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October, 2002 |
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Greg's Birthday!
- Return and go over spelling tests from yesterday
- Hand out spelling list for chapter 5
- Pronouns (p. 373-379)
- Homework: Study for spelling test on Friday if necessary; Exercises 5, 6, 7 on pages 375-76. Follow instructions
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- Check homework and go over together
- Finish pronouns - possessive, demonstrative, and indefinite pronouns (p. 376-377)
- Homework: Study for spelling test on Friday if necessary; Complete exercise 8 and Review B on page 378 - follow directions
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- Weekly reports
- Go over last night's homework
- Adjectives (p. 381-385)
- Homework: Study for spelling test tomorrow if necessary; complete Exercises 9 and 10, p. 381-82 and Exercise 12, p. 383
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Sam's Birthday!
- Spelling test over chapter 5
- Go over last night's homework
- Review nouns, pronouns, and adjectives
- Homework: Read an AR book this weekend
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- Return and discuss Connections projects
- Making Sense of Mrs. H-B's Chicken Scratch
- Share exemplary autobiographies
- Homework: Have parent sign your Connections grade sheet at the top and return both the paper and the grade sheet by Thursday
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Heather's Birthday!
- Return remaining Connections projects to students who went on field trip yesterday
- Finish listening to exemplary autobiographies (Sam, Emily, Lauren - 1st; Connelly, Alice, Tyler - 2nd)
- Retake last week's spelling test (2nd period only)
- Open book quiz - nouns, pronouns, adjectives (Reviews D & E, pages 386-388)
- Homework: Finish quiz, have parent sign your Connections grade sheet at the top and return both the paper and the grade sheet by Thursday
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- Collect Nouns, Pronouns, and Adjectives homework
- Comparing and contrasting (pages 42, 73 - 74)
- Venn diagrams
- Practice
- Homework: Create Venn diagrams for the following sets: the United States and Canada, fractions and decimals, atoms and molecules, and fantasy and science fiction. The best diagrams will be put up as examples on the web site! Signed Connections grade sheet and autobiography due tomorrow; remind parents to bring food for Family Banquet on Friday
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- Collect signed grade sheets and Connections projects
- Collect Venn diagrams
- Discuss strategies for writing in 3rd person
- Brainstorm possible topics for compare and contrast essay
- Homework: Remind parents about family banquet tomorrow; bring a family/traditional food to share
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Incentive Day and Family Banquet 5th and 6th Periods!
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Stephanie's Birthday!
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Teacher Planning Day - no school
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- Practice comparing and contrasting
- Rules for capitalization (p. 564 - 570)
- Complete Exercises 1, 2, 3, and 4 on pages 564 - 570
- Homework: Finish capitalization exercises
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- Collect homework
- Spelling pre-test over chapter 7
- More capitalization - read pages 572 - 583
- Complete Exercise 5, p. 573-74; Review A, p. 574-75; Exercise 6, p. 577-78; Review B, p. 578; Exercise 7, p. 581; Exercise 8, p. 581; Review C, p. 581-82; Review Posttest p. 583
- Homework: Finish capitalization exercises
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- Collect homework
- Return spelling pre-tests
- Copy spelling list for chapter 7
- Complete p. 49, Independent Practice 1-20; p. 50, Expanding Vocabulary 1-5; p. 51, Review 1-25
- Go over answers together
- Homework: Study for spelling test over chapter 7 on Wednesday, October 23
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- Go over capitalization: Exercise 5, p. 573-74; Review A, p. 574-75; Exercise 6, p. 577-78; Review B, p. 578; Exercise 7, p. 581; Exercise 8, p. 581; Review C, p. 581-82; Review Posttest p. 583
- Homework: Study for spelling test over chapter 7 on Wednesday
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- Guidelines for submitting revised autobiography
- Introduction to HTML
- Practice with HTML
- Homework: Study for spelling test over chapter 7 tomorrow; make changes to your autobiography and email to Mrs. H-B no later than Sunday night
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- Spelling test over chapter 7
- Verbs, action verbs, linking verbs, p. 391-92; 394-397
- Homework: Study for spelling test over chapter 7 tomorrow; make changes to your autobiography and email to Mrs. H-B no later than Sunday night
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- Weekly reports
- Spelling pre-test, chapter 8
- Learning more about HTML
- Homework: Make changes to your autobiography and email to Mrs. H-B no later than Sunday night
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- Hand back spelling chapter 8 pre-tests and discuss
- Look up words whose definitions you are unfamiliar with
- Practice activities in spelling book: p. 55 - 57
- Go over spelling practice
- Homework: Make changes to your autobiography and email to Mrs. H-B no later than Sunday night
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Daylight Savings Time ends - set your clock back an hour!
Stuart's Birthday!
Autobiography changes due tonight!
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Halloween
- Weekly reports
- Spelling test - ch. 8
- Halloween Fun writing activity
- Peer sharing and editing
- Homework: Make revisions to your Halloween icon description for tomorrow
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