Week in Review
1/25 - 1/29
Writing: 

• We started publishing our Southeast Informational Book. MR
• We finished drafting our Native American informational chapter. GG
• Some of us are even publishing our Native American chapter. AD
• We got calendars to help us manage all of our due dates and keep us on track with our work. LK
• We learned how to add text features to our Google Docs. IP
• We drafted leads and endings! BV

Reading:

• We are working on our interpretation goals in school. LS
• We started making new interpretation goals because we achieved our original goal! JE
• We finished getting tested at our next just right levels. JW

Math:

• We got new math partners! LD
• We also got new math spots! CH
• We are working on new math pages in our "Phonebook." BW
• A new topic that we are working on is how to add/subtract money! AA
• We are coming up with our own addition strategies and naming them! CN
• We are using models to show our thinking: equations and open number lines! VS

Science:

• We are going to start building our ecosystems! CL

HOMEWORK 1/29 Weekend HW

Reading: Read 25 minutes, log, jot

Work on your interpretation reading goal! There should be evidence of your work in your reader’s notebook!

Writing: 

Native American Drafting: Due Friday, 1/29. Everything except your endings should be fully drafted. If you have finished early, get a head start by editing/revising using a checklist!

Anchor Chart: Drafting Informational

Anchor Chart:Text Features

Publishing: Southeast Published Chapter Printed Copy is due Monday, February 1^{st 
Start publishing your Native American Draft due Thursday February, 4th}

Publishing Template

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Monday 2/1
             

Typing Club- https://darien.typingclub.com/

None this week; however, you should practice using the home row while publishing Chapter 1!

HOMEWORK 1/28

Reading: Read 25 minutes, log, jot

Work on your interpretation reading goal! There should be evidence of your work in your reader’s notebook!

Writing: 

Native American Drafting: Due Friday, 1/29. Everything except your endings should be fully drafted. If you have finished early, get a head start by editing/revising using a checklist!

Anchor Chart: Drafting Informational

Anchor Chart:Text Features

Southeast Publishing: Printed Copy is due Monday, February 1^st 

Publishing Template

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Monday 2/1
             

Typing Club- https://darien.typingclub.com/

None this week; however, you should practice using the home row while publishing Chapter 1!

HOMEWORK 1/27

Reading: Read 25 minutes, log, jot

Work on your interpretation reading goal! There should be evidence of your work in your reader’s notebook!

Writing: 

Native American Drafting: Use your planner and complete the small writing goals for each day. You must draft your 5 Headers with at least 2 subheadings for each header by Friday, 1/29. If you have finished early, get a head start by editing/revising using a checklist!

Anchor Chart: Drafting Informational

Anchor Chart:Text Features

Southeast Publishing: Printed Copy is due Monday, February 1^st 

Publishing Template

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Monday 2/1
             

Typing Club- https://darien.typingclub.com/

None this week; however, you should practice using the home row while publishing Chapter 1!

HOMEWORK 1/26

Reading: Read 25 minutes, log, jot

Work on your interpretation reading goal! There should be evidence of your work in your reader’s notebook!

Writing: 

Native American Drafting: Use your planner and complete the small writing goals for each day. You must draft your 5 Headers with at least 2 subheadings for each header by Friday, 1/29. Start drafting to meet your goals!

Anchor Chart: Drafting Informational

Anchor Chart:Text Features

Southeast Publishing: Publishing is due Monday, February 1^st

Publishing Template

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Monday 2/1
             Finish page 17-Remember to try your OWN strategy and NAME IT.                  The name should be related to what you are doing in your strategy. 

  

Typing Club- https://darien.typingclub.com/

None this week; however, you should practice using the home row while publishing Chapter 1!

HOMEWORK 1/25

Reading: Read 25 minutes, log, jot

Work on your interpretation reading goal! There should be evidence of your work in your reader’s notebook!

Writing: 

Native American Drafting: Use your planner and complete the small writing goals for each day. You must draft your 5 Headers with at least 2 subheadings for each header by Friday, 1/29. Start drafting to meet your goals!

Anchor Chart: Drafting Informational

Anchor Chart:Text Features

Southeast Publishing: Publishing in due Monday, February 1^st

Publishing Template

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Monday 2/1

  

Typing Club- https://darien.typingclub.com/

None this week; however, you should practice using the home row while publishing Chapter 1!

