This
week’s SCHOOLWIDE
LEARNING EXPECTATION:
a St. Joseph student
respects all of God’s creation.
Parents and Students,
1.) Welcome back. I hope that everyone had a wonderful
Christmas vacation. Happy New Year!
2.) This month we will be studying all about our heritage.
Please see the attached sheet for a very important
assignment due later this month.
Download
weekly Home Education sheet here:
Religion
Christmas
-learning about the Christmas crèche
Chapter 9: Understanding God’s Love through Creation
-acknowledging the place of the Bible in our faith
-begin the Family Life program
- continue sharing saint reports
-SLE booklets: a St. Joseph student respects all of God’s
creation
Language
Arts
Phonics:
long vowel “o”
New story: “Stars”
- activating prior knowledge
- language development/predicting strategies/vocabulary
-part of speech: contractions, word endings
Winter writing project
Spelling
Spelling words: Chapter 16 (long i and long o words)
Math
Chapter 5: Adding Two-Digit Numbers
-review: adding two digit numbers (no regrouping)
-using place value models
-adding two-digit numbers with regrouping
-practice adding two-digit numbers
Science
Plants
-key concepts
-parts of a plant
-observing plants
-stems: celery experiment
Social
Studies
Our Ancestors
-learning about our ancestors
- begin Heritage Doll/poster project (see
directions here)
