Lisa Brasher
5th Grade Teacher
Courses Taught:
Reading, Language, Spelling & Writing, 5th Grade
Monday- Reading- Read "Island Treasures: Growing up in Cuba"
Vocabulary- formal, remote, formidable, prevalent, arrogant, authoritarian, manufacturer, nostalgia, and steadfast.
Grammar- Unit on Verbs - Action/Linking Verbs- Main/Helping Verbs
Spelling-bookish, chronic, chronicle, chronological, chronometer, criticism, feverish, foolish, interject, intermediate, interruption, intersperse, intertwine, mannerism, optimism, organism, stylish, symbolism, synchronize, and ticklish.
Tuesday- Reading- Skills with Workbook
Wk. Bk. p. 161-162 Prefix Inter-; Suffixes -ish, ism; Greek root chron
Wk. Bk. p. 163-164 Vocabulary Wk. Bk. p. 167-168- Fact and Opinion
Wk. Bk. p.171-172 Spelling
Skill: Fact and Opinion
Grammar- Unit on Verbs-Subject/Verb Agreement- Past, Present, & Future Tenses
Writing- Informational Writing- Biographies
Spelling- Write spelling words into spelling spirals
Wednesday- Reading- Watch Shiloh. Compare the video to the novel.
Book Fair- 8:05 am
Grammar- Principal parts of Regular Verbs/ Principal parts
of Irregular Verbs
Spelling- Type spelling words into google docs
Thursday- Reading- 3.1 Test
Shiloh Writing Assignment due today (Homework)
Grammar- Troublesome Verbs
Writing- Informational Writing- Biographies
Spelling- Partner Practice Spelling Test
- Friday- Reading- AR Tests/Library Books
Grammar- Test over the unit of verbs
Spelling- Spelling 3.1 Test
REMINDERS- Nov. 18th- Parent Picnic
Nov. 17-21- Donate boxes of cereal to donate to the food pantry.
Education
BS in Elementary Education Auburn University of Montgomery
Masters Degree in Elementary Education Auburn University of Montgomery
EDS in Elementary Education University of West Alabama
1994-1997 Marbury High School
1997-present Pine Level Elementary School
Experience
I have been teaching in Autauga County since 1994. I taught three years at Marbury High School. I have been at Pine Level Elementary School since the school opened in 1997. I love the Pine Level/Marbury community and all the people in it.