Reminders:
- Monday is J day for the ABC countdown, the students can wear their jammies or dress down from their missed day on Friday
Math: We are starting Chapter 14 Geometry. This week we will cover lessons one through five. These lessons will teach the students how to draw points, lines, and rays, how to draw parallel and perpendicular lines, how to model and classify angles, and how to measure angles.
Objectives:
- Students will draw points, lines, line segments, and rays and identify these in two-dimensional figures.
- Students will draw parallel, intersecting, and perpendicular lines and identify these in two-dimensional figures.
- Students will use concepts of angle measurement to classify angles.
- Students will use a protractor to measure angles to the nearest degree.
Social Studies: We are continuing our journey through the Western region this week by continuing to explore various cities throughout the region. Last week the children finished the research aspect of this project and started creating their presentation on Google Slides. This week, each group will finish their presentations and present them to the class.
Objectives:
- Identify reasons why the West has attracted people.
- Apply map skills to locate important sites in the West.
- Describe the physical and human features of the West moving on from the Southwest and moving onto the Western region of the United States.
Religion: We we so busy last week we weren't able to finish all learning about the rest of the commandments. This week we will finish learning about the seventh through tenth commandments and start to prepare for the commandment test which will take place the following week.
Objective:
- Consider how Scripture and Tradition can deepen your understanding.
LA/Reading: We are continuing to learn more about the features of Earth in Unit 5 of MyView. The overall question for this unit is, why is it important to understand our planet? Our question for this week is, what daily actions can help reduce pollution? Our literary focus for this week is argumentative texts. We will read Top 10 Ways You Can Reduce Waste by Nick Winnick. We will focus on finding details in the text that help support the main idea and summarizing those points. Our language convention for this week is capitalization in titles. The vocabulary words for this week are: emissions, excessive, underlie, watt, and innovative.
Objectives:
- Recognize characteristics and structures of argumentative text.
- Make inferences and use evidence to support understanding.
- Retell, paraphrase, or summarize texts in ways that maintain meaning in logical order.
- Link opinion and reasons using words and phrases.
- Use context within and beyond a sentence to determine the relevant meaning of unfamiliar words or multiple-meaning words.
Spelling: Our spelling words for this week focus on words with a VCCCV syllable pattern. The students will complete three word choice activities and one spelling worksheet to help them prepare for the test on Friday.
Objectives:
- Demonstrate and apply phonetic knowledge by decoding words using advanced knowledge of syllable division patterns such as VV.
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