Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Daily Lesson Plans--October 31

MATH

3rd--Chapter 3 Lesson 2 [problems 5-24]
4th--Lesson 21 [all problems]
5th--Lesson 22 [all problems]

LANGUAGE ARTS

Study & review for letter writing unit exam on Thursday.

Group reading comprehension activity on learning word meaning from context.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Finish open-book exam.

Worksheet packet.

SPELLING

New list & word search.

Tuesday, October 30, 2007

Daily Lesson Plans--October 30 (Minimum Day)

LANGUAGE ARTS

"My Hero" essay and portrait drawing.

Monday, October 29, 2007

Daily Lesson Plans--October 29

MATH

All Grades--Review last week's End-of-Week Quiz.

LANGUAGE ARTS

Finish student/parent/teacher conference presentation outline & behavior rubric. Role-play presentation with partner.

SOCIAL STUDIES

Open-book exam.

BIBLE

Workbook, pages 64-66.

SPELLING

List #1 Exam.

Spelling Lists

Here are the spelling lists for the next week. The exam will be on Tuesday, November 6.



Level 2
Level 3
Level 4


  1. cent

  2. face

  3. kiss

  4. miss

  5. once

  6. sea

  7. same

  8. most

  9. sent

  10. set

  11. loose

  12. past

  13. mice

  14. smile

  15. suit

  16. him

  17. home

  18. how

  19. I'm

  20. because




  1. center

  2. congress

  3. mask

  4. loss

  5. boil

  6. pour

  7. Christmas

  8. juice

  9. stone

  10. toss

  11. slice

  12. oven

  13. council

  14. beard

  15. worse

  16. waste

  17. advice

  18. grape

  19. garbage

  20. uncovered




  1. status

  2. refuge

  3. ancestor

  4. brace

  5. cedar

  6. compass

  7. pace

  8. possible

  9. artificial

  10. accept

  11. your

  12. you're

  13. govern

  14. closely

  15. bundle

  16. hero

  17. film

  18. hedge

  19. solid

  20. violent

  21. refugee

  22. violently

  23. already

  24. American


Thursday, October 25, 2007

Daily Lesson Plans--October 25

Math

All grades--finish assignment from yesterday.

Language Arts

Presentation and work on forms for student/parent/teacher conferences

Free reading

Spelling

2 day's lessons

Wednesday, October 24, 2007

Daily Lesson Plans--October 24

Math

3rd--Chapter 2 reinforcement [3 worksheets on rounding]
4th--Investigation #2 [length & perimeter]
5th--Lesson 21 [all problems]

Language Arts

Lesson on punctuation: period, comma, exclamation mark, & semicolon.

Read-aloud; reading comprehension lesson & worksheets.

Spelling

Using the remaining words from your list (the ones you didn't use when writing the story last week), write a sentence for each word. Circle the spelling word in each sentence.


Tuesday, October 23, 2007

Daily Lesson Plans--October 23

Math

3rd--Chapter 2 Lesson 6 [#1-25]
4th--Lessons 19 & 20 [odd problems]
5th--Lesson 20 [all problems]

Art

Weaving with natural materials

Spelling

Using the remaining words from your list (the ones you didn't use when writing the story last week), write a sentence for each word. Circle the spelling word in each sentence.

Language Arts

Read-aloud; reading comprehension presentation, discussion & worksheets. Front page completed during class, remaining pages as homework, due Wed. Oct. 24.

Monday, October 22, 2007

Spelling Lists





Level 2
Level
Level 4

  1. bike

  2. cage

  3. cart

  4. class

  5. clay

  6. color

  7. cook

  8. corn

  9. dig

  10. fox

  11. girl

  12. God

  13. had

  14. have

  15. kept

  16. kind

  17. kite

  18. language

  19. trick

  20. truck




  1. blond

  2. canyon

  3. channel

  4. cloud

  5. clown

  6. copper

  7. creek

  8. cute

  9. crum

  10. float

  11. folks

  12. joke

  13. kick

  14. lazy

  15. neither

  16. nickel

  17. removed

  18. rim

  19. stake

  20. swallow




  1. ache

  2. acquaintance

  3. advice

  4. all right

  5. anchor

  6. apparent

  7. appearance

  8. brand

  9. convince

  10. convincing

  11. correct

  12. delicious

  13. distance

  14. evidently

  15. female

  16. firm

  17. fully

  18. hawk

  19. issue

  20. legal

  21. odd

  22. paraded

  23. secured

  24. stressed


Daily Lesson Plans--October 22

Math


3rd--Chapter 3, Lesson 1 [#1-25]

4th--Lesson 18 [all problems]

5th--Lesson 19 [all problems]


Language Arts


Using proper business letter format (see examples 1, 2, 3) write a letter to your parent(s) asking for their help with our Fall Festival. The info below should be included:

We need parents to help with our annual Fall Festival at WJA. The Fall Festival will be this Saturday night, beginning at 7:00pm. Any funds raised at this event go directly to the individual classrooms to help buy classroom materials, books, fun & games, and to help field trips to cost less. We need your help with one or more of the following:

  1. Buy 1 dozen donuts. Must have a hole in the middle.
  2. Provide yarn or string, cut into 36 two-foot-long strings.
  3. Provide 1 bag of bird seed.
  4. Buy 2 bags of fun-sized candy bars, or other individually-wrapped candies.
  5. Bring 2 rolls of pennies.
  6. Bring a bag or bags of 100 balloons.

We also need parents to help supervise the games. A sign-up sheet has been posted on our classroom door. Please sign-up for the item or items you are willing to help with by Thursday, Oct. 25.


Spelling

Using the remaining words from your list (the ones you didn't use when writing the story last week), write a sentence for each word. Circle the spelling word in each sentence.