Lisa Brasher
5th Grade Teacher
Courses Taught:
Reading, Language, Spelling & Writing, 5th Grade
Monday- Reading- Read "Just 17 Syllables"
Vocabulary- expressway, gradually, welled, melancholy, insurance, clearing, shogun, regularly, verse, fiddled, pondered, and charming. .
Grammar- Text Dependent Writing from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Spelling-abrupt, amphibious, audience, audiobooks, audiology, audiovisual, audit, auditorium, auditory, autobiography, bankrupt, biodiversity, biography, biology, disrupt, eruption, inaudible, interruption, microbiologist, and rupture.
Tuesday- Reading- Skills with Workbook
Wk. Bk. p. 217-218 Greek Root bio-, Latin Roots aud, rupt
Wk. Bk. p. 219-220 Vocabulary Wk. Bk. p.223-224 Fact and Opinion
Wk. Bk. p.227-228 Spelling
Skill: Theme
Grammar- What is a Pronoun? Pronouns/Antecedents
Writing- Compare/Contrast two characters from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Spelling- Write spelling words into spelling spirals
Wednesday- Reading- Plot Mountains for Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Library- AR Books
Grammar- Possessive and Indefinite Pronouns Review
Subject and Object Pronouns Review
Who and Whom
Spelling- Type spelling words into google docs
Thursday- Reading- 3.3 Test
Grammar- Interrogative and Demonstrative Pronouns Review
Writing- Compare/Contrast 2 Characters from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Spelling- Write spelling words 3 times each.
Friday- Reading- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Grammar- Unit Test on Pronouns
Spelling- Spelling 3.5 Test
REMINDERS-
January 27 &29th- ACAP Practice Test
February 6-12- STARBASE Field Trip (Students only)
February 13th- Valentine Special Snack
Willy Wonka Chocolate Party
February 16th- Teacher Work Day
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.