Monday, October 5, 2009

Week of October 5-9

This week's Announcements:
No School next Monday -- Columbus Day!

This week in Language Arts: We will have a group discussion/accountable talk about the story Lenny's Red Letter Day. Students have prepared a response to the question: Why does Prakash try to be friends with Lenny? We will continue with Junior Great Books this week by reading a third and final story. Word Study also continues this week. Students will bring home a new list of words this week. The activities are the same as last week!
Monday - S.A.W. Wks (directions and blank copies of the worksheet can be found on ANGEL)
Tuesday - Word Hunt - Students should find 8 new words that follow the pattern they are learning and sort them into the correct category
Wednesday - Star Sentences (5); Students should also finish their re-reading of Barbie and take notes in their Reading Spiral. Some students may have finished in class.
Thursday - Choice Activity
Friday - Word Study Test.

This week in Math... we will begin our Graphing Unit! We will explore components of a good and useful graph, reading and interpreting bar graphs, line graphs, and stem and leaf plots.
HOMEWORK:
Monday -
Measurement WKS
Tuesday -
Wks: Bar Graphs
Wednesday -
Collect 25 pieces of data for survey
Thursday -
Friday -

This week in Science
... we are beginning our new unit on Matter! What is matter? What is an atom? How small is an atom? What makes up an atom? We'll try to answer all of this and more!!

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