Weekly Syllabus: November 11th-15th, 2024
Reminders
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Saint Reports are due on Friday, November 15th
Monday, November 11th no school-Veterans’ Day Holiday
Friday, November 15th is Minions and Friends Spirit Day
Religion
We will continue 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.
Language Arts
Unit 5 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Identify base words with ing and ed endings, recognize ing and ed spelling patterns, introduce Memory Words (there, from, be, we, on, to), understand and use adjectives, and understand and identify time-of-action verbs with ing and ed endings.
Spelling Words: helping, helped, asking, asked, hugging, hugged, shopping, shopped, grinning, and grinned-the rule here is that when the root word has a short vowel and two consonants after it, just add the ending (helping). When the root word has a short vowel and one consonant after it, you need to double the consonant before adding the ending (hugging).
Reading: Understand and describe characters and events, make and confirm predictions, compare and contrast characters, identify character traits, connect ideas of cause and effect, retell key details, and understand and use Words to Know (wonder, curious, discover, and imagine)
Writing: Describe how an object looks and feels
Mathematics
Focus for November Number Corner: This month’s workouts delve into fractions and telling time. Students discover a pattern of friendly animals chomping snacks into wholes, halves, and fourths in the Calendar Grid, and the focus on fractions carries over to Calendar Collector. There, telling time is introduced to the hour and students use fractions of a circle to consider whole and half on an analog clock. November includes the 50th day of school and students use the hundreds grid to discover that they are halfway to the 100th day of school.
We continue with Bridges Unit 2 Module 4-The focus for Bridges Unit 2 Module 4 is on counting by 5s and 10s to become more efficient at counting amounts larger than 10. Three of the sessions use five-armed sea stars as a context for counting and students work together to make a quilt that exemplifies the counting by 5s pattern in the variety of ways. Making the quilt blocks also involves some work with shapes and fractional pieces. The last two sessions introduce games that feature pennies, nickels, and dimes-another good context for counting by 5s and 10s, as well as reinforcing the counting on strategy. The games also give students practice counting collections of coins and comparing two-digit numbers.
