November 1, 2009:
1. READING/LANGUAGE ARTS - Our story this week is Bremen Town
Musicians.
Vocabulary words to know: mill (a building where grain is crushed
into flour); musician (someone who plays music); excitement (a
feeling of being very happy; robbers (people who steal); monsters
(scary creatures)
High-frequency words to know: people, sign, bought, scared,
probably, shall, pleasant
Amazing words and meanings (for oral vocabulary):
1. partnership - when two or more people become partners and join
together to share something
2. solution - the process of solving a problem
3. survival - living on or surviving
4. miserable - very unhappy
5. struggle - to work hard to do something hard
6. depend - to count on or trust a person or thing
7. familiar - well known
8. insist - to demand something
SPELLING - -s, -es, -ies
note, notes, lunch, lunches, story, stories, tune, tunes,
switch, switches, baby, babies
ENGLISH - nouns
2. MATH - writing and comparing fractions, measuring to nearest inch;
adding ten to a 2-digit number; addition facts, sums of 12
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 2 - ANIMALS
Vocabulary words and meanings to know:
1. mammals - animals with hair or fur that breathe with 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
