Reading  
Sam and the Lucky Money 
The students will look for details of setting – the time and place – in a story and make inferences about the story element setting. 
 
Vocabulary:  
Appreciate – to be thankful for 
Dragon – a huge, fierce animal in old stories 
Lucky – having or bringing good luck 
Rustling – a light, soft sound of things gently rubbing together 
Scolded – blamed with angry words 
Startled – suddenly frightened 
Devoured – ate hungrily or greedily 
Worthless – not good for anything or without value 
 
Spelling:  
Squeeze, kept, favorite, swimming, presents, picture, different, chocolate, Monday, easy, caught, surprise, Tuesday, fifth, every 
 
Math:  
Students will be reviewing skills and concepts for CRCT. 
 
Block  
P.E. 
 
We are in need of the following items: 
Dry Erase Markers – ANY color will do 
Yellow Pencils 
Facial Tissues 
Pencil Top Erasers 
 
April 14 – 18, 2008 – CRCT 

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Reading  
One Grain of Rice 
The students will recognize the use of comparisons (similarities) and contrasts (differences.) 
 
Vocabulary:  
Double – twice as much 
Grain – the seed of wheat, oats, corn, rice, and other cereal grasses 
Palace – a very large house, especially the official house of a king or queen  
Reward – something received in return for something done  
Single – one and no more 
Thief – a person who steals 
Decreed – made an official decision 
Famine – lack of food in a place; a time of starving 
Raja – a ruler or chief in India and in some other Eastern countries 
 
Spelling:  
That’s, won’t, haven’t, didn’t, let’s, we’re, I’m, I’ll, aren’t, I’ve, it’s, he’s, you’ll, doesn’t, they’ve 
 
Math:  
Students will be comparing, adding and subtracting decimal fractions and fractions.  
 
Students are continuing the Geometry & Measurement and Fractions Units.  
 
Block  
Art 
 
April 2, 2008 – Creative Discovery Museum Presentation at School  
 
April 3, 2008 – Art Show 6:00 – 8:00 PM 
 
April 14 – 18, 2008 – CRCT 

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Reading  
Brave Irene 
The students will make predictions based on the text and use specific text and personal experience to make predictions.  
 
Vocabulary:  
howling – a loud, loud, mournful cry 
snatched – seized suddenly 
stumble – to walk in an unsteady way 
whipped – moved, pushed, or pulled quickly and suddenly 
whirled – moved or carried quickly 
wind – air in motion 
cherished – cared for dearly 
trudged – to walk wearily or with great effort 
 
Spelling:  
unlucky, unwrap, unsafe, rewrite, replay, untie, unhappy, undo, refill, reread, unfold, unpack, repay, restart, repaint 
 
Language Arts: 
The students will write a persuasive essay with an introductory paragraph, main body, and conclusion paragraph. Persuasive Writing Test will be Tuesday, February 12, 2008. 
Students will identify and use pronouns, subject pronouns, object pronouns, and possessive pronouns.  
Students will also continue practicing letters learned in words using cursive handwriting. 
 
Math:  
Students are continuing the Geometry & Measurement and Fractions Units. However, we will continue to have timed multiplication test on Friday. This Friday we will test on 8’s and students will make up any test that was missed or not passed. Your child will get a note home if he/she needs to make up or retake a test. 
 
Block  
P.E. 
 
Valentine Party is Thursday, February 14th @ 1:30 PM. Please send a note letting me know what you can send! 
 
February 18, 2008 – President’s Day NO SCHOOL!!! 
 

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Reading  
Chibi: A True Story from Japan 
The students will distinguish fact from opinion in the text and recognize words that indicate statements of opinion. 
 
Vocabulary:  
Avenue – a street, sometimes wide or bordered with trees 
Ducklings – young ducks 
Nest – a structure built by birds as a place in which to lay their eggs 
Pool – a small pond; a small body of still water 
Splash – to cause water to fly about so as to wet the soil 
Spring – the season between winter and summer 
Brooded – sat on eggs in order for them to hatch 
Commotion – a violent movement; confusion; disturbance 
 
Spelling:  
Neck, bucket, brick, face, house, trick, ticket, once, since, erase, jacket, locker, chance, police, chase 
 
Language Arts: 
The students will write persuasive essays with an introductory paragraph, main body, and conclusion paragraphs. (Persuasive Writing Test is very soon.) 
Students will write abbreviated titles and initials correctly.  
Students will also continue cursive handwriting: lower case letters k, r, s, j, and p. 
 
