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Click on the links (colored words with arrow) for site that is helpful with skills instructed. I will put current plans 1st and following will be the previous weeks plans. Please keep in mind these are anticipated plans, even the based laid plans do not always go exactly as one wishes.

All students are members. Have your child ask me about the user and password if they don't already know it.

Week of October 5-8, 2009 Book Orders due October 13th. October 9th Act 80 Day - no students Well last week really didn't work out the way I had hoped. 1 full day out and two half days - sure does make it difficult to ensure the students are getting all the plans. So. ..

-//Subject Predicate practice// - subject tells who and what the sentence is about, located close to the beginning of the sentence. Predicate tells what the subject is doing or is. I tell the students to underline the simple subject then go word by word asking if you can do the word. They need to stop at prepositions - to is the most common one they'll see. The students also need to learn linking verbs: (they are most difficult to understand- they are words that aren't action verbs) Students have a paper with song for this to the tune of Jingle Bells. am is are was were be being been have has had do does did may might must  would could should can shall will
 * __Monday__** -

-//Vocabulary developed// for next story: __Davy Crockett Saves the World__. **//Assignment//** will be to have meaningful sentences done. //Meaningful sentences:// correctly spelled and underlined, punctuated correctly, clue word attached, makes sense. -//Synonym// quiz tomorrow - //Paul Bunyan// analogy page assign to practice -Night 4 chance to double check if turned in today - Pd 4/5 will be assigned to be done on Wed. and turned in.

-//Synonym Quiz// administered - Begin //reading and posting// or reading and story map with elements __Davy Crockett Saves the World__
 * __Tuesday__** Review //meaningful sentences// and vocab.

- introduce //prefix mis//- - //review// wksht for //subject predicate// id - quiz Thursday
 * __Wednesday__**- continue //reading posting/story mapping// of story from yesterday

- Subject Predicate Quiz - Read about Author -Begin summarizing story with story map pd 1/2 and 6/7 -Begin story mapping with pd 4/5 - may get to summarizing (doubtful)
 * __Thursday__** - wksht on mis- prefix


 * __Friday -__** non student day - Act 80
 * __Monday-__** No School in observation of Columbus Day

Week of September 28 - October 2, 2009

Spelling words for pretest and next week's assignments 1. paste 2. bride 3. shave 4. spice 5. greed 6. plead 7. greet 8. heap 9. paid 10. coach 11. theme 12. type 13. oak 14. growt h 15. yolk 16. folks 17. aim 18. prey 19. tow 20. grind Plot Lesson 21 finish and reading response after plotting both stories Review 4 Sight scores and Weekly Test scores- analyze individual scores and find strength and area of concern Homework: Night 1 if not 100% in Spelling,
 * __Monday__**- Pretest

Tall Tales read and discussion on genre qualities Synonym/analogies wksht pg 9 homework pg 10 Grammar - subject predicate identification - all year they will need to underline subjects and circle predicates regardless of book directions grammar wkbk pg 7 Homework: spelling night 2, analogy pg 10, grammar pg 7-
 * __Tuesday:__**

Analogy pg dealing with synonyms - pg 11 Vocabulary development for new words - meaningful sentences will be assigned - makes sense, underlined, clue word (synonym) punctuated. Pg 50-51 of text If time, grammar pg 7 reviewed and pg 8 assigned
 * __Wednesday:__**

Homework: spelling night 3, grammar pg 8, meaningful sentences for vocab, analogy pg 11, quiz on synonyms

Read and post or story map out story with some posting of unknown words, figurative language, voice, genre, setting, characterization, Quiz on synonyms
 * __Thursday:__**


 * __Friday:__** Continue to read, post and story map story - will summarize if possible - test on spelling Tuesday next week.

Homework: spelling night 4 (given on Tuesday)

Week of September 21-25

120 MIN. due Monday from last week Monday: Selection Test - __Miss Alaineus__ Leveled readers for synonyms to id unknown words, story mapping, story elements

Tuesday: Weekly Test - has grammar (four sentence types), spelling, and skill to id characters, plot, setting Wrap up leveled readers to summarize using the story map (if time)

DON'T FORGET TONIGHT IS OPEN HOUSE FROM 6-8 P.M.

