12/4/13 Wednesday

1. BONUS-The first student who correctly emails me with the answer to the following question will receive 5 bonus points on their next quiz or assignment! This should be in your OWN WORDS and not copied and pasted.

Where did the name Wednesday come from?

2. 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.

3. Game Time-We now have 7 games to choose from. Take this time to relax and have some Language Arts style fun!

Word Craze. 

Eight Letter Game 
Wordsearch.
Knoword 
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

4. Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to work on those 5x5x5s. The words can be found on yesterday's post.

5. Glogster-Lets finish up those Glogsters we started yesterday.

6. Benchmark-We are going to use the time left before our Christmas Break to review all the things covered on the Benchmark. First up is Central Idea. Head over to Study Island and do the Central Idea Assignment. Complete 12 questions. 

7. Independent Reading-It has been quite awhile since we read our library books. Let's break them out, shake off the dust, and get reading!

8. China-Keep reading about China in our Blue Books. You should be close to finishing Section 3 (and its assessment before the end of class.) Make sure to answer your questions with complete sentences.