Why are sports important in our
country?
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Big Question:
Why are sports important in our country?
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Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
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Monday
Morning Warm-Up
This week we will read about a girl
who played baseball long ago. She
liked running toward first base. She
enjoyed playing baseball. Why are
sports important in our country?
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Monday
Morning Warm-Up
This week we will read about a girl
who played baseball long ago. She
liked running toward first base. She
enjoyed playing baseball. Why are
sports important in our country?
Just Like Josh Gibson
Monday
Morning Warm-Up
This week we will read about a girl
who played baseball long ago. She
liked running toward first base. She
enjoyed playing baseball. Why are
sports important in our country?
Today we will learn about:
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Amazing Words
Contractions
Compare & Contrast
Visualize
Using Capital Letters
Amazing
Words
athlete
ath - lete
 An athlete is somebody who uses
skills and abilities to compete in
sports.
 The basketball players were skilled
athletes.
 The fastest athletes competed in
the race.
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challenge
chal - lenge
 A challenge is a test of someone’s
abilities. You can also challenge
someone by daring him or her to
do something.
 Pitching a perfect game was her
biggest challenge.
 The other team will challenge us
to a rematch if we win.
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effort
ef - fort
 Effort is the physical and mental
energy you use to do something or
to achieve a goal.
 The men used a lot of effort to
move the refrigerator onto the
truck.
 She put forth her best effort.
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Listen to a
song about
being an
athlete.
Contractions
didn’t
 What do you know about reading this
word?
 Didn’t is a contraction of the words did and
not.
 An apostrophe takes the place of the letter
o in not.
 Today we’ll learn about contractions made
from other words.
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Contractions
we’re
 This word is a contraction, a short way of
saying and writing two words.
 An apostrophe takes the place of letters
that are left out.
 You can read this word because you know
the two words that make this contraction.
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Contractions
we’re – we are
 The apostrophe in we’re takes the place of
the letter a in are.
 To read contractions, first read the word
before the apostrophe and then blend it
with what comes after the apostrophe.
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Contractions
I’ve
 don’t
 can’t
 he’d ( ’d can mean had or
would)
 you’re
 she’d ( ’d can mean had or
would)
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won’t
they’re
I’d
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we’ve
could’ve
Contractions
you are
Contractions
you are
you’re
Contractions
you are
I have
you’re
Contractions
you are
I have
you’re
I’ve
Contractions
you are
I have
she had
you’re
I’ve
Contractions
you are
I have
she had
you’re
I’ve
she’d
Contractions
you are
I have
she had
you had
you’re
I’ve
she’d
Contractions
you are
I have
she had
you had
you’re
I’ve
she’d
you’d
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you are
I have
she had
you had
we are
you’re
I’ve
she’d
you’d
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you are
I have
she had
you had
we are
you’re
I’ve
she’d
you’d
we’re
Contractions
you are
I have
she had
you had
we are
will not
you’re
I’ve
she’d
you’d
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you are
I have
she had
you had
we are
will not
you’re
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Compare and Contrast
Visualize
Recall Horace and Morris but mostly Dolores.
 Let’s compare the boys’ club and the girls’
club.
 How would the story have been different if
the boys had not decided to make their own
club?
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Compare and Contrast
Visualize
Good readers compare and contrast what they
read with what they already know.
 Sometimes there are helpful clue words that
help us compare and contrast, such as like,
however, and but. Sometimes there aren’t any
clue words.
 Good readers picture, or visualize, what is
happening in a story in their minds. Then we
compare what we are reading with what we
already know.
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i want to be an atlete
I want to be an athlete.
they’re watching ken play
They’re watching Ken play.
Using Capital Letters
Sentences should always begin with a
capital letter.
 Days of the week, months of the year,
and holidays begin with capital letters.
 The first day of January is New Year’s Day.
 Titles for people begin with capital letters.
 Every year Mr. Lewis has a big party.
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Using Capital Letters
The last monday in may is memorial day.
 The last Monday in May is Memorial Day.
 Every year coach Scalia and mrs. Kurtz
march in the parade.
 Every year Coach Scalia and Mrs. Kurtz
march in the parade.
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Using Capital Letters
This year the fourth of july is on a friday.
 This year the Fourth of July is on a Friday.
 We always go to the barbecue at mr.
Garcia’s house.
 We always go to the barbecue at Mr.
Garcia’s house.
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Using Capital Letters
What holiday is on the fourth thursday in
november?
 What holiday is on the fourth Thursday in
November?
 I saw dr. Martin and ms. Chang at the
thanksgiving party.
 I saw Dr. Martin and Ms. Chang at the
Thanksgiving party.
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Contractions ’re, ’ve, ’d, don’t and won’t.
Compare and Contrast
Let’s Talk About It
Tomorrow we will read about a girl that liked to
play baseball.
