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Literature Circles using Informational Text (review elements of non-fiction & questioning during reading): __A Tree is Growing__ This week’s vocabulary: pollen, store, clumps, passages, absorb, throughout, coverings, spines, tropical, dissolve **Week of 04/07/14 :** **Week of 04/14/14 :**
 * Week of 3/31/14 :**
 * Reading:** **TCAP REVIEW!!!!!**
 * Writing:** Over the next 4 weeks, we will be reviewing the major styles we covered this year…**friendly letters, persuasive/opinion, narrative/descriptive, expository**.
 * Phonics/L.A.:** Over the next 4 weeks, we will be reviewing areas of grammar that could use some polishing based on DEA scores… **parts of speech, types of sentences, commas/contractions, abbreviations, compound words, homophones, synonyms/antonyms**
 * Math:** Elapsed Time
 * Social Studies:** Weather
 * Reading:** **TCAP REVIEW!!!!!**
 * Writing:** Over the next 4 weeks, we will be reviewing the major styles we covered this year…**friendly letters, persuasive/opinion, narrative/descriptive, expository**.
 * Phonics/L.A.:** Over the next 4 weeks, we will be reviewing areas of grammar that could use some polishing based on DEA scores… **parts of speech, types of sentences, commas/contractions, abbreviations, compound words, homophones, synonyms/antonyms**
 * Math:** Finish Elapsed Time. Division: (sharing into equal groups, repeated subtraction, reverse multiplication, remainders)
 * Science:** Force and Motion
 * Reading:** **TCAP REVIEW!!!!!**
 * Writing:** Over the next 4 weeks, we will be reviewing the major styles we covered this year…**friendly letters, persuasive/opinion, narrative/descriptive, expository**.
 * Phonics/L.A.:** Over the next 4 weeks, we will be reviewing areas of grammar that could use some polishing based on DEA scores… **parts of speech, types of sentences, commas/contractions, abbreviations, compound words, homophones, synonyms/antonyms**
 * Math:** Division: (sharing into equal groups, repeated subtraction, reverse multiplication, remainders)
 * Science:** Heat and Sound Energy

**Week of 05/12/14 : **
 * Reading: **
 * Main Idea
 * Author’s Purpose/ POV
 * Evidence/ Facts
 * Sequence/ Cause & Effect
 * Compare/Contrast
 * Review and go deeper! **
 * Writing/LA: **
 * Cursive Handwriting
 * __Muggie Maggie __ by Beverly Cleary
 * Math: **
 * Multi-step Word Problems
 * Graphical Data
 * S.S.: **
 * <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 18.66px;">Research Project- Famous Tennessean