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Weekly Skills List – 9/17/18 – 9/20/18

All 25 words will be “regular” list for students:

Spelling List: (Spelling Contract HW and test are due 9/20)

Skill: short /e/ and long /e/

1. west
2. steep
3. member
4. gleam
5. fresh
6. freedom
7. speed
8. steam
9. beast
10. believe
11. speck
12. kept
13. cheap
14. pretend
15. greed
16. shelf
17. least
18. eager
19. reason
20. chief

Challenge

21.echo

22.menu

23.creature

24.reveal

25.restaurant

 

Anchor Text: My Brother Martin and Langston Hughes: A Poet and a Dreamer

Writing Skill: narrative/descriptive paragraph – word choice

Comprehension: explain historical events and idioms

Grammar: Kinds of Sentences

Fluency: phrasing: pauses

Decoding: Open and Closed syllables

Vocabulary Strategies: prefixes in-, im-, il-, ir-

Target Vocabulary:  injustice, numerous, segregation, nourishing, captured, dream, encounters, preferred, recall, example

MATH:

Continuing Chapter 1

• rounding, renaming/regrouping, reading and writing numbers, comparing and ordering, problem-solving
• Chapter One Quiz – Mid Chapter Checkpoint

vocabulary: estimate, expanded form, inverse operations, period, round, standard form, thousands, word form

SOCIAL STUDIES: Natural Maryland  – Chapter 2, Maryland’s geography sets the stage for the history of our state.

SCIENCE: Lab Learner (microscopes and magnification) – Investigation 2, Refraction

RELIGION: Review and complete Unit One – Growing In Jesus Christ. Chapter One Test Thursday. A review will be done for HW on Wednesday night and corrected together right before the test.

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