HW MONDAY

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! (Mental Movie, Predictions, Character Theories) Remember that our thoughts become powerful when we provide evidence from the text to support our thinking!

Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!

WRITING:
Publish if needed

MATH:
None


OTHER:
STAR BOOK- Read the story, "A Secret Bully" with a parent, talk about the discussion questions, and complete the STAR sheet in the booklet when it is your night.

Weekend HW

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! (Mental Movie, Predictions, Character Theories) Remember that our thoughts become powerful when we provide evidence from the text to support our thinking!

Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!

WRITING:
None

MATH:
Complete Two That Quiz Tests. Everyone takes the first test.
Multiplication Untimed: http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/classtest?FNKGXVP7

If you get 95% or higher take this test: http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/classtest?AHZ676RM

If you get 94% or lower take this test: http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/classtest?PKKF76MY


OTHER:
STAR BOOK- Read the story, "A Secret Bully" with a parent, talk about the discussion questions, and complete the STAR sheet in the booklet when it is your night.

Week In Review 9/23 -9/27

1. In reading workshop we have been studying our characters and thinking about their character traits. We are all jotting about characters trying to grow theories about them. We noticed that some character traits match well with others. We have been working on noticing when our characters are not acting like themselves and then we jot down a new theory about them. We use the prompt, "I used to think.... but now I think..." We also went back and revisited our reading goal to see the progress we are making towards achieving them. ML, ET, CR, SL, OP, JW
2. In writing workshop, we edited our pieces and realize that as writers we have important tools that we carry with us: spelling, punctuation, and tenses. We finished up our realistic fiction drafts and starting thinking about titles for our stories. We are now in the publishing phase of the writing process.  KL, WV, CH
3. In math, we started a new investigation. There was talk in the teacher's lounge that there might be a field trip to an amusement park. There are 100 kids and thirteen chaperones. We had to figure out how many students would be in each group. We tried to make even groups, but since we couldn't halve numbers we realized that some groups would be uneven. We are always thinking about new strategies to help us with our math. We are learning to use open arrays flexibly when multiplying numbers. We realized that we can split numbers and add on to our array to make it easier to solve. We are starting our math proof today! We played the game, "Fill the Machine" with our math partners. It helped us to learn how to use arrays. AT, WD, JW, TS, PD
4. In gym, we are still playing soccer and working on the fitness test and mile run. WT, AP
5. We came in this morning and were extremely excited to read all the letters from our parents! SM
6. We had a substitute this week and she helped us learn for the day! LM
7. 5 people have been caught in the "I caught you jar." Wyatt won this week! CH, WJ
8. We read the Tiger Rising and Rob is the main character. We are growing different theories about him. CC
9. In art, we are drawing eagles in honor of Veteran's Day. CW

Thursday HW

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! (Mental Movie, Predictions, Character Theories) Remember that our thoughts become powerful when we provide evidence from the text to support our thinking!

Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!

WRITING:
None

MATH:
Complete Two That Quiz Tests. Everyone takes the first test.
Multiplication Untimed: http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/classtest?FNKGXVP7

If you get 95% or higher take this test: http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/classtest?AHZ676RM

If you get 94% or lower take this test: http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/classtest?PKKF76MY


OTHER:
STAR BOOK- Read the story, "A Secret Bully" with a parent, talk about the discussion questions, and complete the STAR sheet in the booklet when it is your night.

Homework Wednesday

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! (Mental Movie, Predictions, Character Theories) Remember that our thoughts become powerful when we provide evidence from the text to support our thinking!

Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!

WRITING:
None

MATH:
Complete Two That Quiz Tests. Everyone takes the first test.
Multiplication Untimed: http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/classtest?FNKGXVP7

If you get 95% or higher take this test: http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/classtest?AHZ676RM

If you get 94% or lower take this test: http://www.thatquiz.org/tq/classtest?PKKF76MY


OTHER:
STAR BOOK- Read the story, "A Secret Bully" with a parent, talk about the discussion questions, and complete the STAR sheet in the booklet when it is your night.

