Monday, October 12, 2015DO NOW: Voice level 11. Get your binder2. 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, 2015DO NOW: Voice level 11. Get your binder2. 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 toB. Identical toC. Apart fromD. 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)• 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 , 2015DO NOW: Voice level 11. Get your binder2. 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, 2015DO NOW: Voice level 11. Get your binder2. 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

Fluency Vocab Comprehension

Susy Student 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, 2015DO NOW: Voice level 11. Complete planner2. 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