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Monday
Journal Topic
Write a paragraph about a
time you played or watched
baseball.
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Tuesday
Morning Warm-Up
Today we will read about a girl who liked
to play baseball. She wanted to compete
with the boys. She played baseball for
recreation. Do you know any girls who
are good baseball players?
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Tuesday
Morning Warm-Up
Today we will read about a girl who liked
to play baseball. She wanted to compete
with the boys. She played baseball for
recreation. Do you know any girls who
are good baseball players?
Today we will learn about:
Contractions ’re, ’ve, ’d
 Amazing Words
 Vocabulary Words
 Multiple-Meaning Words
 Context Clues
 Use Capital Letters
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Amazing
Words
dainty
dain - ty
 Dainty means delicate and pretty.
 The dress had a dainty lace collar.
 You could eat the dainty cookies
in one bite.
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disguise
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dis – guise
A disguise can be clothes or make-up
someone wears to change the way he or she
looks so he or she won’t be recognized.
When you change your appearance so you
won’t be recognized, you disguise yourself.
The spy wore a disguise so she wouldn’t be
recognized.
He wore a wig and a beard to disguise
himself.
champion
cham – pi- on
 A champion is the winner of a
game or competition.
 The champions had ten wins and
no losses.
 Our team practiced hard because
we wanted to beat last year’s
champions.
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The Princesses
Have a Ball
Contractions
I’ve
 You can read this word because you know
how to read contractions.
 What two words form I’ve?
 When you come to a contraction, read the
word before the apostrophe and then blend
it with what follows the apostrophe.
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she’s
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they’d
won’t
don’t
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they’re
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 she’ll
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contractions.
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he’d
we’ve
we’re
don’t
won’t
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we have
Contractions
we have
we’ve
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we have
he had
we’ve
Contractions
we have
he had
we’ve
he’d
Contractions
we have
he had
I have
we’ve
he’d
Contractions
we have
he had
I have
we’ve
he’d
I’ve
Contractions
we have
he had
I have
we are
we’ve
he’d
I’ve
Contractions
we have
he had
I have
we are
we’ve
he’d
I’ve
we’re
Contractions
we have
he had
I have
we are
do not
we’ve
he’d
I’ve
we’re
Contractions
we have
he had
I have
we are
do not
we’ve
he’d
I’ve
we’re
don’t
Contractions
we have
he had
I have
we are
do not
will not
we’ve
he’d
I’ve
we’re
don’t
Contractions
we have
he had
I have
we are
do not
will not
we’ve
he’d
I’ve
we’re
don’t
won’t
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she’d
we’ve
could’ve
would’ve
should’ve
Contractions
I’d ask him to come, but I don’t think he will.
 You’re a good friend, and I’ve always said
so!
 We’ve seen that show before!
 Won’t you walk home with me today?
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Vocabulary
field – a piece of land used for some
special purpose
 cheers – calls out or yells loudly to show
that you like something
 threw – sent something through the air by
force of your arm
 sailed – moved smoothly like a ship with
sails
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field
plate
bases
Second Base
Third Base
First Base
Home Plate
forties
Louisville slugger
Vocabulary
plate – a hard rubber slab that a baseball
player stands beside to bat
 bases – places that are stations or goals in
certain games, such as baseball
 soar – to fly upward
 forties – the years between 1940 and
1949
 Louisville slugger – a popular kind of
baseball bat
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field
you’re
cheers
gone
threw
watch
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guess
plate
early
bases
once
Context Clues
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Sometimes we can get the meaning from word parts.
We may understand the base word and suffix
(beautiful, full of beauty) or the two shorter words in
a compound word (wildcat, a cat that’s wild).
We can look in a dictionary or glossary.
We can look for context clues in the words and
sentences around the unknown word.
Today we will learn more about context clues.
Daily Fix-It
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the croud chears for me
The crowd cheers for me.
I raned Around the basis
I ran around the bases.
Capital Letters
Special names for people, places, animals,
and things are called proper nouns.
 Names of countries are proper nouns.
 How do the names of countries begin?
 Mexico
 Italy
 United States
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Lesson Vocabulary
 Visualize
 Let’s Talk About It
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Tomorrow they will hear about some
princesses and their secret pastime.
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Tuesday
Journal Topic
Write about a time you got a
chance to play something
you'd always wanted to play.
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Wednesday
Morning Warm-Up
Once upon a time, there were twelve
princesses. These girls liked to play
basketball every night. They wore
special high-top shoes. Today we will
read about a special ball they had. What
do you think the ball will be like?
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Wednesday
Morning Warm-Up
Once upon a time, there were twelve
princesses. These girls liked to play
basketball every night. They wore
special high-top shoes. Today we will
read about a special ball they had. What
do you think the ball will be like?
