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Week of September
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Monday- Labor Day Holiday. We will be in
the computer lab Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday working on basic
computer skills. Thursday will be our regular library day.
Students will be given AR goals for the nine weeks. There will
be a reward for meeting the goal. |
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Week of
September 8: |
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Daily Warm Ups will be a variety of items.
Some days we may work math problems, read and summarize a
passage, edit sentences, or sing with Grammar Rock. This week we
will begin learning parts of stories- setting, characters, plot,
conflicts, climax, resolutions. |
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Week of
September 15: |
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We will begin our first novel, On My
Honor. there will be a variety of activities to go along
with the novel, comprehension questions, writing activities, and
computer items. It will be divided into sections for each week. |
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Week of
September 22: |
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On My Honor Chapters 4-6. Friday we
will be in the computer lab using a spreadsheet and graphing our
information gathered during our swimming survey. |
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Week of
September 29: |
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On my Honor Monday Computer lab finishing up our
graphs. Chapters 7-9, vocabulary, reading the chapters
7-9....there will be a venn diagram comparing and contrasting
Joel and Tony. We are also going to read a paragraph and draw
what's in the paragraph. |
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Week of
October 6: |
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On my Honor This week we will be
working on the last 3 chapters of the novel. There will be a
vocabulary sheet, quiz time questions, some "what if" questions,
and finally the AR test and paper test for the end of the book. |
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Week of
October 14: |
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We have started working on parts of speech.
Have your child sing the noun song to you. We have also worked
on capitalization and making nouns plural. |
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Week of
October 20: |
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This week we will be continuing with the
parts of speech with pronouns, followed by verbs. Once we
complete the parts of speech we will be ready to begin our
Masterpiece Sentences. |
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Week of
October 27: |
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Tuesday end of nine weeks...Friday, October
31 Early Release. Sometime this week we are going to read
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" by Washington Irving and watch the
cartoon version of it. Verbs and Grammar Rock this week too. |
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Week of
November 3: |
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Tuesday- Election Day, get out and vote.
"How it Feels When Parents Divorce" is a
non fiction selection we will read to prepare to begin our next
novel. We will be reading Hatchet. We will also read
another nonfiction selection that was written by Gary Paulsen
"from Woodsong". |
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Week of
November 10: |
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Happy Birthday Marines! Tuesday
Veteran's Day Holiday. Monday will be awards ceremony and
rewards day for those who qualify. Hatchet We will begin reading
Chapters 1-4. There will be extra credit with this novel. I will
let the students know about this later. We will be doing
research on heart attacks and writing a paragraph with the
information. Bonus points make an airplane. Instructions will be
given. |
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Week of
November 17: |
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Hatchet We will be finishing working
on our heart attack papers. Lots of computer time will be logged
when we finish. Bonus airplane due Friday November 21. |
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Week of
November 24: |
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26th Early Release 27th and 28th
Thanksgiving Holiday Chapters 5-8 Researching
black bears and writing with the information. Math in English
class! We will be learning Distance= Rate x Time.....You
won' have to answer the question, "How much longer?" on trips.
Just tell them the facts and make them figure it out! We will be
talking about things needed for survival. Bonus- make Brian's
Camp. |
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Week of
December 1: |
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Bonus- Brian's Camp due December 2. Hatchet Chapters 9-12 We will be
looking at animal tracks and matching them up. There will be no
bonus for this section. We will discuss Survivor the tv show. |
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Week of
December 8: |
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Hatchet Chapters 13-16 We will learn about tornadoes. |
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Week of
December 15: |
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Friday Early Release Bonus Mobile due December 16.
This week we will finish Hatchet. AR test and unit test s will
be taken. We will end this unit with the movie "A Cry in the
Wild" which is the story of Brian Robeson's time in the
wilderness. |
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Week of
December 22-January 2: |
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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Enjoy your holidays.
Please be safe. |
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Week of
January 5: |
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Week of
January 12: |
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January 16 End of Nine Weeks |
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Week of
January 19: |
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Monday Martin Luther King Holiday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Teacher Workdays |
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Week of
January 26: |
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Week of
February 2: |
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Week of
February 9: |
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Week of
February 16: |
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Monday Teacher Workday |
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Week of
February 23: |
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Week of
March 2: |
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Friday Early Release |
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Week of
March 9: |
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Week of
March 16: |
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Week of
March 23: |
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March 26 End of nine weeks |
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Week of
March 30: |
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Week of
April 6: |
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Friday Early Release |
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Week of
April 13: |
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Easter Vacation Have a safe, relaxing holiday. |
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Week of
April 20: |
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Week of
April 27: |
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Week of May
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Week of May
11: |
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Week of May
18: |
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Week of May
25: |
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Monday Memorial Day Holiday |
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Week of June
1: |
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Last day of school June 5 Early Release Day |
