Monday, March 3, 2008

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH:
3rd--Chapter 11 Lessons 2 & 3 [#1-20 & #8-27]
4th--Lesson 61 [Practice set & evens]
5th--Lesson 60 [Practice set & evens]

LANGUAGE ARTS:
Turn in haiku/senryu & songs; perform songs.
Intro to new writing unit: book report
Poetry performance--Poe (Shakur, Kitty, Jeremy)
Group reading--The Raven [Assignment: complete poem eval form on The Raven, due Tuesday.]
REMINDER: Ariana & Alex perform Sandburg Tuesday (tomorrow)

HANDWRITING:
Next lesson
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Friday, February 29, 2008

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH:
All grades--End of Week Quiz

LANGUAGE ARTS:
Final American Poetry presentation
Lesson on Haiku & Senryu poetic forms.
[Assignment: write three poems, one formal haiku, one formal senryu, and one with a topic of your choice. Due Monday.]

BIBLE:
Memory verse quiz & border sheet.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH:
3rd--Chapter 11 Lesson 1 [all problems]
4th--Investigation #6 [all problems & worksheets]
5th--Finish exam & sort boxtops

LANGUAGE ARTS:
American Poetry Performances: Elijah & Alex
Presentation on poetry form--song. [Write a song following these rules: must syllabically fit the tune, must follow appropriate rhyme scheme, must fit one of the two tune choices, must have between 2 and 4 lines, depending on grade level. Due MONDAY]

SCIENCE:
Unit Exam


BIBLE:
Baptismal Class
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Monday, February 25, 2008

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH:
3rd--Ch 10 L3 & 4 [(L3) problems 6-25, (L4) all problems]
4th--L59 [practice set & odd problems]
5th--L58 [practice set & odd problems]

LANGUAGE ARTS:
Lesson presentation on Wordsworth & Blake; student poetry performances. REMINDER--Tuesday's student performances are from Derick, Elijah, & Alex.

SCIENCE:
Bone structure diagram.

SPELLING:
Alphabetize spelling list, capitalizing all vowels (not "Y"). Due Tuesday.
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Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH:
3rd--Chapter 10 Lesson 1 [#3-62]
4th--Fix last week's End of Week quiz
5th--Lesson 56 [Practice set & all problems]

LANGUAGE ARTS:
Art Class

Lesson on Langston Hughes
Poem presentations by Elijah, Dennis, & Kitty
Read & discussed Harlem [Asg: complete poem evaluation form for Harlem, due tomorrow]

REMINDER: Sonnet due tomorrow (Wednesday)
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Friday, February 15, 2008

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH: End of week quiz.

LANGUAGE ARTS: Writer's workshop: writing a sonnet [Assignment: write a sonnet. Due Wednesday]
The sonnet needs to be:
1. Written in iambic pentameter
2. Rhyme scheme ABBA CDDC EFFE GG
3. 14 lines (3 quatrains & 2 couplets)

HERE is an example.
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Thursday, February 14, 2008

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH:
3rd--Chapter 9 Lessons 4 & 5 [L4 all problems, L5 #3-72]
drawing a picture to solve a problem & multiplication practice
4th--Lesson 57 [worksheet]
rate problems
5th--Lessons 54-55 [Both practice sets, L55 problem set]
dividing by multiples of 10 & multiplying by three-digit numbers

LANGUAGE ARTS:
We learned about the sonnet form of poetry, including one of the meters used (iambic pentameter), one choice of rhyme schemes (ABBA BCCB DEED FF), and the fact that a sonnet has 14 lines: three quatrains and a couplet.

ASSIGNMENT: write a sonnet (will continue in class Friday).
REMINDER: Johnson & Ariana are scheduled to present their Dickinson poems in class Friday.

SCIENCE:
Discussion regarding oral hygiene.

BIBLE:
Baptismal class.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

This morning we had our Step-Up Day program, so we had no regularly schedule classes before lunch.

