MS. TOSCANO BLOG: GRADES 2-5 READING/ELA, GRADES 2, 3 SCIENCE, AND GRADE 4 HOMEROOM : 04/01/2009

WEEK OF APRIL 27,2009 4TH GRADE

REMINDERS: 1.Remember to bring all school supplies everyday, including the homework. 2. Please check your child’s purple assignment book every night for HW and notes. 3. A new book, Harriet the Spy will be given out this week. Please make sure that your child reads for 30 mins. everyday and make notes. The notes will be started in the back of the Reading NB. There will be a test on this book on this Friday, 5/22. 4.A Mother's Day Draft will be due on Weds, 5/6 in the Lang. Arts NB. It should be 3 paragraphs long. When it is corrected it will be re-written or typed and you will need to make a cover for it. It is titled "My Mom Is Special". TESTS: 1. LANGUAGE ARTS TEST THURS, MAY 8. REVIEW PP. 21-40 IN THE GRAMMAR BOOK. 2. SPELLING TEST FRIDAY, 5/8. WORDS ARE ON P.41 IN THE SPELLING BOOK. 3. READING TEST UNIT 2 THURSDAY, MAY 7. STUDY ALL VOCABULARY FROM WHAT DID JO DO, COYOTE SCHOOL NEWS, GRACE AND THE TIME MACHINE, MARVEN OF THE GREAT NORTH WOODS, SO YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT. 4. COMMERCIAL DUE ON THURS. APRIL 30. BRING ALL MATERIALS TO PRESENT THE COMMERCIAL TO THE CLASS. VOCABULARY: MARVEN OF THE GREAT NORTH WOODS business, resourceful, team, trustworthy, cord, dismay, grizzly (bear), immense, payroll, lumberjack, silhouettes VOCABULARY: SO YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT? capital, capitol, clerks, Constitution, howling, humble, politics, responsibility, solemnly, vain, execute, oath, priority SPELLING: (adding –ed and -ing) watched, watching, danced, dancing, studied, studying, stopped, stopping, dried, drying, happened, happening, noticed, noticing, robbed, robbing, slipped, slipping, hurried, hurrying CHALLENGE WORDS: answered, answering, magnified, magnifying, interfered, interfering READING MONDAY: April 27 Aim: To complete a book test on Stuart Little and Spelling Test (not given Friday) HW: see assignment book. TUESDAY: April 28 NO CLASS DUE TO STATE SCIENCE EXAM WEDNESDAY: APRIL 29- NO CLASS DUE TO STATE SCIENCE EXAM THURSDAY: APRIL 30 AIM: To present commercials to the class LESSON: 1. The children will present their commercials to the class. HW: review for Reading and Spelling Tests next week FRIDAY: MAY 1 NO CLASS DUE TO FACULTY CONFERENCE DAY LANGUAGE ARTS MONDAY, April 27 AIM: To present advertisements to the class LESSON: 1. The children will finish presenting their advertisements from last week. 2. The children will update their Reading Vocabulary in the Reading NB HW: work on commercials TUESDAY, APRIL 28 AIM: To review all nouns LESSON: The children will review pp. 21- 40 in Grammar Book HW: work on commercial and study for next week’s tests WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 NO CLASS DUE TO NYSESLAT TESTING HW: work on commercial and study for next week’s test THURSDAY, APRIL 30 AIM: To continue with the presentation of commercials HW: study for next week’s tests and read book. FRIDAY, MAY 1-NO CLASS DUE TO FACULTY CONFERENCE DAY HAVE A GOOD WEEK!

