Weekly Syllabus: February 17th-21st, 2025
Reminders
Monday, February 17th is a holiday in honor of Presidents’ Day. No School.
Tuesday, February 18th is February birthday free dress.
Religion
Virtue of the month: Perseverance-perseverance falls under the category of Fortitude.
Perseverance means taking the steps necessary to carry out objectives in spite of difficulties. Keep going and don’t give up.
Saints associated with perseverance are St. Peter the Apostle, St Maria Venegas de la Torre, and St. Monica.
We continue with Chapter 9 The Church Celebrates Jesus. Students will explore how families celebrate Jesus, learn about the church year and Advent, learn about the seasons of Christmas, Lent, and Easter, decide ways to celebrate Jesus all year long, and pray a prayer to praise God.
Language Arts
Unit 10 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Changing y to i before adding -er and -est endings, practice adding -er and -est endings to -y words, guide practice with comparative and superlative adjectives, review spelling patterns: ai, ay for /ā/.
Spelling Words: say, may, play, happier, happiest, down, too, work, many, and first
Reading: Guide fluency practice for the Superkids Short, Review Unit 10 Words to Know, identify sequence of events in a literary text, discuss characters in a literary text, identify picture-text relationships in an informational text, discuss the author’s purpose for writing either a literary or informational text.
Writing: Explanatory Writing: Revising a how-to text by adding details
Author Study: Ezra Jack Keats
February Number Corner: The arrival of the tenth decade, the 100th day of school, makes February an exciting month. Both the Days in School and Number Line workouts pay tribute to this special number. The Computational Fluency workout brings focus on multiple addends, and students use a variety of efficient strategies to compose groups flexibly. In addition to the numeration work, students name and describe pairs of two-dimensional shapes shown on the Calendar Grid markers and determine whether or not the shapes in each pair are congruent.
We will begin Bridges Unit 5 Module 1: Module 1 focuses completely on two‑dimensional shapes, particularly those found in the pat‑ tern blocks (triangles, trapezoids, squares, hexagons, and rhombuses), plus rectangles. The work with shapes includes comparing, distinguishing defining attributes from non-defining, and developing problem-solving strategies. Students use pattern blocks to create composite shapes and solve puzzles, and practice drawing the shapes each day.
