Week of December 1-5, 2008

Story of the Week: Food from the Hood: A Garden of Hope

Monday Dec. 1, 2008

Write New spelling words 4 Times in ABC order in your neatest handwriting.

 Remember to read 20 minutes every night. Complete your reading log.

Tuesday Dec. 2, 2008

Add /ing/ And /ed/ ending to words

 Write the following words

<glare

<narrate

<prepare

<carry

<repair

<harvest

with the ending(ed  and ing)

Write a sentence for each

Example: dare: daring and dared

**He was a daring skydiver.

Divide a paper in to three parts and write the spelling words in following sections /are/ /air/ and /ear/

Find the Synonyms for the following words: Use a Thesaurus:

• beware
• clarify
• despair
• narrate
• scare
• restoring

Comprehension and Spelling Test for Food From the Hood

 
No School On Monday and Tuesday Dec. 8 and 9

 Read New Story:

Business is Looking Up:

Complete Graphic Organizer for Summary

Remember to read20 minutes every night.  Complete your Reading Log

Ch. 8 Test

Introduction to Ch. 9 Lesson 1

Reteach Worksheet

Thursday Dec. 4, 2008

Ch. 9 Lesson 2

Reteach Worksheet

Friday Dec. 5, 2008

Chapter9 Lesson 2 and 3 Practice Worksheet

Social Studies

Monday Dec. 1, 2008

Social Studies:

Introduction to Ch4 Lesson 1

Students need tolook up the definitions of these words:

• independence
• products
• barter
• diseno
• rancho
• land grants
• vaqueros

Friday Dec. 5 , 2008

Work on Explorers Report

Science

Tuesday Dec. 2, 2008

Students need tolook up the definitions of these words:

• individual
• population
• community
• ecosystem
• habitat
• niche

Write the definitions in your Science Notebook

Wednesday Dec. 3, 2008

Thursday Dec. 4 2008

Quiz on Ch. 3Lesson 1

Science

 Read Ch 3 Lesson 3Page A74 – A79

Friday Dec. 5 2008

No Homework for Science

Vocabulary and Spelling for Food From the Hood: A Garden of Hope by Marlene Targ Brill