Vocabulary: frigate, necessity, patience, dilemma, obliged, exasperated, amble(d), lunatic, jostling, hospitality, undertaker, imposter, courteous, awesome, extractor, elated, petrified, peer(ing), elegant, exaggerated(d), emerge(d), notoriety, idly, bedrock, fisticuff
Words that sound alike/Homophones
Prefixes and suffixes
Read-a-loud: Finish ‘Turn Homeward, Hannalee’
Reading Comprehension: Main idea, recognizing details
Writing: The Hook, organizing a new article, write a news article, art for news article. Topic sentences and supporting detail. In-depth review of business letter.
Grammar: Similes, synonyms and antonyms, palindromes
Reading and Social Studies: Continue reading ‘All Sail Set’, ‘Helen Keller’, start a new book.
History, Art, Science: Continue work on Landscape with focus on Native Americans of LowCountry, dwellings, food, clothing. Mammals of LowCountry. Fish, birds, trees of LowCounty
Create a diorama from Stuart Little unit
Math: Place value to millions, rounding, review multiplication using ‘fact factory’, multiplication tens, hundreds, thousands. Greater than, less than, equal to. Introduction to carrying and borrowing in division. Numeration through 1,000,000. Adding and subtracting 3 through 5 digits.
Copywork: 5 days this week.
Science: Use of flags to communicate from Stuart Little unit. Parts of sailboats. Use of natural power.
Social Science: Making choices from Stuart Little unit
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