10/15/13 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up Creative Writing-Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative and try to include some of your weekly vocabulary words.

2. Crossword-Take about ten minutes to study your Weekly Vocabulary Words and work on your Crossword Puzzles. 

3. NC Write-We are going to once again do the "Favorite Room" writing prompt but today we are going to improve those scores!

4. Inference-Learning how to make inferences will be one of the most important things you need to be able to do as a successful reader. 

5. Book Cover-Let's take some time and work on our Book Cover assignment. 

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc.

What have you learned about the Age of Discovery that you did not know before? Be sure to explain your answer.

7. The Explorers-Get out your Social Studies notebooks. It is time to take some notes.

8. Food Project-In groups of 2, you will be creating a Google presentation on a certain food. I will be selecting each group's food. You will thoroughly research your food and use the information you find to answer the following questions:

-Name of Food

-Other names for the food

-Country of origin (where did it come from)

-Number consumed each year

-Various uses for food

-Different varieties of food

-One awesome recipe using your food!

Your presentation should be at least 9 slides (including a title page.) You should also include pictures.