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Archive for March, 2009


Monday, March 30

1.  Daily Comp

2. TCAP  Review  – writing style and organization

3.  HW- TEST tomorrow on “Song of the Trees” p. 509  .  Review vocab.

Friday, March 27

1-. Collected GUM sentence corrections for daily grade

2.  Wrote story map on “Song of the Trees”

3.  Identified misplaced modifiers on p 526 in reader.

4.  Did Practice on p. 526 1-10

Thursday, March 26

1. GUM- punctuation

2. Finished reading “Song of the Trees”

3. Completed English WB pages 175-176

4. HW- Read your AR book

Tuesday, March 24

1.  GUM – using appositives to combine sentences

. 2.  Checked ENG HW  in workbook p 74.

3.  Worked on participles – p. 75

4l Read to p. 215 in ‘Singing of the Trees;

5.  HW- LIBRARY TOMORROW!

Monday, March 23

1.  GUM sentence corrections

2.  Paragraph writing- rough copy and proofread by a peer.

3.  Story vocab  p. 509 introduced/

4.  Read “Story of the Trees”  p. 509

5. HW-English workbook, p. 74, Exercise 1

Friday, March 13

1. Daily comp-Context clues; critical reading

2.  English book-cumulative review-pp. 420-421 ex. 51, 53, 54, 55, 59.  Checked and collected.

3.  Read our Library books

HW-HAVE A SAFE, BEAUTIFUL SPRING BREAK!

Wed., March 11

1. Daily Comp-Main idea

2.  English WB  pp62-66

3.  Read “Amigo Brothers” p 485 in book

4. Completed Reading Check on p.494

Tuesday, March 10

1.  Daily comprehension

2.  checked Eng and reading questions.

3. Lesson on subject complements-Eng book pp. 416, ex 40

4.  NO HOMEWORK!!  READ LIBRARY BOOKS!

Monday, March 9

1. Daily comprehension

2.  Indirect objects lesson p 414

3. Read “Last Dinosaur” p 429 in reading book

4.  did questions 1-5 on p 437

HW- Eng p 415   Exer. 38

Thursday, March 5

1.  GUM sentence corrections

2.  Mobile Laptop lab-composed ;letters from conflicting characters’ points of view

3.  Took AR TESTS

4.  HW-Eng workbook pp 57-58

NOTE:  CONFERENCE NIGHT NEXT THURSDAY  4-7