Religion: 

Students will be learning about how we share God's love by understanding that:

• Jesus shows us how to love and serve.

• When we pray, we show God that we love him. 

• We share God's love with our families. 

• We share God's love with others. 

We will have Mass on Thursday this week at 8:30 a.m. As always, families are welcome to join us!

English/Language Arts Skills: 

Students will be completing unit 7 of the Amplify Skills lessons and will be taking an end-of-year assessment to show their growth for this school year. 

Spelling Words for the Week:

No spelling words this week!

Foundational Skills

• Students will read individual words in isolation that feature closed syllables, magic ‘e’ syllables, vowel digraph syllables, and r-controlled syllables. 

Reading

• Students will read “The Market” with purpose and understanding; will answer oral literal, inferential, and evaluative questions about key events in the story; and will write an opinion citing evidence from the story. 

• Students will decode multisyllable words with /ae/ > ‘ai’ and ‘ay.’

• Students will read “A Rainforest Ride” with purpose and understanding and will answer oral literal questions about key events in the story. 

• Students will decode multisyllable words with /ae/ > ‘ai’ and ‘ay’.

• Students will read “A Rainforest Ride” with purpose and understanding and will answer oral literal questions about key events in the story. 

• Students will be assessed on their ability to read a text and comprehend what they are reading.

• Students will silently read the story “Shark and Wee Fish” and answer multiple-choice literal, inferential, and evaluative questions concerning key events in the story.

• Students will read “The Dive” with purpose and understanding; will answer written literal questions about key events in the story; and will write an opinion based on events in the story. 

• Students will read “Shark and Wee Fish” aloud with accuracy, appropriate rate, and expression, and will answer literal, inferential, and evaluative questions about the story.

• Students will read “At the Airport” with purpose and understanding and will answer multiple-choice and short-answer questions about key events in the story. 

Language (Grammar)

•  Students will revise and expand oral sentences using the decodable conjunctions and, but, so, and or.

• Students will punctuate sentences, adding periods, exclamation points, question marks, and commas in the appropriate places. 

Writing 

• Students will review the steps for writing instructions in logical order and will use a template to draft a set of instructions for brushing teeth. 

• Students will use an editing checklist to edit a partner’s planning and drafting templates from the previous lesson and will provide the partner with suggestions for improving the draft.

• Students will write final copies of their instructional drafts from the previous lesson, incorporating peer edits. 

English/Language Arts Knowledge:

Students have completed the Amplify Knowledge series and will be reading "Charlotte's Web" as a book study. Learning targets will include:

• Reading closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it. 

• Determining central ideas or themes of a text. 

• Analyzing how and why individuals, events or ideas develop and interact over the course of a text. 

• Interpret words and phrases as they are used in a text. 

Math: 

Students will be learning how to identify coins by understanding the following learning objectives:

• Know the value of dimes, nickels and pennies. 

• Understand that a dime can be thought of as a bundle of ten pennies. 

• Find the value of a set of coins by placing the number of dimes in the tens place and pennies in the ones place. 

Units of Study: 

• Students will be learning about current events in Scholastic News articles.