Monday, October 12, 2015
DO NOW: Voice level 1
1. Get your binder
2. Complete planner (leave
open to today)
3. Read silently.
Planners:
EQ: Were my
hypotheses about the
cave art artifacts
correct?
HW:
• Finish Social
Studies reading
notes.
• Homework
packet.
Agenda:
• Vocabulary
• Finish Cave
art notes
• 30 book
challenge
Genre &
update
Homework packets
• Collect and distribute
Pride
Vocabulary Word Maps
Genre
• Realistic fiction
• Informational Text (non-fiction)
Non-Fiction Text Features
Social Studies
• Investigating the Past
• Page 8 in History Alive
Sections 1.4-1.9
• Work with your partner (1&2, 3&4). Take turns reading each section.
When you finish reading the section, answer the question on your
reading notes guide... “Social scientists think this was created
because…”
• Answer in full sentences using specific details from the textbook. Be
thorough!!
• If you finish, read.
30 Book Challenge charts
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
DO NOW: Voice level 1
1. Get your binder
2. Complete planner (leave
open to today)
3. Take out your homework.
4. Read silently.
Planners:
EQ: How can I add
details to my writing
to elaborate a small
memory moment?
HW:
• Homework packet
• Finish World Map
Agenda:
• Writer’s
workshop
• Grammar
Inquiry
(Quotation
marks)
• Non-Fiction
Text features
Vocabulary
• Using context clues (Plickers)
Dining rooms are usually adjacent to kitchens so that a person
can go back and forth between them easily.
Adjacent means:.
A. Next to
B. Identical to
C. Apart from
D. Extra
Writing Workshop Rules
• 1. Save everything
• 2. Date and label everything
• 3. Write on one side of the paper only, always skip lines to leave room for
editing.
• 4. Punctuate and spell as best you can WHILE writing.
• 5. Begin each workshop by rereading what you have already written
• 6. Writing is thinking. Do nothing to distract me or other writers. Don’t
put words into other’s brains as we are struggling to find our own.
• 7. When you confer with me, use as soft a voice as I use to you.
• 8. Self-edit in a color different from your original writing.
• 9. Refer to your materials and proofreading list while you write.
• 10. Write as well and as much as you can.
Small Memory Moments
Small
moment
Taking a small moment and stretching it out.
• Include Dialogue
• Include figurative language (similes and metaphors)
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What does it look like?
Smell like?
Sound like?
Feel like?
• Show—Don’t tell.
• 1 thing you really liked…
• 1 thing you think they could add…
Grammar Inquiry
“That was kind of you,” Mom says.
“Just remember,” Colin said, “it’s cold out and
you need your sweater.”
Grammar Inquiry: Quotation Marks
That was kind of you Mom says.
Just remember Colin said it’s cold out and
you need your sweater.
Choosing a story to tell: CONFLICT and
Resolution
• A time you had to say goodbye to someone or something.
• A time you experienced internal confliction (doing the right thing
even though it was easier to make the wrong choice)
• A time you doubted yourself
• Conflict with parents, friends
• An event that didn’t go as planned.
Easy CBM graphing score results.
Text features—Non Fiction
• Feature/Purpose
• Newsela
• In the Pixar short, “Lifted,” the younger alien fails at the human
abduction test. Although he is eager, he keeps pushing the wrong
buttons. The older alien has to take over control for him. When he is
sad because he failed, the older alien tries to cheer up by letting him
drive the spaceship (he fails at that too).
• In the Pixar short, “Jack, Jack Attack” Kari struggles with babysitting
Jack Jack because of his superpowers. At first, Kari seems confident
and takes good care of Jack Jack. Then, all of a sudden, Jack Jack
begins to disappear and reappear. Although it was difficult, in the
end, Kari makes it through the night and is still taking care of Jack Jack
Geography—Pages 378-379 in History Alive
• World maps—review checklist and example
• Please use PEN
Inquiry and Editing
Wednesday, October 14 , 2015
DO NOW: Voice level 1
1. Get your binder
2. Complete planner (leave
open to today)
3. Take out your HW
4. Read silently.
Planners:
EQ: What is my current
reading ability for
narrative stories?