Math:  
Students are continuing the Geometry and Measurement Unit. However, we will continue to have timed multiplication test on Friday. This Friday we will test on 7’s and students will make up any test that was missed or not passed. Your child will get a note home if he/she needs to make up or retake a test. 
 
Block  
P.E. 
 
Please return your letter with THREE times chosen for Parent Conference Night. I want to meet with ALL parents to discuss your child’s progress.  
This is VERY important!!!!! 

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Reading  
Your Dad Was Just Like You 
The students will learn that a generalization is a statement or rule that fits with many examples in a story. 
 
Spelling:  
tooth, something, chain, chunk, shadow, they, thick, chuckle, smash, shine, mother, rich, reached, finished, shape 
 
Vocabulary:  
Jokes- things said or done to make somebody laugh 
Neighborhood – people living near one another 
Prize – a reward won in a contest 
Problem – a question; difficult question 
Prove – to try out; test 
Serious – thoughtful; grave 
 
Language Arts: 
The students will write persuasive essays with an introductory paragraph, main body, and conclusion paragraphs.  
Students will form singular and plural possessive nouns. 
Students will also continue cursive handwriting: lower case letters l, b, h, f, and k. 
 
Math:  
Students are beginning the Geometry and Measurement Unit. However, we will continue to have timed multiplication test on Friday. This Friday we will test on 7’s. 
 
Block  
Art 
 
 
 
Last week we did pre-CRCT and reading assessment. I will be sharing the results during Parent Conferences on Thursday, February 7, 2008. Look for the sign up sheet and be sure to pick three times convenient for you. 

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Reading  
Brave as a Mountain Lion 
The students will discuss visual images based on text descriptions and understand that visualizing requires the use of all senses. 
 
Spelling:  
Sadly, lively, really, careful, graceful, wonderful, suggestion, conclusion, beautiful, decision, easily, action, finally, helpful, happily 
 
Vocabulary:  
Afraid – frightened; feeling fear 
Brave – without fear; having courage 
Reservation – land set aside by the government for a special purpose 
Silent – quiet; still; noiseless 
Spelling – writing or saying letters of a word in order 
Trouble – something that worries you 
 
Language Arts: 
The students will write persuasive essays with an introductory paragraph, main body, and conclusion paragraphs.  
Students will form singular and plural possessive nouns. 
Students will also continue cursive handwriting: lower case letters i, t, u, w, and e. 
 
Math:  
Students are beginning the Geometry and Measurement Unit. However, we will continue to have timed multiplication test on Friday. This Friday we will retest on 6’s. 
 
Block  
P.E. 
 
 
We will be out of school on Monday, January 21, 2008! 
Awards day is Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 9:00 AM. 
Please sign report cards and send them back. 
 
We are running low on Kleenex. If you can send in a box,  
we would appreciate it! 

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Reading  
Mailing May 
The students will locate details of setting in the text and make inferences about a story element and its relationship to a character’s actions.  
 
Vocabulary:  
Bundled – tied or wrapped together; made into a bundle 
Carted – carried in or as if in a cart 
Conductor – a person in charge of a train or bus and its passengers 
Label – a slip of paper of other material attached to a thing and marked to show what or whose it is or where it is to go 
Mailing – sending by mail 
Station – a building where buses or trains regularly pick up and unload passengers 
Flabbergasted – amazed; speechless with surprise 
Permissible – allowable 
 
Spelling:  
Found, until, alone, hasn’t, angry, one, always, a lot, couldn’t, hungry, sure, almost, doing, hadn’t, special 
 
Language Arts: 
The students will write response to literature essays with an introductory paragraph, main body, and conclusion paragraphs. Students will are also identifying nouns. 
 
Math:  
Students will further develop their understanding of multiplication and division of whole numbers and develop the ability to apply it in problem solving. 
 
Block  
Computer 
 
Christmas Party 
We will be having a Christmas Party this Friday at 1:30 PM.  
I will be sending home a sign up sheet to bring items to the party. Please mark what item you would like to bring and send it back to school ASAP! 

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Reading  
This week we will be reviewing all reading skills and I will be assessing students in reading. We will not be having a reading story. We will be reading different stories each day. 
 
