Weekly Syllabus: October 28th-November 1st, 2024
Reminders
We will celebrate Halloween on Thursday, October 31th. The parade will begin at 8:15. It is also a 12:00 dismissal day.
Students may wear their costumes, but are not allowed to bring weapons or wear masks. Students also need to be dressed appropriately (when in doubt, please refer to the handbook for free dress guidelines).
If you haven’t already done so, please consider a donation to the Annual Fund.
Friday, November 1st is our All Saints mass at 9:30. All are welcome!
Religion
We will begin Chapter 5 Baptism is a Wonderful Gift-Students will learn the importance of helping others, appreciate Baptism as a celebration of becoming a member of the Catholic community, be able to describe how a person is baptized, realize that as Catholics we are followers of Jesus, and understand that holy water is a sign of our new life with Jesus.
Language Arts
Unit 4 Lessons 1-5
Word Work: Identify final er sound, encode er words, recognize er and ed spelling patterns, introduce and spell Memory Words (look, your, the, was, are, and for), and understand and use passed tense verbs.
Spelling words: after, never, better, winter, summer, rested, twisted, planted, printed, and acted
Reading: Read and discuss grade level literary text, understand characters, text structure, and sequence, listen to and read complex informational text, understand Words to Know (project, interesting, and constructed)
Writing: Discuss narrative writing, select a topic for narrative writing, plan a personal narrative, write a story based on a plan, and edit
Author Study: Arnold Lobel
Mathematics
Focus for October Number Corner: Ten is the magic number for October, the tenth month of the year. Students compose and decompose the number 10, practice instantly seeing quantities on ten-frames, and learn about “leaps of ten” on the number line. The Calendar Grid features sets of fall pictures to inspire math stories and during the Calendar Collector workout, students collect and count patterns blocks and make a composite shape picture.
The focus for Bridges Unit 2 Module 3 is on developing adding and subtraction strategies, particularly doubling, counting on, and counting back to solve combinations within 12. Students work with the number rack and then learn games in which they add, subtract, and record their results on graphs. Students who are still counting by 1s to add and subtract are encouraged to count on and count back instead, and those who have moved beyond counting by 1s are encouraged to develop strategies that make use of well-known facts to solve less familiar combinations.