1/19 - 1/22

Reading:

• We earned our Marshmallow & Hot Chocolate party for completing our reading challenge over the holiday break! CN
• We made a calendar to help us organize and plan our reading research so we could meet our deadline! LS
• We are currently researching a Native American Tribe in the Southeast region. AD
• We are getting tested for our new reading levels and we are proud that we are moving up! JW
• Before the break, we made wishlists for new books to add to our classroom library. They finally came in and we were able to shop for some of these new books! LD
• When we research, we reread out research to make sure that we do not have any holes. We can list questions that we still have and then research further! LK
• We learned that researchers don't just read words to learn new information, we look at text features and notice new learning and how the author wants us to feel! MR
• We shared our fiction reading gals with another and helped each other reach them! IP

Writing: 

• We are drafting out Southeast information books. This part of our book is due on MONDAY! BV
• We are going to start a new chapter in our Southeast book about the Native Americans. BW
• We are learning how to write an informational book. We learned how to include headings, subheadings, and informational paragraphs. WM
• We learned that informational writers include text features to teach our readers information. DR & IP

Math:

• We looked at other mathematicians work and we noticed the different ways that mathematicians solve problems. They use different models and strategies. We are trying to use them too! AA
• We played a math game where we needed to add multiples of 10 or remove multiples of 10 from a number to reach a new number. Our goal, was to find 10 new numbers that were located on each page of our 1,000 books. BW
• We started and finished our 1,000 books. MR

Science: 

• We are switching for Science and we have been going to Ms. Fried's classroom! GG
• We are learning about ecosystems, how they work and what is in them. JE
• We went onto Ms. Fried's Google Classroom and we are completing a webquest. CH

Other: 

• We went to an assembly called Jump Rope for Heart and we learned all about the importance of having a healthy heart. CJ
• We are studying patterns in words! CL

HOMEWORK 1/21

Reading: Read 25 minutes, log, jot

Work on your interpretation reading goal! There should be evidence of your work in your reader’s notebook!

Research your Native American Tribe. Use your calendar and make sure you accomplish the research you scheduled for that day. ALL research is due Monday, 1/25 Use pebblegonext.com

Writing: Use your planner and complete the small writing goals for each day. You must draft your 5 Headers with at least 2 subheadings for each header by Monday, 1/25. Start drafting to meet your goals!

Anchor Chart: Drafting Informational

Anchor Chart:Text Features

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Monday 1/25

  

Typing Club- https://darien.typingclub.com/

Two sessions DUE Monday 1/25

HOMEWORK 1/20

Reading: Read 25 minutes, log, jot

                Work on your interpretation reading goal! There should be evidence of your work in your reader’s notebook!

Research your Native American Tribe. Use your calendar and make sure you accomplish the research you scheduled for that day. Use pebblegonext.com

Writing: Create a planner for yourself to map out the small writing goals for each day. You must draft your 5 Headers with at least 2 subheadings for each header by Monday, 1/25. Start drafting to meet your goals!

Anchor Chart: Drafting Informational Pieces

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Monday 1/25

  

Typing Club- https://darien.typingclub.com/

Two sessions DUE Monday 1/25

HOMEWORK 1/19

Reading: Read 30 minutes, log, jot

                Work on your interpretation reading goal! There should be evidence of your work in your reader’s notebook!

Writing: Spend 20 minutes, researching your Native American Tribe. Use your calendar and make sure you accomplish the research you scheduled for that day. Use pebblegonext.com

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Monday 1/25

  

Typing Club- https://darien.typingclub.com/

Two sessions DUE Monday 1/25

1/11- 1/15

Reading/Social Studies:

• We are combining our nonfiction reading unit and our social studies content together! MR
• Today, we went through four different stations to research the Southeast Region. We used different resources at each station and we are keeping track of which information we get from the different resources. LS
• We are finishing up our Southeast research! CN
• We are working on our interpretation fiction goals in our just right books at home! JE
• While reading nonfiction, we are working on synthesizing. Synthesizing is when you take one piece of information and put it together with another piece of information to then come up with a bigger idea. AD
• All of the research that we are doing will help us with our writing of an informational book. BW
• We took a reading test where we had 1 minute to read as much of a text as we could. We repeated this 3 times. CH

Math:

• We started our new unit and are working with LARGE numbers. We added and removed multiples of ten from numbers. We talked about what happens to the place value of the numbers. GG
• For our math warm up, we played Broken Calculator. You have to follow certain criteria to make a number, usually one of the numbers on the calculator are broken! AA
• We made a 1,000 book and had to put landmark numbers that would help anyone identify and locate any number quickly. LK
• We took a mad minute and a pre-assessment for our new math unit! CL

Writing:

• We wrote an PRE On-Demand for informational writing so Miss Sproch can see what we already know about information books! JE
• We looked at a sample of an Informational Piece to study the moves this writer has made. 

HOMEWORK 1/15 - 1/18

Reading: Read 30 minutes each day over the weekend, log, jot

                Work on your interpretation reading goal! There should be evidence of your work in your reader’s notebook! 

Use the weekend to your advantage. Finish up any research you need to still do for your Southeast Informational books.

Use Trueflix. http://auth.grolier.com/login/tfx/login.php

Username: oxridge  Password: library
           

Writing: No writing homework tonight

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Tuesday 1/19

  

Typing Club- https://darien.typingclub.com/

Two sessions DUE Tuesday 1/19

HOMEWORK 1/14

Reading: Read 30 minutes, log, jot

                Work on your interpretation reading goal! There should be evidence of your work in your reader’s notebook!

