April- June 2008 LANGUAGE ARTS CHECK OUT OUR NEWSPAPER, "EGYPT TIMES" |
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SPELLING TESTS
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| 3/31/08 | Book Float or Main Idea Bag Projects for BOOK TALKS *We will focus on writing summaries for this entire week. |
4/14/08 | Spelling List 14 |
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| 5/8/08 | My Side of the Mountain and Julie of the Wolves pages 1-40 Character Catcher |
5/13/08 | Spelling List 15 I am starting to give out the lists on Mondays so that the girls can get ready for the shorter time frame for assignments in grade 6. similar, doesn't experience, forward, exactly, partner, drawer, expensive, develop, familiar, pigeon, tickling, penalty, frustrated, athletic, celebration, circling, helicopter, trembling, sparkling, exquisite, mischievous, refrigerator, pastime, and anxious |
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| 5/13/08 | My Side of the Mountain and Julie of the Wolves pages 41-70 Summarizer |
5/15/08 | Spelling List 16 scarves, staffs, shelves, wolves, ourselves, solos, stereos, volcanoes, quizzes, pants, sheriffs, reefs, chiefs, knives, thieves, studios, dominoes, buffaloes, scissors, measles, bailiffs, wharves, flamingos, mosquitoes, and desperadoes. |
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| 5/15/08 | My Side of the Mountain and Julie of the Wolves pages 71-105 Illustrator |
5/20/08 | Spelling List 17 human, humane, clean, cleanse, nature, natural, major, majority, poem, poetic, equal, equation, unite, unity, bomb, bombard, muscle, muscular, resign, resignation, haste, heir, harmony, hasten, inherit, and harmonious.
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| 5/20/08 | My Side of the Mountain and Julie of the Wolves pages 106-135 No job |
5/22/08 | Spelling List 18 UNIT TEST cautious, commercial, especially, exhaustion, gracious, population, position, precious, question, social, suggestion, accept, access, beside, choose, chose, except, excess, finally, later, personnel, recent, sense, since, athletic, celebration, exactly, expensive, experience, frustrated, similar, tickling, trembling, dominoes, knives, ourselves, quizzes, reefs, scissors, shelves, thieves, volcanoes, wolves, clean, human, humane, major, natural, nature, and poem. |
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| 5/22/08 | My Side of the Mountain and Julie of the Wolves pages 136-end Summarizer |
5/27/08 | Spelling List 19 different, register, carnival, variety, atmosphere, favorite, pattern, understand, sentence, instance, elegant, aquarium, communicate, gasoline, factory, definite, Chicago, heavily, garage, illustrate, pessimism, prominent, controversy, suspicious, and porpoise. |
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SPELLING QUICK-WRITES |
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NOTES- See the NEW length and word requirement If more than 4 high-frequency words are spelled incorrectly, you will be asked to redo your Quick-Write. |
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| 3/31/08 | 4/4/08 | See prompt- 5 paragraphs 10 spelling words ALSO COMPLETE THE BACK OF THE SPELLING LIST |
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| 4/7/08 | 4/11/08 | Please pick any state or country and write a 5-paragraph essay. 5 paragraphs 10
spelling words |
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| 4/14/08 | 4/18/08 | complex or compound sentence for each word | ||
| 4/18/08 | 4/25/08 | NO Quick-Write | ||
| 4/25/08 | 5/2/08 | Carousel animal description and drawing 1-2 paragraphs | ||
5/2/08 |
5/9/08 | Little Miss Book | ||
SOCIAL STUDIES LEARN THE MAP OF EUROPE! |
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| Assigned | "Time for Kids" |
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WEB PAGE (Main page) http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/wr/0,27955,,00.html |
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| 3/31/08 | 4/4/08 |
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/wr/article/printout/0,28257,1724809,00.html | ||
| 4/7/08 | NO TFK |
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| 4/14/08 | 4/18/08 | TFK- extras in class |
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| 4/18/08 | 4/25/08 | http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/wr/article/printout/0,28257,1730211,00.html |
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| 4/25/08 | 5/2/08 | pick your own article and 1 paragraph summary |
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| 5/2/08 | 5/5/08 | TFK summary | ||
| 4/30/08 | MAP TEST | 5/16/08 | ||
| 4/30/08 | GREECE TEST | 5/21/08 | Study guides will be handed out on Wednesday, May 7 | |