Student Council- Wednesday AM twice a month. We will hold elections this week.

Homework Tuesday

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! (Mental Movie, Predictions, Character Theories) Remember that our thoughts become powerful when we provide evidence from the text to support our thinking!

Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!

WRITING:
Finish all drafting. 

OTHER:
STAR BOOK- Read the story, "A Secret Bully" with a parent, talk about the discussion questions, and complete the STAR sheet in the booklet when it is your night.

Student Council- Wednesday AM twice a month. We will hold elections this week.

Homework Monday

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! (Mental Movie, Predictions, Character Theories) Remember that our thoughts become powerful when we provide evidence from the text to support our thinking!

Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!

WRITING:
Choose one scene and really try to stretch it out telling exact details of character actions, thinking, and dialogue. Zoom in and include information about the setting.

OTHER:
STAR BOOK- Read the story, "A Secret Bully" with a parent, talk about the discussion questions, and complete the STAR sheet in the booklet when it is your night.

Student Council- Wednesday AM twice a month. We will hold elections this week.

Weekend HW

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! (Mental Movie, Predictions, Growing Ideas) Remember that our thoughts become powerful when we provide evidence from the text to support our thinking!

Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!

WRITING:
Naming our Stories

OTHER:
STAR BOOK- Read the story, "A Secret Bully" with a parent, talk about the discussion questions, and complete the STAR sheet in the booklet when it is your night.

Week in Review 9/16 - 9/20

1. In Writing Workshop we are really close to finishing your stories. We were reading our draft through different color glasses to teach us that writers revise their stories by reading through different lenses. We have been revising our drafts in different colored pens to show how we are improving our stories. These lenses helped us revise our drafts in different ones, for example we read through the lens of cardboard character alert making sure that our character wasn't floating. We created a Tips, Advice & Reminders section in our Writer's Notebooks. We created our own teacher charts to remind ourselves of the great things writers do. For example, some of us studied mentor texts for punctuation and dialogue. We included these in our tips and advice section to remind us how to use these different types of punctuation. At home, we made a writing spot for ourselves and drew a picture of it. We put stuff that would inspire us to write in these places. DM, CW, JW, WJ, 
2. In Math we started looking at a different vending machine: The Iced Tea Machine. We were trying to find out how many boxes of iced tea would fit in the whole iced tea machine. The machine would hold 132 bottles. Each box held 10 six packs, which we figured out was 60 bottles. We came to the conclusion that the vending machine would hold 2 boxes and 2/10 of a box. It also held 2 boxes and 2 six packs. Lastly, it held 22 six packs. After talking with our partners, we then created a partner proof. We made a math portfolio and we put our very first proof alone and our very first partner proof in them. We made a goal to help push us to be the best mathematician we could possibly be both independently and with a partner! SL, JW, AP, WJ, AT, CR
3. In gym we have been playing soccer. We played in teams four on four. We started training for fitness test. WT, WD, PD
4. In reading workshop, we have been working on making predictions. We make predictions by paying attention to the characters and figure out what they will do next and how they will do it. When we make predictions we read on and sometimes have to revise or grow a new idea. We use the evidence from the text to prove our thinking. We are also carrying forward all the strategies we have learned since the beginning of the year and third grade, such as growing a movie in our mind. We are in the middle of our character unit. WT, OP, ML, CH, LM, CR, 

Thursday HW

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! (Mental Movie, Predictions, other) Remember that our thoughts become powerful when we provide evidence from the text to support our thinking!

Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!

WRITING:
A Time and Place for Writing At Home

OTHER:
STAR BOOK- Read the story, "A Secret Bully" with a parent, talk about the discussion questions, and complete the STAR sheet in the booklet when it is your night.

Wednesday Homework

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! (Mental Movie, Predictions, other) Remember that our thoughts become powerful when we provide evidence from the text to support our thinking!

Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!

