Week at a Glance for the Week of: August 23-27, 2021 | Grade level: 5th Grade | ||
Essential Learning for this week: | |
Literacy | Reading: Students recognize characteristics and structures of informational text, including the central idea with supporting evidence. Writing: Students use the writing process to compose an informational text using a clear central idea and genre characteristics and craft. |
Mathematics | Students represent, compare, and order numbers through the thousandths place. Students round decimals. |
Science | Students explore the engineering design process. |
Social Studies | Students explore with Google Maps to identify characteristics of the land around them. |
Day of the Week | Literacy | Mathematics | Science | SocialStudies | |
Monday | Foundational Skills: Short Vowels (learning slides) Reading Focus Text: The Winds of Hope Learn: Good readers clarify and improve understanding during reading by re-reading, using background knowledge, and asking questions.
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Writing Focus Text: Girls Think of Everything Learn: Continue drafting your expository essay to focus on the conclusion.
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Independent Practice: Pathblazer: 10-15 mins./day | Learn: Students compare whole numbers and decimals.
Do: (Use decimal cards from last week’s resources: Smaller to Larger Game)
| Learn: Science is the process of learning about the natural world through observation and experimentation. The more evidence we have about a theory the more confident we are about it. You must be willing to change your mind based on new evidence. Many things around us appear to be science but are not. Do:
| Learn : Use Google Maps to explore a physical map of the United States. (Click on the menu and select the satellite view.) Zoom in closer to see different landforms appear. Do: Consider these questions then choose 3 that you would like to respond to in your social studies notebook or use a digital tool such as Flipgrid, WeVideo, or Adobe Spark to record your answers.
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Tuesday | Foundational Skills: Short vowels (Open virtually with Kami or print.) Reading Focus Text: The Winds of Hope Learn: Authors organize informational text in patterns.
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Writing Focus Text: Girls Think of Everything Learn: Good writers keep revisiting and revising their work to make it the best it can be. Do:
Independent Practice: Pathblazer: 10-15 mins./day | Learn: Students compare whole numbers and decimals.
Do:
| Learn: Science is the process of learning about the natural world through observation and experimentation. The more evidence we have about a theory the more confident we are about it. You must be willing to change your mind based on new evidence. Many things around us appear to be science but are not. Do:
| Learn: Continue to use Google Maps to explore maps. Do: Consider these questions then answer them in your social studies notebook or use a digital tool such as Flipgrid, WeVideo, or Adobe Spark to record your answers.
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Wednesday | Foundational Skills: Short vowels (Open virtually with Kami or print.) Reading Focus Text: Wheelchair Sports Learn: Good readers monitor their understanding as they read a text by clarifying parts of the text that do not make sense.
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Writing Focus Text: Girls Think of Everything Learn: A good writer keeps revisiting his or her work, trying again and again to make it the best it can be.
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Independent Practice: Pathblazer: 10-15 mins./day | Learn: Students round decimals. Do:
| Learn: Open the Engineering Design Process Guide presentation and follow the directions on the slides. Do:
| **NEW** Accessing Savvas e-textbook Learn: Read pages 12-21 in your Savvas textbook (access through Webdesk) to review map components and vocabulary. Do: Complete the Map Cloze Activity document. | |
Thursday | Foundational Skills:
Reading Focus Text: Wheelchair Sports Learn: Good readers identify the central ideas, and supporting evidence in a text to better understand it.
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Writing Focus Text: Girls Think of Everything Learn: A good writer keeps revisiting his or her work, trying again and again to make it the best it can be.
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Independent Practice: Pathblazer: 10-15 mins./day | Learn: Students round decimals. Do:
| Learn: Watch the following videos: (Discovery Education must be open first) Do:
| This Learn and Do will happen over two days: Learn: Review the following map elements: compass rose, legend: symbol, grid system, cardinal directions, intermediate directions, scale, latitude, longitude, locator map, region, capital city/cities, borders, landforms, bodies of water. Do: Create a map of your bedroom or an imaginary island. You can use a digital tool or paper pencil to complete this task. Be sure to include as many of the elements as you can. | |
Friday | Foundation Skills: Long a and e (Open virtually with Kami or print.) Reading Focus Text: Wheelchair Sports Learn: Authors organize informational text in patterns. Recognizing an organizational pattern helps readers connect ideas and events.
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Writing Focus Text: Girls Think of Everything Las chicas piensan en todo Learn: A good writer keeps revisiting his or her work, trying again and again to make it the best it can be.
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Independent Practice: Pathblazer: 10-15 mins./day | Learn: Students estimate using a variety of strategies to determine solutions.
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| Learn: Use what you learned about the thermal properties of materials and about the environmental impact of materials and test your solar oven design. Do:
Designing a Solar Oven presentation test and score your oven.
| Learn and Do: Continue lesson from previous learn and do. | |
Independent Work Resources |
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