Weekly Syllabus: April 13th-17th, 2026
Reminders
Friday, April 17th is Spirit Day-Fashion Disaster
Religion
Family Life-Unit 3: God’s Gift of Life
Faith Concept: God gave everyone five senses to help them learn. God wants everyone to take care of themselves.
Virtue: Caring
Family Skills: Choosing to be safe.
Safer Together: Our bodies are good. Steps to help you do the right thing.
Virtue of the month: Prayerfulness is being still, listening, and being willing to talk to God as a friend. Ways to cultivate prayerfulness are to fold your hands while you pray, take time each day for personal prayer, visit a chapel, create a prayer space in your home and participate in sacraments.
Saints: St. Dominic, St. Catherine of Siena, St. Elizabeth of the Trinity, and St. Hildegard of Binger
Language Arts
Unit 14 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Associate oi and oy with /oi/, decoding and encoding oi and oy words, Introduce Unit 14 Words to Know (attract, guide, and flexible), Adverbs with -ly, Check understanding of a story.
Spelling: oil, boil, soil, coin, join, point, joint, joy, toy, and boy.
Reading: Guide fluency practice with a literary text, Introduce Memory Words (kind, buy, find, right, wash, and light), Fluency and Comprehension, Discuss characters’ motivations, multiple meanings of right, kind, and light, and Understand main ideas of an informational text
Writing: A fiction story
Author Study: Cynthia Rylant
Mathematics
Number Corner: April brings opportunities to review and extend many mathematical concepts addressed this year in Number Corner. For example, the Calendar Grid reviews fractions by folding geometric shapes, encourages students to define the shapes by attributes, and introduces line symmetry. During Calendar Collector students collect Popsicle sticks that they estimate, bundle into 10s and 1s, represent with tally marks, and use to measure and compare the length of classroom objects. Each of the number family patterns the students have met this year reappear in a 1–120 number grid, and students discover that familiar computational strategies for single-digit numbers can also be used to solve equations with double-digit decade numbers.
Bridges Unit 6 Module 2: The activities in this module continue to focus on addition and subtraction story problems and fact strategies to 20. Students make double-flap dot cards and picture cards, writing sets of fact family equations and story problems to match. They model and solve addition combinations to 20 on their number racks, identifying such strategies as working with easier combinations like 10 + 4 and 7 + 7 to solve more challenging combinations such as 9 + 4 and 7 + 8. A game at the end of the module, Pick Two to Make Twenty, sets work with addition combinations in an appealing and challenging context. The module concludes with a short checkpoint assessment.
Social Studies
We will continue our unit on American Symbols. Students will learn about symbols on stamps, the Liberty Bell, the Bald Eagle, Landmarks as symbols, The White House, Mt. Rushmore, The American Flag, and the Statue of Liberty.
