Lesson Plans

3rd Six Weeks
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• Use resources and references such as beginners' dictionaries, glossaries, available technology, and context to build word meanings and confirm pronunciation
• Use knowledge of word order and context to support word identification and confirm word meaning
• Distinguish fiction from non-fiction
•  Demonstrate knowledge of synonyms by sorting, classifying, and identifying related words
• Make and explain inferences from texts
• Distinguish between fact and opinion
  

Writing objectives:

• Generate ideas for writing
• Revise drafts and revise selected drafts for varied purposes
• Edit for appropriate grammar, spelling, punctuation, and features of of polished writings
• Use available technology for aspects of writing
• Demonstrate understanding of language use and spelling by bringing selected pieces frequently to final form and "publishing" them for audiences
• Write with more proficient spelling of inflectional endings
• Edit writing toward standard grammar and usage
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Math objectives:

• select addition or subtraction and solve problems using two-digit numbers, whether or not regrouping is necessary

Science objectives:

• Explain how water gets into the air and describe the water cycle

• Classify and sequence organisms, objects, and events based on properties and patterns

• Observe, measure, and record changes in weather, the night sky and seasons

Social Studies objectives:

• Identify functions of government
• Describe how governments establish order, provide security, and manage conflict
• Compare the roles of public officials
• Identify ways public officials are selected