Weekly Syllabus: January 12th-16th, 2026
Reminders
Tuesday, January 13th progress reports go home.
Thursday, January 15th is a spirit day. It is class theme day and our class voted on mismatch day.
Friday, January 16th – No School-Elementary Staff Day
Monday, January 19th – No School in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Tuesday, January 20th-We will begin our Oratorical Speeches. Students need to have these memorized by this date. I will be choosing 5 students on Tuesday-Thursday and 3 students on Friday to give their speeches to the class. Mrs. Ratto and I will then be choosing 2 students to perform at the Oratorical Fest.
Religion
We will be starting Unit 2 Chapter 5 Mary, the Mother of Jesus-Students will explore how courage helps us live as disciples of Jesus, discover what the Bible tells us about Mary, discover that Mary had great trust in God, learn that Mary is our mother, and learn that the psalms are prayers in the Bible.
Virtue of the month: Kindness-Kindness is under the umbrella of Justice. Kindness means expressing genuine concern about the we-being of others: anticipating their needs.
Ways to cultivate kindness: reach out to someone who is sitting alone or being left out, be quick to notice others’ needs and offer to help, and think of others before myself. These are just a few things that you can do.
Saints associated with kindness are: St. Aelred of Rievaulx, St. Veronica, St. Martin de Porres, and St. Camillus de Lellis.
Language Arts
Unit 8 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Decode CVVC words with ai, oa, ea, and ee, read a decodable story with CVVC words, recognize CVVC spelling patterns for ai, oa, ea, and ee, encode CVVC words with ai, oa, ea, and ee, use describing words to compare and contrast settings, complete sentences using memory words, understand and use adjectives and feeling words, and review exclamation points.
Spelling Words: mail, nail, tail, rain, train, boat, coat, float, load, and road
Reading: Develop fluency reading with repeated readings of a story, read a story with appropriate rate, understand and discuss setting, problem, and solution, listen to and discuss a complex informational text, identify main topic and retell key details, identify steps in a process, and connect text to self.
Writing: Form and support opinions, discuss opinions, generate shared lists of topics, plan an opinion paragraph, discuss opinion paragraphs, write an opinion paragraph, and complete opinion paragraph.
Author Study: Laura Numeroff
Mathematics
January Number Corner begins, and students find familiar routines infused with fresh elements. Calendar Grid markers feature single equations and story problems with missing addends, minuends, or subtrahends, and students tell math stories to match the equations and use various strategies to solve for the unknown parts. They return to collecting coins in Calendar Collector and record their collection on a graph. They also learn to use known facts to solve related facts of 1 more or 1 less. Finally, they meet a favorite frog’s little sister and join her in skipping across the number line by 5s as they come within a decade of reaching the 100th day of school.
Bridges Unit 3 Module 3: Putting together “10 and some more” to make the numbers from 11 to 20 is the core work of this module. Students build place-value understandings and use the Make Ten strategy to become more efficient at solving addition combinations to 20. The first session introduces the concepts of 10s and 1s and the idea that they can be put together to make a teen number. In the three sessions that follow, students learn the Fifty or Bust! game, in which they build and add collections of numbers between 10 and 20, trying to get to 50 without going over. They write equations for their collections as well.
