Saturday, December 13, 2008

Grade: 3 Week of 12/15/08

GRADE: 3
TEST:
*MATH: Chapter 6 Statistics and Probability. December 17th
*SCIENCE: Unit F, Chapter 12, pgs. f70-f75; Paths for Electricity. December 16th

MATH:

12/15.
Aim: Students will explore the probability of an event.
Vocabulary: probability outcome equally/not equally likely
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary development
2. Mental Math activity: text p. 464, set 15 #5
3. Lesson readiness activity: t.e. text p. 198
4. Guided practice: text p. 198-199
5. *** HOMEWORK: finish creating bar graph ***

12/16.
Aim: Students will predict outcomes based on probability.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Group work: workbook p. 67 & 68

12/17.
Aim: TEST, CHAPTER 6: STATISTICS AND PROBABILITY

12/18.
MATH CLASS CANCELED. Lessons & Carols and Benediction.

12/19.
Math canceled. Christmas party. Early dismissal.

Grade: 4 Week of 12/15/08

GRADE: 4
MATH:

* Test: Chapter 4 Multiplication facts and properties. December 17th


Grade: 4
Science

12/15.
Aim: Explore what you see when you mix colors of light.
Vocabulary: spectrum
Lesson:
1. Lab activity #10:
-What do you see when you mix colors of light? text p. F41
OR
-Seeing Different Colors, activity workbook p. 182

12/16.
Aim: Students will continue exploring what happens when you mix colors of light.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Lab activity #10, continued.

12/17.
Aim: TEST: Motion, Forces, and Energy.

12/18.
Science class canceled.

12/19.
Aim: Students will describe visible light as a part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Vocabulary: wavelengths spectrum
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary development
2. Read/discuss: What is light? Text p. f42-f43
3. *** Homework: workbook p. 293 ***

1/5.
Aim: Students will compare refraction and reflection of light.
Vocabulary: refraction reflection
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Read/discuss, text p. f44-f47
-How does light travel?
-What is reflection?
-What is refraction?

1/6.
Aim: Comparing reflection and refraction, continued.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: workbook p. 294

Thursday, December 11, 2008

TEST ANNOUNCEMENTS!!!!

GRADE: 4

*MATH: Chapter 4 Multiplication facts and properties. December 17th
*SCIENCE: Unit F, Chapter 12, pgs. F4-F17 Motion, Forces, and Energy. December 17th


GRADE: 3

*MATH: Chapter 6 Statistics and Probability. December 17th
*SCIENCE: Unit F, Chapter 12, pgs. f70-f75; Paths for Electricity. December 16th


GRADE: 2

*MATH: Chapter 6 Geometry. December 17th
*SCIENCE: Unit E, Chapter 10 Energy. December 16th

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Grade: 2 Week of 12/15/08

Grade: 2
Math:

12/15.
Aim: Students will draw a figure congruent to one shown.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: t.e. text p. 245g #6
3. Mental math: p. 613, set 22 #4-5
4. Drawing congruent figures: text p. 260 #5-12

12/16.
Aim: Students will review sorting solid and plane figures.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Creating solid shapes out of plane figures
3. Comparing/contrasting faces, vertices, and edges of plane figures.

12/17.
Aim: TEST. CHAPTER 6 GEOMETRY: COMPARING/CONTRASTING AND SORTING SHAPES

12/18.
Math class canceled. Lessons & Carols and Benediction.

12/19.
Math class canceled. Early dismissal.

GRADE: 2
SCIENCE

12/15.
Aim: Students will review for test on energy.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Chapter 10 energy content review

12/16.
Aim: Test on energy

12/17.
Aim: Students will explore and classify things attracted to magnets.
Lesson:
1. Lab activity: What will stick to a magnet? Text p. f17

12/18.
Aim: Students will analyze magnets by comparing their pulling strengths.
Vocabulary: attract
Lesson:
1. Comparing and contrasting various magnets.

12/19.
Early dismissal, science class canceled.

Sunday, December 7, 2008

Grade: 2 Week of 12/8/08

12/8.
Aim: To identify circle, triangle, rectangle, and square in solid shapes.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: text p. 245g, #3
3. Guided practice: text p. 252
4. Project: design own solid figure, cut out, and fold. t.e. text p.252


12/9.
Aim: Students will identify the number of vertices, sides, and angles of a closed plane figure.
Vocabulary: closed plane figure angle pentagon
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary development
2. Problem of the day: t.e. text p. 245g, #4
3. Guided practice: text p. 253-254
4. *****HOMEWORK: Workbook p. 71*****

12/10. Math class canceled due to 4th grade mass and confessions.

12/11.
Aim: Students will sort plane figures and solid figures by one and two characteristics.
Vocabulary: Sort
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary development
2. Problem of the day: t.e. text p. 245g #5
3. Practice sorting figures by color and number of surfaces, edges, and vertices.
Lesson readiness activities: t.e. text p.255
4. independent practice: text p. 255-256
5. *** HOMEWORK: Workbook p. 72 and 73 ***

12/12.
Aim: Students will identify congruent figures in different orientations.
Vocabulary: Orientation Congruent
Lesson:
1. Quiz: plane and solid figures
2. Vocabulary development.
3. Lesson readiness activity: t.e. text p. 259
4. Independent practice: text p. 259 #1-4


Grade: 2
Science

12/8.
Aim: Students will observe and collect data on beekeepers.
Lesson:
1. Show and tell: Beekeepers
2. Students will observe and ask questions on beekeeping.

