Thursday HW

Reading: Read/Log/Jot Think about one strategy that you will work on and put it in your reader's notebook.

Writing: Completed draft ready to edit and revise

Math- Xtra Math

SS- Last chance for retake is tomorrow!

Wednesday HW

Reading- Read 30 min, Log, Jot

Writing- Finish collecting evidence for your claim. Be prepared to finish your flash draft tomorrow!

Math- Xtra Math

Social Studies- Study for your retake! Make sure you bring your ticket!

Bring in breakfast food items if you can (needs to be able to feed everyone ) and don't forget to wear your PJ's! You can also bring in your favorite stuffed animal!

Tuesday HW

Reading- Read 30 min/log/jot

Math- Xtra Math

Writing- Finish collecting evidence for your essay (micro stories and quotes)

Second Steps- Handout completed with parent

Social Studies- Retake is on Thursday, study and have test signed. This is your ticket for the retake!

HW MONDAY

Reading: Read/Log/Jot

Writing: Use quotations as support for your claim.

Math: Xtra Math

Wednesday HW

Reading: Read up to goal set by your book club. Come prepared to talk long about your book. Read 30 minutes/Log/ Jot
Logs and NB's are going to be checked!

Math:  Xtra math

Tuesday HW

Reading: Read up to goal set by your book club. Come prepared to talk long about your book. Read 30 minutes/Log/ Jot

Math: Unit 6, page 15
            Xtra math

Monday Homework

Reading: Read up to goal set by your book club. Come prepared to talk long about your book. Read 30 minutes/Log/ Jot


Writing: Finish writing "All About Essays" and determine where you might put your essay out in the world. We will photocopy them in school.

Math: Unit 6, page 9 & 10

WEEKEND HW

Reading: Read up to goal set by your book club. Come prepared to talk long about your book. You can practice talking about ideas you have with someone at home!

Read 30 minutes/LOG/JOT Friday, Saturday, and Sunday

Writing: Finish editing/revising your persuasive essay. Use the checklist to help you make sure you are working up to "Yes." You will need both your published personal essay and persuasive essay on Monday.

Week in Review 1/6 - 1/10

1. In reading we started historical fiction book clubs. We talked about book club bottom lines in order to make sure our clubs run smoothly. We set goals within our clubs to determine how many pages we will read each day. This is important so we stay at the same page, don't get ahead and possibly spoil the book for others! While we are reading, we are paying attention to the characters, setting, the history and the mood of the story. CR, WT, CH, LM, WD
2. In writing we are drafting our persuasive essays. We should have our essays finished by Monday. When writing a persuasive essay, we take out our opinions and we apply them to MANY people. It is important to know who your audience is and write to persuade them. We learned about using evidence to support our claim. One way to do this is by interviewing people to write mini stories. We angle the mini stories to persuade our readers of our claim. We can also research to find facts and statistics to support our claim. We have been working hard to convince our audience by connecting our evidence back to our reasons and claim. CR, AT, WV, GF, OP, WD
3. Yesterday we had High Touch, High Tech and we learned about rain and made a cloud inside the classroom. We made fresh water by filtering it with soil, sand, and both big and little rocks. We talked about the life cycle of water and how it works. We put water in two different cups, one with ice and one without. We could feel water on the outside of the cup. This is called condensation. Lastly, we got fortune telling fish that move when there is moisture in the air. DM, WT, CH, SL, AT, WD
4. In gym we are playing basketball. CW
5. In math we started learning about fractions. We are finding different fractions of squares and we are also noticing how some fractions are equal to others like 3/6 = 1/2. The number on the top is called the numerator and bottom is called the denominator. The numerator is how many shaded or shared and the denominator is how many equal parts. We are working with halves, fourths, eights, thirds, and sixths. AT, WT, CH, KL, JW, GF, SM

Wednesday HW

Reading- Catch up to the goal you set with your book club. Remember to prepare for your book club conversation and bring something you would like to discuss. 

Read 30 min/log/jot

Writing- Interview people to get mini stories for your claim or research statistics/facts. Come prepared to write tomorrow! If you are falling behind you can write some mini stories at home.

Math- Unit 6, page 2 and Xtra Math

Monday HW

Reading: Read/Log/Jot 30 minutes

Math: Unit 5, page 72 and Xtra Math