December 18 Breakfast Math: Elapsed time December 17 Best Christmas Pageant analogies sheet. Math: Christmas Fractions Reading: Complete taking the AR quiz, Vocabulary quiz, and Literacy Skills test on the Best Christmas Pageant Ever Crossword puzzle. Watch video. Write an essay comparing and contrasting the movie and the book. Spelling test December 16 Deck the Halls: adding decimals Math: Christmas Fractions Reading: Christmas Capitalization and write a letter to Santa. Underline the compound words, plurals, and irregular past tense verbs. Trim the Tree: plurals Complete the Best Christmas Pageant Ever Students begin taking the AR quiz, Vocabulary quiz, and Literacy Skills test. December 15 Analogies sheet. Math: AM Begin 12 Days of Christmas Reading: Word Structure- inflectional ending -ed and irregular past tense Review vocabulary Spelling sheet Listen to chapters 3-5 in The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. CPS Quiz on chapters 3 and 4 Science: open book quiz Draw the rest of the picture December 11 DG Quiz Math: AM test Fraction activities OAS Benchmark test Reading test Spelling test Guidance December 10 DOL/DA/DG Math: AM Math Review #53 Introduce equivalent fractions OAS Benchmark tests in the Computer lab LA Discuss story Compare characters and complete graphic organizer Science: do p 348 Social Studies: Read p 230-245 December 9 DOL/DA/DG Math: AM Benchmark test MAZE Multiple strips- 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12 You can put any number on the other strips or leave them blank. LA Word Structure: word derivatives Vocabulary: acitivity- act out the word and have the rest of the class determine the word Reread the story Turn in Weekly Reader Science: do page 340-341. Read p 342-347 December 8 DOL/DA/DG Math: AM Benchmark test CBM and CAP Multiples LA Word Structure: -ful and -ment Vocabulary Quick write Reading games Social Studies: work on little Transcontinental book. Begin Weekly Reader December 4 DOL/DA quiz Math: AM Prime factorization Factor Trees LA Choral read the poem. Listen to the historical note. Reading test Spelling test Social Studies: Read about the transcontinental railroad and summarize information in a little book. What was the transcontinental railroad? Who built it? How did it impact or change America? December 3 DOL/DA/DG Math: AM Prime and Composite Numbers LA Word Structure: suffix -less and homophones. Practice book 143-144, 145-146, 153-154. Listen to historical notes of The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Quick write Complete chart comparing poem and historical notes. Social Studies: p 211 writing or p 213 writing. December 1 DOL/DA/DG Math: AM Factors and Greatest Common Factors LA Word Structure: suffix -less and compound words. Practice reading The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere Quick write Prepositions Listen to the Preposition book. Write four sentences and illustrations.