WEEK OF FEB. 2-6, 2009 3RD GRADE

REMINDERS: 1. 11:30 dismissal Weds. 2/4 due to a Faculty Meeting 2. Dismissal on Friday will be 4:00 3. Picture Money due to Mrs. Resto in the Tuition Office by Friday 2/6 4. There will be a Book Fair all of next week 5. Please read your book each night (Ramona- girls/ Charlie &the Chocolate Factory-boys). You should be reading a chapter every day. Remember to write notes in the Reading NB. that is already set up. The test for your book will be on Thurs. Feb. 26 TESTS: Spelling Test- Friday, 2/6 Words on p. 30 (Balto) READING: VOCABULARY WORDS: Turtle Bay message, litter, trained, patiently, wise, eager Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome splinters, telegraph, trail, guided, drifts, temperature SPELLING WORDS: Turtle Bay known, written, laugh, sphere, wreck, writer, wrong, wrap, wrench, knocked, knot, wring, enough, rough, wrinkle

CHALLENGE WORDS:tortoise, dolphin, sea horse, whale, coral

Spelling Words: Balto, the Dog Who Saved Nome shot, chance, match, watch, showed, shock, pushed, such, crash, chew, batch, hitched, sharp, mush, speech CHALLENGE WORDS: medicine, equipment, crutch, nurse, hospital Mon. 2/2 Aim: to review author's purpose and words to which the ending -ed has been added Lesson: 1. discuss the selection and determine the author's purpose for writing it 2. to review root words with the ending /ed/ to show the action of the verb happened in the past. HW: see purple assignment book Tues. 2/3 No reading class due to the correcting of the NYS 6th grade ELA test Weds. 2/4 Aim: to review all vocabulary words and to discuss making predictions (comprehension) Lesson: 1.review the meanings of all word wall vocabulary for Theme 2 2. discuss the three things that readers can do to make predictions in narrative nonfiction. HW: see purple assignment book Thurs. 2/5 No reading class due to the correcting of the 8th grade NYS ELA exam Friday, 2/6 Aim: to take a spelling test and to review word relationships Lesson: 1. Spelling Test on the words on p. 30 in the Spelling Book 2. Review word relationships: synonyms, antonyms, homophones LANGUAGE ARTS: Monday, 2/2 Aim: to review irregular plural nouns (see pp. 100-105) Lesson: to review plural nouns where the spelling of the word changes completely. HW: see assignment book Tues., 2/3 No Language Arts Class Weds., 2/4 Aim: to review singular possessive nouns Lesson: 1.Write the definition of a possessive noun and singular possessive noun in Lang. Arts NB 2. do some practice exercises to review the concept HW: see assignment book Thurs., 2/5 No Lang. Arts Class Friday 2/6 Aim: to review the rules for writing a Personal Narrative Lesson: to write a personal narrative about an experience you have had in your life.

WEEK OF FEB. 2- 6 2009 2ND GRADE

TESTS: Book Test on Anansi the Spider(girls) and Stone Soup (boys) - Friday, 2/6 READING: VOCABULARY : The Enormous Turnip enormous, granddaughter, grew, planted, strong, turnip Helping Out alongside, chores, engine, simple, sprout, tool HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS: ( know how to read only) black, grow, last, man, mouse, after, early, hot, pretty, someone NO NEW SPELLING WORDS THIS WEEK

Previous Spelling Words:

The Enormous Turnip black, pack, crack, snack, horseback, lock, rocket, flock, shock, clock, appreciate, acrobat, grow, last, mouse Helping Out learn, earnest, earth, heard, pearl, search, rehearse, earn, yearn, research, horseback, rocket, early, pretty, someone Monday, 2/2 Aim: to review new vocabulary words and r-controlled vowels Lesson: Listening Comprehension- Together New phonics lesson: the sound of /ear/ eg. learn, early H.W. see purple assignment book Tuesday, 2/3 No reading due to the correcting of the NYS 6th grade ELA exam Weds, 2/4 Aim: to read the story Helping Out and discuss main idea Lesson: Read the selection in text pp. 174-187 Review the word wall Review the sound of /ear/ H.W. see purple assignment book Thurs. 2/5 No reading due to correcting of the NYS 8th grade ELA exam HW- study for book test Friday 2/6 Aim: to take a book test on Anansi the Spider or Stone Soup LANGUAGE ARTS: Mon. 2/2 Aim: to review plural nouns Lesson: write notes in Lang. Arts NB concerning plural nouns (see pp. 97-99) HW: see purple assignment book Tues. 2/3 No class Weds. 2/4 Aim: to review irregular plural nouns Lesson: write notes in LA NB concerning irregular plural nouns (see pp. 100-102) HW: see purple assignment book Thurs. 2/5 No class Friday, 2/6 Aim: to discuss poems Lesson: listen to some poems and see if they rhyme or not. write a poem together (portfolio activity)