Early October ’09: Topics-of-Study

Language Arts: Facts & Opinions, Cause & Effect, Multiple Meaning Words, Six Traits of Writing: Ideas, Review of Finding Information in Books + Step Up to Writing Format + Capitalizing/Underlining Titles

• Fact or Opinion, Fact or Opinion #2 (review practice)
• Cause and Effect (notes), Cause/Effect, Cause and Effect (review practice)
• Words in Context, Multiple Meaning Words (review practice)
• 6 Traits Writing: Ideas (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)
• Step Up to Writing, Step Up to Writing #2 (notes + examples)
• Capitalization Rules (notes), Capitalization, Capitalization #2 (review practice)

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

• Estimating = Rounding all numbers before adding, subtracting, or multiplying
• Rounding (notes), Rounding, Rounding #2, Rounders Rounding (review practice)
• Comparing and Ordering Numbers (notes), One False Move (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

• California Geography (notes)
• CA’s Location/Regions of CA, Climate/Vegetation, etc. (vocabulary practice)
• Chapter One Guideline Notes (essential concepts)

Science: Chapter One — Living Things Need Energy

• Chapter One Resources (vocabulary practice, videos, and more)
• Dirt Made My Lunch, Producers, Consumers, Decomposers (songs 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)
• Fun With Food Webs, Eat or Be Eaten, Diversity of Life on Earth