November 17th-21st

Our Thanksgiving feast is scheduled for Friday, November 21st at 1:30.  My room mom Michaela Broom is handling the details.  If you would like to send anything please let me or Michaela know.

**The Reading fair is Friday, November 21st.  It is not mandatory that your child participate, but they can get an easy 100 reading test grade if they have all 10 story elements on the board. I will also drop the lowest test grade in Reading!!!

These lesson plans are a guide to what we do in class. Please check and sign your child's agenda every day for more accurate information.  Sometimes we don't get to do exactly what is planned.  If that happens, we usually catch up the next day.  We do a lot of classwork so that the students do not have homework.  If you child misses, they will have makeup work to do the next day during school.

Economics-What happens when a bank makes a loan? lesson 3

READING :  2a1 (text features) DOK 2;  2a3 (compare and contrast) DOK 2;  2b3 (cause and effect) DOK 2;   2d2 (literary devices)  DOK 3   

Technology-TTW use the Promethean Board for text features, compare and contrast, cause and effect and literary devices.

Story of the week- "Scruffy"

Spelling words: awful, daughter, roar, order, office, toward, already, brought form, author, false, jaw, offer, sauce, chorus, dawn, hoarse, war, board, cough

Vocabulary words:

1.  climate- average weather conditions of a place or region

2. methods-a way of doing something

3. injury-harm or damage done to a person or thing

4. clinging- sticking closely

5. threat-a person or thing that might cause harm

6. affection- a feeling of tenderness, fondness, or love

Monday -Agenda check/Writing Bug check/ The students will receive a grade for their agenda and writing bug each nine weeks.  Please make sure you child is writing in their agenda and you are signing it every day. 

TTW introduce the story to the students by getting them to predict what the story will be about by looking at the pictures and the title.  TTW get the students to relate the story to real life.  TTW introduce the reading objective/skills they will be learning for the week.  TTW review the skills while the students "popcorn" read the story aloud. TTW check for comprehension during and after the story.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday- Centers (group work) 

Center 1: vocabulary definitions

Center 2: Spelling workbook pp 97-101

Center 3: Reading practice pp.112-118

Center 4: Write spelling words 3 times each

Center 5: Read aloud; re-read the story in your group/ read books from the green, red or blue crates that go with our story

Center 6: Find the vocabulary words in the story and write a new sentence with each one

Center 7: Spelling bee at each table

Center 8: Create a 10 question test at each table

Center 9:  Educationcity.com or SpellingCity.com Language Arts games only

****Parents, these workbook pages are graded on Fridays. The students must have them completed or they will have to sit at recess to finish them. They have Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday to work on them. They are allowed to take the workbooks home if necessary. It is very important that they have the workbooks at school everyday at school.

Thursday- Also on Thursday, the students will take a trial spelling test. They will have to write any missed words 10 times each and take a second test on Friday.

****Excel students in Mrs. Ashby's room will take the Reading test on Thursday.

Friday- Reading test/ Spelling test if needed

English: 4a1,2,3,4  DOK 1;  4b1,2,3,4,5,8,9 DOK 1; 4c 1,2,3 DOK 2

Technology- TTW use Promethean Board for noun and verb flip charts during the week.

Monday-   Review Units 1-3; Mid Year test on Unit 1-3 on Wednesday

Tuesday -      Review Unit 1-3  Test tomorrow  !!

Wednesday – Test Unit 1-3

Thursday- Economics lesson 3; Review missed test items 

Friday -flip charts on verbs, nouns, etc; Thanksgiving feast at 1:30