HW:
• HW packet
• Read 20 mins.
Agenda:
• Spelling
(weekly
word study)
• Benchmark
Assessment
• Personal
narrative
writing
Weekly Word Study
• Copy no more than 5 words into your list in the first column. Make
sure you have the CORRECT spelling
• Read the first word, look at it and say it.
• Spell the word to yourself: touch each letter with your pencil and
say each letter to yourself.
• Close your eyes. See the word in your mind. Say each of the
individual letters to yourself again.
• Now, cover the correct spelling and print the word in the second
column.
• If you spelled the word correctly, put a star in the 3rd column and go
onto the next word. If you misspelled it, repeat the process again,
this time printing the word in the 3rd column.
Literary Benchmark Assessment
• The link is in Google Classroom. Please GO BACK to the
assignment and “Mark as Done” after you have pressed
“submit”
• When you are finished, start on the rough draft of your
narrative.
• If you write 3 pages and finish, then you can read.
Classroom Agreement Review
• What is one thing you are doing to make the classroom a more
positive community?
• What is one thing you personally need to work on to make the
classroom a stronger community (or more helpful).
Drawing & Candy and a Compliment
Every year on my birthday, my dad and I would go to
the amusement park and ride the rollercoaster. It
was so much fun! I really treasure the time we had
together.
“Aaaaahhh…..” I screamed, with my hands in the air, the wind
whipping through my hair. The bright flash of the camera blinded me
for a second and I knew my picture had just been taken, capturing my
joyful horror. It was my birthday. Dad and I were at Dorney Park
riding Hercules, the huge wooden rollercoaster. The trains came to a
stop at the end of the track and everyone got off. We ran around to
the photo booth to look at the picture the camera had captured on
the steep descent. “Hahaha…look at my face!” I exclaimed. “Yeah,
look at that lady behind us, she looks “Want to go on again?” I
asked Dad. “Ugh, I’m getting too old for this,” he exclaimed. “But
sure, we can go on again if you want,” he continued, “it’s your
birthday!” Dorney Park had always been a special amusement park
for Dad and I. This was the 3rd year in a row we had gone together,
just the two of us, to celebrate. “I’m so glad my two younger brother
are at home,” I thought to myself. I waited
Thursday, October 15, 2015
DO NOW: Voice level 1
1. Get your binder
2. Complete planner (leave
open to today)
3. Take out your
homework.
4. Read silently.
Planners:
EQ: How can text
features help me
comprehend
informational text?
HW:
• Homework packet
• Finish World Map
Agenda:
• Sentence
Diagramming
• Feature/
Purpose chart
• Graph CBMS
• Genre
• Library (last
15 min of
class)
Tomorrow
• Expectations
• Assignments
• Friday HW: Find a vocab word from your reading (and page #)
Finish Google Classroom Assignments
Review
T/F: The word “there” is used correctly
On Tuesday, I am going to there birthday party.
Sentence Diagramming
Did your dog chew the blue slippers?
Did his friend break the brand, new
Xbox?
Graph Easy CBMs
• Each group needs 2 red, 2 yellow and 2 green colored pencils
Susy Student
Fluency
Vocab
Comprehension
135
14
18
Goal setting
• My weakest category is:
• What skills to I need to practice to reach my winter growth goal?
• Three specific steps I will take to make sure I will reach my goal:
1.
2.
3.
Text Features
• Feature/Purpose
Genres
Friday, October 2, 2015
DO NOW: Voice level 1
1. Complete planner
2. Take out your HW and
place on desk.
3. Read silently.
Planners:
EQ: What do the 5
themes of geography
look like in real life?
HW: Find a word you
don’t know in your
reading—WRITE THE
PAGE # and the word
Monday: Summarizing
Quiz
Agenda:
• Summarizing
practice
• 5 Themes of
Geography
• Continents
and Oceans
Summarizing and Context Clues Practice
• Quiz on Monday
Geography
• 5 themes in real life
Geography
• Maps and binder checks
• Pages 378-379 in History Alive text book
Genre
• Realistic fiction
Friday Drawing
Candy and a Compliment