Weekly Syllabus: March 9th-13th, 2026
Reminders
Monday, March 9th is a PD day for the staff. No school.
Tuesday, March 10th-Permission slips are due for our field trip to the Oakland Zoo.
Friday, March 13th is our field trip to the Oakland Zoo. Students need to bring a lunch and wear their uniforms and comfortable shoes.
Religion
We continue to work on our Lent Lapbooks and Stations of the Cross. Continue to do acts of kindness and turn in the grapes and leaves.
Virtue of the month: Fortitude: The cardinal virtue of Fortitude enables us 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 moderating anger in the face of trials.
Saint: Blessed Chiara Luce Badano is the saint associated with this virtue.
Language Arts
Unit 12 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Identify words with the all sound, read stories with the all sound, encode words with the all sound, understand and use adjectives, understand and use precise verbs, and combine sentences using the conjunction and.
Spelling Words: call, mall, small, stall, wall, baseball, basketball, hallway, fallen, and taller
Reading: Read and discuss grade level literary text, understand text structure (beginning, middle, and end), draw conclusions with text support, identify key details, identify main topic and retell key details, and understand and use Words to Know (puzzled, collapse, steep, and system)
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.