Spelling: Use each spelling word in a sentence that shows you know its meaning. You may use more than one spelling word in a sentence. Circle the spelling words. Due tomorrow (spelling test tomorrow, too).

Language Arts: We rearranged our poetry performance schedule to account for too many of us being sick lately. Finished choosing poems to perform.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH
3rd--Chapter 5 Lesson 4
4th--Lesson 36
5th--Lesson 37

LANGUAGE ARTS
Art class today
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Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Daily Lesson Plans--November 28

We will be practicing for our Christmas program nearly every day for the next few weeks. Because of this, you may notice a lesser number of daily assignments being posted.

LANGUAGE ARTS

In yellow HBJ language book:
p. 299 E
p. 301 D & E
p. 303 D
p. 349 D
p. 351 E

Due tomorrow morning at language arts class.

SPELLING

New lists distributed (see below). Word search for independent practice. Exam next Wednesday.
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Spelling Lists







LEVEL 2
LEVEL 3
LEVEL 4
LEVEL 5


  1. giant

  2. magic

  3. junk

  4. jet

  5. job

  6. meal

  7. joy

  8. track

  9. hay

  10. inside

  11. age

  12. son

  13. push

  14. first

  15. hall

  16. long

  17. lot

  18. man

  19. ages

  20. welcome


  1. country

  2. village

  3. resist

  4. stuffed

  5. daily

  6. hollow

  7. timber

  8. edge

  9. path

  10. package

  11. argument

  12. disappear

  13. removal

  14. ribbon

  15. cellar

  16. allowance

  17. envelope

  18. extremely

  19. forget

  20. knock

  21. smile

  22. something

  23. such

  24. summer

  25. welcome


  1. journal

  2. region

  3. adjourn

  4. ridge

  5. talent

  6. continual

  7. confidence

  8. amazed

  9. improvements

  10. ridiculous

  11. appreciated

  12. maple

  13. dawn

  14. suffers

  15. succeed

  16. ash

  17. sorrow

  18. silent

  19. selfish

  20. utter

  21. ridiculously

  22. unselfish

  23. utterly

  24. among

  25. welcome


  1. evacuated

  2. populace

  3. pastime

  4. facilities

  5. severely

  6. insurmountable

  7. hindrances

  8. emerged

  9. grudging

  10. composure

  11. prattling

  12. abreast

  13. jockeyed

  14. tyke

  15. uncanny

  16. shrewdness

  17. rigidity

  18. resentment

  19. considered

  20. taut

  21. circulation

  22. coarse

  23. colonel

  24. column

  25. welcome
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Daily Lesson Plans--November 26

MATH
3rd--Chapter 4 Lesson 4 [#7-36]
4th--Lesson 29 [all problems]
5th--Lesson 32 [all problems]

LANGUAGE ARTS
Search for modifiers in free reading book.
Asg:
  1. Write a complete definition of both adjective & adverb, including five examples of each from the textbook.
  2. Write 10 sentences, each of which must include at least one adjective and one adverb. UNDERLINE the adjectives and CIRCLE the adverbs. Do NOT use sentences from the book.
  3. Write 10 examples each of adjectives and adverbs from your free reading book. Write them in two columns, and include the page number on which you found them.
SOCIAL STUDIES
Review pilgrim simulation & prepare for exam.
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Friday, November 16, 2007

Daily Lesson Plans--November 16

MATH
All--end of week quiz.

LANGUAGE ARTS
Finish Etheree poem assignment from yesterday.

AFTERNOON
Practice for music program.
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Thursday, November 15, 2007

Daily Lesson Plans--November 15

MATH
3rd-5th--Calculating calorie count of Thanksgiving meals.

LANGUAGE ARTS
Lesson on adverbs: comparing to adjectives, discussing purpose & examples.
Learned Etheree form of poetry.
Assignment: write two Etheree (normal and reverse) poems about two opposites. Due Friday morning at the beginning of Language Arts.

SOCIAL STUDIES
Pilgrim simulation.

BIBLE
Baptism class.

HANDWRITING
Next two lessons in handwriting book.
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