Early September ’08: Topics-of-Study

Thanks for staying up to date with Room 36! Here are some guides and review for our current units of study.

Language Arts: Sentence Types, Complete Sentences, Basic Paragraphs, Finding Information in Books

• Four Types of Sentences (notes), Four Types of Sentences (review practice), Sentence Clubhouse (review practice)
• Complete Sentences: Subjects and Predicates (notes), Complete, Subject, or Predicate? (review practice)
• Writing a Paragraph (notes), Writing a Paragraph (movie)
• Parts of a Book (notes), Parts of a Book (review practice), Using a Dictionary (review practice and notes)

Mathematics: Place Value, Standard/Written/Expanded Forms of Numbers, Comparing/Ordering Numbers, Multiplication Facts

• Place Value and Number Forms (notes)
• Place Value Pirates, Everything in Its Place, Place Value Puzzler (all review practice)
• What’s Your Name?, Mystery Picture, Really Big Numbers, Cookie Dough (all review practice)
• Comparing and Ordering Numbers (notes), Comparing and Ordering Decimals (notes), One False Move (review practice)
• Multiplication Chart (notes), Save the Clown Fish (review practice), Around the World in 80 Seconds (review practice), Dude’s Dilemma (review practice)

Social Studies: Chapter One – California’s Geography

• Study Guideline Notes — Chapter One, Textbook Enrichment
• CA’s Location/Regions of CA, Climate, Vegetation, etc., Life in CA (all vocabulary practice)
• California Geography, The Four Regions of California (all notes)

Science: Chapter One — Living Things Need Energy (plants)

• Chapter One Resources (vocabulary practice, movies, etc.)
• Parts of a Plant, Plant Life Cycle (movies)
• Root Factory, Life Cycle of Plants (all review practice)