Vocabulary:  
geography – The study of the Earth’s features or shapes. 
landform – The natural shape of the land. 
physical feature – Something found in nature, such as weather, plant life, land, and water. 
mountain range – A large group of mountains. 
map key – A box that tells what the symbols on a map stand for. 
plateau – A landform that has steep side and a flat top. 
peninsula – A piece of land that has water on three sides of it. 
coast – The land next to an ocean or a lake. 
desert – A place with very dry climate. 
valley – The landform between ranges of hills or mountains. 
 
Spelling:  
map, valley, plains, climate, coast, river, lake, mountain, ocean, island, desert, hills, peninsula, gulf, riverbank 
 
Language Arts: 
The students will write informational essays with an introductory paragraph, main body, and conclusion paragraph with a main idea and supporting details in each paragraph. Students must write his/her own informational essay on Thursday and Friday. Your child may do research at home on his/her topic!  
 
Math:  
Students will further develop their understanding of multiplication and division of whole numbers and develop the ability to apply it in problem solving. Students will have timed tests on the following multiplication facts on Friday: 1’s, 2’s, 3’s and 4’s. PLEASE STUDY WITH YOUR CHILD!!!! 
 
Block  
P.E. 

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Reading  
The Piñata Maker 
The students will identify steps in a process in the text and recognize that clue words and/or pictures can accompany steps in a process. 
 
Vocabulary:  
Cone – a solid object that has a flat, round bas that narrows to a point at the top 
Creating – making a thing that has not been make before 
Designed – made a first sketch of; planned out; arranged the form and color of 
Famous – very well known 
Paste – a mixture used to stick things together 
Swan – a large, graceful water bird with a long, slender, curving neck 
Fiesta – a festival, especially in a Spanish-speaking country or region 
Piñata – a pot filled with candy, fruit, and small toys 
 
Spelling:  
Wagon, garden, paper, travel, animal, lemon, sugar, another, squirrel, final, open, dollar, brother, nickel, real 
 
Language Arts: 
The students will write informational essays with an introductory paragraph, main body, and conclusion paragraph with a main idea and supporting details in each paragraph. Students will also write and identify statements, questions, exclamations and commands. 
 
Math:  
Students will further develop their understanding of multiplication and division of whole numbers and develop the ability to apply it in problem solving. 
 
Block  
P.E. 
 
Christmas Party 
We will be having a Christmas Party. I am not sure of all the details yet. I will let you know of the day and time as soon as I know! If your child would like to exchange gifts, have your child purchase a gift for $5.00. If your child is a boy, have them purchase one for a boy and if your child is a girl, purchase one for a girl. 

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Reading  
Danger-Icebergs! 
The students will define a fact as a statement that can be proved true or false and an opinion as a statement of someone’s belief’s that cannot be proved true or false.  
 
Spelling:  
Large, jeans, jelly, center, circle, page, jam, juggle, pencil, cents, orange, jet, sometimes, silly, circus 
 
Vocabulary:  
Alert – watchful  
Breaks – comes apart 
Melt – turn from a solid into a liquid by heating 
Ocean – a great body of salt water that covers almost three-fourths of Earth’s surface 
Thousands – ten hundreds 
Glacier – a large mass of ice formed from snow on high ground 
Iceberg – a large mass if ice floating in the sea  
Ice pack – a large area of ice floating in the sea 
Lifeboats – strong, open boats with oars, specially built for saving lives at sea 
Titanic – a large ship thought to be unsinkable that sank on its maiden voyage when it struck an iceberg 
 
Language Arts: 
The students will be completing the first Informational Writing essay.  
 
Math:  
Unit 2 Multiplication and Division of Whole Numbers – The students will be learning several ways to multiply and divide whole numbers. 
 
Science 
Students will investigate the physical attributes of rocks and soil.  
 
Block  
P.E.  

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Reading  
Tornado Alert  
The students will use context clues to support word identification and to infer the meaning of new and unfamiliar words. 
 
Spelling:  
Through, threw, hour, our, tail, tale, hole, whole, there, their, they’re, weak, week, knows, nose 
 
Vocabulary:  
Destroy – to spoil; ruin; do away with 
Noise – a sound that is not pleasant or musical 
Powerful – having great power or force; mighty; strong 
Storms – strong winds, usually with heavy rain, snow, or hail and sometimes with thunder and lightning 
Warnings – notices given in advance 
Wrecked – destroyed; ruined  
 
Language Arts: 
The students will be introduced to the components of Informational Writing. We are learning to write an introductory paragraph.  
 
