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January 28, 2019
Weekly Lessons
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Here are the skills we will be working on this week!
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Reading Skills - classic novels and historical context connections
EL Topic - Module 3, Unit 1: Peter Pan
Grammar - review
Vocabulary - review
Spelling - compound words
list A: birthday, anyone, sometimes, homework, afternoon, airplane, something, himself, without, everything
list B: grandmother, downstairs, sunburned, daylight, windshield, homesick, fisherman, dishwasher, saltwater, mailbox
list C: cardboard, fingerprint, guardrail, lifeguard, sandpaper, thunderstorm, toothpaste, tombstone, lighthouse, suitcase
Etymology (Latin and Greek Stems):
week 4 -
post (after - posttest, postpone, postgame, postmortem)
sub (under - submarine, subway, suburb)
pre (before - pretest, prepaid, prepare, prealgebra, prehistoric)
non (not - nonfat, nonfiction, nonsense)
semi (half - semisweet, semisoft, semicircle)
MATH - Somers
1/28 - Lessons 5/6 - I can partition a whole into equal parts and define the equal parts to identify the unit fraction numerically and build non-unit fractions less than one whole from unit fractions.
1/29 - Lessons 7/8 - I can identify and represent shaded and non-shades parts of one whole as fractions and with number bonds.
1/30 - Lesson 9 - I can build and write fractions greater than one whole using unit fractions.
1/31 - Lessons 10/11 - I can compare unit fractions by reasoning about their size using fraction strips and with different-sized models representing the whole.
2/1 - Lesson 14 - I can place fractions on a number line with endpoints 0 and 1.
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SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES/WRITING - Bowden
Monday- Complete Asia research from Friday and present
Tuesday- Introduce the continent of Australia (vocabulary below)
Wednesday- Australia's states and territories/ its unique animals
Thursday- Australia's important people/ its imports and exports
Friday- Test over vocabulary from Asia and Australia, also including countries and territories learned. (study guide to come home)
Vocabulary Words
coast: area near a seashore
outback: dry wilderness area with fewer people than animals
territory: land regions controlled by the government
Aborigine: people of Australia with ancient cultural heritage
convict: someone who has been found guilty of a crime; a prisoner of the government
WRITING - homeroom teacher
informational paragraphs based on articles and gathered information (communication through the years)
topic/introduction sentence
3 details from the text
closing/ending sentence
topic/introduction sentence
3 details from the text
closing/ending sentence
Have a GREAT week!
Love,
Mrs. Johnson
Weekly Lessons: CV
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