Weekly Syllabus: May 11th-15th, 2026
Reminders
Friday, May 15th is spirit day-Multiples Day
Religion
We will begin Chapter 9 The Church Celebrates Jesus. Students will explore how families celebrate Jesus, learn about the church seasons, and discuss ways to celebrate Jesus all year long.
Virtue of the month: Magnanimity-magnanimity means seeking with confidence to do great things in God; literally “having a large soul.” Ways to cultivate this virtue are to compliment someone who you want to be recognized, allow others to receive the praise and credit they deserve, give others the benefit of the doubt, and don’t jump to conclusions.
Saints associated with this virtue are St. Philip Neri (YAY!), St. Louis de Montfort, St. Paul Miki, and St. Turibius of Mogrovejo.
Language Arts
Unit 16 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Identify oo sounds, read and write words with oo, use superlative adjectives, understand and use homophones eight/ate, and write/right.
Spelling Words: moon, spoon, room, broom, book, took, shook, hood, wood, and stood
Reading: Develop fluent reading, read with natural phrasing, draw conclusions, recognize plot problems and solutions, identify main topic and key details, and understand authors purpose.
Writing: Poetry
Author Study: Mo Willems
Mathematics
Number Corner for May: Activities in May focus on numbers up to 120, with students working with the number grid for addition and subtraction in both the Calendar Grid and Computational Fluency workouts, and practicing forward and backward counting by 10s off the decade during the Number Line workout. The Calendar Collector encourages students to extend their concepts about fractions to quarters and dollars by thinking of a quarter as one-fourth of a dollar. They collect a quarter a day and group the quarters into dollars to see how many dollars they can collect before the end of the school year. Counting the days in school continues this month with an eye toward 200 and also summer vacation.
Bridges Unit 7 Module 3: Hansel and Gretel are having so much fun marking the paths around their house in the woods that they decide to add a few amenities. Each of these objects has a different length; the fence sections are 10 units, the benches 5, the trash cans 2, and the flowerpots 1. This gives students all kinds of interesting opportunities to design paths of different lengths and to compute the lengths of path sections presented to them. The Hansel and Gretel theme culminates in a partner game the students make themselves involving a path 120 steps long. They spin to make jumps of 1, 2, 5, or 10, and later 20 or 30, to race from one end of the path to the other. The game can be played forward or backward and allows students to practice adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers on a number line.
