Announcements and Reminders:
Study your sentence diagramming guide if you haven't yet mastered the sentences on the quizzes we have been taking.
Use your magical study guide to help you learn the word parts you will be tested on.
If you have not finished your magical study guide or had it checked off, quietly complete the assignment during reading time.
Book of the Month: Historical Fiction or Multicultural Fiction
Sign-Ups due January 26/27 -- today.
 Your assessment is due by February 9/10. The last day to hand in late work, revised work, or extra credit
for Term 3 will be March 10.
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Targets for Today:
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Today’s Agenda:
1. Individual Reading
(2) B-Day Verb Circle
3. What are prepositions and prepositional phrases? Schoolhouse Rock -- Prepositions Preposition Definition: a word that connects a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun to another word, esp. to a verb, another noun, or an adjective: In the sentence, "We jumped in the lake," "in" is a preposition. 4. Create a manipulative for prepositions.  a. Receive a half sheet of cardstock and a small piece. b. Fold the half sheet in half -- hamburger-wise. c. Watch how the teacher demonstrates the measurements, cuts, and fold you will make on the paper. See steps 1, 2, 3, 4 here: http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-3D-Card d. Cut the small piece into a shape that will fit through the pop-out. e. Use a hole punch to punch a hole in the card -- top right or left corner, and on the small shape. f. Use a piece of string (about ___ inches long) to tie the shape to the card. g. Look at your list of prepositions and on the front of the card write all of them that apply to what you can do with the small shape in relation to the card. These nine prepositions do 92.docx For instance, I can move the small shape BEHIND the card or THOUGH the pop-up. h. Any of the prepositions that do not apply to the small shape and card should be written on the back of the card. i. Label the card "Prepositions" and add your name. 5 Diagramming with prepositional phrases:       
Examples:
a) Priscilla has Monk in a hammerlock.
(from "Priscilla and the Wimps").
b) In their beds, the children were sleeping.
c) Jordan found a book about origami.
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If we have time, we will do this: We did not do this yet. Expect it next time.
6. Begin reading an historical/multicultural book as a class.
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If You Were Absent:
Read your book of the month and work on the assessment/project.
Watch the video about prepositions. Pick up the handout about prepositions, or print your own: These nine prepositions do 92.docx
Create a preposition manipulative (pop-up card).
Diagram the two sentences given in the CSI. |
Vocabulary:
Preposition
Definition: a word that connects a noun, a noun phrase, or a pronoun to another word, esp. to a verb, another noun, or an adjective: In the sentence, "We jumped in the lake," "in" is a preposition.
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Review of
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Teacher Materials:
