October 28th - November 1, 2013

Here's My Dollar

by Gary Soto

     Angel Arellano is our age and has been in the newspapers and on TV.  Here’s My Dollar tells how Angel learned that the zoo in Fresno was running out of money. Angel wrote to newspapers, talked at different schools, and appeared on talk shows. She asked everyone to donate a dollar to save the zoo and the animals in it. I think the author wants to tell about Angel, but he also wants to show how one person can make a difference.

Spelling with Diagraphs
(and one trigraph)

Citizen of the Week

Chase!

Author's Purpose:
Persuade, Inform, and Entertain

October is Fire Prevention Month
Thank you POC and Port Lavaca Fire Departments.  You are our heroes.

We saw Sparky!

We love our firefighters!

Stop, Drop, Cover our Eyes, and Roll!

Our writing buddies helped us write 
about Veterans Day.

This week in writing buddies, we wrote about Veterans Day and the name of the holiday brought up a common question:  Do we need an apostrophe in the word “Veterans”?

The short answer is no.  The U.S. government gave the holiday its official name, and they chose to write it without the apostrophe.

Since many people are confused, you’ve probably seen "Veterans Day" written three ways:

·        The right way: Veterans Day

·        Another potentially right way: Veterans’ Day

·        The wrong way: Veteran’s Day

THIS WEEK's Lesson Plans:

• COMPREHENSION:  Monitor Comprehension (3.2C)
• Author's Purpose (3.12) Persuade, Inform, or Entertain
• GENRE:  Literary Text:  Folktake, Expository, Poetry (3.6)
• Vocabulary: tour, volunteers, thrilled, slogan, deserve, fraction, equivalent, singular, plural, possessive rule, apostrophe rule
• Strategy:  Context Clues(3.4B)
• Phonics/Spelling:  Digraphs, Multisyllabic Words (3.1C)
• Spelling Game 1 for this week
• Grammar/Mechanics:  Possessive Nouns (3.22A, B), Apostrophes in Possessive Nouns
• Vocabulary Game for this week 
• Math - Linear Measurment Tools Length 3.11A(s)