WEEK OF APRIL 27, 2009 3RD GRADE

REMINDERS: 1.Remember to bring all school supplies everyday, including the homework. 2. Please check your child’s purple assignment book every night for HW and notes. 3. We are in great need of tissue for the classroom. Please send in a box. 4. A new book was given out on Friday 4/24. Your child should read a few chapters every night and more on the weekend. The notes for the book will be started in the back of the Reading Notebook. Please make sure that your child reads the book because many of the children are lowering their Reading grade because of not doing well on the book tests. The test for this book will be May 21. c TESTS: SPELLING TEST on Friday 5/8 on the words from p. 47 in the spelling book. LANGUAGE ARTS TEST on Thurs, 5/7. Review pp. 97-123 in the Language Handbook. VOCABULARY: THE TALENT SHOW gym, perform, prefer, roam, recite, enjoying, billions SPELLING WORDS: THE TALENT SHOW song, law, because, soft, dawn, crawl, lost, taught, long, pause, frost, lawn, hawk, laundry, author CHALLENGE WORDS: sausage, cafeteria, mustard, tablecloth, service READING MONDAY: April 27 AIM: To update Reading Vocabulary notebooks LESSON: The children will write new vocabulary words in their notebooks. The children will also start notes for the new book they are reading. HW: see assignment book TUESDAY: APRIL 28 AIM: To identify chronological order in stories LESSON: 1. The class will do order events in a typical school day. 2. The class will sequence events in The Stories Julian Tells. 3. The children will work on the comprehension skill of reading ahead, which helps readers to understand a character, plot, or story better. 4. The children will review vocabulary and spelling words. HW: See assignment book. WEDNESDAY: APRIL 29 AIM: To complete the Speaking section of the NYSESLAT Test. HW: See purple assignment book THURSDAY: APRIL 30 AIM: To complete a Story Map of the Stories Julian Tells LESSON: 1. We will review the vocabulary words and spelling words. 2. The children will reread the Stories Julian Tells. 3. We will then complete a Story Map about the story HW: Review new vocabulary words and spelling words FRIDAY: MAY 1 NO CLASS DUE TO FACULTY CONFERENCE DAY LANGUAGE ARTS MONDAY, APRIL 27 AIM: To decode and understand words with prefixes un- and re- LESSON: 1. The children will review the prefixes /un/ and /re/. 2. The children will use the context to determine the meaning of words that have more than one meaning (multiple meaning words). HW: see Assignment Book TUESDAY, APRIL 28 AIM: To review how to create an advertisement LESSON: The children will discuss how to put together an advertisement. The children will also review nouns (pp. 97-111 in Lang. Handbook) HW: Do numbers 1-5 on p.110 and complete the chart (1-5) on p. 111 in the Lang. Handbook. Do all work in the LA notebook. Please skip a line between each sentence and remember to put Homework, the date, and the page number on the top of the page. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 continue NYSESLAT testing LESSON: The children will review abbreviations and pronouns pp. 112- 117 in Language Handbook HW: Do p. 117 1-15 in Lang. Arts notebook. Set up your notebook the same way as last night when completing your homework. THURSDAY, APRIL 30 N0 CLASS DUE TO COMPUTERS HW: review for Language Arts Test next week FRIDAY, MAY 1 NO CLASS DUE TO FACULTY CONFERENCE DAY HAVE A GOOD WEEK!!!!!

