Week 18 January 9-13

Reading Selection: Heat Wave! By Helen Ketterman

A fantastic heat wave hits a Kansas farm, roasting the geese, popping the corn in the fields, and causing other distressing events. The farm girl tries a few clever ways to get rid of it, and finally succeeds when she plants iceberg lettuce.
Genre: Tall Tale – Characters with exaggerated qualities and abilties perform fantastic feats.
Purposes
• Strategy focus: evaluation
• Comprehension skill: fantasy/realism

Math: Dividing by 1-Digit Divisors
• Zeros in the quotient (answer)
• Problem solving
Students are using placevalue blocks to show the division process of dividing into equal groups.

Word Work
• Final endings: -el, -al, -le, -ed, -ing
• Dividing words into syllables

Test will be Friday, January 13
uncle
weather
medal
beggar
middle
collar
special
model
trouble
doctor
dancing
skipped
hiking
dimmed
phoning
rubbed
pleasing
wrapping
traced
checking

Grammar: Present, Past, and Future Tenses

Writing: Narrative paragraphs, paraphrasing