13May27

=May 27-31 =

Reading:
Begin Chinatown Focus Skill: I can recognize and restate important details in a story. Target Strategy: I can create mental images to understand text. *Vocabulary *building background- review neighborhoods/web Chinatown 250T (show photographs/illustrations of objects related to Chinese culture.) *Prereading Strategies- Preview/predict/discuss genre/set purpose 250U *Sharing Literature-Lion Dancer 250H/271E, I Was Born Here in This City 250P/275D *Compare and contrast Lion Dancer to Chinatown. Partners could draw pictures of the characters from each story and discuss 277F *Retelling-Complete a detail web 271A *Think and Respond questions/Extended response prompt *Grammar:I can use have, has, had correctly.  *Word Work: I can prefixes and suffixes. *Scavenger hunt *leveled readers

Math:
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Review and reteach as necessary

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Writing:
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Cursive <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Expository Paragraphs <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Continue Writer's Workshop

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Social Studies:
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Begin Geography Unit/Beginner's World Atlas Day 1:“What Do I Know About A Map” web whole class <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Day 2:Read Aloud “Home, Sweet Home” (page 36A TE) <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Day 3: Students find their own home on Google Earth maps <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Day 4:“Our Country is Part of our World” page 36-39 TE <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Day 5:Listen to Harcourt CD page 320-325 <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;"> Begin Landform project Day 6: <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">TO Do:
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Introduction: Sing “Place Where We Live” Unit 1, Page 2 (TE & SE)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Intro Vocab words: symbols, key, directions, features, distance, compass through Read a City Map (pages 20-21)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Color Compass Rose
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Where Do I Live? photos on pages 36-37.
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Read Harcourt pages 308-313 using guided questions
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Students make a “Where Do I Live” flowchart with map key – kids make the key page 36
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Play “Treasure Map” using cardinal directions and street names labeled in the classroom – hide something in the room
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Work in small groups to complete “Welcome to the Neighborhood” worksheet – Dan
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Discuss the seven continents and five oceans – Erin and Dan
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Play the “Round the World” game in Pearson Book page 41a TE
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Smartboard matching activity with landforms to map symbols – page ___; Kristen
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Discuss North American Physical map Harcourt page 325
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Listen to Harcourt page 328: North American people, countries, cities, languages and products
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Landform riddles (page 61A TE)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Assessment for Unit: Skills review Pearson page 93; What did you learn? Page 95

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">SEL Targets:
<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">•I can listen to other people’s ideas •I can make positive choices when working with others. •I can identify ways to work and play well with others. •I can use my self control.

<span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Notes:

 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">Writing assessment given 5/13-5/17 (entered by 5/24)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">5/17 PBIS Popsicle cart at recess
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">5/24 Last day guided reading & Intervention
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">5/28 Reading Video Taping
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">2W to Fullersburg on 5/22 (2G/2R will go on 5/29)
 * <span style="font-family: Tahoma,Geneva,sans-serif; font-size: 120%;">5/31 Field Day & PBIS Prize cart