What We're Learning

😀 WHAT WE’RE LEARNING THIS WEEK 👍

 ✝RELIGION:  Students will continue in Chapter 25: We Honor Mary and the Saints.  In the Church we honor saints as people who lived faithfully and show us by their example how to live as Christians.

Vocabulary:

saints: a person who has reached and is united with God, 

procession: a prayer walk

In this second chapter, students will learn:

• The Church honors the saints.

• The Church honors Mary.

• We honor Mary with special prayers.

• We honor Mary on special days.

❤️Each Friday will be Mass Prep.  Students will learn about the Gospel for the weekend.  They are encouraged to share what they learn each week with their families. 

✝️We will attend school Mass on Thursday at 8:30am.  As always, families are invited to join us!

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✏MORNING PACKETS:   Students will complete Morning Packet Week 9 skills this week.  Packets will come home this Thursday so that students can study the highlighted questions on the packet for their quiz on Tuesday, Oct. 27th.  Only study the highlighted questions for the quiz.

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📚ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA)

SPELLING - Students will test on the following words this Friday, Oct. 23rd.

Pattern Focus: adding the suffixes -ing and -ed to a word (nothing, e-drop, double the consonant)

Spelling Words: skipping, making, taking, hiding, riding, jumped, clapped, batted, loved, and raked, and Tricky Word - NO TRICKY WORD 

AMPLIFY SKILLS:  We will continue in UNIT 2 this week.  Similar to UNIT 1, this unit also spends time reviewing skills taught in First Grade.  

Decodable Reader:  The Reader for this unit is Bedtime Tales.  In it, a father shares bedtime stories with his son and daughter. This Reader explores two fiction genres: fables and trickster stories.  Students will enjoy reading the new tales that Dad tells Mike each night in an effort to get Mike to go to bed.  Students will most likely identify with Mike’s reluctance to go to bed on time.

Grammar: In this unit, the use of end punctuation and quotation marks is reviewed and practiced, as well as capitalization of the first word of a sentence.  Students who were taught using CKLA in Grade 1 should remember this information.

Writing: In this unit, writing lessons begin by having students retell a fable, “The Milk,” and write a book report on “The Hare and the Hedgehog.” Narrative writing activities are presented in carefully scaffolded steps.  Students will review how to plan, draft, and edit, incorporating the key features of narrative writing: character(s), setting, and plot.

AMPLIFY KNOWLEDGE:   We will continue in Unit 7 - Westward Expansion this week.  This domain will introduce students to an important period in the history of the United States—the time of westward expansion during the 1800s. Students will learn why pioneers were willing and eager to endure hardships to move westward. Your class will learn about important innovations in both transportation and communication during that period, which greatly increased the movement of people westward. More specifically, students will learn about Fulton’s steamboat, the Erie Canal, the transcontinental railroad, and the Pony Express. Students will also come to understand the hardships and tragedies that Native Americans endured because of westward expansion. This domain will build the foundation for learning about the U.S. Civil War and immigration later in Grade 2, as well as for learning about other periods of American history in future grades.

Unit Stories:  Going West, Mr. Fulton's Journey, The Journal of a 12 Year Old on the Erie Canal, The Story of Sequoyah, The Trail of Tears, Westward on the Oregon Trail, The Pony Express, Working on the Transcontinental Railroad, and The Buffalo Hunters

Unit Objectives:

• Describe a pioneer family’s journey westward

• Describe family life on the frontier

• Explain the significance of the steamboat

• Identify Robert Fulton as the developer of the steamboat

• Identify steamboats, canals, and trains as new means of travel that increased the movement of people west

• Describe the importance of canals

• Identify the Erie Canal as the most famous canal built during the Canal Era

• Explain the significance of Sequoyah’s invention of the Cherokee writing system

• Explain that the U.S. government forced Native Americans from their land as the country expanded westward

• Identify the Trail of Tears as a forced march of the Cherokee

• Identify the Oregon Trail as a difficult trail traveled by wagon trains

• Identify the Pony Express as a horseback mail delivery system

• Identify the transcontinental railroad as a link between the East and the West

• Identify “iron horse” as the nickname given to the first trains in America

• Explain the advantages of rail travel

• Explain that the development of the railroad ushered in a new era of mass exodus of the Native Americans from their land

• Describe the effect of diminishing buffalo on the life of Plains Native Americans

Core Vocabulary:

📏MATH: We will continue Unit 3 - Patterns within Numbers this week.  

Objectives: 

• counting patterns

• patterns when skip-counting by 5s

• patterns when skip-couting by 10s and 100s

• understand even and odd numbers

• addition patters

• patterns with arrays

• use arrays to add

Vocabulary words: 

• array - has a group of objects arranged in equal rows and columns

• even - a number is even when you can pair all of the objects in the group

• odd - a number is odd when you cannot pair all of the objects in the group

• pattern - an order that a set of objects or numbers follows over and over again

• skip count - when you count objects in equal groups of two or more