Reading Unit 1
Focus On Family

A Visit With Grandpa

Vocabulary: biscuits, dough, prairie, raisins, rumpled, teasing, wrinkled
Comprehension Skill: Setting, Writing about Setting
 Setting TipSetting Tip 2
Grammar:  Statements and Questions, 
The Purpose of a Sentence

Spelling Unit 1  Vocabulary Quiz
Check out these websites:

 Horses 4 Kids

Horse Lovers Corral - Info and fun!

 A White Horse

African American Cowboys


Build a Prairie

Yummy Homemade Biscuit Recipe!

  Learn About The Wild Horses at Corolla
 Horse Breeds of the World

Train To Somewhere

train
Vocabulary: adopt, carriage, atlas, platform, misery, couple

Comprehension Skill: Sequence

PBS Kids - Sequencing         Sequencing Lessons          Sequencing Quia Activities  Monkey Business Rain Forest Run Around
 
Spelling Unit 2 Vocabulary Quia
Check out these websites:

 Orphan Train -0ne Boy's True Story Retold

 A Midnight's Train Ride Home
 

 Read About The Orphans Who Rode the Train to Missouri

  Orphan Trains of Kansas

Level Reader Group C:
Links for Folktales
 Pitara - Talespin Folktales
 Yahoo directory of Folktales
 The Mouse Who Lived in a Lions Cave
 Folktale List

 

Yingtao's New Friend
Vocabulary: instruments, orchestra, rehearsal, measures, triangle
Comprehension Skill: Compare and Contrast /Skill Tip
Compare/Contrast Practice Lesson,
Internet Workshop
Spelling Unit 3 Vocabulary Quia
Websites to check out just for kids: 

 San Francisco Symphony

 Dallas Symphony Orchestra (Look at different Instruments)
Play Music
(Take a seat in the orchestra)
 

Compare/Contrast Research Links

Schools in 1800's
Rural Education
 Thinkquest - mid 1800-s
 Schools in the 1800's by students
 School Days

 
Family Pictures
Vocabulary: memories, border, laundry, future, involved, inspired, handkerchief, scene
Comprehension Skill: Author's Purpose
 Palmasola - Authors Purpose 
Grammar Skill: Exclamatory & Imperative Sentences
 
Spelling Unit 4 Vocabulary Quia
Check out these websites:  Why Make Tamales 

Cooking with Nopal Leaves
 
 

Addie In Charge
Vocabulary:
bellows - makes a loud, deep noise 
billows - great waves of smoke, flame, or sound   crouched - stooped low with bent legs 
smarted - felt or caused sharp pain 
tufts - bunches of feathers, hair, or grass held together at one end 
Comprehension Skill: Characters
 Character Tips - Similarities and Differences in Characters
Grammar: Simple & Compound Sentences
 
Spelling Unit 5 Vocabulary Quia
Check this out:

 Welcome to the Wild West

 Pioneer Life

 Pioneer Life Center
 

 SF Internet Workshop
 

 Scavenger Hunt
 

 Pioneer Life in America


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