Today we will learn about:
Amazing Words
 Vowels aw, au, augh, al
 Contractions
 Homophones
 Sentences
 Capital Letters
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Amazing
Words
professional
pro – fes –sion - al
 Professional describes a type of
job in which people are paid for
their skill and training.
 My uncle is a professional
basketball player.
 I want to be a professional singer
when I grow up.
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shortstop
short - stop
 Shortstop is the infield position on
a baseball team between second
and third base.
 I would prefer playing shortstop
rather than third base.
 Our baseball team has the best
shortstop in the league.
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Vowels aw, au, augh, al
awful
 You can read this word because you know
that aw can stand for the sound /o/.
 auto
 caught
 walk
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Vowels aw, au, augh, al
August, fault, draw, talk, taught, launch, saw,
thaw, chalk, caught, stalk
aw
au
augh
al
Vowels aw, au, augh, al
August, fault, draw, talk, taught, launch, saw,
thaw, chalk, caught, stalk
aw
au
August
augh
al
Vowels aw, au, augh, al
August, fault, draw, talk, taught, launch, saw,
thaw, chalk, caught, stalk
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au
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al
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August, fault, draw, talk, taught, launch, saw,
thaw, chalk, caught, stalk
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draw
au
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fault
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al
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August, fault, draw, talk, taught, launch, saw,
thaw, chalk, caught, stalk
aw
draw
au
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fault
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al
talk
Vowels aw, au, augh, al
August, fault, draw, talk, taught, launch, saw,
thaw, chalk, caught, stalk
aw
draw
au
augh
al
August taught talk
fault
Vowels aw, au, augh, al
August, fault, draw, talk, taught, launch, saw,
thaw, chalk, caught, stalk
aw
draw
au
augh
al
August taught talk
fault
launch
Vowels aw, au, augh, al
August, fault, draw, talk, taught, launch, saw,
thaw, chalk, caught, stalk
aw
draw
saw
au
augh
al
August taught talk
fault
launch
Vowels aw, au, augh, al
August, fault, draw, talk, taught, launch, saw,
thaw, chalk, caught, stalk
aw
draw
saw
thaw
au
augh
al
August taught talk
fault
launch
Vowels aw, au, augh, al
August, fault, draw, talk, taught, launch, saw,
thaw, chalk, caught, stalk
aw
draw
saw
thaw
au
augh
al
August taught talk
fault
launch chalk
Vowels aw, au, augh, al
August, fault, draw, talk, taught, launch, saw,
thaw, chalk, caught, stalk
aw
draw
saw
thaw
au
augh
al
August taught talk
fault
launch chalk
caught
Vowels aw, au, augh, al
August, fault, draw, talk, taught, launch, saw,
thaw, chalk, caught, stalk
aw
draw
saw
thaw
au
augh
al
August taught talk
fault
launch chalk
caught stalk
Vocabulary
bases, cheers, field, plate, sailed, threw
If you ran to home plate and were safe,
how would you feel?
 If a wind blew your papers and they
sailed away, what would you do?
 If you wanted to play baseball, what
could you use to make bases?
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Vocabulary
bases, cheers, field, plate, sailed, threw
If you went to spend the day in a field,
what might you do there?
 If you heard cheers coming from the
park, what might you find when you
went to see what was happening?
 If you threw a ball, what might your
dog do next?
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you’re
won’t
they’re
I’d
they’d
she’d
we’ve
could’ve
would’ve
should’ve
Homophones
Some words sound the same but are spelled
differently and have different meanings.
 threw – tossed
 Nick threw the ball.
 through – in one side and out the other side
of
 Edna ran through the door.
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thruw the ball to left feild
I threw the ball to left field.
the crowd cheerd for him
The crowd cheered for him.
Capital Letters
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Using capital letters helps readers identify proper
nouns.
Writing with capital letters lets readers know days,
months, holidays, and titles.
miss brady visited our school on the first friday in
may.
Miss Brady visited our school on the first Friday in
May.
Wrap Up Your Day!
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Compare and Contrast
Read with Accuracy and Appropriate Pace
Let’s Talk About It
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Tomorrow we will read about how baseball began.
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Wednesday
Journal Topic
Write about a baseball game
you played or attended.
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Thursday
Morning Warm-Up
Today we will read to find out how
baseball began. Baseball gives us an
opportunity to compete and participate in
recreation. What else do team sports
teach us?
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Thursday
Morning Warm-Up
Today we will read to find out how
baseball began. Baseball gives us an
opportunity to compete and participate in
recreation. What else do team sports
teach us?
Today we will learn about:
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Words in Context
Contractions
Capital Letters
Speak to Your Audience
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Amazing Words
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athlete
challenge
effort
dainty
disguise
champion
professional
shortstop
Yankee Doodle Shortshop
Sentence Reading
I guess you saw the pretty whale.
