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 be attending Mass this week on Thursday at 8:30 am. 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.
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.
For students who missed our Unit 11 assessment, we will be completing the assessment this week. Please be sure to have your child review the following stories from the unit before they take their assessment.
Lesson 1: Daniel Boone and the Opening of the West
Lesson 2: Crossing the Appalachian Mountains
Lesson 3: Jefferson and Monroe
Lesson 4: The Louisiana Purchase
Lesson 5: Lewis and Clark
Lesson 6: Lewis and Clark: The Journey Begins
Lesson 7: Discovery and Danger on the Prairie
Lesson 8: Sacagawea
Lesson 9: Red Cedars and Grizzly Bears
Lesson 10: Rivers and Mountains
Lesson 11: To the Pacific and Back
MATH:
iReady:
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.
Math Homework:
Students will have new homework to review previously learned material as well as some new material that they may need help working on with at home. Please assist students with this homework. We will be reviewing the answers together on Fridays.
Math Facts:
In order for your child to be successful in the upcoming challenging concepts that we will be learning during the remainder of the year, it is of VITAL importance for your child to continue practicing their math facts at home. I would strongly suggest utilizing flash cards or the Fact Monster link below to help keep your child's math fact fluency proficient.
Students can practice their math fact fluency throughout the whole year at the following link:
https://www.factmonster.com/math/flashcard?op[0]=addition&level=1
UNITS OF STUDY:
Students will be learning about current events in Scholastic News articles.