use the standard algorithm to add whole numbers & find the difference between two whole numbers & assess reasonableness using mental math & estimates

• Interpret & solve comparison problems using addition & subtraction by drawing bar models

• use a formula to find the perimeter of a rectangle or find an unknown side given the perimeter & the length of one side

✖️Please make it a part of your child's nightly routine to practice multiplication facts.✖️

Science:    (earth & space) 

We will explore:

• Earth's surface has specific characteristics and landforms that can be identified.

• The surface of Earth changes due to weathering.

• The surface of Earth changes due to erosion and deposition.

✏️Week of:  August 30 - September 4🏫

ELA: ▶️Vocabulary/Comprehension Test Friday, September 4th◀️

Essential Question:  How do people respond to natural disasters?

Genre:  Expository text

Shared Read:    "A World of Change"

Anchor Text: "Earthquakes"

Vocabulary Words: 

(words & defintions will be coming home - these will be on the weekly test)

alter, collapse, crisis, destruction, hazard, severe, substantial, unpredictable

Vocabulary Strategies:

multiple meaning words

homographs

Reading Skills & Strategies:

compare/contrast

Text Features:

diagrams

headings

Math: 

Unit 1 Module 1 (We will be taking a pre-assessment before beginning this module)

Place Value:

understanding place value relationships, read/write multi-digit numbers using base ten numerals, number names, & expanded form to 1,000,000.

✖️Please make it a part of your child's nightly routine to practice multiplication facts.✖️

Science:    (earth & space) 

We will explore:

• Earth's surface has specific characteristics and landforms that can be identified.

• The surface of Earth changes due to weathering.

• The surface of Earth changes due to erosion and deposition.

✏️Week of:  August 24-28🏫

ELA:

Essential Question:  How do people respond to natural disasters?

Genre:  Expository text

Shared Read:    "A World of Change"

Anchor Text: "Earthquakes"

Vocabulary Words: 

(words & defintions will be coming home - these will be on the weekly test)

alter, collapse, crisis, destruction, hazard, severe, substantial, unpredictable

Vocabulary Strategies:

multiple meaning words

homographs

Reading Skills & Strategies:

compare/contrast

Text Features:

diagrams

headings

Math: 

Unit 1 Module 1 (We will be taking a pre-assessment before beginning this module)

Place Value:

understanding place value relationships, read/write multi-digit numbers using base ten numerals, number names, & expanded form to 1,000,000.

✖️Please make it a part of your child's nightly routine to practice multiplication facts.✖️

Science:    (earth & space) 

We will explore:

• Earth's surface has specific characteristics and landforms that can be identified.

• The surface of Earth changes due to weathering.

• The surface of Earth changes due to erosion and deposition.