Weekly Syllabus: April 14th-18th, 2025
Reminders
Thursday, April 17th is Holy Thursday and a noon dismissal. No Share and Care.
Sunday April 20th is Easter Sunday. Enjoy your break with family and friends! Blessings for a Happy Easter!!!
Religion
Praying the Jelly Bean prayer and reflecting on the Stations of the Cross.
Virtue of the month: Gratitude- Gratitude falls under the virtue of Justice- giving to each, beginning with God, what is due Him. Thankful disposition of mind and heart.
Gratitude perfects our will and all our relationships with others, including family, country, and Church. It is the constant and firm will to give to others what they are due. It disposes us to respect the rights and dignity of others, leading to harmony and equality in human interactions.
Saints associated with this virtue are: St. Josephine Bakhita, St. Mary Magdaline, and St. Augustine.
We will be keeping a gratitude journal this month and writing what we are grateful for daily.
Language Arts
No spelling words
We will finish our unit from last week.
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 7 Module 2: This module and the next focus on numbers to 120 on a number line. Students enter the fairytale world of Hansel and Gretel, who create and mark paths by dropping pebbles every 10 steps. When these intervals prove to be too far apart, they use pinecones to mark each halfway point. Finally, they drop bread crumbs to mark each step. Hungry birds and squirrels have a way of making the bread crumbs disappear sometimes, leaving interesting gaps here and there. The pathlike number lines that emerge during this module give students many opportunities to count forward and backward by 1s, 5s, and 10s from a variety of starting points, read and write numbers to 120, and add and subtract 1-digit numbers to and from 2-digit numbers.
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.
