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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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