What We're Learning

😀 WHAT WE’RE LEARNING THIS WEEK 👍

 ✝RELIGION:  

Students will learn about the days of Holy Week and the significance of each day's events:

• Palm Sunday (or Passion Sunday): Celebrates Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem.

• Holy Monday: Commemorates Jesus cleansing the temple.

• Holy Tuesday: Marks Jesus teaching on the Mount of Olives.

• Holy Wednesday (or Spy Wednesday): Observes the betrayal of Jesus by Judas.

• Maundy Thursday (or Holy Thursday): Commemorates the Last Supper and the washing of the disciples' feet.

• Good Friday: Observes Jesus' crucifixion and death.

• Holy Saturday (or Black Saturday): Reflects on Jesus resting in the tomb.

• Easter Sunday (or Resurrection Sunday): Celebrates the resurrection of Jesus.

Students will learn about and pray the Stations of the Cross.

Students will be making a Lenten wreath that depicts the Triduum - the 3 holiest days of the Catholic Church.

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✏MORNING PACKETS:   Students will work on Week 27's morning packet this week. There is NO QUIZ for this week's packet. 

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📚ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA):  AMPLIFY Skills and Knowledge

SPELLING - NONE THIS WEEK

Pattern Focus:  

Spelling Words: and tricky word - 

AMPLIFY SKILLS:  We will continue in Skills 4 this week.  

Overall Learning Outcomes

Unit 4 is devoted to introducing more spelling alternatives for vowel sounds and three tricky spellings. Remember vowel sounds and their spellings are the most challenging part of the English writing system. Only two vowel sounds are almost always spelled just one way (/a/ and /ar/). The other seventeen vowel sounds have at least one significant spelling alternative. Several of them have many spelling alternatives.

Vowel Spellings and Sounds which are taught in this unit are:

/er/ spelled ‘er’ (her), ‘ur’ (hurt), ‘ir’ (bird)

/i/ spelled ‘y’ (myth)

/ie/ spelled ‘y’ (try), ‘igh’ (night)

/oe/ spelled ‘ow’ (snow)

/ee/ spelled ‘e’ (me), ‘y’ (funny), ‘ey’ (key)

/aw/ spelled ‘al’ (wall)

Tricky Spellings Taught in this Unit are:

‘e’ can be pronounced /e/ (pet) or /ee/ (me)

‘i’ can be pronounced /i/ (it) or /ie/ (biting)

‘y’ can be pronounced /ee/ (funny), /i/ (myth), /ie/ (try), or /y/ (yes)

Decodable Reader:  The Reader for this unit is titled The Job Hunt.  It's a fictional story that describes a nineteen-year-old girl’s search for a job in New York City with the help of her younger brother. The Introduction contains information about New York City, including a map.

Grammar: The grammar lessons for Unit 4 review singular and regular plural nouns, as well as common and proper nouns. In addition, the formation of irregular plurals , the use of apostrophe-‘s’ with nouns to indicate possession, and the use of titles, such as Mr., Mrs., Ms., and Miss, as a part of proper nouns are all introduced. Students will continue to work with verbs, reviewing action verbs, learning about to be verbs, and working with verb tenses. Synonyms, antonyms, contractions, and quotations are also reviewed.

Writing: The writing strand continues with students learning about persuasive communication, specifically how to incorporate persuasive writing as part of a friendly letter.

AMPLIFY KNOWLEDGE:   We will begin Domain 9 - The Civil War this week.  This domain will introduce students to an important period in the history of the United States. Students will learn about the controversy over slavery between the North and the South, which eventually led to the U.S. Civil War. They will learn about this war and how the end of the war also meant the end of slavery. “Enslaved Africans” is the term used to describe Africans and the descendants of those Africans taken from Africa against their will and forced into slavery in the United States through the conclusion of the Civil War. The communities of people enslaved in the South established a new culture that combined the homeland of their ancestors and the Americas. Although slave trade was abolished in the United States in January 1808, and at the time of the Civil War very few enslaved Africans had actually been born in Africa, the term “enslaved Africans” is used in place of “slaves” to honor the history of the enslaved people. Students will also learn about some women and men who were significant during this time, including Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, Clara Barton, Robert E. Lee, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Unit Stories:  Harriet Tubman Pt. 1, Harriet Tubman Pt. 2, The Controversy Over Slavery, Abraham Lincoln, The Division of the United States, The War Begins, Robert E. Lee, Clara Barton, The Emancipation Proclamation, Ulysses S. Grant, and The End of the War

Unit Objectives:

Describe the life and contributions of Harriet Tubman

Identify the Underground Railroad as a system of escape for enslaved Africans in the United States

Describe the adult life and contributions of Abraham Lincoln

Differentiate between the Union and the Confederacy

Describe why the southern states seceded from the United States

Identify the U.S. Civil War, or the War Between the States, as a war waged because of differences between the North and the South

Identify the people of the North as “Yankees” and those of the South as “Rebels”

Explain Abraham Lincoln’s role in keeping the Union together during the U.S. Civil War

Identify Robert E. Lee as the commander of the Confederate Army

Identify Clara Barton as the “Angel of the Battlefield” and the founder of the American Red Cross

Identify Abraham Lincoln as the author of the Emancipation Proclamation

Explain the significance of the Emancipation Proclamation

Identify Ulysses S. Grant as the commander of the Union Army

Explain that the North’s victory reunited the North and the South as one country and ended slavery

Core Vocabulary:

📏MATH:  We began Chp. 6 - 2 Digit Subtraction with Regrouping last week.  

In this unit, students will:

~regroup ones as tens

~subtract from a two-digit number

~subtract two-digit numbers

~rewrite two-digit subtraction sentences

~word problems with two-digit subtraction

Vocabulary:

regroup - taking 10 ones and making them into a ten (carrying the ones to the tens place)

addend - a number that is added to another number

difference - the answer to a subtraction sentence