Weekly Syllabus: March 23rd-27th, 2026
Reminders
Please continue to work on the Lenten Homework and turn in the grapes and leaves with acts of kindness. Also, take time to look at the Lenten Path packet with ideas for practicing the three pillars: prayer, fasting, and almsgiving.
Religion
We continue to focus on Lent. We will be reflecting on the Stations of the Cross. We are also working on our Family Life curriculum. This week we will be focusing on Unit 2 God’s Gift of Self.
Faith Concept: God gives everyone a loving heart. God created everyone with feelings.
Virtue: Bravery
Family Skills: Expressing feelings in a good way.
Safer Together: Taking good care of your body; dealing with strong feelings.
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 13 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Identify, decode, and write ar and or words and understand the use of the suffix -ful.
Memory Words: both, again, laugh, cold, does, and know
Spelling Words: far, hard, star, card, car, corn, born, sport, short, and horn
Reading: Develop fluent reading with repeated readings of a story, read memory words fluently, understand characters and characters feelings, connect self to text, connect character feelings to problem and solution plot, identify key details, and identify main topic and retell key details.
Writing: Problem-Solution Fictional Stories
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 6 Module 1: The penguins stage a return. Penguins standing on ice ledges, huddling in groups for warmth, laying eggs, and catching fish provide story problem settings and visual models for reviewing addition and subtraction strategies for facts to 20. During these five sessions, students review combinations of 10, Add Ten, Add Nine, and Doubles. They also investigate three strategies useful in working with subtraction combinations to 20: taking away, finding the difference, and using familiar addition facts to help solve related subtraction facts.
Social Studies
We will be starting our unit on American Symbols. Students will learn about symbols on stamps, the Liberty Bell, the Bald Eagle, Landmarks as symbols, The White House, Mt. Rushmore, The American Flag, and the Statue of Liberty.
