SCHEDULE OF TOPICS AND ACTIVITIES        

Week 14-15   

May 13-17, May 20-24, 2013 

 

English Contest Week – May 20-24

Activities:  Practice for Readers Theater (the whole class will participate) 

A.  Language Arts:     

PROJECT-BASED LEARNING UNIT ON ANIMAL HABITATS AND ADAPTATION

Our students have started to set up their animals in their respective habitats in the 5Yellow classroom.  Everyone is excited about this project.  Taking care of real -live animals would give our students the chance to learn about the animals that they're taking care of, learn responsibility and teamwork, among many other things.

 The lessons are going to be especially designed for this unit.  The reading book, My Sidewalk, will only be used as a supplementary reading book.  

 

MATERIALS AND LESSONS:

1.  READINGS – Readings pertaining to the animals the class is learning will be provided on handouts to the students. 

Students must keep all the reading handouts of the unit as they are included in the final exam on June 14.

The following are the reading handouts that students should study for the finals: 
1.       Frogs Vs. Toads
2.       Raising Ants
3.   READING FOR WEEK 14:  Red Cherry Ants
4.   READING FOR WEEK 15:    Classifications of Animals

 SUPPLEMENTARY READING FOR COMPREHENSION: 

My Sidewalks D5 pp114-121 One Moon, Many Myths

My Sidewalks D6 pp10-16 They Didn’t Give Up

2.         VOCABULARY – A separate sheet of vocabulary will be given to the students. (The vocabulary on the Practice Book will not be used in this unit.)

Students must keep all the vocabulary handouts of the unit as they are included in the final exam on June 14.

Students are strongly advised to do their activity homework on Spelling City to review and practice vocabulary words in the unit.

3. WORD STUDY –  Our word study list will follow the lessons in our Word Study Workbook, but the focus will be on the word lists below:

Week 14 – Prefixes mis-, non-, re-

mis-	bad, badly, wrong, wrongly, to hate
non-	no, not, without
re	again, back, backward

mis-	non-	re-
misbehavior	nonsense	recreate
mistreat	nonstop	relocate
mispronounce	nonexistent	recognize
misquote	nonviolent	reorganize

 Week 15 – Suffixes –less, -ment, -ness

-ment	act or process
-ness	atate of quality  (makes a noun)
-less	without

 

–less	-ment	-ness
countless	treatment	awkwardness
restless	encouragement	weakness
painless	employment	aggressiveness
fearless	improvement	awareness

 Week 15 – Suffixes –ful, -ly, -ion

-ful, -ly    -ion

act of or condition of

–ful	-ly	-ion
wasteful	enthusiastically	suggestion
awful	wisely	pollution
harmful	eagerly	description
successful	immediately	connection
thoughtful	greedily	separation

4. GRAMMAR – 

 ·  Common Errors In Writing Sentences – fragment, run-on sentences, comma splice

·  Simple, compound and complex sentences

5. WRITING – 

• • Interviewing GW p187

• ·  Comparing and contrasting

• ·  Sequencing

• ·  6 Traits:  Sentence Fluency

B.  Math

 Start new unit on AVERAGE

 
C.  Science
 
JOURNAL RECORDING - Students will keep a journal in their groups.  A daily chart and observations are going to be kept by the group members.

 

PREPARE FOR A GROUP REPORT -

 

Group Reporting Week:  starting May 22, 2013, on enrichment period

 

Group Project Due:  Before May 24

 

D.  Art

We are presently knee-deep in our work on a project where the students are applying two art techniques – relief sculpture and printmaking arts.

Relief Sculpture – on a picture frame.

 Materials: 

foil, scissors, cardboard to be cut into shapes, white glue, black ink, brush

 

Print-making art –

 Materials: 

White glue, sticks, card board, pencil, calligraphy ink, brush, white paper to transfer print into