Late September ’09: Topics-of-Study

Practice, practice, practice! This is time well-spent!

Language Arts: Step Up to Writing Introduction, Six Traits of Writing: Ideas, Capitalizing/Underlining Titles, Review of Finding Information in Books + Complete Sentences

• Step Up to Writing, Step Up to Writing #2 (notes + examples)
• 6 Traits Writing: Ideas (notes)
• Capitalization Rules (notes)
• Parts of a Book (notes), Reading Nonfiction (video), Parts of a Book, How to Locate Parts of a Book (review practice), Using a Dictionary (review practice and notes), It’s Non-Fiction (song)
• Complete Sentences: Subjects and Predicates (notes), Complete, Subject, or Predicate? (review practice)

Mathematics: Comparing and Ordering Numbers, Rounding, Review of Place Value + Multiplication Facts

• Comparing and Ordering Numbers (notes), One False Move (review practice)
• Rounding (notes), Rounding, Rounding #2, Rounders Rounding (review practice)
• Place Value and Number Forms (notes), Place Value Pirates, Everything in Its Place, Place Value Puzzler (review practice)
• Multiplication Chart (notes), Fact Families, Save the Clown Fish, Around the World in 80 Seconds, Dude’s Dilemma (review practice)
• Trimester One Math Helper (front), Trimester One Math Helper (back)

Social Studies: Chapter One: California’s Geography, Review of General Global Geography

• California Geography (notes), CA’s Location/Regions of CA, Climate/Vegetation, etc. (vocabulary practice)
• The Continents and Oceans, Name the Continents, World Continents Quizzes, Test Your Geography Knowledge (review practice)
• Water and Land (song we’ll practice in class)

Science: Chapter One — Living Things Need Energy

• Chapter One Resources (vocabulary practice, videos, and more)
• Dirt Made My Lunch (song from class)
• Parts of a Plant, Photosynthesis, Plant Life Cycle (videos)
• Illuminating Photosynthesis, Root Factory, Life Cycle of Plants (review practice)
• Food Chain (video), Food Chains Science Desk (review practice)