10-19-10-22

Mrs. Ball made a mistake and deleted the reading lesson plans for this week.:)    Monday- No School!﻿   Tuesday- switch descriptive paragraphs of favorite shirt with a partner. In the writing journal, allow the partners to draw the shirt based on the description from the paragraphs. DO NOT LET THE PARTNERS COMMUNICATE DURING THE DRAWINGS. We don't want them to tell or explain how it REALLY looks. Compare to see if the favorite shirt looks like the one in the drawing.   Wednesday- Discuss how to decribe your favorite shirt. Model describing your favorite shirt by describinh YOUR favorite shirt on the elmo. Include all the things a partner will need to draw the shirt so that it looks correct.   Thursday- Allow the students to rewrite their favorite shirt descriptions in their journals.   Friday- switch with partners again to let them redraw the favoirt shirts.  Social Studies:  COS: 5- Describe teh early colonization of North America and reasons for settlement in the Northern, Middle, and Southern colonies.

Monday- No School

Tuesday- Skillbuilder: Use Parallel Timelines. Read pages 128-129 together and explain what parallel means. Answer practicec questions on page 129. Then complete the Apply the SKill on page 129 where students create thier own timelines of events taking place at home and at school. Let students decorate and color.

Wednesday- Chp. 4 Lesson 2- Read with a partner. I am putting a packet of activities in your boxes with some fun activities and things to do. We will spend 2 days on these sheets. You can pick and choose what works for you. I suggest using one of these sheets as a grade.

Thursday- Con't with the Jamestown activities

Friday- Pages 134-135. Read about Jamestown in 1607. Complete activities on page 135. Especially number 2 which says write a first person narrative about what Jamestown was like for one of the settlers. .**Friday**- Have students get into their investigation groups and choose a biome to investigate, describe, and illustrate. See pages B12-B19
 * SCIENCE-COS # 9** Describe the relationship of populations within a habitat to various communities and ecosystems. Describe the relationship between food chains and food webs. Describe symbiotic relationships. *Superhero project due October 28, 2010.
 * Monday**-No school
 * Tuesday**-Introduce chapter 4 Ecosystems, Communities, and Biomes, Set up journals and add vocabulary
 * Wednesday**-Complete lesson 2-What are Biomes? and Compare Climates on Textbook pages B10-B11.
 * Thursday-Comprehension toolkit lesson** using textbook page B42. Discuss symbiosis, parasitism, commensalism, mutualism. Discuss pg. B22-B29 and define/discuss Food Chains and Food Webs. If time permits play a game identifying the order of animals that belong in a food chain or food web.

= ﻿grammar: main and helping verbs = Use daily fix-it each day

Friday- Test
Math - Use Text book and workbook pages for fractions. Monday - No School Tuesday - Introduce adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators TE 3 p. 460-461 Wednesday - Continue with adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators but begin reducing fractions to simplest form - WB p. 101 Reteach and On-level Thursday and Friday - Lowest common denominators, greatest common factors TE 3 p. 464-465