Grade: 2 week of 3/16/09

Grade: 2
Math:

3/16
Aim: Students will continue to practice subtracting with regrouping hundreds and tens.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day, t.e. text p. 381g #15
3. Class-work: text p, 417-418 #1-19
4. Homework: workbook p. 121

3/17
Aim: Cogat Testing

3/18
Aim: Cogat Testing

3/19
Aim: Cogat Testing

3/20
Aim: Cogat Testing
(Stations Of The Cross 10am)

Grade: 2
Science

3/16
Aim: Students will explore and communicate what a pet needs to live.
Vocabulary: Predator Prey Food Chain
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Lab Activity: What do pets need to live? text p. a37

3/17
Aim: Students will identify and explain that animals need air, water, food, and shelter.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Read/discuss text p. a38-a39
-What do animals need?
-How do animals get what they need?
3. Homework: workbook p. 43-44

3/18
Scoring of grade 4 NYS math exam

3/19
Aim: Students will investigate and compare how animals get food.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. class-work: read/discuss, text p. a40
-smartboard activity
-How do animals get food?
-What is a food chain?

3/20
Scoring of grade 6 nys math exam

Grade 4: Week Of 3/9/09

Grade: 4
Math

3/9
Aim: Students will continue to evaluate and apply problem-solving strategies.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day
3. Class-work: text p. 198-199 even numbers
4. Homework: text p. 197 #2-5 (notebook)

3/10
Aim: Students will review division facts and concepts.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review: sadlier-oxford.com/vocab activities/hangman
2. Class-work: Text p. 202 #1-3, then #4-24, problem-solving #25-28

3/11
Aim: Math Test: Chapter 5, Division Concepts

3/12
Aim: Students will compare and identify equivalent fractions.
Vocabulary: Equivalent fraction numerator denominator
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. problem of the day: t.e. text p. 265i #3
3. Class-work: -Writing fractions in words: p. 269 #5-10, 14-19, & 23-30
-Estimating fractions: P. 271 #1-16
-Equivalent fractions: p. 273 #1-8, 21-26
4. Homework: p. 88-89

3/13
SCHOOL CLOSED

Grade: 4
Science

3/9
Aim: Science Project presentations

3/10
Aim: Students will describe the process of pollination and fertilization in plants.
Vocabulary: pollination fertilization ovary
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: draw and label parts of a flower involved in fertilization.
3. Homework: workbook p. 49

3/11
Aim: Students will describe how seeds travel.
Vocabulary: Life cycle
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Read/discuss, text p. a86-a87
-Explain the different ways seeds get dispersed?
-Why are fruits so colorful and tasty?
-Describe the steps in the life cycle of a flowering plant?
-How do animals help flowering plants?
3. Homework: workbook p. 50

3/12
Aim: Students will analyze and compare if all plants grow from seeds.
Vocabulary: Spores
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Read/discuss, text p. a88-a89
-Do all plants grow from seeds?
-What are spores?
-Explain how plants that have spores grow?
3. HOMEWORK: Workbook p. 51-52 (notebook

3/13
SCHOOL CLOSED

Grade 2: Week Of 3/9/09

Grade: 2
Math:

3/9
Aim: Students will subtract 3-digit numbers, regrouping tens as ones.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Regrouping practice: t.e. text p. 411
3. Class-work: text p. 411-412 #1-18
problem solving #25-28
4. Homework: workbook p. 118

3/10
Aim: Students will continue to practice subtracting with regrouping tens as ones.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Mental math p. 614 set 32 column 1
3. class-work: worksheet

3/11
Aim: Students will explore regrouping hundreds as tens.
lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. problem of the day: 381g #13
3. Class-work: text p. 413-414 #1-15
problem solving: 16-17
4. Homework: workbook p. 119

3/12
Aim: Students will subtract 3-digit numbers regrouping hundreds as tens.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: p. 381g #14
3. Class-work: subtracting P. 415-416 #1-24
problem solving: #25-26
4. Homework: workbook p. 120

3/13
SCHOOL CLOSED

Grade: 2
Science

3/9
Aim: Students will review how animals grow and change.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: text p. a49 #1-3
draw and label life cycle of butterfly
3. Homework: workbook p. 51-52 (answers only)

3/10
Aim: Test: How Animals Grow and Change?

3/11
Aim: Students will investigate and describe ways animals meet their needs.
Vocabulary: Predator prey food chain
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Read/discuss, text p. a38-a40
-What do animals need to live?
-How do animals get what they need to live?
-compare how different animals get food?

3/12
Aim: Students will define and compare various food chains.
Vocabulary: Food chain
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Read/discuss, text p. a41
-What is a food chain?
Smart-board activity: Food Chains
-List and compare different food chains.

