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Class Studies

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
  

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