1. Shelley Mason
February 24, 2016
Week 14 Social Studies Review
TEKS: TEKS.b.5.A, TEKS.b.18.A, TEKS.b.18.B, TEKS.b.18.C, TEKS.b.19.A, TEKS.b.19.B
Words to Know this Week:
Explorer, natural resource, coordinates, map key, scale, urban, suburban, rural, attractions,
North, South, East, West, Cardinal and Ordinal Directions
Objective: Students will be able to recognize a map, compass rose, and map keys. Students will
be able to color code a map based on the directions given.
Note: Since this is a review week for the students, we will re-walk through what we learned in
the previous weeks. Students should know their directions by now, how to use coordinates,
and different communities. Students have also been exposed to natural resources.
Lesson Plan Steps:
1. Students will be given their copy of the Studies Weekly newsletter.
2. I will ask my students what they see on the first page. Does anything look familiar to
them?
3. We will revisit natural resources (man-made vs. non-renewable.) I will explain to
students that a natural resource is any material from the Earth that people can use. A
man made resource is something people can make (clothing, coca-cola, cars.)
4. We will revisit what the different types of communities are made of. Such as: What
makes one community different from another (suburban, urban, rural.)
5. On page 2 of the hand out, we will revisit coordinate planes and practice as a class how
to find certain places by using coordinates.
6. On page three I will read the prompt to the class, pointing out and reading, the map key
and scale and what these represent (mileage.)
7. We will answer the questions together as a whole.
8. On the second part of page three I will read the questions to the students and have
them solve the questions based on their prior knowledge. After 3-4 minutes we will
discuss the correct answers and what makes them correct.
9. The last page of the newsletter will be read and done together as a class, revisiting
important holidays and communities once more.
10. I will hand out a “Reading a Map” worksheet and go over the first example as a whole
class. Students will continue doing this activity for the remainder of Social Studies.

2. Shelley Mason
February 24, 2016
Spelling Unit 4 Week 5
Objective: The student will be able to practice spelling their wordsfor the
week in a fun and exciting manner.
Words to Know this Week:
pause, draw, launch, law, fault, jaw, sauce, hawk, raw, crawl, good, could,
among, bought, decided, assembled
LessonPlanSteps:
1. Turn on the white board to wherechildren can write on the board with the
smartboard markers.
2. Pick two students fromthe wheel of what to come up to the board.
3. Give the two students their word and have them roll a die.
4. The die number represents how the student will practice writing their
word.
Roll and Spell:
1- Write the word with your other hand.
2- Write the word as fastas you can.
3- Write the word with your eyes closed.
4- Write the word in a fancy way.
5- Write the word in ALL capital letters.
6- Write the word using tiny letters.
5. Students on each side of the dividing line will place a tally to see which
team or side gets there word written correctly and is accurate with the
rules. (This means both teams have the opportunity to get a tally.)
6. This will be done until all students have had an opportunity to practice a
spelling word.