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DATES TO KNOW:
Saturday, November 7 - Christmas Bazaar
Friday, November 13 - midterm
Monday, November 23 - Friday, November 27 - No School - Thanksgiving Break
What we are learning
What we are learning
Students will take a pre-test on Monday and a final test on Friday. They will review words in class and may have homework pages, depending on what they can finish at school.
Unit 2 Week 2 Words Test on 11/13
Long O Sound
Long o sound is usually spelled o-consonant-e. In the middle of a word, the long o sound is often spelled oa and at the end of a word, it is usually ow. O by itself can also make the long o sound.
1. rolled
2. oval
3. shown
4. globe
5. toaster
6. phone
7. solo
8. arrow
9. dough
10. throat
11. borrow
12. drone
13. swallow
14. remote
15. protect
16. emotion
17. produce
18. charcoal
19. approach
20. envelope
ELA - Continuing to learn about personal narratives in our first unit of CKLA. We are also learning how to properly edit and revise in the writing process! We wrote spooky descriptive stories this week, reviewing story elements and character traits. We continue to review figurative language weekly and spent time demonstrating our understanding of cause & effect in reading.
Science - All About Pumpkins Digital assignment which is not due until 11/13. We explored different types of skeletons and how they help us and animals!
Religion - Continuing to share the questions the students and I recite at the beginning of religion class, the next call-and-response is: "What is our school's mission?" "St. Michael School is a Catholic community where we shape saints and scholars."
Our virtue of the week this week has been respect: speaking and acting according to one's own and others' rights, status, and circumstances. We reflected on some ways we can practicing respect by saying only kind and true things about our siblings and classmates; respectfully being silent when a teacher is talking to another adult; showing respect to God by reverently genuflecting to Jesus in the Tabernacle at Church; respecting priests and greeting them when we see them; respecting and caring for the elderly, especially our grandparents.
We also learned briefly about these saints/ feasts celebrated this week: All Souls' Day (Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed); St. Martin de Porres; St. Charles Borromeo; and Dominican Blesseds Bonaventure Garcia Parades, Hyacinth Serrano Lopez, and their Companions (martyrs during the Spanish Civil War).
This week in the United States is "National Vocations Awareness Week." Therefore, in religion class this week, we spent most of our time talking about vocations. A vocation is a call from God. All of us have the vocation to be holy, but there are different vocations that are different paths to holiness: priesthood, religious life, or married life. I shared with the students a video of some of our Sisters reflecting on their final profession of vows from a few years ago, including video footage of their vows ceremony, and then had "Ask Sister time," when the students could ask me questions about our religious life. On Friday, Father Adam visited our classroom and shared about the vocation to the priesthood and about his own call, as well as about hearing God's voice in our hearts and the story of Samuel hearing God's call and responding "Here I am." Ask your child if they remember how to say "Here I am" in Hebrew!
Also in religion class this week, we began discussing our emotions/ feelings and how they are not either morally bad or morally good; they are information for us and can influence our decisions, but ultimately we should decide based on our intellect.
Math - Students learned about metric measurements for weight/ mass (grams and kilograms) and for volume (liters and milliliters). They learned to convert the units as well (1 kg = 1,000 g and 1 L = 1,000 mL). They also practiced this with word problems. We also reviewed the module before the test they took this week.
They learned about decomposing units of 10 in order to multiply multiples of 10 by 1-digit numbers, by using the associative property of multiplication. For example, 6 x 70 can be rewritten with 70 "decomposed" as 7 x 10. So, 6 x 70 = 6 x 7 x 10 = 42 x 10 = 420. Students were able to practice this with drawn examples as well as breaking down the problem as above and then as solving the problem with mental math. Students will have a topic quiz on Thursday next week.
Ohio History - Students learned about conflict in the Northwest Territory between the American Indians (who also were supported with weapons by the British settlers in Canada) and the American settlers. They learned about the Western Confederacy and the Treaty of Greenville. We had a discussion about whether or not they would have signed this Treaty if they were an American Indian at the time (some American Indians at the time refused to sign the treaty, including Shawnee warrior and chief, Tecumseh). This conflict with the American Indians, as well as further conflict with the British, who were forcing American soldiers to work on their own ships, led to further conflict - the War of 1812, which we will learn about next week.
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