READING: Students are practicing reading strategies such as making predictions and connections, asking questions, and summarizing before, during and after reading with novels.

Some students have a reading log due FRIDAY.

WRITING:Figurative Language-similes & metaphors, alliteration, hyperbole, personification, imagery are being used to write a color poem. Children have chosen an item in which they will write a descriptive piece using imagery.

SPELLING: suffix test-FRIDAY

VOCABULARY: genial & spectacular-THURSDAY

coax & humiliate; exhilarate & conceit; indignanat & grudgingly; infuriate & eccentric

MATH: Unit 1, 5, 6 (perimeter, place value and adding & subtracting of whole numbers & decimals)

*HOMEWORK DUE - TUESDAY

Hancock- sheet

Karon-

Nickel- pick a side

SOCIAL STUDIES:

Geograhy quiz - FRIDAY

SCIENCE:

MONTHLY PROJECT: Election Project-Keep practicing!

http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/election2008.htm

http://www.nssd112.org/redoak/faculty/hancock/html

SPANISH:

OTHER:

2008 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

A Presidential election occurs every four years in the U.S. This year’s election will be held Tuesday, November 4. Though there are many candidates running for the office of President, your research will focus on one of the candidates from the two major parties, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.

GOALS:

1. You will be assigned a candidate and become an expert on their ideas concerning one important issue in this year’s campaign.
2. You will create a poster outlining your candidate’s position on the issue you researched.
3. You will share what you learned with others.

TIMELINE:

Sept. 8-22: Complete the organizer on the back of this paper. Use the two links to Scholastic and Time for Kids on the 5-H wesite on Red Oak’s site at www.nssd112.org/redoak/
You may also use other resources such as your parents, newspapers, news shows, other websites, etc.

Sept. 24-Oct. 3: Create a poster similar to the sample I will give you.
YOUR POSTER IS DUE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 3!

Oct. 6-12: Practice your presentation at home.

Oct. 13-17: Practice your presentation at school.

Oct. 20-24: Present your poster to other grade levels.

November 3: 5th graders will conduct a mock Presidential election during the schoolday.

Candidates (circle one)      John McCain      Barack Obama

Issue (circle one) Iraq      economy     environment

education health care   national security

Idea 1

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Idea 2

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Idea 3

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