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Week by week Lesson Plans

Home Work:   Plan for it, do it, love it.  (Correct it).

Notes and Goals: 

    Writing: Work with poems, all last week we read poems and it is now time to try our hand at writing them.

Focus on journal topics and letter writing ie. performing specific tasks. 3.2.g, work on elaboration and specific details. Letters to Elian if you were his father. Letters from Elian to his father. Letter to Elian if you were his dead mother. Letter to Fidel Castro from President Clinton.

Stop and think, use each kids story-map to write a class story  illustrating  &  text  work together, during which they mimic on a smaller scale what we are doing on a larger one. Tuesday- Introduce the goals of the week, begin with on of the stories, talk to the author, group conference, write introduction, we write it on the board and they copy it on their own paper, work on cursive (i write cursive they write manuscript). Wednesday- We go over the introduction,  and begin introducing the problem and working on the first chronological story map box. Again class as a whole is contributing to the development, writing on the board   them on their papers. Thursday- Work on the second and third chronological text boxes. Friday- Build a conclusion and review the entire story.  Homework for writing could be drawing pictures which summarize

So far they each have an idea in "story map" form in a folder, as well as one peer conference and one class presentation and brainstorming session. Mr. Cruz says compartmentalize it, so we will work on good introductions, just introductions i will model mine, and maybe the two others we did in class, they will write theirs again, and we'll have another peer conference, then a class read -presentation- one more re-write and they hand it in (i check it and they fix it again, i check it one more time -make a copy and give it back to them to hold onto.  1. What is the plotline? 2. Does what happened make since? 3. Do I care? Why do I care? 4. What would I change?  criticisms  rough draft  the aim of improved sentence construction. Introduce the successful writer's beliefs.

    Reading: SFA  "Wings" format. Fiction  Princess and the Joker. Listening Comps should focus on  character emotions. Add three * words to the spelling list. Work on TAAS format summarization as well. focus on speeding up the process. Make sure to use the "pass the palabra / esl / dance excersize.  TAAS Obj.  Inferences Feelings and Emotions

    Mathematics: Division problems Starting with multiplication / division comparisons. Afterwards have a challenge in the room. Work with $ in the bathroom line.

    ESL:   Continue social classroom language in english 3.1.e. Use ESL time to do reading and reassess the plant section in the second grade science book Pictures of what they see can be labeled and displayed.

      Science:  Revisit the chapter on storms and weather, science time will be shortened for this week due to extended work with perimeter and shapes in Maths.

    Social Studies: Comunidades: Alternate with science, begin going over the answers in class  once a week.

    Handwriting:  Require evidence of handwriting improvement demonstrated through homework.

    Spelling:  Work with spelling as continued ESL and use FVR to improve understanding of spelling conventions.

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