Mrs. Taylor 3/4 Grades
Reading Week of 4-15-13
Essential Learning: Students will use text clues and prior knowledge to make inferences about what they read.
Word Work
MONDAY
Intro. Vocab:
TUESDAY
Sub Plans
WEDNESDAY
Analogies - 213G (3)
lab pg. 110
THURSDAY
What looks right?
ue, ew, oo
On the Back Vocab.
Activity
Homophones Review
581G lab pg 132
FRIDAY
Spelling, vocab., affixes
assessments
Review WWW
Spelling Pretests
Reading Minilesson
Independent
Reading/Work
Time
Prefixes/Suffixes -able,
bi-, triIntroduce/Review
Character Traits.
Explain what character
traits are. Show power
point
presentation/discuss.
Chart different traits
and discuss difference
between traits and
emotions.
Students will go around
and complete character
trait task cards
stds. record any traits
they discover during
rdg.
independent reading
routines, sm. groups
Affix lists/charts
Sub Plans
Review chart of traits.
Discuss how traits can
be positive, negative,
neutral.
Sorting activity in small
groups. Discuss
Sub Plans
student's will read and
identify traits and
determine if they are
pos. or neg.
Connect character traits
to inferring. Explain that
the author doesn't tell
us directly instead they
show us by what the
character does, thinks,
feels, says. Read aloud
and model (use G.O.)
determining trait and
supporting with text
details
Students will use G.O.
to determine character
traits for character in
story "The Outburst"
Review our learning about
Character traits. Discuss
how characters can
show/have multiple traits.
Model with Bad Case of
Stripes
Students select book and
identify traits and complete
G.O.
Making Judgments TST
Independent Reading
and readers notebooks,
sm. groups
Independent Reading,
small groups
Independent Reading,
small groups
Wrap-Up
Share out answers to
task cards.
Chart pos./neg. traits.
review the importance
of finding supporting
details
share out choice board
activities.
3rd Grade Math Week of 4-15-13
Essential Learning: Students will explore, find and create the perimeter of shapes.
MONDAY
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
Basic Facts
Top It!
Fact Family Dice
BINGO
Division
War/Leftovers
Math Lesson
16-4
Students will try,
check, and revise to
solve problems
16-6
Students will find
the areas of
irregular figures
*colored chalk
16-5
Students use
concrete models of
square units to find
the area of
rectangles
Guided: 1, 2
Ind: 4-11
area, square units
*ILRS25
Guided: 1-4
Ind: 5-13
Guided: 1, 2, 4
Ind: even #'s
16-7
Students will find the
volume of figures by
making models
using unit cubes
*ILRS 26
*unit cubes, box
volume, cubic unit
FRIDAY
Facts Website
16-8
Students will
learn that some
difficult problems
can be solved by
solving simpler
problems
*TT13
Guided: 1-4, 6
Ind: odd #'s
Guided: 1, 2
Ind: 4-9
4th Grade Math Week of 4-15-13
Essential Learning: Students will estimate and measure units of length, capacity, and weight
Basic Facts
Math Lesson
MONDAY
Top It!
TUESDAY
Fact Family Dice
WEDNESDAY
BINGO
THURSDAY
Division
War/Leftovers
FRIDAY
Facts Website
16-4
Students will practice
changing from one
unit to another
16-5
Students will use
rods and cubes to
understand metric
units of length
16-6
Students will
measure metric
units of capacity
16-7
Students will
measure metric
units of mass
16-8
Students will
practice changing
between different
metric units
milliliter, liter
mass, gram,
kilogram
Guided: even
Ind: odd #'s
millimeter,
centimeter,
decimeter, meter,
kilometer
*place value blocks
Guided: 1-4, 6
Independent: 7-16
Guided: 1-7
Ind: even #'s
Guided: 1, 2, 4
Ind: 5-12 and 3 PS
Guided: even
Ind: odd #'s