May

May

**Math:**
Time(5 min. intervals, elapsed) Measurement(area, perimeter) geometry

**Reading:**
//Before Reading: Choose the appropriate text for a specific purpose. Articulate what is known about the text topic based on the title, author, pictures, illustrations, prior knowledge. Make relevant predictions about waht will probably happen in a story(fiction) or what will be learned(nonfiction)based on title, cover, chapter headings, illustrations, etc.//

//During Reading: Make predictions and connections. Ask and answer questions. Describe the mental imagery that occurs while reading. Identify specific words or phrases that cause comprehension difficulties and self monitor. Explain first-, second-, and third-person point of view. Interpret graphical information(charts, tables, diagrams). Make inferences based on explicit information in the text; provide justification for those inferences.//

//After Reading: Describe characters' physical and personality traits. Develop a new title that best fits the text. Describe he conflict faced by a character in the story. State the main idea with supporting details in informational text. State the theme in literary text.//

//Developing an Interpretation: Explain similarities and differences in a story. Draw conclusions based on implicit or explicit evidence from text. Decide an author's purpose for including particular information in text. Interpret meaning based on charts, graphs, maps, illustrations, photos in text. Identify and explain text structures, e.g., sequence, main idea/details, compare/contrast, cause and effect//

Theme 6: 6.1 Achievements
 * Treasures:**
 * DO NOT DO THIS READING, PUT THE SPELLING INTO THE END OF THE YEAR WHEN DOING THE LITERATURE CIRCLES**

Spelling: able, purple, riddle, handle, towel, eagle, puzzle, castle, little, nickel, camel, pickle, travel, tunnel, squirrel, spider, tiny, planet, motel, couple
 * Grammar: Adjectives and Articles**

Treasures: Theme 6: 6.2 Achievements
 * DO NOT DO THIS READING, PUT THE SPELLING INTO THE END OF THE YEAR WHEN DOING THE LITERATURE CIRCLES

Spelling (prefixes): untied, repay, disagree, preheat, unafraid, return, preschool, dislike, disappear, resell, precook, prepay, unbeaten, preprint, unwrap, nickel, handle, pickle, unlucky, recover
 * Grammar: Adjectives that compare**

**CHANGE: THIS HAS BEEN MOVED to April 26 Do we want to change this???**

May 2(NOW April 25): 6.3 An American Hero Flies Again(good citizens) Spelling: sister, sailor, dollar, toaster, winter, doctor, later, dancer, mayor, writer, silver, cellar, trailer, December, author, resell, prepay, unwrap, cicular, editor Grammar: Adverbs That Tell How

NOW May 2
 * May 9(**
 * 6.4 Mother to Tigers(working together)


 * Spelling (-ful, -ly, -less): careful, cheerful, helpful, colorful, harmful, peaceful, pitiful, painless, priceless, helpless, sleepless, rainless, helplessly, carefullly, peacefully, doctor, dollar, December, wonderful, cloudless**
 * Grammar: Adverbs that tell when or where**

(NOW May 9)
 * May 16**
 * 6.5 Home-Grown Butterflies(Raising butterflies)


 * Spelling: because, rubber, about, puddle, alive, behind, before, around, better, attract, kettle, hammer,a ttend tickle, people, peaceful, helpless, carefully, believe, beaver**
 * Grammar: Sentences combining with Adjectives and Adverbs**

May 23
 * (NOW MAY 16)**
 * Testing week for Unit 6

ALSO START Literature Circles the same week: May 30, June 6, June 13(Last Day 15)


 * __Tall Tales__**

__I.C.E. Write a journal entry related to a Tall Tale__
 * Westward Expansion(__Little House in the Big Woods__ )**

**Writing:**
More w/elab., beginnings, endings Timed Prompt Finish Animal Adaption research reports, type on alpha smarts Listen to reports: paraphrase information presented by others Quotation Marks: dialogue, capitalize first word Commas in compound sentences Write about a procedure for experiment(based on Rock'n Out)

**Science/Social Studies:**
Westward Expansion(The Wilderness Road and the cause and effect of migration and settlement to the frontier adn Native Americans.)

CHANGE: This will go to March now. States of Matter/Polymer Power will be in May. Rock-n-out (Ragged Hill Woods in school)

THIRD GRADE CONCERT