WEEK OF APRIL 27, 2009 2ND GRADE

REMINDERS: 1.Remember to bring all school supplies everyday, including the homework. 2.Please check your child’s purple assignment book every night for HW and notes. 3.Please read with your child each night, not only books required for school, but books that are chosen by your child for enjoyment. 4.A new book will be distributed this week for the children to read( girls will read The Story of Jumping Mouse and boys will be reading Johnny Appleseed). Please make sure that your child reads for thirty mins. each night and takes notes on important details. Notes will be started in the back of the Reading Notebook. 5. The children will need to write a paragraph (minimum of 6 sentences) titles "Mother's Day is A Special Day" . This should be done on looseleaf and the children should also make a cover for it. This will be due on Weds. 5/6. TESTS: Spelling Test on Friday, May 8 (words are on p. 47 in spelling book) Language Arts Test on Friday, May 8 (review pp. 94- 132 in Language Handbook) VOCABULARY: From Seed to Plant beautiful, nutrition, protects, ripens, streams HIGH FREQUENCY WORDS: air, different, food, light, water SPELLING: From Seed to Plant sprout, streams, through, strong, strap, springtime, spray, throat, three, ostrich, pioneers, clearing, air, different, light READING MONDAY, APRIL 27 AIM: To complete a comprehension activity LESSON: The children will complete a comprehension activity in which they will have to find details within the context of a story. HW: complete p. 47 in Spelling Book TUESDAY: APRIL 28 AIM: To write new vocabulary in the Reading Notebook LESSON: The children will update their Reading vocabulary in the Reading NB. HW: The children will write each spelling word 5x in the Reading NB WEDNESDAY: APRIL 29 – NO class do to NYSESLAT Testing- Speaking section THURSDAY: APRIL 30 AIM: To create a Story Map for Johnny Appleseed LESSON: 1. The children will create a Story Map for the story Johnny Appleseed 2. We will review all new vocabulary and high frequency words. HW: review new vocabulary words and spelling words FRIDAY, APRIL 24 No class due to Faculty Conference Day LANGUAGE ARTS MONDAY, APRIL 27 AIM: To review all nouns LESSON: The children will review all nouns pp. 94- 117 in Language Handbook HW: write sents. 1-5 on p. 117 (Lang. Handbook) correctly in Language Arts NB. Please skip a line between each sentence, write Homework, date and page number on the top the page in the notebook. TUESDAY, APRIL 28 AIM: To review abbreviations and showing ownership LESSON: The children will review pp. 118- 123 in Language Handbook concerning abbreviations and showing ownership. HW: rewrite the letter on p. 123 in the Language Handbook correctly in the Language Arts NB. Please write Homework, the date, page number on the top of the page in the notebook. Also, skip a line between each sentence. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 No class due to NYSESLAT Testing THURSDAY, APRIL 30 AIM: To review pronouns LESSON: The children will review pronouns and complete practice exercises in the Language Handbook (pp. 124-126). HW: Do numbers 7 -12 on p. 126 in the Language Handbook. Please follow the directions for setting up the notebook from Monday and Tuesdays’ nights HW. FRIDAY, MAY 1 No class due to Faculty Conference Day HAVE A GOOD WEEK!!!!

WEEK OF APRIL 20- APRIL 24, 2009 2ND GRADE

WEEK OF APRIL 20- 24, 2009 3RD GRADE

REMINDERS: 1.Remember to bring all school supplies everyday, including the homework. 2. Please check your child’s purple assignment book every night for HW and notes. 3. We are in great need of tissue for the classroom. Please send in a box. 4. A new book was given out on Weds. 3/25. Please make sure that your child finished the book. There will be a book test this Friday, April 24th. Notes have been started in the back of the Reading NB. 5. There will be a 12:00 dismissal Tuesday, 4/21 due to Parent Conferences and Weds., 4/22 due to a Faculty Meeting. 6. Report Cards will be distributed on Tues., 4/21. If your child does not receive his/her Report Card in school, then you need to see Mr. Badia, Ms. Saville, or myself concerning any problems. 7. Please read the April calendar carefully. 8. The Sacrament of Reconciliation for 3rd grade will take place at 10:00 in the church. on Thurs. 4/23. All parents are invited to attend. The children who are receiving the Sacrament may wear wear dress up clothes to school 9. Friday, 4/24- 2:30 dismissal TESTS: Open Book Test on James and the Giant Peach (boys) and A Taste of Blackberries (girls) on Friday, 4/24. SPELLING TEST on Friday 4/24 on the words from p. 44 in the spelling book. VOCABULARY: THE STORY JULIAN TELLS cartwheel, seriously, mustache, fastened, beyond, collection SPELLING WORDS: brother’s, brothers, uncle’s, uncles, sister’s, sisters, sisters’, man’s, men’s, child’s, girls, girl’s, girls’, mine, yours CHALLENGE WORDS: tease, friendship, polite, wiggle, nuisance READING MONDAY: April 20 AIM: To work on Portfolio Assignments LESSON: The children will work on their Portfolios today. HW: see assignment book TUESDAY: APRIL 21 AIM: To work on the comprehension skill of sequencing. LESSON: 1. The class will do a listening comprehension activity 2. The class will answer the question of the day 3. The children will work on the comprehension skill of sequencing. 4. The children will review vocabulary and spelling words. HW: See assignment book. WEDNESDAY: APRIL 22 AIM: To read the story of Julian together LESSON: 1. The children will answer the question of the day 2. We will read the story together and discuss the Think and Respond Questions at the end of the selection. 3. We will practice the comprehension skill of following directions. 4. We will review the vocabulary and spelling words HW: See purple assignment book THURSDAY: APRIL 23 AIM: To decode and understand words prefixes LESSON: 1. We will review the vocabulary words and spelling words. 2. The children will review the spelling words for the selection 3. We will review root words and prefixes. HW: Study for Book Test and Spelling Test FRIDAY: APRIL 24 AIM: To take an Open Book Test LESSON: The children will take an Open Book Test on James and the Giant Peach and A Taste of Blackberries. LANGUAGE ARTS MONDAY, APRIL 20 AIM: To continue to work on Portfolios. HW: see Assignment Book TUESDAY, APRIL 21 NO CLASS DUE TO PARENT CONFERENCES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 NO CLASS DUE TO FACULTY MEETING THURSDAY, APRIL 23 NO CLASS DUE TO COMPUTER CLASS HW: see Assignment Book FRIDAY, APRIL 24 AIM: To take a Spelling Test HAVE A GOOD WEEK!!!!!

