Monday HW

Reading:  30 minutes Read, Log, Jot

Writing: 
Finish reading through your folders and editing and revising. Make sure that when you reread your stories, they make sense! After deleting parts of your mini story, you may need to go back and read for clarity.

Math: None

Weekend HW

READING:
Read Fiction for 30 Minutes each night over the weekend, LOG, & jot your thinking throughout your entire book.

WRITING:

None

MATH: 
Unit 5, page 37

OTHER:

Thursday HW

Reading:  30 minutes Read, Log, Jot

Writing: at least 2 Mini stories and 1 list for each folder

Math: Unit 5, Page 35 Fix Ups and Page 36

Wednesday HW

READING:
Read Fiction for 30 Minutes, LOG, & jot your thinking throughout your entire book.
Narrative NF books... some of you may need to go to the library!

WRITING:

None

MATH: 
Practice Multiplication. 
Choose combinations that you want to work on then practice by playing games from Investigations tab on the right. Play 15 minutes and log on the same sheet as last night.
Game(s):
Time Played:

OTHER:
Green group: Do a blind writing sort at home with an adult tonight. Come prepared tomorrow.

Tuesday HW

READING:
Read Fiction for 30 Minutes, LOG, & jot your thinking throughout your entire book.
Narrative NF books... some of you may need to go to the library!

WRITING:

Draft one mini stories.

EXAMPLE:

My mother has been my most important teacher by teaching me to have confidence in myself. For example, one Christmas, my mom went to pull the roast out of the oven and bumped her forehead on the inside of the oven. To stop the swelling and blistering, my mom quickly ran to the freezer, grabbed a bag of peas, and draped them over her forehead. Guests and family members arrived for our Christmas party, while mom greeted them with the frozen peas on forehead. The guests weren’t surprised to see mom’s odd ice-pack because she always does what pleases her without much concern for what others think.  Whenever I get injured, I now find myself running to the freezer and grabbing the first frozen food item that will work as an ice pack. This shows that my mom has been my greatest teacher by teaching me to have confidence in myself.

MATH: 
Practice Multiplication. Choose combinations that you want to work on then practice by playing games from Investigations tab on the right.

OTHER:

Monday HW

READING:
Read Fiction for 30 Minutes, LOG, & jot your thinking throughout your entire book.
Narrative NF books... some of you may need to go to the library!

WRITING:

If you have 3 or less mini stories - draft 2 mini stories
If you have 4 or more mini stories- edit & revise making sure you are showing evidence for your claim and support!

EXAMPLE:

My mother has been my most important teacher by teaching me to have confidence in myself. For example, one Christmas, my mom went to pull the roast out of the oven and bumped her forehead on the inside of the oven. To stop the swelling and blistering, my mom quickly ran to the freezer, grabbed a bag of peas, and draped them over her forehead. Guests and family members arrived for our Christmas party, while mom greeted them with the frozen peas on forehead. The guests weren’t surprised to see mom’s odd ice-pack because she always does what pleases her without much concern for what others think.  Whenever I get injured, I now find myself running to the freezer and grabbing the first frozen food item that will work as an ice pack. This shows that my mom has been my greatest teacher by teaching me to have confidence in myself.

MATH: 
None

OTHER:

Weekend Homework

Read, log and jot each day for at least 30 minutes

Week in Review

1. We earned three more pieces to Mrs. Potato head... that means only 1 more piece to earn our party! GF
2. In gym we took the pacer test, played dodgeball, and sit. This was our last pacer test! WT
3. In reading workshop, we went to the library to search for narrative nonfiction books. We are starting a new bend in nonfiction reading, we learned how to read expository and now we are going to learn how to read narrative. We talked about how we can use strategies from reading fiction and apply it to reading narrative nonfiction. We can still use boxes and bullets, notice our characters, notice a repeating idea, and achievement and struggles.PD, GF, OP
4. We went to the Connecticut Science Museum. There was a hurricane tube that had a fan that created high speeds (78 mph) to recreate what it feels like to be in a real hurricane. WJ & DM
5. In writing, we are creating mini stories to use as evidence to support our reasons. We also just finished publishing our independent writing projects.We are organizing our essays with an envelope and file folders to show our thesis and supports. We will put the evidence for each support in the appropriate file folder to help keep us organized. We shared our independent reading projects with our partners. Our partners helped us use a checklist to notice skills we are using and skills we are not using. We then set goals for our next project together. We even started brainstorming fiction ideas for our next realistic fiction writing project. ML, AP, ET, AT, CH
6. In math we made a partner proof to show that two equations can be equal. We talked about the "Sharing is Caring" strategy. We also talked about the algorithm for addition and how it works. We found out that you can use the algorithm in two different ways, the U.S. algorithm and the "other" algorithm. We also talked about the importance of making our math thinking clear and concise so other mathematicians can follow each step we take. SL, CH, WJ, GF, WD

