Week of 10/27/2008
Posted in Uncategorized on October 26, 2008 by nchurvisSchilling Farms is going to be a very busy place this week. There are two basketball home games being played, as well as Red Ribbon Week activities, a Pep Rally, mock elections, and Donuts With Dad. The children should have an educational and fun experience taking part in all of these events. Please refer to the notes sent home last week explaining the dress code for this week.
Social Studies
- Students will finish presenting their state projects to the class. They have all done such a great job! They should all be proud.
- Review Ch. 6-group work creating tourist pamphlets for Canada.
- Ch. 6 test ( sorry we did not have it last week, our state projects took up more time than expected)
- Begin Ch. 7 Mexico
- Physical geography of Mexico-map making
Standard Language Arts
- Wordly Wise Lesson 4
- Grammar-Adjectives and Adverbs
- Journal writing
- Continue on autobiographical essays
- Definition and spelling test Friday
- Current events-writing for the newspaper
APEX Language Arts
- Wordly Wise Lesson 4
- Analogies
- Vocabulary
- Grammar-Adjectives and Adverb
- Continue with autobiographical essays
- Begin scary story for Halloween!!!
- Considering audience- creating tension/conflict
- Test on adjectives and adverbs
- Word choice-working with a thesaurus
- Group editing/proofing
- Def. and spell. test Friday
- Reflect on writing
- Currents events
- As you probably can see, we are going to be focusing on our writing skills for a while. We are not going to start our next novel, A Christmas Carol, until Thanksgiving. So we are going to really target writing. The children have been working very hard on creating a topic bank, to build their stories from. They will keep these banks in their binders and refer to them when writers block looms. We are also going to be adding more vocabulary words to our weekly list. These also, will be added and kept in the binders. The students will still be reading though, and will have a book report due the first Friday of November. Remember, two AR books are required for this nine weeks. Most students already have that and more, but there are some that still need to reminded (they know who they are). I again want to thank all the parents for their support so far this year. It has been great. You have been especially patient with all the hiccups in Power School and the AR program. Thank you! Remember, you can contact me by email at anytime.
