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For the week of April 16, 2012

Reading:

Story of the week:   "Dinosaurs Travel”

Genre:                      Informational Book/Social Studies  

Summary                  Readers follow a lovable group of dinosaurs  as they prepare for and take various trips both long and short.

Focus Skill:              Author’s Purpose 

Focus Strategy:        Use Context to Confirm Meaning

Phonics and Spelling:  

Words like group and through

routine, through, you, soup, group, wound, coupon, youth, throughway, throughout, childhood, should, able, board, seat

SpellingCity.com for Dinosaurs Travel:

http://www.spellingcity.com/view-spelling-list.html?listId=2667901

 Math:   

Monday:         Lesson 104: Finding Perimeter

Tuesday:      Lesson 105-1: Subtracting 9 facts

Wednesday: Lesson 105-2: Writing Observations From a Graph

Thursday:    Lesson 106: Telling and Showing Time to the Minute

Friday:        Lesson 107: Counting Quarters, Dimes, Nickels, and Pennies; Showing Money Amounts Using the Coins

Social Studies:    American History for Children-U.S. Constitution

Science     Solids and Liquids

Technology:  PowerPoint, Internet, Word Processing, Spreadsheet Applications; Typing a Friendly Letter to a wounded soldier

 http://www.uen.org/k-2interactives/index.shtml

http://nimblefingers.com/ 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

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