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Grade Focus Calendar

September 8 12, 2014 Week #3 Mrs. Walker/Ms. Alvarez

This calendar will provide you with an idea of what we are learning. Parents dont forget to check
out our Weekly Focus Calendar and other information on our class web site. Please visit
barronwalker.weebly.com or msalvarez5d.weebly.com .
Reading Focus Skill/Strategy: Informational Text

Reading Vocabulary:
Vocabulary: ((ambiguous, applaud, bicentennial,
calcium, decagon, decelerate, deflect, dispute,
dominate, herbivorous, illuminate, juvenile, laborious,
magnify, navigate, nonfiction, optimal, pedestrian,
preamble, quartet, submerge, Stanza, )

Poetry Focus: Sensory
Genre: Expository
Poem: Majave
Elements of Poetry structure

Language Arts Focus Skill: Capitalization,
Irregular Verbs, initials, acronyms



Social Studies
Vocabulary: ( culture, ideals, allegiance, pledge,
republic, indivisible, liberty, Statue of Liberty,
Liberty Bell, Seal of the United States, Uncle Sam E
Pluribus Unum, political party, civic duty, citizen)

Focus: Recognizing and understanding American
Symbols and what they represent.









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Grade Dolch words: (These are the words 5
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grade student needs to be able to read fluently
by the end of the year. We will work on 10
words per week.) Practice reading the following
words:
bandage bank bathe beautiful
begin begun believe blackboard
bleed blind


Spelling words: (ambiguous, applaud, bicentennial,
calcium, decagon, decelerate, deflect, dispute, dominate,
herbivorous, illuminate, juvenile, laborious, magnify, navigate,
nonfiction, optimal, pedestrian, preamble, quartet, submerge)