IN THE CLASSROOM THIS WEEK
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October 22 - October 26:
MEPA (Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment) Week
For information about this test go to the Department of Education website:
When We Get Back to Our Normal Life:
CONTENT:
How a Pumpkin Grows
Wild Guess: How many seeds are there in a pumpkin?
Counting by 10s.
READ ALOUD IN CLASS:
Apples and Pumpkins by Anne Rockwell
It's Pumpkin Time by Zoe Hall
Pumpkin Pumpkin by Jeanne Titherington
The Pumpkin Book by Gail Gibbons
VOCABULARY:
( "Pumpkin Words" , as we call it.)
Pumkin, seed, root, shoot, sprout, vine, bud; grow, plant, dig; soil, spade, shovel
PHONICS:
Gr. 5,3 advanced:
Long vowels with silent -e /VCE* pattern/
Gr. 1,2,3 beginners:
short vowels and CVC** pattern
GRAMMAR:
Parts of speech
Nouns: Concrete and Abstract Nouns
POETRY:
What makes a poem?
Rhyming patterns
Graphics in poetry
Poems by Lois Lenski, Douglas Florian, and Shel Silverstein
