Date Homework
10/6/08 Next Wednesday is "Walk to School" Day.
Retest on days of the week and months of the year.
Read Ruth Heller's Merry-go-round, a book about nouns.
Common and proper nouns; concrete and abstract nouns.
Finish SRI testing.  Pass out letters for parents
Edit family stories. Students in the green and red groups must have an introductory paragraph and one paragraph about each person in the family.  (If your family has 4 people, you must have 5 paragraphs.)

Homework: 1. Calendar testing:  Copy any word you misspelled 100 times.
2.   List 5 more nouns in each category: common; proper; concrete; abstract.
3. Give SRI Reading Counts letter to parents.  Tell them about reading 30 minutes a day and show them your reading list.  Get your parent signature on the letter.
4. Finish your family story.  Recopy.
10/7/08 Turn in family stories for grading.
Group Rotation.
Use spelling list for independent work, # 1-50.
 Per.1-2
Rotation Times		 Mrs. Thiessen Mrs. Thaker Independent
8:55-9:25

#1

 Blue (4 students) WBW 
Long and short vowel
HOMEWORK:
1. Read Visions pp. 12-15 (short vowels) and pp. 34-37 (long vowels).  Write the words in your Vocab. Notebook.
2. Read ch. 1-2 of Unit A.
3. Learn p .21.
4. Study spelling words # 1-25		 Green (12 students): Red (4 students)
Write a sentence with each of the spelling words, or find them used in books.
9:30-10:00

#2

 Red Visions Unit 1: 1.2 "Hatchet". Intro pp. 14-16
novel, genre, realistic adventure fiction, cause & effect
HOMEWORK: Read story. Write new vocab. in VN.  Do first page of packet.  Do Q & A on notebook paper.		 Blue: Lesson 1, continued Green  Write a sentence with each of the spelling words, or find them used in books.

 
10:05-10:35

#3

 Green: 1.2 "Coyote", a folktale. Intro pp. 14-16
folktale, animal sounds, narrative, culture.Read story. HOMEWORK: Write new vocab. in VN.  Do first page of packet.  Do Q & A on notebook paper.		 Red:

 

 Blue Write a sentence using each of the spelling words, or find them used in books.

HOMEWORK:
See above chart.
10/8/08 Testing make-up for CELDT
Ruth Heller book of verbs
Making big words (airplanes)
Groups
 
10/9/08 Red: Visions test.  Correct together.  Peer edit neighbor's writing.  Recopy with corrections; turn in test
     and Hatchet Q & A. Finish the Hatchet worksheet.  Do activity ppages 9-14.
Blue: Visions, Unit A. Activities pp. 4-24 (just those pages that are in your packet); Grammar pp. 4-7
Green: Correct Q & A; turn in.  Author's purpose.  Do Activity pp. 9-14. 
All: Prepositions from WBW p.  8 and small transparencies from IDEA kit, levels I-II.  Study prepositions WBW p. 8 and do workbook page.

Study spelling words

Blue Group: words 1-25

Green group:  words 1-50

Red group: words 1-75
10/10/08 Collect Home Reading Logs
Students take reading Counts quizzes
Groupwork: Correct & collect activity packets
                          Not done: Spelling tests
                                          Scrabble Groups for those who finished the homework and reading
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No school Monday
Homework for all:   Home Reading Log: Read 30 minutes, 5 days per week (Pick up your log today after lunch.)
Blue Group homework:  Read p. 41 of Visions text;
Study: Test Tuesday on Unit A;
Test Thursday on Unit B pp. 22-42