PICTURE DAY IS WEDNESDAY

Wednesday changed to Thursday(as of 9.23.09) : Summarize leveled reader, __The Car Wash Chronicles__ or other title Read social studies connection story in text pgs. 42-45 Nonfictional piece with importance on skill of using photos and pictures as clues for events of the selection- **__wkbk pg 5 will be homework__**

Thursday changed to Friday(as of 9.23.09): PSSA Coach asssement booklet practice to id story elements and how to map the story for a summary Friday changed to Monday: Spelling pretest - next week will begin Monday (1st night 3 x each) Tues (2nd night - 2 pgs or..... see spelling guidelines to the right of this page. Go over 4 Sight scores/tests and create goals

Next Monday Intro to the new story genre - tall tales

Spelling words for pretest and next week's assignments 1. paste 2. bride 3. shave 4. spice 5. greed 6. plead 7. greet 8. heap 9. paid 10. coach 11. theme 12. type 13. oak 14. growt h 15. yolk 16. folks 17. aim 18. prey 19. tow 20. grind

Next week: grammar will be subject/predicates - compound subjects and predicates analogies - comparisons like red: apple :: blue : _ (sky) only in 5th grade they are much more complicated

​ **Week of Sept 14** Monday: grammar review 4 sentence types Extra practice for sentence types: [|quiz] create a [|clubhouse] while id a sentence type and punctuating it correctly as well pgs 5-6 assign for homework Story "Miss Alaineus" pg 20-41 author's purpose, voice, flashback, read about author Prefix Mis - means bad or wrong SPELLING TEST tomorrow Tuesday: spelling test Frog worksheet for 4 sentence types review wkbk pg 3 for character/plot or summarize story using story map "Think and Compare" pg 41 written responses Wednesday: Prefix review of mis - Fluency practice pd 4/5 Leveled reader "Nadia Gomez Sees the Light" story map (plot) answer comp ? along with theme tone, voice, purpose, and/ or mood whereever possible Flashback practice perhaps Grammar review wksht SELECTION TEST Tomorrow - practice vocab words reread story Thursday: Selection Test, Grammar test, flashback Friday: Cold read test - weekly test 120 minutes of reading due on Monday

​ On the 4th the students received the homework for 5 days of spelling assignments - Due Tuesday will be 3 x any miss spelled words - the night 4 was also given on Friday with encouragement to work on it daily as to not be overwhelmed on Thursday. //__**Book orders**__// are due WEDNESDAY 9.9.09
 * ​ Week of Sept 8th **

Grammar review of 4 sentence types - grammar **wkbk pg 3** (students are not required to rewrite sentences Extra practice for sentence types: [|quiz] create a [|clubhouse] while id a sentence type and punctuating it correctly as well
 * //__Tuesday__//**: Plot/Character anaylsis with poem "Twins" in class or assigned **wkbk pg 2**

Context Clues to define unknown words **wkbk pg 6** (Big IF - if we have time begin reading and posting the text story "Miss Alaineous") Begin reading and posting "Miss Alaineous" pg 20-41 in text Post It's include: MI= main idea (3 details beneath that) C = characters S= setting P = Problem may also include: inferences made, connections, unknown words


 * Spelling night 2** (2 pages //__or__// [|criss cross at puzzlemaker.com)]


 * //__Wednesday-Friday:__//** Wednesday and Thursday will be 4 sight testing. I have plans written if we have an adjusted schedule. At this time we have not been informed of the schedule for the day.

Review vocabulary, begin reading story and posting - upon completion of text story, students will create a story map with problem/conflict - rising action - climax - resolution, setting, characters, author's purpose, point of view, mood, tone, and tone. They will then write a summary using this form as a guide for its construction.

The students will also use reading response format RASP/4 Square to complete the "Think and Compare" section of text

Wednesday: **night 3** homework of 3 pages (proofreading page is only top portion) or word search at puzzlemaker/ [|teacher atoz] Thursday: **night 4** homework - this is graded- **Grammar pgs 4-5**

Friday: hopefully a **spelling test** Next week: Tuesday - be prepared for the selection test with vocabulary and perhaps a grammar test as well. _

Week of August 31 - September 4, 2009 Please keep in mind these plans are what I "hope" to cover and even the best laid plans do not always work.

Thursday: Grammar lesson on imperative, command, and exclamatory, exclamation sentences Strategy of id characters and plot in a story and how the characters can affect the plot - wksht with poem/story Phonics short vowel cvc or cvcc pattern Spelling pretest Extra practice for sentence types: [|quiz] create a [|clubhouse] while id a sentence type and punctuating it correctly as well
 * __Homework:__** grammar pg 1/2 Spelling night 1

Friday: Fluency practice review vocab unknown words defined using context clues - skill wkbk pg 6 Grammar Sentence types pg 3 Begin reading and posting "Miss Alaineous" pg 20-41 in text Post It's include: MI= main idea (3 details beneath that) C = characters S= setting P = Problem may also include: inferences made, connections, unknown words


 * Homework:** Spelling night 2, wkbk 6, grammar pg 3 (if any are not done in class) I will try not to assign any over the long Labor Day weekend