Catholic Schools Week 2019!

Week of January 21st

RELIGION

*Use a venn diagram to compare and contrast roles of the Holy Trinity
*Incorporate paragraph writing into understanding Jesus as a model of respect

MATH

*Unit 5 Review
*Unit 5 Assessment
*Look for a new family letter this week!

*Time Tests continue ~ weekly practice

~Pre-test Monday; Post-test Friday (unless 98-100 on pretest)

~Goal is three seconds per problem

DAILY 5

*Mini-Lesson: Suffixes

*Daily 5 routines

*Guided Reading groups

SOCIAL STUDIES

*Martin Luther King Jr. Day observation
*Determine why MLK is an important historical figure
*Complete own student dreams and wishes for the world

WRITING

*Paragraph Unit

*Definite Main Idea

*Learn about topic sentences, supporting details and ending sentences

*Use the analogy of an upside stoplight to assist students with their learning
*Catholic Schools Week preparation and writing task

*Practice handwriting, spelling, capital letters and ending punctuation

Sign-up for Parent Teacher Conferences!

Week of January 14th

RELIGION

*Visit from seminarian from St. Paul Seminary College

*Identify Jesus as the Son of God, the Father

*Recognize the importance of a chosen name

*Special name homework activity

*Learn about Jesus's childhood and important parts of His life

*Paragraph Shrink writing activity

MATH

*Identify 2D and 3D shapes by their names and characteristics

*Build pyramids using twisty ties and straws

*Define symmetry

*Identify and create symmetry

*Time Tests continue ~ weekly practice

~Pre-test Monday; Post-test Friday (unless 98-100 on pretest)

~Goal is three seconds per problem

DAILY 5

*Mini-Lesson: Nonfiction Text Features Assessment

*Daily 5 routines

*Guided Reading groups

SOCIAL STUDIES

*Continents and Oceans Unit

*Learn the seven continent names and their location

*Learn the five ocean names and their location

*Identify Canada and Mexico as the countries north and south of the USA

*Sing "The Continents Song"

WRITING

*Paragraph Unit

*Definite Main Idea

*Learn about topic sentences, supporting details and ending sentences

*Use the analogy of an upside stoplight to assist students with their learning

*Practice handwriting, spelling, capital letters and ending punctuation

Week of January 7th

RELIGION

*Recognize Sunday as the Epiphany of the Lord

*Holy Trinity Study

*Identify God as Father and list characteristics of God

*Compare God to our own fathers/parents

*Define trust

*Help students understand our call to trust God

MATH

*Parallel vs nonparallel lines

*Identifying and creating quadrilaterals

*Explorations on geometry concepts

*Time Tests continue ~ weekly practice

~Pre-test Monday; Post-test Friday (unless 98-100 on pretest)

~Goal is three seconds per problem

DAILY 5

*Mini-Lesson: Nonfiction Text Features

*Daily 5 routines

*Guided Reading groups

SOCIAL STUDIES

*Continents and Oceans Unit

*Learn the seven continent names and their location

*Learn the five ocean names and their location

*Identify Canada and Mexico as the countries north and south of the USA

*Sing "The Continents Song"

WRITING

*Nonfiction writing

*Listen to tradebooks on polar lands, animals and people

*Generate a list of questions about the polar regions

*Practice writing facts into a summary using complete sentences and transition words

*Practice handwriting, spelling, capital letters and ending punctuation