Lisa Brasher
5th Grade Teacher
Courses Taught:
Reading, Language, Spelling & Writing, 5th Grade
Monday- Reading- We are reading "The Marble Champ" this week.
Vocabulary- chanced, fumed, rummaged, reluctantly, slate, nerves, quivering, instinct, glumly, association, commotion, and privacy.
Grammar- "Four Kinds of Sentences" _ Declarative, Interrogative, Imperative, and Exclamatory. Review for test tomorrow.
Spelling- arrangement, contentment, endorsement, fondness, forgiveness, generousness, government, improvement, loneliness, nastiness, nonabsorbent, nondescript, nonexistent, nonresponsive, nontoxic, prearrange, precaution, predawn, prehistoric, and preseason.
Work on spelling spirals
Tuesday- Reading- Skills with Workbook
p. 1 &2- Word analysis
p. 3 &4- Vocabulary
p. 7&8- Inferences
p. 11 & 12- Spelling
Grammar- "Four Kinds of Sentences" Test Spelling- Type spelling words 3 times each into microsoft docs.
Wednesday- Reading- Work on the skill of the week- Inferences
Begin the novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Read Chapters 1-4
Put together Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Packets.
Grammar- "Subjects and Predicates"
Writing- Cursive handwriting practice
Spelling- Partner Practice Spelling Test
Thursday- Reading- Unit 1 Lesson 1 Test- word analysis, vocabulary, and cold read comprehension questions.
Read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Chp. 5-7
Work on novel packets- Setting and characters
Grammar- Subjects and Predicates
Spelling- Write a short story using ten spelling words.
Friday- Reading- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory- Chp. 8-9
Work on novel packets- Types of characters- dynamic, flat, stationary, round, etc.
Grammar- Subjects & Predicates
Spelling- Unit 1 Lesson 1 Test
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.