Weekly Syllabus: April 20th-24th, 2026
Reminders
Tuesday April 21st is April Birthday Free Dress.
Wednesday April 22nd Be sure to check out the Celebration of the Arts (COTA) in O’Brien Hall from
3-6:30. It will be open during these hours for both Wednesday and Thursday.
Thursday April 23rd is our Spring Concert. Doors open for the classrooms at 6:30. Please be to school no later than 6:45. Concert starts at 7:00.
Religion
Family Life Unit 4 God’s Gift of Love
Faith Concept: God helps everyone to love. Love grows when we share love with others.
Virtue: Sharing
Family Skill: Showing love to others.
Safer Together: Different ways to show love; rules for being safe outside.
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 6-10
Word Work: Associate c with /s/, Associate g with /j/, Introduce the spelling list (face, place, cage, page, buy, light, wash, right, find, and kind), practice decoding and encoding soft c and soft g words, guide practice with Memory Words, alphabetize words.
Spelling words: face, cage, place, page, kind, find, right, light, buy, and wash
Reading: Fluency practice with a literary text, review Unit 14 Words to Know (attract, guide, and flexible), understand problem and solution, understand characters and key details, connecting text to self, review onomatopoeia, fluency and comprehension with an informational text, understand picture-text relationships in an informational text.
Writing: Finish Narrative stories.
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: We will continue with 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.