WRITING:
Read your draft through another lens tonight. See sheet

OTHER:
STAR BOOK- Read the story, "A Secret Bully" with a parent, talk about the discussion questions, and complete the STAR sheet in the booklet when it is your night.

Tuesday Homework

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! (Mental Movie, Predictions)
Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!


WRITING:
Finish drafting--use rubric to revise your drafts. What have you done so far? What do you still need to do?

OTHER:
STAR BOOK- Read the story, "A Secret Bully" with a parent, talk about the discussion questions, and complete the STAR sheet in the booklet when it is your night.

Homework Monday

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! (Mental Movie, Predictions)
Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!


WRITING:
See sheet.
Remember to Post-It your work with revision work that needs to be done. See my example

Week in Review 9/9 - 9/13

1. We have been making mental movies in our minds as we read. We have been jotting the mental movies we are having on stickies. We shared our mental movies with our partners. We try to use these prompts: "I can see..." "I can hear..." "I can feel..." "I can taste..." "I can smell..." Sometimes as readers we  revise our mental movies when we get more information about our characters and the setting.We have our just right book levels and are trying to read books are these levels so we can grow as readers. WE went to the library and looked up books that are our level and started a list of just right books in our notebooks. We are constantly pushing ourself to reach our reading goals! WJ, AT, CH, ML, OP, JW, AP, SM, KL, SL, CW, WT
2. In math, we have new math partners. We have been investigating vending machines. At the teachers lounge of Tokeneke, there are two vending machines. One has 6 different kind of juice and one hold only water. We had to find out how many six-packs filled the machine if there were 156 bottle in total. There was also 156 bottles that fit in the juice vending machine. We had to figure out how many bottles of each flavor would fit in this machine. We made posters that showed all of our thinking to prove our work. We had a gallery walk and noticed difference and similarities between strategies used on these posters. At the end, we examined some of the proofs and made a list of  helpful strategies. AT, WT, CW, JW, OP, GF, PD, WD, ET
3. We earned another piece to Mrs. Potato head because we worked together as a class. We came into the classroom and sat on the rug waiting quietly without being asked! Now we have pants, eyes, and the potato. DM, KL, AT
4. During writing, we started plotting our scenes from our story arcs onto a drafting booklet. We wrote leads and revised them by studying published authors and noticing what they do. We noticed that they use dialogue, show don't tell, actions, flashbacks, description of the setting. WE studied a former students piece to see how they went through the revising process. With our writing partners we talked about the different ways we could start our leads. We started drafting our stories and we are writing fast and strong. (Many Students)
5. In second steps, we learned about listening with attention. WJ

Ask us about our week!

Weekend Homework

READING:
Read 30 minutes each day/night over the weekend. JOT- make a movie in your mind!
Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!
Create a section in your notebook for JUST RIGHT BOOKS. Use Booksource.com or Destiny to search for JR books that you would be interested in reading. Carefully read what the book is about before deciding if you are interested or not. "Don't judge a book by its cover or title!" Create a list making sure to include the Title and Author. You should have at least 7 books :)

WRITING: none


OTHER:
Me in a Nutshell/ME BOX DUE MONDAY
Second Steps-Listening with Attention (See Sheet)

Thursday, Homework

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot- make a movie in your mind!
Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!
Create a section in your notebook for JUST RIGHT BOOKS. Use Booksource.com to search for JR books that you would be interested in reading. Carefully read what the book is about before deciding if you are interested or not. "Don't judge a book by its cover or title!" Create a list making sure to include the Title and Author.

WRITING:
Look at your goal that you set for yourself as a writer. Read over your draft, revise accordingly making sure that you are pushing yourself to reach your goal.

For example: My goal as a writer is to make sure that I use the right punctuation when using dialogue.

