Mrs. Leiby

Our Specials Schedule:

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

Instrumental Music - Friday         

🍁Week of:  September 29 - October 3🎃

ELA:    

Essential Question:  How can starting a business help others?

Genre:  Argumentative text

Shared Read:    "Dollars and Sense"

Anchor Text: "Kids in Business" 

Paired Text: "Starting a Successful Business" 

Vocabulary Words: 

innovative    compassionate     enterprise     exceptional     funds     process     routine     undertaking

Vocabulary Strategies:

suffixes:  an affix, a word part that is added to a word to change its meaning.  It's added to the end of word.

-ly:  done in a way of

-ity:  state or quality of

-ive:  related or belonging to

Reading Skills & Strategies:

central idea (main idea) & relevant details

Text Features:

graphs & headings

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 - 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. ✖️There are multiplication games/facts practice located in your child's math google classroom.

Science:    (earth & space) Test:  Wednesday, October 1st

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 22-26🍂

➡️Test - "Experts, Incorporated" this Friday.⬅️

Continue to review vocabulary words as well as access Clever to read the story with your child.

ELA:    

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 - 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. ✖️There are multiplication games/facts practice located in your child's math google classroom.

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 15-19🍂

➡️Test - Next week - "Experts, Incorporated".⬅️

Continue to review vocabulary words as well as access Clever to read the story with your child.

ELA:    

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: 

➡️Test - Friday, September 19th - Unit 1 Module 1⬅️

Unit 1 Module 1

Place Value:

Understanding place value relationships, read/write multi-digit numbers using base ten numerals, number names, & expanded form, regroup/ rename multidigit numbers, compare and order numbers & rounding.

✖️Please make it a part of your child's nightly routine to practice multiplication facts. ✖️There are multiplication games/facts practice located in your child's math google classroom.

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.

We will be wrapping up this unit by the end of this week.

🍁Week of:  September 8-12🍂

➡️Reading Comprehension/Vocabulary test on Earthquakes:  Monday - September 8th.⬅️

(Students can access the story through Clever.)

ELA:    

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: 

Unit 1 Module 1

Place Value:

Understanding place value relationships, read/write multi-digit numbers using base ten numerals, number names, & expanded form, regroup/ rename multidigit numbers, compare and order numbers & rounding.

✖️Please make it a part of your child's nightly routine to practice multiplication facts. There are multiplication games/practice located in your child's math google classroom.✖️

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 1-5🏫

ELA:

Essential Question:  How do people respond to natural disasters?

Genre:  Expository text

Shared Read:    "A World of Change"

Anchor Text: "Earthquakes"

➡️Reading Comprehension/Vocabulary test:  September 8th.⬅️

(Students can access the story through Clever.)

Vocabulary Words: (Throughout the week -Please review these with your child)

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

Vocabulary Strategies:

multiple meaning words

homographs

Reading Skills & Strategies:

compare/contrast

Text Features:

diagrams

headings

Writing: 

RACES

Math: 

Unit 1 Module 1

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 are piloting Amplify science program this semester

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 25-29🏫

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

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 are piloting Amplify science program this semester

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.