Wednesday/Thursday HW

READING:
Read Fiction for 30 Minutes, LOG, & jot your thinking throughout your entire book.
Bring in 3-5 JR nonfiction books. Some of you may need to take a trip to the library.

WRITING:
Brainstorm ideas for your next independent writing project. You should come to school with 3 story ideas by Friday! I have attached charts from earlier in the year to help you generate story ideas.

MATH: 

None

OTHER:
Lunch with name on it, DVD rated G

Monday HW

READING:
Read Fiction for 30 Minutes, LOG, & jot your thinking throughout your entire book.
Bring in 3-5 JR nonfiction books. Some of you may need to take a trip to the library.

WRITING:

Tonight I am asking you to do another on-demand. Set your clock for twenty or thirty minutes and write fast and furiously to support a strong opinion. This should be a new opinion that you have not written about yet. Bring this piece with you tomorrow because you’ll spend tomorrow assessing your work and setting personal goals for yourself as you head into the next part of the unit!

MATH: 
None

OTHER:

Picture retakes tomorrow, if you plan on taking retakes please brings your pictures in. 

Thursday HW

READING:
Read Fiction for 30 Minutes, LOG, & jot your thinking throughout your entire book.

WRITING:
Independent Writing Project HW DUE TOMORROW

MATH: 
NONE

OTHER:

Wear camouflage for BOOTCAMP! :)

Wednesday HW

READING:
Read Fiction for 30 Minutes, LOG, & jot your thinking throughout your entire book.

WRITING:
Independent Writing Project HW- Are you keeping up with your deadline? (Nov 7th published piece)


MATH:
Unit 5 Page 22

OTHER:

Monday & Tuesday, November 4th-5th

READING:
Read Fiction for 30 Minutes, LOG, & jot your thinking throughout your entire book.

WRITING:
Independent Writing Project HW- Are you keeping up with your deadline? (Nov 7th published piece)
Thesis Statement

MATH:
Unit 5 Page 19

OTHER:

Week in Review

1. In reading workshop, we are learning how to use boxes and bullets to help us organize our thinking for main idea and supporting details. We are trying to become the experts in one topic. If we are looking for a main idea we can look for a pop out sentence and try to support it with key details. The pop out sentence is either in the beginning of a paragraph or the end. We also got to read our fiction books and use the strategies we know. We also talked about the importance of bringing forward all the stuff we have learned. See the chart we created together below:
      (ML, CH, WT, GF, SL)
2. In gym, we did the flexibility test. We got three tries to reach forward as far as you could. CW, WD
3. In math, we have been using the phonebook and talking about numbers up to 1,000. We are learning to use the open number to model our thinking when adding. When adding, we can break up a number into smaller landmark numbers to help add. We learning many strategies for adding so we have a large tool belt of strategies for adding. PD, KL, CH, AP
4. We had two parties, we celebrated Halloween and Lachlan's birthday! AT
5. In writing workshop we have been brainstorming essay ideas. Here are some strategies we learned: 
   
   We are also using thought prompts to push our thinking and write long about one topic. OnHalloween, we wrote Halloween essays. We got prompts to help us with essay ideas and used essay bootcamp to help us write them! CH, AT, ML, ET
6. We are studying for a BIG Spanish test and it is going on our report card this year. JW

Weekend Homework

READING:
Read Fiction for 30 Minutes, LOG, & jot your thinking throughout your entire book.

WRITING:
Independent Writing Project HW- Are you keeping up with your deadline? (Nov 7th published piece)

MATH:
None

OTHER:

Second Steps: Due Friday, November 1st

Field Trip: Due Friday, November 1st

SPANISH: Study for Test on Monday!