**1/2 way book goal: Feb. 8**
Reading:
Main Text: "The Emperor's Silent Army" pgs. pgs. 319-329
Stragegy: Monitor Comprehension
Skill: Summarize
Vocabulary Words: utensils, superstitious, civilized, excavate, trenches, steadfastly, precede, prolong
Word focus: prefixes
TEST ON WEDNESDAY, FEB. 9
*Students will have a study guide.*
We will also review test-taking skills.
Language:
Focus: linking verbs
meter in lyrical poetry
*Homework: work not completed in class
DLR Test on Friday, Feb. 11
Spanish:
We will finish videotaping the Spanish dialogues!
We will continue learning colors and begin parts of the body (if time permits).
Monday, January 31, 2011
Sunday, January 23, 2011
January 24-28
**Reading Goal: 2 books by Feb. 4, 4 books by March 7. Student will be completing their Genre Bingo sheet.
Reading:
TEST on "Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street" Tuesday, Jan. 25
Students will have a study guide.
Beginning Wednesday:
Main Text: "Building Green" pgs. 306-309
Skill: Cause and Effect
Vocabulary: nonrenewable, renewable, adverse, generate, apparatus
Students will complete a one-pager to assess knowledge of vocabulary words and cause-effect relationships. This will take the place of a written test.
Language:
Focus: verb tenses and helping verbs
Homework: work not completed in class (pgs. 71, 72, 77, 78)
DLR test on FRIDAY, Jan. 28
Spanish:
Dialogue presentations
Reading:
TEST on "Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street" Tuesday, Jan. 25
Students will have a study guide.
Beginning Wednesday:
Main Text: "Building Green" pgs. 306-309
Skill: Cause and Effect
Vocabulary: nonrenewable, renewable, adverse, generate, apparatus
Students will complete a one-pager to assess knowledge of vocabulary words and cause-effect relationships. This will take the place of a written test.
Language:
Focus: verb tenses and helping verbs
Homework: work not completed in class (pgs. 71, 72, 77, 78)
DLR test on FRIDAY, Jan. 28
Spanish:
Dialogue presentations
Monday, January 17, 2011
Jan. 17-21
*Reading Goal: 2 books by Feb. 4, 4 books by March 7. Students will complete their Genre Bingo sheet again.
Reading:
Main Text: "Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street" pgs. 278-293.
Strategy: Monitor Comprehension
Skill: Draw Conclusions
Vocabulary: limousine, sensational, precarious, extravagant, unimaginable, lamented, promenade, embarked
Homework: Work not finished in class.
TEST ON TUESDAY, JAN. 25. Students will have a study guide.
Language:
Focus: Action verbs, direct and indirect objects
Homework: Work not finished in class.
Writing:
Students will write the final draft of their persuasive essay for homework. Due on Wednesday.
Students are required to have their rough draft signed by Wednesday.
Spanish:
Students are working with a partner on a dialogue presentation based on everything we have learned so far this year. They will present their dialogues next week.
Reading:
Main Text: "Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street" pgs. 278-293.
Strategy: Monitor Comprehension
Skill: Draw Conclusions
Vocabulary: limousine, sensational, precarious, extravagant, unimaginable, lamented, promenade, embarked
Homework: Work not finished in class.
TEST ON TUESDAY, JAN. 25. Students will have a study guide.
Language:
Focus: Action verbs, direct and indirect objects
Homework: Work not finished in class.
Writing:
Students will write the final draft of their persuasive essay for homework. Due on Wednesday.
Students are required to have their rough draft signed by Wednesday.
Spanish:
Students are working with a partner on a dialogue presentation based on everything we have learned so far this year. They will present their dialogues next week.
Monday, January 3, 2011
January 4-7
Welcome Back!!
I hope students had a wonderful break and are ready to get started on the second half of our school year!!! **Parents: Please make sure your students have all of the supplies they need for school (pencils, paper, etc.).**
On Tuesday we will finish up on Unit 2 testing and Haiku poetry.
Our main focus the rest of the week will be planning, writing, revising, and editing a persuasive essay.
Students who met their reading goal of 4 books during the 2nd grading period will be going to the library for MOVIE TIME on Thursday!!! Way to go readers!!!
Spanish: We will learn about the verb IR and how it is used.
I hope students had a wonderful break and are ready to get started on the second half of our school year!!! **Parents: Please make sure your students have all of the supplies they need for school (pencils, paper, etc.).**
On Tuesday we will finish up on Unit 2 testing and Haiku poetry.
Our main focus the rest of the week will be planning, writing, revising, and editing a persuasive essay.
Students who met their reading goal of 4 books during the 2nd grading period will be going to the library for MOVIE TIME on Thursday!!! Way to go readers!!!
Spanish: We will learn about the verb IR and how it is used.
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