Homework Wednesday

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:
Play "Changing Places" game with a family member (parent or older sibling)

OTHER:

Second Steps: Due Friday, November 1st

Field Trip: Due Friday, November 1st

HW Monday, October 28th

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:
Fall for Math: www.darienps.org/mathmadness/
Make sure you log your time :) Due tomorrow!

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.

Second Steps: Due Friday, November 1st

Field Trip: Due Friday, November 1st

WEEKEND HOMEWORK

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

What are you doing to reach your goal?

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

MATH:
Fall for Math: www.darienps.org/mathmadness/
Make sure you log your time :)

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.

Thursday HW

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

What are you doing to reach your goal?

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

MATH:
Fall for Math: www.darienps.org/mathmadness/
Make sure you log your time :)

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.

Monday HW

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

What are you doing to reach your goal?

WRITING:
Revise your On Demand Essay- see sheet
Independent Writing Project HW- Are you keeping up with your deadline? (Nov 7th published piece)

MATH:
Fall for Math: www.darienps.org/mathmadness/
Make sure you log your time :) First week is due TOMORROW

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.

Second Steps- Homelink If you did not complete it over the weekend, you have one more night. Your parents must sign the bottom.

Weekend Homework

READING:
LOG, READ 30 Minutes, Jot your thinking throughout your entire book.

What are you doing to reach your goal?

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

MATH:
Fall for Math: www.darienps.org/mathmadness/
Make sure you log your time :)

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.

Second Steps- Homelink

Week in Review- Talk to your parents about your week!

Thursday HW

READING:
LOG, READ 30 Minutes, Jot your thinking throughout your entire book.

What are you doing to reach your goal?

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

MATH:
Fall for Math: www.darienps.org/mathmadness/
Make sure you log your time :)

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.

LIBRARY BOOKS- please bring all books that need to be returned by tomorrow. We are going to the library on Friday.

Wednesday HW

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! Use the strategies we have learned in class to make: Mental Movies, 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:
Independent Writing Project HW- Are you keeping up with your deadline?

MATH:
Fall for Math: www.darienps.org/mathmadness/
Make sure you log your time :)

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.

LIBRARY BOOKS- please bring all books that need to be returned. We are going to the library on Friday.

HW Tuesday

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! Use the strategies we have learned in class to make: Mental Movies, 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:
Independent Writing Project HW- Are you keeping up with your deadline?

MATH:
Fall for Math: www.darienps.org/mathmadness/
Make sure you log your time :)

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.

Bring is a pair of headphones to keep in your desk for the computer lab.

Week In Review 10/7 - 10/11

1. We earned two more pieces to the Mrs. Potato head, we need 5 more to go! SL
2. We looked through our reading notebooks and were reflecting on our reading lives. We noticed strategies that we have been using a lot and strategies that we want to work more with. We are reaching the end of our character unit. We have been pushing ourselves to look at a series of ideas and push ourselves to see commonalities between them. As readers, we are trying to use thought prompts to push our thinking and to make our jots complex. We learned how to not leave jots or thoughts behind. CR, WJ, GF, CW, AT
3. In gym, we have been practicing our fitness test by working on our push ups, curl ups, and even dodgeball. WT
4. We started Social Studies today and we read a book called, "Rachel's Home on Bear Mountain." We created a chart and wrote or sketched everything we know about Native Americans in Connecticut and Connecticut's Environment. After we read the book, we shared our new thinking about Connecticut's environment. We compared our old thinking with our new learning. SL, CW, OP
5. In writing, we are working hard on our independent writing projects. We are all at different parts of the writing process. Some writers are drafting, others are editing & revising. We started word study and have been practicing our sorts. We had an on demand writing piece about an issue/argument that we felt strongly about. On Tuesday, we shared our stories with our parents during the writing celebration. SL, ET, OP, WD, AP
6. In math, we started making a proof for the amusement park problem. We had to figure out how many strips of ten the teachers would get. We also had to figure out how many tickets we bought in all. There were 100 kids and each kid received 42 tickets. How many tickets in all is this? How many strips of ten. PD
7. In music, Mrs. Lettera greets us with the hello song! SM
8. In art, we are have to draw something small in the background, something medium in the middleground, and something large in the foreground. SM

HW Thursday

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! Use the strategies we have learned in class to make: Mental Movies, 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:
Independent Writing Project HW- Are you keeping up with your deadline?

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.

Wednesday HW

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! Use the strategies we have learned in class to make: Mental Movies, 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:
Independent Writing Project HW- Are you keeping up with your deadline?

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.

Wednesday HW

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! Use the strategies we have learned in class to make: Mental Movies, 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:
Independent Writing Project HW- Are you keeping up with your deadline?

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.

Tuesday HW

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! Use the strategies we have learned in class to make: Mental Movies, 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:
Independent Writing Project HW- Are you keeping up with your deadline?

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.

Monday HW

READING:
Read 30 minutes and jot! Use the strategies we have learned in class to make: Mental Movies, 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:
Remind your parents about our Writing Celebration tomorrow 12:30-1:30.
Independent Writing Project HW

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.

Week in Review

1.  On Tuesday, we are having our realistic fiction writing celebration. We hope you all can come from 12:30-1:30! We are getting ready for the celebration by working in groups to present all about writing workshop and the process we went through as writers. In writing workshop, we have started an independent writing project. We are all writing a realistic fiction story.We are getting ideas about writing from our JR books and asking ourselves, "What did my author do to write this part so well?" and then trying it out in our own writing. We also made a calendar and have been putting our assignments and due dates on it to help keep track of where we are in the writing process. We set a due date of November 7th to be published. Since we are all in different places of the writing process, we are coming up with our own writing homework to keep us on track. AP, KL, WV, LM, CH, GF
2. In math, we just finished up our math proof for how many tickets each kid would get in the different groups. After we finished our partner proof, we had a gallery walk and wrote helpful tips for each mathematician. We were also looking for the most efficient proof and talked about using a ten or other landmark number to divide. After our congress, we chose a proof that we were most proud of and hung it up in the classroom. We came up with new goals that we could set for ourselves by looking at the "Powerful Proof" and seeing what we needed to do as mathematicians to reach a 4 power proof. We also used our other proofs and comments from others to help us set goals. ML, CH, SL, CR, AT
3. We have been learning the different word study activities and are getting ready to start on Monday with our word sorts! We learned resort and write about the sort, spelling sentences, blind writing sort, color the category, and word hunt. WD, CH
4. In gym we did the mile run. WT
5. In reading workshop, we are learning strategies to become better readers. We practice these strategies by jotting. One reading strategy is to look at a series of ideas we have and find commonalities and then jot long about the new ideas we are having. We keep track of our thinking throughout the entire books and use boxes and bullets to organize our thinking. The box represent our big ideas or theories and the bullets are the evidence that we find from the text to support our big ideas. CW, WT, TS
6. In art, we are continuing to work on our eagles and many of us have finished. DM
7. In Spanish, we made a skull for the Mexican Celebration Day of the Dead. OP & AT 

Weekend HW

READING:
Read 30 minutes over the week and jot using a strategy you learned in class! Remember, we are reading actively, trying out strategies we have learned to help build our inferential thinking skills! (Mental Movie, Predictions, Character Theories, Looking Across multiple jots) 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:
Independent Writing Project- Create an assignment to keep you on track towards reaching your deadline!

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.

HW 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:
Finish publishing.
Create a cover for your piece.

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.

HW 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 publishing.
Create a cover for your piece.

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.