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11-16-09  Week 14 – 2nd Quarter

Reading Theme: 3 Around Town: Neighborhood & Community

5 weeks long: Month of November

Making Predictions

Big Bushy Mustache

A story of a boy who takes a mustache home and looses it

FOCUS: Our surrounding community, community jobs and the work people do to make a community.

wrtiing “naming sentences” nouns.

Homework: Given every Friday – due back Monday or the next working day.

Last Week Fire Safety – Make a Family Plan

Homework packet usually consists of: Read every night, spelling words from list in ABC order, Time For Kids- social studies with a 10 question worksheet, and a math sheet and English sheet.

periodically I will send home a science or social stuides page for homework during the week.

Reading:

in class: Realistic Fiction and non-fiction

Compare and contrast and summarize what you have read.

Writing: Main Topics

Speeches – poem by memory

Daily journal writing and we will start on poetry writing in a week.

Spelling Words: words with ou, ow:  Phonics:  Suffixes -ly, -ful

1. town
2. found
3. house
4. how
5. sour
6. mouse
7. frown
8. brown
9. cow
10. could
11. clown
12. should

Math

chapter 3 – Test on unit Monday 11-16

Reading bar graphs, counting change back if you pay with two quarters and it cost 17 cents, what will your change be?

Social Skills:

Getting along with others, saying an “I message” when someone says something negative to us.