Weekly Syllabus: March 16th-20th, 2026
Reminders
Tuesday, March 17th is St. Patrick’s Day and green, white, and gold free dress. We also have an ice cream treat for reaching our fundraising goal!
Religion
We continue to focus on Lent
Virtue of the month: Fortitude: The cardinal virtue of Fortitude enables on to endure difficulties and pain for the sake of what is good. Fortitude looks like: aiming to perfect our emotions in face of difficult situations, strengthening the will in the pursuit of the good, and overcoming fear and moderates anger in the face of trials.
Blessed Chiara Luce Badano is the saint associated with this virtue.
Language Arts
Unit 12 Lessons 6-10
Word Work: Associate aw with the short o sound, decode aw words, read a story with aw words, determine the number of syllables in words, decode difficult words from an informational text, encode aw words, spell memory words, understand and use the conjunctions because and and, and understand and use adjectives and precise verbs.
Spelling Words: law, saw, dawn, lawn, crawl, come, coming, they, our, and put
Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a story, read a story with expression, read memory words with automaticity, read and discuss a grade level informational text, identify main idea, retell key details, connect ideas with cause and effect, compare and contrast two texts.
Writing: Descriptive Writing
Author Study: Marc Brown
Mathematics
Number Corner for March: The March Calendar Grid features telling time to the hour and half-hour on both digital and analog clocks, and students explore elapsed time as they determine the time between each marker. Coins return to the Calendar Collector, and students practice counting mixed sets of dimes, nickels, and pennies to determine their total value. This month they review strategies for solving equations within 20 and learn how to “think ten” when adding numbers with sums greater than 10. The Number Line and Days in School workouts both introduce students to numbers beyond 100.
Bridges Unit 5 Module 3: After a project in which students create nine-patch mini-quilts by composing square quilt blocks into a larger squares, the focus shifts to fractions. Students fold and cut paper to decompose shapes and play a bingo game to explore halves, fourths, and thirds. combinations to 20: taking away, finding the difference, and using familiar addition facts to help solve related subtraction facts.
