Weekly Syllabus: January 13th-17th, 2025
Reminders
Thursday, January 16th– 8th grade jeans day fundraiser.
Friday, January 17th – No School-Elementary Staff Day
Religion
Chapter 7 The Holy Spirit, Our Helper-Students will explore how the Holy Spirit is our special teacher, discover how the Holy Spirit helps and teaches us and helps us, and how to make good choices with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Language Arts
Unit 8 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Decode CVVC words with ai, oa, ea, and ee, read a decodable story with CVVC words, recognize CVVC spelling patterns for ai, oa, ea, and ee, encode CVVC words with ai, oa, ea, and ee, use describing words to compare and contrast settings, complete sentences using memory words, understand and use adjectives and feeling words, and review exclamation points.
Spelling Words: mail, nail, tail, rain, train, boat, coat, float, load, and road
Reading: Develop fluency reading with repeated readings of a story, read a story with appropriate rate, understand and discuss setting, problem, and solution, listen to and discuss a complex informational text, identify main topic and retell key details, identify steps in a process, and connect text to self.
Writing: Form and support opinions, discuss opinions, generate shared lists of topics, plan an opinion paragraph, discuss opinion paragraphs, write an opinion paragraph, and complete opinion paragraph.
Author Study: Laura Numeroff
Mathematics
January Number Corner begins, and students find familiar routines infused with fresh elements. Calendar Grid markers feature single equations and story problems with missing addends, minuends, or subtrahends, and students tell math stories to match the equations and use various strategies to solve for the unknown parts. They return to collecting coins in Calendar Collector and record their collection on a graph. They also learn to use known facts to solve related facts of 1 more or 1 less. Finally, they meet a favorite frog’s little sister and join her in skipping across the number line by 5s as they come within a decade of reaching the 100th day of school.
Bridges Unit 4 Module 1: Module 1 works to familiarize students with the number line as a mathematical model and an operational tool. Students use a life-sized number line to locate and identify numbers, and to begin to model addition and subtraction problems. Later they play a game in which they help a frog jump along a number line. In addition to helping students develop confidence with the number line as a computational tool, the activity helps deepen their understanding about the relationship between addition and subtraction.
