2ND QUARTER
January 2, 2012 (Monday)
NO SCHOOL - Happy New Year!
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January 3, 2012 (Tuesday)
NO SCHOOL for students - School Improvement Day
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January 4, 2012 (Wednesday)
Journal: Sentence Correction and CC Ex 1
Sentence Patterns: Noun/Verb Activity
Activity: Library to check out independent reads
Homework: Read book and complete summary
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January 5, 2012 (Thursday)
Journal: Paragraph about Dot and CC Ex 2
Word Sort: Sort 1 (un-, in-, dis-, mis-)
Activity: Movie over Brain Games - Pay Attention
Homework: Read book and complete summary
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January 6, 2012 (Friday)
Journal: Write a letter to someone who has shown kindness to you
Word Sort: Lesson on basewords, prefix, and suffix
Activity: Finish movie
Homework: Read book and complete summary ______________________________________________________________________________
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January 9, 2012 (Monday)
IRT: 15 minute reading time plus summary
Journal: Sentence Corrections Dodo Bird
Hi-Low: One Fine Cowhand
Vocabulary: rare, rival, gingerly, briskly, incredulous, principle, biting, vague, rumble, madras
Homework: Vocabulary Match-Up; Write Social Class Paragraph
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January 10, 2012 (Tuesday)
IRT: 15 minute reading time plus summary
Journal: CC Ex 3
Sentence Patterns: #2 (Article-Adjective-Noun-Verb)
Vocabulary: Fill-in-the-Blank (rare, rival, gingerly, briskly, incredulous, principle, biting, vague, rumble, madras)
Outsiders: Introduction to S.E. Hinton; Read pgs 1-5
Homework: Write 10 sentences using sentence pattern #2
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January 11, 2012 (Wednesday)
IRT: 15 minutes reading time plus summary
Journal: Write a paragraph about a cat attacking something without using the words scratched, meowed, or hissed.
Vocabulary: Speed Match
Outsiders: Finish reading Ch. 1
Homework: None
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January 12, 2012 (Thursday)
IRT: 15 minutes reading time plus summary
Journal: CC Ex 4
Hi-Low: Americans Discover TV
Sentence Patterns: Talk about Adverbs; Sentence Pattern #3, Article-Adjective-Noun-Verb-Adverb
Outsiders: Ch 2
Homework: Write 10 sentences using Sentence Pattern 3 ______________________________________________________________________________
January 13, 2012 (Friday)
IRT: 15 minutes reading time plus summary
Journal: Replace the word in the blank with the appropriate homophone
Vocabulary: Test
Activity: Introduce the preposition song
Outsiders: Finish Ch. 2
Homework: None ______________________________________________________________________________
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