WEEK OF APRIL 20-24, 2009 4TH GRADE

REMINDERS: 1.Remember to bring all school supplies everyday, including the homework 2.Please check your child’s purple assignment book every night for HW and notes. 3. A new book, Stuart Little was given to the children to read on Weds. 3/25. Please make sure that they read for 30 mins. every day and make notes. The notes were started in the back of the Reading NB. There will be a test on this book on this Friday, 4/24. TESTS: 1. OPEN BOOK TEST ON STUART LITTLE FRI. 4/24. 2. SPELLING TEST FRIDAY, 4/24. WORDS ARE ON P.37 IN THE SPELLING BOOK. VOCABULARY: MARVEN OF THE GREAT NORTH WOODS business, resourceful, team, trustworthy, cord, dismay, grizzly (bear), immense, payroll, lumberjack, silhouettes VOCABULARY: SO YOU WANT TO BE PRESIDENT? capital, capitol, clerks, Constitution, howling, humble, politics, responsibility, solemnly, vain, execute, oath, priority SPELLING: (ear, ir, our, ur) return, courage, surface, purpose, first, turkey, heard, early, turtle, birthday, journal, courtesy, nourish, purse, furniture, search, curtain, burrow, hamburger, survey CHALLENGE WORDS: turquoise, absurd, furthermore, flourish, nourishment READING MONDAY: April 20 Aim: To fix assignments in portfolios HW: work on advertisement that is due 4/23. Tomorrow the topic for the commercial is due on a piece of looseleaf. Please put your full heading on the looseleaf. TUESDAY: April 21 NO CLASS DUE TO EARLY DISMISSAL WEDNESDAY: APRIL 22- NO CLASS DUE TO EARLY DISMISSAL THURSDAY: APRIL 23 AIM: To display and explain advertisements to the class LESSON: 1. The children will demonstrate their advertisements to the class. HW: bring notes and book for Book Test on Stuart Little tomorrow. FRIDAY: APRIL 24 AIM: To take an Open Book Test LESSON: The students will take an Open Book Test on Stuart Little HW: Work on Commercial which will be due Thursday, April 30. LANGUAGE ARTS MONDAY, April 20 Finish working on Portfolios. TUESDAY, March 21 NO CLASS DUE TO PARENT CONFERENCES WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 NO CLASS DUE TO A FACULTY MEETING THURSDAY, APRIL 23 AIM: To continue with the advertisement projects LESSON: 1. Review how to advertise or announce certain events or products. 2. Discuss persuasion and how it is used to sell products or ideas. 3. The students will explain their individual advertisements. HW: study for Spelling Test FRIDAY, April 3- NO CLASS DUE TO 2:30 DISMISSAL HW: 1. WORK ON YOUR COMMERCIAL . The commercial itself will be due to be presented on Thurs. 4/30. 2. Review pages 1-40 in the Grammar and Practice Handbook. HAVE A GOOD WEEK!

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