Lewis’ Lines
Haircut
Prepared
AC Williams
Popcorn
Charlie was not, Alex was
September 24, 2012
Railroad
Respectful
Our story this week is
Purdy’s Problem. It is a
fantasy story which includes
make believe events and
how she solved it. We will
look for situations that could
and could not happen.
Through this story we will
look at compound words.
We will play games with
compound words, hunt for
them and play “Help Me
Rhonda” to see how well we
can brainstorm them within
small groups and within
boundaries. We will also
work on drawing
conclusions; write a
persuasive advertisement,
vocabulary, irregular plural
nouns, read a magazine
article about collecting and
pull questions and answers
from it, working on
summarization. Spelling
words are compound words
this week. There will be
fifteen; students may choose
5, 10 or 15 to study and test
on.
Snowstorm
Charlie was not, Alex was
Earring
Involved
Scarecrow
Charlie was not, Alex was
Blueberry
Determined
Butterflies
Both boys were determined
Lawnmower
Encouraging
Campground
We felt Charlie grew,
realizing his lack of serving
Isabel Jane, as her older
brother, and Alex, while a bit
of an exaggerator, was
strong in encouraging.
Spelling Words
Sunglasses
Football
Homework
Sandbox
Toothbrush
Math
This is a great week to kick
off problem solving in math.
We will work on various
problems all week, as a
whole group, small group we
will work thru problems that
require decision making,
such as; important numbers,
operations choice, setting up
the equation and a
conclusion. We will also
continue with place value in
working with addition.
We will use much of this
week to tie up some loose
ends. We have looked at
character analyzes by
comparing Alex and Charlie’s
choices using our PRIDE AC
Williams expectations.
We will add Suruni (Rows
and Piles of Coins) and Purdy
to our character study by
looking at their choices and
comparing them to our
PRIDE expectations.
We will work on timelines in
social studies and finish
matter and magnets in
science. We will take several
cscope tests this week;
Language Arts and Social
Studies.
Box Tops
Our school saves box tops
for money. If you would
help our class with this
project, it would not only
benefit the school but three
classes as well. The top
three classes, with the
highest numbers, win a pizza
party at the end of the year.
Personal Timelines
There will be another home
project assigned this week.
Each child is asked to create
a personal timeline of their
life. I will send specific
expectations home in
orange communication
folder on Tuesday. We do
not do a great deal of paper
pencil activities at this point,
however, you should expect
your child’s spelling test to
come home with
communication folder.