Weekly Syllabus: April 28th-May 2nd, 2025
Reminders
Full week of school!
Religion
We will begin our Family Life curriculum. Here are the units we will be discussing: Unit 1 God’s Gift of Family, Unit 2 God’s Gift of Self, Unit 3 God’s Gift of Life, Unit 4 God’s Gift of Love, and Unit 5 God’s Gift of Community.
Virtue of the month: Patience is within the virtue of Fortitude which enables one to endure difficulties for the sake of what is good. Patience means to bear present difficulties calmly. When I am angered or inconvenienced in any way patience gives me the grace to respond with kindness so that I don’t waste any of the opportunities to grow in love.
The saint associated with this virtue is: St. Gianna Molla
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 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.