OTHER:
Me in a Nutshell/ME BOX

Wednesday 9/11 Homework

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot- make a movie in your mind!
Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!
Create a section in your notebook for JUST RIGHT BOOKS. Use Booksource.com to search for JR books that you would be interested in reading. Carefully read what the book is about before deciding if you are interested or not. "Don't judge a book by its cover or title!" Create a list making sure to include the Title and Author.

WRITING:
If you did not complete your drafting booklet during WW, tonight you must complete your booklet.

OTHER:
Me in a Nutshell/ME BOX

Homework Tuesday, September 10th

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot- make a movie in your mind!
Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!

WRITING:
Complete 2-3 story arcs.
Catch up on any other writing.

OTHER:
Me in a Nutshell/ME BOX

Homework Monday, September 9th

READING:
Read 30 minutes
Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!

WRITING:
Wants and Struggles- 2 scenes that show what your character wants and how they are struggling with it

Secondary Characters- see sheet

OTHER:
Bring in a recent picture of yourself for our time capsule

Me in a Nutshell/ME BOX

Week in Review

1. We have been generating ideas for fiction stories by writing small moments and then turning them into possible realistic fiction story ideas. We also thought about issues that matter to us and created a character who struggles with this issue. Lastly, we brainstormed ideas by thinking about stories we wish existed in the world. We brainstormed our own ideas and are writing about something that is important to us! We wrote 5-7 story ideas and then today we picked a story that we want to write about.  We are developing our characters internal and external traits. We described what our characters look like, how they behave, how they think about themselves, how others think about them. ML, CW, AT, WJ, SL, TS, AP
2. In reading workshop, we have been working hard towards achieving our goals. We set reasonable goals for ourselves. We have reading partners and we share our thoughts with them. We are trying to read more and more everyday. We are also jotting down the thinking we have and put them in our reader's notebook when we are done. We have our own reading spots. We read aloud our stories to our reading partners and retold the story to see if we were reading a JR book. We have been picking out JR books and reading them! We shared our reading log with our reading partners and helped each other to set goals. Our reading partners also helped to determine whether we were reading JR books from looking at our logs! We watched a video of two partners who were studying their logs and we noticed how they talk long about their reading lives. We created a chart together as a class to help us study logs and talk long about them. CW, WT, LM, SL, CH, WJ, AT, PD, JW OP
3. In math, we have been working on math strings. We talked with our partners about strategies we are using as mathematicians. We figured out it is easy to move to a landmark number and then add or subtract the extra. We are noticing patterns in math and talking about them. We didn't just say the answer to the problem, we talked about efficient strategies and the numbers. We had an addition and subtraction string. CW, SL, OP, JW, GF, TS
4. We are going to share our me boxes today! OP

Homework Weekend

READING:
Read 30 minutes
Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!
A Time and a Place for Reading- Past Due

WRITING:
5-7 Story Ideas
Choose the ONE!
Develop your characters by thinking about the internal and external traits. You might also start to think about the attitude your character has towards themselves and the attitudes others have toward your main character.

OTHER:
Bring in a recent picture of yourself for our time capsule

Me in a Nutshell/ME BOX
Second Steps- Empathy and Respect Due Friday
STAR Bus Contract

Homework Wednesday & Thursday

READING:
Read 30 minutes
Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!
A Time and a Place for Reading- DUE FRIDAY
Bring in Summer Reading Project- PAST DUE

WRITING:
Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments- if you need to make up this assignment, you have until Friday
Make sure to include the date and write in a different color.

OTHER:
Bring in a recent picture of yourself for our time capsule

Me in a Nutshell/ME BOX
Second Steps- Empathy and Respect Due Friday

Homework Tuesday, September 3rd

READING:
Read 30 minutes
Log and remember to push yourself to reach your goal!
A Time and a Place for Reading- DUE FRIDAY

Bring in Summer Reading Project- PAST DUE

WRITING:
Imagining Stories from Ordinary Moments- See Sheet Due Tomorrow
Make sure to include the date and write in a different color.

OTHER:
Bring in a recent picture of yourself for our time capsule

Me in a Nutshell/ME BOX