 Did you see them laugh in math and science?
 We watch those dolphins and wish they were
pets.
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Sentence Reading
That photo of a bunch of shrimp won the
contest.
 The garden patch near the village has
enough flowers.
 My shoe is rough, and my foot starts to itch
when I wear it.
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they’d
she’d
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could’ve
would’ve
should’ve
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we shou’ldve wun the game
We should’ve won the game.
we wouldv’e if w’ed scored
We would’ve if we’d scored!
Grammar
How do names of days, months, and holidays
begin?
 How do proper nouns and titles of people
begin?
 Which of these words need a capital?
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Grammar
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mr. glennon
Mr. Glennon
memorial day
Memorial Day
tomorrow
today
april
April
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yesterday
dr. b. rogers
Dr. B. Rogers
italy
Italy
thanksgiving
Thanksgiving
Speaking and Listening
Speakers
Think
about the
audience.
Decide whether to use
formal or informal
language.
Listeners
Sit
quietly.
Face the speaker.
Listen to what the
speaker says.
Watch for nonverbal
cues, such as hand
gestures and head
movements.
Wrap Up Your Day!
Make Connections: Text to World
 Let’s Talk About It
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You have heard about how baseball began
and why sports are important in our country.
Tomorrow we will hear about a baseball
player.
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Thursday
Journal Topic
Write about becoming
a better athlete.
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Friday
Morning Warm-Up
This week we read about sports.
Would you like to be an athlete?
Athletes give an extra effort in every
challenge they face. Why are sports
important in our country?
Just Like Josh Gibson
Friday
Morning Warm-Up
This week we read about sports.
Would you like to be an athlete?
Athletes give an extra effort in every
challenge they face. Why are sports
important in our country?
Today we will learn about:
Contractions
 Vocabulary
 Capital Letters
 People as Resources
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Just Like Josh Gibson
Amazing Words
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athlete
challenge
effort
dainty
disguise
champion
professional
shortstop
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Glue Words
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some
where
do
the
which
Spelling Words
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we’re
I’ve
don’t
he’d
can’t
you’re
won’t
they’re
I’d
they’d
she’d
we’ve
could’ve
would’ve
should’ve
Contractions
Don’t you know if they’re here yet?
 I don’t see it—I should’ve found it by now.
 Don’t ask them if they’d been there.
 I would’ve called you but you’d just left the
house.
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Vocabulary Words
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field
cheers
threw
sailed
plate
bases
soar
forties
Louisvile slugger
Vocabulary
bases, threw, sailed, plate, field, cheers
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I hit the ball and watched as it ___ over the green,
grassy _____.
Vocabulary
bases, threw, sailed, plate, field, cheers
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I hit the ball and watched as it sailed over the
green, grassy field.
Everyone shouted and gave three____!
Vocabulary
bases, threw, sailed, plate, field, cheers
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I hit the ball and watched as it sailed over the
green, grassy field.
Everyone shouted and gave three cheers!
Vocabulary
bases, threw, sailed, plate, field, cheers
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I hit the ball and watched as it sailed over the
green, grassy field.
Everyone shouted and gave three cheers!
I ran the ____ as fast as anyone has seen!
Vocabulary
bases, threw, sailed, plate, field, cheers
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I hit the ball and watched as it sailed over the
green, grassy field.
Everyone shouted and gave three cheers!
I ran the bases as fast as anyone has seen!
Just as the pitcher ____ the ball, I crossed home
_____. “Safe!” was the call.
Vocabulary
bases, threw, sailed, plate, field, cheers
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I hit the ball and watched as it sailed over the
green, grassy field.
Everyone shouted and gave three cheers!
I ran the bases as fast as anyone has seen!
Just as the pitcher threw the ball, I crossed home
plate. “Safe!” was the call.
Daily Fix-It
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we chear as Joe runs the baises
We cheer as Joe runs the bases.
center feald is not home playte
Center field is not home plate.
Research/Study Skills
People as Resources
People are excellent resources when you are
doing research.
 People have knowledge and expertise in
many areas.
 If you want information about something, you
could ask an expert in that area.
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WRAP UP YOUR WEEK!
Let’s Talk About
Traditions
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Friday
Journal Topic
Write about an athlete
who meets a challenge.
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Related Links
All American Girls Professional
Baseball League
Josh Gibson
Josh Gibson Foundation
Contractions Game
Type the Contractions
Contractions
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APTPlus Videos (password required)
Eye Wonder: Baseball Bats, Bar
Codes, and Quarries (24:46)
Baseball Bat Factory (01:00)
We are now ready to
take our story tests.
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Story test
 Classroom
webpage,
 Student page,
 Taking Tests
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AR
 Other
Reading Quizzes
 Quiz # 904628