Math:  
Unit 1 Subtract and Addition - The students will be working on the culminating task. 
 
Science 
Students will investigate the physical attributes of rocks and soil.  
 
Block  
P.E.  
 
Thank you for the donation of prizes for Bingo! 
We really appreciate everything! 

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Reading  
Fly Traps! Plants that Bite Back  
The students will read and organize information from graphic sources, including maps, charts, graphs, and diagrams.  
 
Spelling:  
himself, barefoot, outside, grandmother, backyard, grandfather, afternoon, bedroom, everyone, everything, butterfly, popcorn, homework, anyone, everybody 
 
Vocabulary:  
Collect – gather information 
Hinge – a joint on which a cover or lid mover back and forth 
Insects – small animals with bodies divided into three parts and no backbones 
Pitcher – a container for holding liquids 
Plants – living things that can make their own food 
Trap – a thing or means for catching animals 
 
Language Arts: 
The students will be introduced to the components of Informational Writing.  
 
Math:  
Unit 1 Subtract and Addition - The students will further develop their skills of addition and subtraction and apply them in problem solving and writing them in story problems.  
 
Social Studies 
Students will recognize the rights, duties and responsibilities of a U.S. citizen.  
 
Block  
Art  

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Reading  
Tops and Bottoms 
The students will understand that a summary is a short statement that tells the main ideas of a story or an article. 
 
Spelling:  
Pair, hair, fair, stairs, very, stereo, America, rear, near, year, fear, clear, cheer, deer, steer 
 
Vocabulary:  
Business – work done to earn a living 
Cheated – did business or played in a way that was not honest 
Clever – bright; intelligent; having a quick mind 
Harvesting – reaping and gathering food crops 
Lazy – not willing to work or be active 
Partners – members of a company or firm who share the risks and profits of the business 
Wealth – a large quantity; riches 
 
Language Arts: 
The students will be introduced to the components of Informational Writing.  
 
Math:  
Unit 1 Subtract and Addition - The students will further develop their skills of addition and subtraction and apply them in problem solving using decimals and money. 
 
Social Studies 
Students will recognize the rights, duties and responsibilities of a U.S. citizen.  
 
Block  
Computer  

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Reading  
What Do Authors Do? 
The students will recognize that a process involves the ordered steps in doing or making something such as illustrating or writing text. 
 
Spelling:  
Knife, knight, write, wrestle, whistle, know, knock, wrote, listen, crumb, knee, wrong, wrap, castle, thumb  
 
Vocabulary:  
Authors – people who write books, poems, stories, or articles 
Difficult – hard to do or understand 
Information – knowledge given or received of some fact or event 
Libraries – collections of books, magazines, films, or recordings 
Museums – buildings or rooms in which collections of objects are kept and displayed 
Suggestions – ideas brought to mind 
 
Language Arts: 
The students will be writing a Narrative story this week. I will be taking up the story and using a rubric to assess the writing in four areas: Ideas, Organization, Style, and Conventions. 
 
Math:  
Unit 1 Subtract and Addition - The students will further develop their skills of addition and subtraction and apply them in problem solving using Associative and Commutative property of addition.  
 
Science 
Students will investigate magnets and how they affect other magnets and common objects. 
 
Block  
PE  

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Reading  
Guys from Space  
The students will identify and define the distinguishing features of realistic fiction – a story that tells about events that could happen in real life. The students will also identify and define the distinguishing features of a fantasy – a story that includes real-life events as well as things that could not happen  
 
Spelling:  
good, took, cookie, shook, foot, put, pull, study, summer, such, truck, uncle, Sunday, cousin, touch 
 
Vocabulary:  
Breathe – to draw air into the lungs and force it out 
Dream – something like a dream; daydream; wish 
Planet – one of the heavenly bodies that moves around the sun 
Scary – causing fright or alarm 
Space – unlimited room or area extending in all directions 
Spaceship – a vehicle used for flight in outer space 
 
Language Arts: 
The students will recognize simple and complete subjects in sentences and recognize that a noun names a person, place or thing. Students will also be indenting paragraphs correctly.  
 
Math:  
Unit 1 Subtract and Addition - The students will further develop their skills of addition and subtraction and apply them in problem solving using Associative and Commutative property of addition.  
 
Block  
PE 
 
Please send in the $3.00 donation for the 
Discovery Museum by Thursday, September 20, 2007.  

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