LESSON PLANS FOR NOVEMBER 2009

Lessons for Week of November 2nd! 

Reading:  Chinatown by William Low

Genre:  Realistic Fiction

Comprehension:  Making Judgements

Phonics:  Consonant Digraphs, Base-Words and Endings  -er   and  -est

Vocabulary:  Key Vocabulary, High Frequency Words, and Decodable Text  

Grammar:  Naming Words (Common Nouns)

Spelling test will be Friday, Nov. 6th

Spelling Tests: PRE-TESTS EVERY MONDAY AND FINAL POST-TESTS EVERY FRIDAY!!!

Spelling Words:  catch, dish, wash, sheep, both, then, when, chase, teach, teeth, than, which

Challenge Words:  whistle       lunch    

MATH: Please carefully read through the family letter sent home on Wednesday, October 28th.

UNIT 4: ADDITION AND SUBTRACTION 

Unit 4 from our Everyday Math curriculum details change to more number stories, parts and total number stories, explorations of temperature/money/shapes, temperature changes, estimations of cost, shopping activities, explorations of length/area/attributes, paper and pencil addition strategies, and partial sums algorithms.

Health:  Our Drug Safety test will be Wednesday, Nov. 4th.  Please study the study guide that went home last week.  A big thank you to Pharmacist Bob for speaking to the second grade classes about poison prevention and drug safety!  What a fun way to learn valuable information!  We will still be covering drug safety and awareness throughout Red Ribbon Week this week.