What We're Learning

😀 WHAT WE’RE LEARNING THIS WEEK 👍

 ✝RELIGION:  Students will learn about the parts of the Church and labeling. Students will learn and label pictures of the altar, tabernacle, sanctuary light, pew, paten, chalice, cruets, bread/host, wine, blood, body, altar bells, thurible, monstrance, crucifix, cross, ambo, altar servers, priest/pastor, presider's chair, altar candles, deacon, stole, offertory table, and ciborium.

Students will continue to practice singing the Grandparent Rap as a class.  Hand movements will be added and several students will be selected to hold up special signs throughout the song.  A final performance on Thursday will be recorded and emailed out to parents to share with our special grandparents.  We look forward to our loved ones visit on Friday this week!

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✏MORNING PACKETS:   Students will answer questions on Week 4's packet for morning work this week.  Week 4's quizzes will be next Monday, Sept. 29th.  Completed packets will come home on Thursday this week, for students to study over the weekend.

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📚ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS (ELA):  We will continue in Unit 1 of Skills and Domain 1 of Knowledge this week.

SPELLING - Students will be tested on these words this Thursday, Sep. 25th.

Pattern Focus:  one and two-syllable short vowel words

Spelling Words: problem, magnet, belt, himself, nugget, shed, sniff, basket, string, and catfish (no TRICKY word this week)

AMPLIFY SKILLS:  We will continue in Skills 1 this week.  This unit focuses on reviewing various spellings with an

emphasis on consonant sounds, one- and two-syllable words, and high-frequency Tricky Words.  We will review 1. a number or spellings from Grade 1 with an emphasis on consonant sounds; 2. one and two-syllable words; and 3. a number of high-frequency Tricky Words.  

Overall Learning Outcomes

● Review letter-sound correspondences

● Read and write words with short vowel sounds

● Read and spell Tricky Words from G1

● Read and write two-syllable words

● Read and spell words with suffixes -ing, -ed

● Read, write and pronounce words with past tense

suffix -ed pronounced three different ways

● Spell grade-level words correctly

● Write sentences with correct capitalization and

punctuation

● Beginning-of-the-Year Placement Assessment

● Unit Assessment

Decodable Reader: 

The Reader for this unit is The Cat Bandit.  The stories tell of the adventures of a hungry cat and the increasingly clever ways he gets food items seemingly out of his reach.  The stories in this Reader are 100% decodable, meaning they are made up entirely of spellings and Tricky Words introduced or reviewed in class during previous lessons.  The stories are short and quite simple.  They're designed to help students ease back into reading.  Students will engage in Whole Group reading, Small Group reading, Partner reading, and Independent reading with this Reader.  

The Cat Bandit chapters - The Hot Dog, The Chicken Nugget, The Snack Mix, The Ham, The Fish, The Milk, and The Catfish

Grammar

Unit 1 will review the basics of sentence building, punctuation, and capitalization.

Writing

Students will review and practice writing complete sentences when answering questions.

AMPLIFY KNOWLEDGE:   We will conclude Domain 1: Fairy Tales and Tall Tales this week.  Students will complete a study guide in class on Tuesday to prepare for the end of the domain assessment, which will be given on Thursday this week.  Parents, please review the study guide with your child.  

Unit Stories:  This Fisherman and His Wife, The Emperor's New Clothes, Beauty and the Beast Pt. 1, Beauty and the Beast Pt. 2, Paul Bunyan, Pecos Bill, John Henry, and Casey Jones

Overall Learning Outcomes

● Demonstrate understanding of Fairy Tales and Tall Tales genres

● Set a purpose for listening and understand the concept of exaggeration

● Distinguish details of idioms and multiple meaning words

● Identify regular and irregular plurals

● Compare and contrast two tall tales using a graphic organizer

● Experiment with narrative writing by rewriting a classic tale

● Domain Assessment

Core Vocabulary:

📏MATH:  We will begin Unit 3 - Patterns Within Numbers this week.  The unit begins by counting by 1's, and hundred charts are used to allow students to explore each hundred set between 100 and 1,000.  Number charts and lines are used to help students identify patterns when skip-counting by 5's, 10's, and 100's.  Students will also explore the idea of even and odd numbers.  This unit will take about 3 weeks to complete.

In this unit, students will:

~describe patterns when counting by 1's within 1,000

~skip count by 5's within 1,000

~skip count by 10's and 100's within 1,000

~determine if a number of objects in a group is even or odd

~write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends

~use skip-counting to find the total number of objects in an array

~use arrays to find the sum of equal addends AND multiplication facts

Vocabulary:

~column: numbers in a column go from top to bottom

~pattern: a consisten rule that numbers follow when skip-counting by 1's, 5's, 10's and 100's

~row: numbers in a row go from left to right

~skip count: counting by adding 2's, 5's, 10's or 100's INSTEAD of just 1

~even: a number that can be paired when none left over (ex. 0, 2, 4, 6, 8)

~odd: a number that has one left over when paired (ex. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9)

~array: a group of objects arranged in equal rows and columns

~repeated addition: an addition sentence that adds the same number over and over (ex. 3+3+3+3=12)