3/13
SCHOOL CLOSED

Grade 3: Week of 3/9/09

Grade: 3
MATH:

3/9
Aim: Students will multiply by fours.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. problem of the day: t.e. text p. 133E #3
3. class-work: text p. 142-143 #1-23
problem solving #24-27
4. Homework: workbook p. 48

3/10
Aim: Students will continue to multiply by four.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: worksheet practice
sadlier-oxford website

3/11
Aim: Students will multiply by fives.
lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. problem of the day: t.e. text p. 133e #4
3. class-work: text p. 144-145 #1-23
problem solving #24-26

3/12
Aim: Students will continue to multiply by fives.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Mental math: p. 462 set 11 #1
3. Homework: workbook p. 49

3/13
SCHOOL CLOSED


Grade: 3
Science

3/9
Aim: How does a plant's life begin?
Vocabulary: Life Cycle embryo heredity
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Read/discuss, text p. a26-a27
-How does a plant's life begin?
-Describe how germination takes place
-smartboard activity: Plant Life Cycle

3/10
Aim: Students will analyze and explain how characteristics of parents are passed to offsprings.
Vocabulary: Heredity seedling
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Read/discuss, text p. a27
-What is heredity?
-List and describe the stages of a plants life cycle?
-Compare and explain the different characteristics of corn.

3/11
Aim: Students will compare the flowering plants and conifers.
vocabulary: Flowering plants conifers
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Read/discuss, text p.a28-a29
-How are seeds made?
-List and describe each stage of a flowering plant/conifers
life cycle.
-Compare female and male pine cones.
3. Homework: workbook p. 19-20

3/12
Aim: Students will continue to compare flowering plants and conifers.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Draw and explain the life cycle of flowering and conifers
3. Homework: workbook p. 17-18 (notebook)

3/13
SCHOOL CLOSED

Grade:4 Week of 3/2/09

Grade: 4
Math:

3/2
Aim: School Closed

3/3
Aim: New York State Math Exam part I.

3/4
Aim: New York State Math Exam part II.

3/5
Aim: New York State Math Exam part III.

3/6
Aim: Students will solve multi-step problems choosing from various strategies.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: Text p. 148

Grade: 4
Science

3/2
Aim: School closed

3/3
Aim: Science fair project presentations

3/4
Aim: Science fair project presentations

3/5
Aim: Science fair project presentations

3/6
Aim: Students will describe the process of pollination and fertilization in plants.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: draw and label parts of a flower involved in fertilization.

Grade: 3 Week of 3/2/09

Grade: 3
MATH:

3/2
Aim: Students will multiply by fours.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. problem of the day: t.e. text p. 133E #3
3. class-work: text p. 142-143 #1-23
problem solving #24-27
4. Homework: workbook p. 48

3/3
Aim: Students will continue to multiply by four.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: worksheet practice
sadlier-oxford website

3/4
Aim: Students will multiply by fives.
lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. problem of the day: t.e. text p. 133e #4
3. class-work: text p. 144-145 #1-23
problem solving #24-26

3/5
Aim: Students will continue to multiply by fives.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Mental math: p. 462 set 11 #1
3. Class-work: workbook p. 49

3/6
Aim: Students will practice and review multiplication facts 0-5.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work:
-model multiplication problems
-problem solving
-smartboard practice activity

Grade: 3
SCIENCE:

3/2
Aim: Students will explore how water travels through a plant.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Lab activity: text p. A19

3/3
Aim: Students will review the needs of plants
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: -smartboard activity
-workbook p. 16-17

3/4
Aim: Test, the needs of plants

3/5
Aim: Students will explore how seeds can grow into new plants.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Lab activity: How does aplants life begin, text p. A25

3/6
Early dismissal

Grade 2: Week of 3/2/09

Grade 2
Math:

3/2
Aim: Students will count back by 1's, 10's, 100's, continue and explain numerical patterns
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. problem of the day: 381g
3. Class-work: patterns in subtraction p. 410 #22-27
problem solving #28-31
4. Homework: workbook p. 117

3/3
Aim: Students will subtract 3-digit numbers, regrouping tens as ones.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Regrouping practice: t.e. text p. 411
3. Class-work: text p. 411-412 #1-18
problem solving #25-28
4. Homework: workbook p. 118

3/4
Aim: Students will continue to practice subtracting with regrouping tens as ones.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Mental math p. 614 set 32 column 1
3. class-work: worksheet

3/5
Aim: Students will explore regrouping hundreds as tens.
lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. problem of the day: 381g #13
3. Class-work: text p. 413-414 #1-15
problem solving: 16-17
4. Homework: workbook p. 119

3/6
Aim: Students will subtract 3-digit numbers regroouping hundreds as tens.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Problem of the day: p. 381g #14
3. Class-work: subtracting P. 415-416 #1-24
problem solving: #25-26

Grade: 2
SCIENCE:

3/2
Aim: How does a butterfly grow and change?
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Identify the stages of a butterfly's life cycle
3. Class-work: text p. a48

3/3
Aim: Students will review how animals grow and change.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: text p. a49 #1-3
draw and label life cycle of butterfly

3/4
Aim: Students will compare different egg laying animals.
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Class-work: text p. a50 draw different animal that lay eggs

3/5
Aim: Test, How do animals grow and change.

3/6
Aim: Students will explore how to classify animals.
Vocabulary: classify
Lesson:
1. Vocabulary review
2. Lab activity: how can we classify animals? p. A33