Spend 20 minutes, researching for your Southeast Information book.

Use Trueflix. http://auth.grolier.com/login/tfx/login.php

Username: oxridge  Password: library

             

Writing: No writing homework tonight

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Tuesday 1/19

  

Typing Club- https://darien.typingclub.com/

Two sessions DUE Tuesday 1/19

HOMEWORK 1/13

Reading: Read 30 minutes, log, jot

                Work on your interpretation reading goal! There should be evidence of your work in your reader’s notebook!

Spend 20 minutes, researching for your Southeast Information book.

Use Trueflix. http://auth.grolier.com/login/tfx/login.php

Username: oxridge  Password: library

             

Writing: No writing homework tonight

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Tuesday 1/19

  

Typing Club- https://darien.typingclub.com/

Two sessions DUE Tuesday 1/19

HOMEWORK 1/12

Reading: Read 30 minutes, log, jot

                Work on your interpretation reading goal! There should be evidence of your work in your reader’s notebook!

             

Writing: No writing homework tonight

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Tuesday 1/19

   Unit 3, page 52F

Typing Club-Two sessions DUE Tuesday 1/19

HOMEWORK 1/11

Reading: Read 30 minutes, log, jot

                Work on your interpretation reading goal! There should be   evidence of your work in your reader’s notebook!

             

Writing: No writing homework tonight

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Tuesday 1/19

            Page 52D & 52E Finish solving. Remember, you should make sure that your showing your thinking. ALL of your thinking should be:

 1. Visible

 2. Clear

 3. Organized. 

If not, go back and revise!

Typing Club-Two sessions DUE Tuesday 1/19

HOMEWORK 1/8

Reading: Read 30 minutes each day over the weekend, log, jot

                  Remember to push yourself to work on your INTERPRETATION WORK!

             

Writing: Prepare for your Informational On Demand by thinking about a topic you could teach others!

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Monday 1/11
             Math Assessment DUE Monday 1/11

Typing Club-Two sessions DUE Monday 1/11

1/5-1/8

Reading:

• We took a PRE-On Demand in reading. We read a nonfiction article about Ellis Island. Miss Sproch wants to know what informational interpretation work we are carrying forward with us. LK
• We made new reading goals for our fiction reading life! BV
• We got a GOLD sheet of paper. On this GOLD paper, there are lots of different interpretation strategies that we have learned so far this year. We are carrying this around with us wherever we go to help us improve our interpretation work. LS & CL
• We went to the library to shop for new just right books. DR
• We chose an interpretation strategy that we want to work on and tried them out RIGHT AWAY! WM

Math:

• We started learning how to converting units of measurement. CJ
• Jack and Connor L challenged themselves to figure out how many seconds were in a year. They succeeded! JW

Writing:

• We are working on writing a Minecraft essay and we finished our compare and contrast essay! BW
• We are getting ready to take a new on demand on Monday in writing. AA
• We flash drafted our compare and contrast essay. We were able to write it really quickly! JE

Science:

• Using 3 wires, 1 light bulb, a light bulb holder, and a battery we tried to figure out how to make a lightbulb light up! GG
• We conducted a new experiment that tested if materials were conductors or insulators! MR
• We are finishing up our Magnetism and Electricity unit, we will be moving on to our next science soon! CN
• A conductor is a material that allows electricity to flow through, and an insulator does not. CH

Other:

• We have our Geography Bee today... best of luck to CL! AD
• We are so happy that we have a new friend in our class! VS
• We started basketball and jump rope in gym! IP
• During Spanish, we acted out Three Kings Day. LD
• We started a new unit in Spanish and we are going to spell sentences in Spanish! BV
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HOMEWORK 1/7

Reading: Read 30 minutes, log, jot

                  Write the steps towards achieving your goal and monitor your progress. Everyone should be working on a goal about INTERPRETATION!

             

Writing: Prepare for your Informational On Demand

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Monday 1/11

Typing Club-Two sessions DUE Monday 1/11

HOMEWORK 1/6

Reading: Read 30 minutes, log, jot
                  Determine your reading goal.

             

Writing: Draft your Lead & first body paragraph for your compare and contrast essay. If you finished drafting, use a different colored pen to edit and revise your writing.

Math: Xtra Math-Three sessions DUE Monday 1/11

Typing Club-Two sessions DUE Monday 1/11

HOMEWORK 1/5

Reading: Read 30 minutes, log, jot

             Work on Marshmallow Challenge-Due Wednesday, January 6th!

Writing: Minecraft Essay- Drafting- You should have the lead and first supporting paragraph of Minecraft essay drafted

Math: Xtra Math-Two sessions DUE Monday 1/11

Typing Club-Two sessions DUE Monday 1/11