| Week of October 7, 2008:
1. READING - Test on Ronald Morgan Goes to Bat Monday; practice on and
perform play on Tuesday; The rest of the week we'll be
reading on internet web sites and other sources in the room.
PLEASE BE SURE YOUR CHILD STUDIES VOCABULARY AND SIGHT WORDS WEEKLY.
2. SPELLING - contractions:
there's (there is); weren't (were not); they'll (they will);
aren't (are not); I've (I have); don't (do not); can't (cannot);
let's (let us); we're (we are); mustn't (must not)
CHALLENGE WORDS: haven't (have not); couldn't (could not); won't
(will not)
3. ENGLISH - Nouns: people, places, things, animals
4. MATH - count by fives; addition fact families; identifying temperature to
nearest 10 degrees; counting money; identifying ordinal
numbers; horizontal, oblique, vertical lines; story problems;
solving problems using bar graphs; identifying halves, fourths,
eighths; telling elapsed time to the half hour, even and odd
numbers; comparing money amounts; practicing addition facts
5. SOCIAL STUDIES - Unit 2: LEARNING ABOUT COMMUNITIES
Vocabulary words to learn: neighborhood, community, map key, map, symbol,
city, suburb, town, rural, transportation,
directions
6. SCIENCE - Life Science - CHAPTER 2 - ANIMALS
Students need to know the following vocabulary words and definitions this
six weeks:
1. mammals: animals with hair or fur that breathe with body parts called
lungs
2. reptiles: animals with dry, scaly skin
3. amphibians: animals that start their lives in the water
4. predator: an animal that hunts another animal for food
5. prey: an animal that is being hunted
6. food chain: the order in which living things need each other for food
7. shelter: a place where an animal can live and be safe
8. larva: the stage in the life cycle of a butterfly when the insect is
a caterpillar
9. pupa: the stage in the life cycle of a butterfly when a caterpillar
spins a cocoon around itself
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