November 16, 2009:
1. READING/LANGUAGE ARTS - Our story this week and Monday and Tuesday
is Pearl and Wagner. We're practicing on a play, The First Thanks-
giving, to be presented Friday in the library.
Vocabulary words to know: robot, wad, trash, electricity (energy
that makes light, heat, motion, or force)
High-frequency words to know: shoe, science, village, guess, won,
pretty, watch
Amazing words and meanings (for oral vocabulary):
1. construct - to build or put together
2. sidekick - a buddy, good friend, or partner
3. unique - the only one like it
4. contraption - something that is put together in a very odd way
5. foolproof - so simple and safe that anybody can use it
6. daydream - You are awake, but you are thinking of pleasant things
7. project - something you plan and then do
8. scrap - a tiny piece of something; leftovers
COMPREHENSION SKILL - Author's Purpose - reason for writing
SPELLING - long e words: ee, ea, y
read, feel, easy, deep, seat, party, wheel, leave, windy,
sleep, teeth, team
ENGLISH - compound words; exact nouns
*UNIT 3 TEST ON NOUNS FRIDAY
2. MATH - reading a recipe, identifying cups, 1/2 cups,
teaspoons, 1/2 teaspoon; counting dimes,nickels, pennies;
making a symmetrical design; adding 2 and 3 two-digit numbers
3. SOCIAL STUDIES - Unit 2 - Learning About Communities
Vocabulary words and definitions:
1. community - a place where people live, work, and play
2. neighborhood - a place where people live near one another
3. map - a drawing of a place
4. map key - tells you what map symbols mean
5. symbol - a small picture or drawing that stands for a real thing
6. direction words - north, south, east, west, up, down, over, under,
top, bottom, left, right, above, below
7. city - a large community
8. town - a small community
9. suburb - a community near a city
10. transportation - the way people travel from one place to another
4. SCIENCE - Chapter 3 - LAND HABITATS
Vocabulary words and meanings to know:
1. habitat - a place where plants and animals can meet their needs
2. woodland forest - a habitat that gets enough rain and sunlight
for trees to grow well
3. migrate - to move to another place
4. rain forest - a habitat that gets rain almost every day
5. desert - a dry habitat that gets very little rainfall
6. Arctic - a very cold place near the north pole
