WEEK OF: January 20th - 24th, 2014

*** Just a reminder ~ no school Monday 1/20/14

 

*In Reading, our story this week is “The Gardener”.  This is a realistic fiction story. In our story, our main character Lydia Grace goes to live with her uncle in the city when money gets tight at home. She helps in his bakery, learns to make bread, and makes friends there. Lydia loves to garden, and even though gardening space is limited in the city, she makes the best of what room she has. By the end of the story, she has transformed her uncle’s building with her passion for growing things. Our target skill this week is cause and effect, as well as story structure (beginning, middle, and end). You can listen and read along with our story by clicking on the link below: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30012488/READING%20STORIES/UNIT%203%20STORIES/7-03%20The%20Gardener.mp3

 

 

*In Grammar we are working on verbs. A verb is a word that tells what someone or something is or does. Action verbs are words that show action. Linking verbs, such as am, is, are, was, and were, do not show action. They link a subject to a word or words in the predicate. A verb phrase is a verb that has more than one word. The main verb shows action. A helping verb shows the time of the action.

 

·       The helping verbs am, is, and are show present time.

·       Was and were show past time.

·       Will shows future time.

·       The helping verbs has, have, and had show that an action happened in the past

 

* We will begin our new Spelling List on Thursday this week.  Our new list will focus on contractions. You can practice and view your list words at the following site: http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=551204

 

 

 

Monday –  No School

 

Tuesday – Day 5 Music

Math –5 and 10 x’s Fact sheet (Fact Quiz Fri.); Lesson 6-8 wkst (Test Friday)

Reading – Read story “The Gardener” and study vocab words (vocab quiz Mon. / Test Tues)

Grammar – Review verbs (action, linking, main, and helping) – quiz Tues. 1/28

Spelling – Pretest corrections; Final test Thursday

 

Wednesday – Day 1 Computers

Math –5 and 10 x’s Fact sheet (Fact Quiz Fri.); Lesson 6-9 wkst (Test Friday)

Reading – Read story “The Gardener” and study vocab words (quiz Mon. 1/27 and Story test Tues. 1/28)

Grammar – Review verbs (action, linking, main, and helping) – quiz Tues. 1/28

Spelling – Final test Thursday review words

 

Thursday – Day 2 Library

Math –5 and 10 x’s Fact sheet (Fact Quiz Fri.); Topic Test Review (Test Friday)

Reading – Read story “The Gardener” and study vocab words

Grammar – Review verbs (action, linking, main, and helping) – quiz next week

 

Friday – Day 3 Gym

*Read story “the Gardener” and study vocab (Vocab quiz Monday and Story test Tues.)

*Grammar – Review verbs for quiz on Tues. 1/28

*Practice X Math facts – flash cards in blue folder