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A.C.O.S. 3 Recognize the use and effect of literacy elelments and devices, including setting, character traits, stated purpose, metaphors, and simple symbolism to gain information form various text formats,including tables and charts.

Skill: Author's Purpose

Monday: Whole Group Q of Day Read Aloud page 162m( This read aloud has two pages) Build Concepts 162I Skill/Strategy Lesson 162-163 Build Background 164a Introduce Voc. 164b

Assign WB Pages- 63-64

Small Groups DI 12-13

Tuesday: Whole Group Q of Day Voc Strategy Lesson 164-165 Set Purpose for Reading

Small Groups: DI 14 Green Group Yellow Group: 155-163 Guiding Comprehension Blue Group: DI 15

Wednesday: Whole Group Q of Day Review Author's Purpose

Small Group Green Group: DI 16 Yellow Group: 174-178 Guiding Comp Blue Group: DI 17
 * Progress Monitor

Thursday: Remember Field Trip Friday Whole Group Weekly Wrap Up " I Wanted My Mother" 180-185 Selection Test Fresh Reads

Small Group: LR

Friday: Field Trip to Moundville

Writing

ACOS 8.) Express meaning through writing varied sentence structure, detailed paragraphs, and multi-paragraph compositions in an organized manner.

Monday- introduce descriptive writing. Discuss the parts of discriptive writing. Include the 5 senses, inrodution, and closing paragraphs.

Tuesday- Mock descriptive writing assessment.


 * Prompt-** describe the perfect ice cream cone.

Wednesday- allow students to complete their mock assessment.

Thursday- Share descriptive essays whole group.

Social Studies: This week is a short week and we have just finished up another chapter therefore we are going to do some activities that revolve around getting the students prepared for the Moundville trip and teaching them information about the Southern states and region.

Monday- Southern States hand-out. Students are not familiar with the names of the of the southern states nor how to locate them on a map. This is a great opportunity to pull up a map on the promethium board or on the internet and walk them through naming the Southern states and thier capital.

Tuesday- A borderline activity handout- again another map skill sheet that will teach the students how to locate states and borders on a map.

Wednesday- Mrs. Brown's student teacher is teaching a lesson about the Moundville Indians. I will get the details and send them to you.

Thursday- United Streaming video if you can get it to work on either the Moundville Indians or Mrs. Pierce found one that was good about Cortes and the Aztec Indians. I will put extra hand-outs in your boxes to fill in if the united streaming is not working.

Friday- Moundville Field Trip
 * SCIENCE-COS # 10**: Identify spheres of Earth, including the geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere. *Superhero project due October 28, 2010.
 * Monday**-Introduce the spheres and have students color, illustrate, and define geosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. Explain the prefixes geo-, hydro-, and atmos-. Add terms to glossary of journals.
 * Tuesday**-Have students break into assigned groups for each sphere. Have them create a large poster/post-it of the assigned sphere. Discuss how to distinguish between the parts of the different spheres.
 * Wednesday**-Explain/assign superhero project. Discuss the hydrosphere and the atmosphere and explain how the water cycle is associated with all of the spheres.
 * Thursday**-Discuss the Geosphere and rock cycle (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary rocks), Comprehension toolkit lesson on Ed helper "Spheres." Assess students sheets
 * Friday**- Field Trip

Math - Continue with Daily Practice Sheet and Number Talks Monday and Tuesday - Students will continue to practice division problems with and without remainders. Remember to practice dividing with two digits into 4 digits. Tues. also a brief review on addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems that will appear on the 1st 9 weeks test. Wednesday and Thursday - 1st 9 Weeks test. Friday - Field Trip Math Tier 2 - Students will be taking their "exit tier 2" test on Wednesday and Thursday during Math Tier 2. Please send these tests to the homeroom teacher for them to grade.

HAVE STUDENTS COMPLETE DAILY FIX-IT EVERY DAY
MONDAY- GRAMMAR BOOK PAGE 86 1-15 TUESDAY- GRAMMAR BOOK PAGE 87 1-30 WEDNESDAY-GRAMMAR BOOK PAGE 89 1-30 THURSDAY- GRAMMAR BOOK PAGE 88 1-10 CAN BE USED AS A TEST GRADE FRIDAY- FIELD TRIP

SPELLING: IRREGULAR PLURALS
MONDAY- WRITE WORDS IN PLANNER (H.W. WRITE WORDS 3X EACH AND A SENTENCE WITH EACH VOCABULARY WORD) TUESDAY- SPELLING PRACTICE BOOK PAGE 26 WEDNESDAY-SPELLING PRACTICE BOOK PAGE 28 THURSDAY- TEST FRIDAY- FIELD TRIP