Reading Week of December 10 – 14, 2012

Reading I Can: I can identify the question type and then respond appropriately.
Word Work Objective: I can read and spell 3rd grade sight words to help build my reading fluency.
MONDAY / TUESDAY / WEDNESDAY / THURSDAY / FRIDAY
Word Work / Word Work: er/est Assessment from Friday
Vocab: Using Context Clues Practice Page
Phonics: Pre-Assessment of Third Grade Sight Words / Word Work: Prefix Suffix Hunt in Reading Books
Vocab: Christmas Cloze Activity –Using Context Clues
Phonics: Quick Write on Whiteboards with 3rd Grade Fluency Words / Work Work: Prefix/Suffix Match – Word Part to it’s meaning
Vocab: Rivet with Polar Express Words (conductor, northpole, believe) / Word Work:
Synonym Game (Polar Express Theme)
Vocab: Using Context Clues
**Happy Holidays Making Words Activity
Phonics: Partner Quiz with 3rd Grade Sight Words / Word Work: Fill in Blank with Correct Prefix/Suffix
Vocab: Using Context Clues
Phonics: Assessment of 3rd grade Sight Words
Reading Minilesson / Identifying Question Types and Responding to Questions
Text: Christmas Stockings
- Review QAR. Discuss how to identify the different types of QAR. Then model how to respond to each QAR type question. / Snowmen at Christmas
- Review QAR types
- Read Aloud Snowmen at Christmas Time
- Present 4 Questions and students will categorize question.
- Model how to respond to question type. / ** Before reading, have students sketch what they believe the Northpole looks like
- Read aloud Polar Express
- After reading, students complete sentence strips sequencing activity with partner
- Then review how to respond to right there and think and search questions. / Polar Express
- Partner Read Reader’s Theater for Polar Express
- Review how to respond to Author and Me Questions
- Review the CEIEIO format
- Introduce Author and Me Questions: Why do you think the boy in the story was chosen to receive the first gift of Christmas? Would you recommend this story to a friend? Do you think the boy made a good choice when he asked for the bell? / Polar Express Movie
** Awards Assembly
Independent Reading Time / Students will reread text and respond to QAR questions appropriately / Students will identify question types and respond appropriately based on question type. / Students will respond to Right – There and Think and Search Questions for the North Pole / Students will respond to Author and Me Question using the CEIEO format / Polar Express Movie
Reading Workshop Wrap-Up / Model and review appropriate response to each question type. / Model and review appropriate response to each question type. / Review how to respond to Right-There and Think and Search Questions / Use CEIEO checklist to revise response if needed / Polar Express Movie
- Complete Venn Diagram comparing/contrasting movie/book

Writing Week of December 10 – 14, 2012

I Can: I can use the
MONDAY / TUESDAY / WEDNESDAY / THURSDAY / FRIDAY
Writing Minilesson / 2nd Quarter District Writing Assessment / Responding to Text: If you were a snowman, what adventures would you go on at night? / Descriptive Writing: Show students a picture of the NorthPole. Students will write a description / Simile and Metaphors: Making Comparisons as in the Polar Express / Classroom Party
Writing Work Time / 2nd Quarter District Writing Assessment / Students will respond creatively to text “Snowmen at Christmas Time” / Students will focus on using descriptive words to describe the Northpole. / Read aloud some excerpts from the book where Van Allsburg is comparing one thing to another, such as "hot cocoa as thick and rich as melted chocolate bars" and "rolling over peaks and through valleys like a car on a roller coaster."
Ask the students to look at the chart you have started: a simple T-chart with "plain language" on one side and "comparisons" on the other.
Write the "plain language" ideas next to their corresponding similes on the chart paper. Discuss with your students how using comparisons in descriptions can make the story come to life. / Classroom Party
Writing Workshop Wrap-UP / 2nd Quarter District Writing Assessment / Students will share creative stories / Author’s Chair / Author’s Chair / Classroom Party

Math Week of December 10 – 14, 2012

I can: I can describe quadrilaterals.
I can make, test and support generalizations about a group of polygons.
MONDAY / TUESDAY / WEDNESDAY / THURSDAY / FRIDAY
Basic Facts / Whole Group Multiplication Flashcards (2)
Divided by 2 FACTO / Whole Group Multiplication Flashcards (5)
Divided by 5 FACTO / 2nd Quarter Multiplication Screener / 2nd Quarter Multiplication Screener / Xtramath.org on Computers
Math Lesson / Topic 10.7 Quadrilaterals
E.Q: How can you describe quadrilaterals?
Materials: Recording Sheet 18
Purpose: Students will identify attributes of different quadrilaterals and sort quadrilaterals intro groups
Interactive Learning: Students will look at the quadrilaterals on the recording sheet and determine how they can sort them into different groups. Discuss how to compare length of sides, parallel & perpendicular sides, and types of angles.
Guided Practice/Independent Practice / Topic 10.8 Making and Test Generalizations
E.Q: What generalization can be made from a group of examples?
Purpose: Students make and test generalizations about a group of polygons.
Interactive Learning: Students will analyze a collection of shapes and determine what is the same about all the shapes. They will share and support a generalization that can be made about the shapes.
Guided Practice/Independent Practice / Topic 10 Test and ISAT Format Question / Multiplication/Division Santa / Awards Assembly
Winter Classroom Party
2:30 Dismissal