Date Homework
11/26/07 Welcome back from the long Thanksgiving weekend
Warm up: Dictionary Skills  (Find the guide words in the dictionary for a given list of words.)
Whole class: Correct Visions "Thanksgiving" packet pp. 17-21
Visions "Thanksgiving" poem & follow-up packet. 
   Vocabulary: gobbled, stuffed, remember, dish, wonderful. hurry, feast, piece
   Skills: Rhyme, Synonyms, Suffixes: -ful and -less
         Using Guide Words in the dictionary
         Capitalization of proper nouns
         Subject pronouns
                              Extra practice with synonyms and rhyme
Quiz on Geography dictation; turn in.                  
                   
Blue Visions Green Visions Red Visions
Initial & final sounds; long & short vowels pp. 30-37
Ch. 3 Reading & Writing pp. 38-41
Homework: WBW pp. 10-11
 		 "Coyote"
Homework: Reread Coyote. 
Do Q & A from p. 22
Use a separate paper & use complete sentences.
 		 "Antarctic Adventure"
Reread story; correct activity pp. 17-18
Homework: Q & A p. 36 on a separate paper; Use complete sentences;
Grammar pp. 12-15
Independent work:
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WBW pp. 10-11		 Independent Work:
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Writer's Log: pp. 6-7
WBW pp. 10-11
 		 Independent Work:

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Writer's Log pp. 6-7
WBW pp. 10-11
 
 
11/27/07 Per. 1: Announcements: Mr. Rancho Pageant sign ups are today; Pageant is Thursday.
Return HRL's and dictation tests
Read aloud.: "In the Shower with Andy"   Vocabulary:  insulation, cubicle, reinforce, bail,  faucet, caulk, washcloth, abandon, expel, impetuous, dilemma, resolutely
Independent Work: Review Access History pp. 12-17.   Make flashcards for: elevation, compass rose, scale, legend/key.
                     Make sure you have done the Activity Journal pp. 6-11
Directed: Green Group Read & listen to Coyote.  Correct Q & A. Correct workbook pages 9-10.

(Today I did not meet with blue or red group for Visions. Postponed:)
                  Blue Group: Visions p. 39; Correct workbook pp. 34-35; Review colors, numbers, classroom items
                  pp. 40-41: Make a personal dictionary
                  WBW pp. 10-11
                  Red Group:  Correct Q & A from Antarctic Adventure  (p. 36); correct activity 19 (personification);
                  Adverbs;     
                  Conjunction "and" to join nouns and verbs
 
11/28/07 Project: posters of regions of the U.S.
Tomorrow we will correct Access History workbook pp. 10-11 (Do it for homework if you haven't done it yet.)
Blue Group: Retest geography dictation
Green and red groups: Write the vocabulary from Steck-Vaughn Read Aloud, lesson 2 (In the Shower with Andy)

Per. 3: Computer Lab: SRI and Reading Counts

Postponed:
          Visions groups: continue from yesterday
           Green and red groups: Read aloud vocabulary & follow up
 
11/29/07 Per.1 Library to check out reading books
Per. 2: Finish regions posters; turn in
Correct Access History workbook pp. 10-11
Homework: Read 30 minutes from Visions and/or library book
Study Access History pp. 16-17, U.S. Regions.  Know what a region is.
 
11/30/07 Substitute today: Miss Stern
Attendance
Have students tell you the number of their Visions books (See names on the board)

WBW pp. 44. 44-45 Describing People and Things, plus workbook pages (See the top of pages for the matching page number.)

Regions of the United States, culminating activity.
Materials needed: Completed regions posters, Access History books (pp. 16-17).  Yesterday pairs of students completed a regions poster.  Have all the groups who did the same regions get together and discuss their information. Then each group will decide what information to present.  Every member of the group must tell some information to the class about their region.

Lead them in writing a class paragraph summarizing what they have learned about regions of the United States. 

If time: Choose from the following:

             * Access History  The Thirteen Colonies, Skim/review quickly pp. 42-45 for overview;
                                          Jamestown, p. 46;  review pp. 48-49:
                        Brand new info:  Growth of the Colonies p. 50 & Slavery p. 51
                        Then have them finish the workbook p. 21 & do pp. 22-23
             *Game Time/ * SRI Computer Time
                  (Some students need to finish their SRI (Scholastic Reading Inventory) reading quiz on the computer.
                  They need to sit by people who speak different languages.  Send only about 10 students at a time.)
                 Scrabble: Review how to play.  Form groups of 4, different languages. (If you have them do game time,
                  they must keep the Scrabble pieces together in the same set and clean up before dismissal.

             * See emergency file for more activities.
           

             Clean up at about 11:35. Thank you!