Good Thursday Morning!Today is August 22, 2013.

Interesting Quote of the Day: “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” --Harriet Beecher Stowe (American novelist)

1. Please sign in and find your seat quietly.2. Copy your vocabulary words into the

Reading Keys section of your Stash book.3. Take care of any morning needs. (Pencils,

bathroom, water, check out a book, etc.) Do you have your morning books? Be sure you do because you will not be allowed to get up during class.

Trivial Fact of the Day: England’s Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Rome’s Coliseum.

• goal- what you are working to accomplish

• cocoa- main ingredient in chocolate

• coal- dark material used as fuel• approach- to come closer• boast- to brag

Today is National “Be An Angel Day.” Who is the most angelic person you know? Who is an

angelic character from a favorite book?

goal

cocoa

coal

approach

boast

1. Read the description in the model paragraph of a miniature imaginary horse inside a cupboard.

2. Study the sample imitation paragraph, one sentence at a time. Notice how the sentences in the imitation paragraph are written like the sentences in the model paragraph.

3. Write your own paragraph describing any real or imaginary animal, imitating the way the sentences are written in both the model and imitation paragraphs.

Model:1)There, inside the cupboard, prancing and pawing the white paint, was a lovely, shiny-coated little brown horse. 2) As the cupboard door swung open, the horse shied nervously, turning his face and pricking his ears. 3) Its tiny nostrils flared, and its back tail plumed above his haunches as it gave a high, shrill neigh. The Indian in the Cupboard

Imitation:1)Now, within the park, racing and chasing the bouncing ball, was the little black-haired fast Happy-Dog.2) When the ball stopped suddenly, Happy-Dog stopped immediately, making a u-turn and heading for it. 3) His movement slowed, and his two front paws raised above the ball as his owner yelled a cheerful, praising comment.

Now…on a separate piece of paper…Create your own imitation paragraph.

Let’s Be Writers!

Let’s just write!

Summary Sheet

Now that you are FANTASTIC summarizers, let’s put that knowledge into practice!

Double Entry Journal Explanation

Read the Animal Adaptations article and

complete your worksheet.

You must justify your answers!

Animal Adaptation

Concentration

12:00-1:45

• 12:00-12:45 --- Activity• 12:45-1:15 --- Lunch• 1:15-1:45 ---

Recess/Bathroom

Math

5, 4, 7, 3, 6, 9

Math Time!

1:45 – 2:50

Math Workbook p49

Math Workbook p50

• Independent Practice p51-52

Math Workbook p51

Math Workbook p52

Clean up/Pack up

• Please remember what your individual responsibility is.

3:10-3:15