12/9.
Aim: Students will organize data collected from the beekeepers.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. List any other questions that may arise.
3. List words for glossary
4. Begin research on the internet.

12/10.
(computer class)
Aim: Students will listen and respond to books on honeybees.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Teacher guided reading: Life Cycle of Honeybees
3. Discuss book and take notes.

12/11.
Aim: To review the life cycle of a honeybee.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Review beekeepers job.
3. Students will draw and label the different stages of a honeybees life cycle.

12/12.
Aim: To identify the body parts of honeybees
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Review honeybees life cycle.
3. Draw and label honeybees' body parts

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Grade: 4 Week of 12/8/08

Grade: 4
Math

12/8.
Aim: Students will use front-end estimation and rounding to estimate products.
Vocabulary: front-end estimation rounding
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Mental math: text p. 479, set 9, #4 & 10
3. Independent practice: text p. 137 #16-33

12/9.
Aim: Students will use front-end estimation and rounding to estimate products.
Vocabulary: front-end estimation rounding
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem solving: addition and subtraction practice using technology.
3. Group work: Problem solving estimating products using front-end digits.
4. *** Homework: Textbook p. 136 #1-15 (notebook)***

12/10.
Aim: Students will use front-end estimation and rounding to estimate products.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review.
2. Mental Math: text p. 480, set 11 #1
3. Problem of the day: t.e. text p. 125i, #11
4. Review front-end product estimation, text p. 137 #37-40
5. Estimating products by rounding factors, text p. 148 #1-15
6. *** HOMEWORK: Workbook p. 38 in notebook. ***

12/11.
Aim: To estimate products using rounding.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review.
2. Mental Math: text p. 479 set 9, #7-8 & p. 478 set 6, #6
3. Multiplying with regrouping, text pgs. 140-141 & 144-145
4. *** HOMEWORK: WORKBOOK P. 44 in notebook ***

12/12.
Aim: To multiply 3-4 digit multipliers with regrouping.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: t.e. text p. 125i, #7 & 9
3. Multiplying with regrouping, text pgs. 141 & 145
4. Problem solving; text p. 141 #19-27 & p. 145 #21-28


Grade: 4
Science

12/8.
Aim: Explore what you see when you mix colors of light.
Vocabulary: spectrum
Lesson:
1. Lab activity #10:
-What do you see when you mix colors of light? text p. F41
OR
-Seeing Different Colors, activity workbook p. 182

12/9.
Aim: Students will continue exploring what happens when you mix colors of light.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Lab activity #10, continued.

12/10.
Aim: Students will describe visible light as a part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Vocabulary: wavelengths spectrum
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary development
2. Read/discuss: What is light? Text p. f42-f43
3. *** Homework: workbook p. 293 ***

12/11.
Aim: Students will compare refraction and reflection of light.
Vocabulary: refraction reflection
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Read/discuss, text p. f44-f47
-How does light travel?
-What is reflection?
-What is refraction?

12/12.
Aim: Comparing reflection and refraction, continued.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: workbook p. 294

Grade: 3 Week of 12/8/08

GRADE: 3
MATH

12/8. (Immaculate Conception. Mass at 9 am)
Aim: Students will make an organized list to display data and possible combinations.
Vocabulary: organized list arrangements tree diagrams combination
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary development
2. Problem of the day: t.e. text p. 189E #4
3. Mental math: text p. 464, set 16 #1-5
4. Lesson Readiness activity, t.e. text p. 196

12/9. GYM CLASS

12/10.
Aim: Students will continue to make organized list to solve problems.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: text p. 197 #3-6
3. *** Create a bar graph using data from worksheet: checker challenge. ***

12/11.
Aim: Students will explore the probability of an event.
Vocabulary: probability outcome equally/not equally likely
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary development
2. Mental Math activity: text p. 464, set 15 #5
3. Lesson readiness activity: t.e. text p. 198
4. Guided practice: text p. 198-199
5. *** HOMEWORK: finish creating bar graph ***

12/12.
Aim: Students will predict outcomes based on probability.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Group work: workbook p. 67 & 68



GRADE 3
SCIENCE

12/8.
Aim: To explore how bulbs light up.
Lesson:
1. Quiz: How does heat affect matter?
2. Vocabulary review
3. Lab activity #6: How does the bulb light? text p. F71

12/9.
Aim: to identify the basic components of a circuit.
Vocabulary: cell circuit electric current
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Read/discuss: What makes a bulb light? Text p. f72
3. Class-work: workbook p. 315 & 317

12/10.
Aim: Students will design and construct their own flashlight.
Vocabulary: switch
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Lab activity #7: Make a Flashlight. text p. F73

12/11.
Aim: Students will continue constructing their own flashlights
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Lab activity #7, continued
3. *** Homework: workbook p. 318 ***

12/12. EARLY DISMISSAL