Week of Dec. 3

Reading:

• AR points = 22
• Story- Marven of the Great North Woods
• vocabulary:
  Words to Know
  cord
  dismay
  grizzly
  immense
  payroll

Spelling:
  week 12
              This Week’s Focus:
• Spell words with the vowel sound in small, straw, song, and bought
• Spell words with the short u sound spelled ough
• Add the endings -er and -est

Reading story list
         Generalization: Some words have two consonants that blend together:
among, think. Some words have two consonants that are said as one
sound: graph, wheel.

Writing:
      An exciting time

Social Studies
      December Holidays Customs

Week of Nov. 26

Reading

• AR goal = 20 points
• story is Coyote School News & it's historical fiction
• reading strategy is drawing conclusions
• Bookworm Baker blog question...How can we work together to achieve a goal?

Spelling

• week 11
• words associated with the story (Spell irregular plurals)
• TTT due Friday

Writing

• finish our favorite holiday writing
• word choice is the trait we'll be working on

Social Studies

• Thursday will be PBS buddies with k-class.  We'll teach them about the meaning of SOAR

Nov. 12-19

Reading:

• finish selection- So You Want to be President
• guided reading for the rest of the week...and next
• AR goal=18 points
• read to k-class on Friday (evens)
• every week students will be expected to complete a reading lab...we're always thinking about getting ready to pass our state reading & math tests.

Veterans' Program on Monday 11-12-12 at 1:30 pm

Spelling

• unit 10 
• or homophones
• TTT due Friday

Writing

• bold beginning for an essay of favorite holiday

Social Studies

• finish unit on buffalo
• begin SOAR  
• on 2nd and 4th Thursdays we'll review and teach PBS rules to kindergarten class

How are the poetry notebooks coming along?

Week of Nov. 5th

Reading

• AR Goal =  16 points
• Take test over Letters Home from Yosemite
• evens to read on Monday to kindergarten class
• Vocabulary for So You Want to be President
• Main idea and details from So You Want...
• genre informative nonfiction
• author's purpose -- to inform

Writing 

• write...write...write

Social Studies

• We have a tub from Morrill Hall in Lincoln that has items we'll use to learn about the Ponca Indians...an indigenous tribe living in Knox County

Spelling (I'm moving spelling to 11:35, so we have more time and more than 2 days a week to work on words)

• unit 8 (basic words we need to know)
• So You Want to be President-words 'ir' spellings in words
• TTT due Friday

TAI 

• due Thursday