12/19

1. WordDynamo- We are going to try a new vocabulary game. It's called WordDynamo. 

2. Holiday Fun- Below are several links which will help get you in the holiday mood!! Enjoy!
-Holiday Puzzle
-Super Holiday Displays
-Super Holiday Displays 2
-Scared of Santa?
-Make a Carol

3. Christmas Word Search-Using graph paper given to you by Mr. Norman, you will select 12 Christmas related words, and then use those words to create a Christmas Word Search.

4.  Holiday Essay - You may select one of the following prompts for your essay topic. Your essay should have four paragraphs and contain at least 25 sentences. Please complete it on paper and proofread it before turning in.

Choice 1 -- What does it mean to have the "holiday spirit"? You should include many examples and details to help support your views.


Choice 2 -- What are you and your family most grateful for this holiday season? Why?


Choice 3 -- What are five things you could do to help someone less fortunate on Christmas?

12/18 Thursday

1. Article Review-Read the following article. After reading, write a quick review of the article in your Language Arts Google doc. Your review should answer the following questions:

-What was the topic of the article?

-What was the article's main idea? Supporting details?

-What was one thing about the article that you found fascinating? Explain your answer

2. Analyze the Quotes-Read the following quote. In your Language Arts Google doc, analyze each quote. What do you think the speaker meant? Why do you think this? How does this quote relate to you? Remember to write in complete sentences and to fully explain your answers.

"I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year"


"He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree. ”


"Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas...perhaps...means a little bit more!”

3. Holiday Infographic - Take a look at the following infographics. You will create a 9 question pop quiz based on the infographics. You must have 3 questions from each infographic. You will also need an answer key.

Most Popular Holiday toys
Christmas by the Numbers
Big Fat Christmas

4. Holiday Quiz-See how well you can do on this Holiday Quiz

5. NC Write-Take this time to put the finishing touches on your NC Write prompt.

6. Christmas Origins-Work on your Christmas research project.

-Santa Claus
-Christmas Trees
-Gift giving
-Santa's Elves
-Christmas lights

Once you have researched the above things, create a Google presentation that explains in detail the origins of each the items listed above. Make sure your presentation has correct grammar, pictures, and good use of design and color.

12/17 Wednesday

1. Nouns and Verbs-Try out these new games which will test our ability to recognize nouns and verbs. Here is the Noun Game and here is the Verb Game.

2. Game Time- Now back to our regularly scheduled games!
Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch.
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

3. Inference Review-We will take this time to review our Scope inference worksheet from yesterday.

4. Gift of the Magi-Finish reading our class short story,  The Gift of the Magi.

5. Gift of the Magi Questions-When you have finished your story, answer some questions.

6. NC Write-Work on your Christmas short story.

7. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to got to your Social Studies google doc and answer the following questions about the newscast. Remember to use complete sentences, and fully explain your answers.

1. What were the stories on today's newscast?

2. Which story did you find most interesting?

3. What was interesting about this story?

8. Christmas Origins-Work on your Christmas research project.

-Santa Claus
-Christmas Trees
-Gift giving
-Santa's Elves
-Christmas lights

Once you have researched the above things, create a Google presentation that explains in detail the origins of each the items listed above. Make sure your presentation has correct grammar, pictures, and good use of design and color.

12/16 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. Inference Review-We will continue reviewing inferencing.

3. Inference Game-You will practice your inferencing skills by solving riddles. Here is the link.

4. Scope-Let's complete a worksheet from our play.

5. NC Write-Keep working on your Christmas short story.

6. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to got to your Social Studies google doc and answer the following questions about the newscast. Remember to use complete sentences, and fully explain your answers.

1. What were the stories on today's newscast?

2. Which story did you find most interesting?

3. What was interesting about this story?

7. Christmas Origins-I often say that the best way to fully appreciate something is to know its origin. With that in mind, you are to use the internet to research and find the origins of the following things associated with Christmas.

-Santa Claus
-Christmas Trees
-Gift giving
-Santa's Elves
-Christmas lights

Once you have researched the above things, create a Google presentation that explains in detail the origins of each the items listed above. Make sure your presentation has correct grammar, pictures, and good use of design and color.

12/15 Monday

1. Warm-Up-In your Norman Language Arts Google doc, answer the following question. Make sure to date your post, fully explain your answer, and use complete sentences.


2. Weekly Vocabulary-This week, our Vocabulary Words come from our short story. Take some time to get to know these words.

3. Vocabulary Sentences-This week you will need to create 3 sentences for each of your words.

4. Scope-Let's finish up our class play.

5. NC Write-Today you will be using NC Write to create a short story about Christmas. The prompt is titled "Christmas Short Story." Your story must begin with the sentence "It was getting late and Santa Claus was already running behind......" Your story should be creative and contain at least 200 words.

6. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to got to your Social Studies google doc and answer the following questions about the newscast. Remember to use complete sentences, and fully explain your answers.

1. What were the stories on today's newscast?

2. Which story did you find most interesting?

3. What was interesting about this story?

7. Slavery Unit-Take this time to study for your quiz.

8. Slavery Quiz-It's time

12/12 Friday

1. FunBrain Friday-Since Free Rice hates us, we will take this time to play some FunBrain games.

2. Weekly Vocab-Take this time to finish your Word Boxes and/or study your words.

3. Reading Passage Review-Let's take a look at that passage from yesterday.

4. NC Write-Today is our last day to work on our latest NC Write prompt.

5. Scope-Let's see what the Greeks and the Trojans are up to!

6. Slavery Review-We will review our unit.

7. Slavery Obituary-Finish your obituaries.

12/11 Thursday

1. Article Review-Read the following article. After reading, write a quick review of the article in your Language Arts Google doc. Your review should answer the following questions:

-What was the topic of the article?

-What was the article's main idea? Supporting details?

-What was one thing about the article that you found fascinating? Explain your answer

2. Inference-Let's see what we remember!

3. Inference Activity-This short activity should show us how well we can make inferences.

4. Reading Passage-Let's assess our inferencing ability.

5. Scope-Back to the play!

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

If slavery is wrong, why has it existed for so many years?

7. Slavery-Let's get back to our slavery unit.

12/10 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Today we will be using a new site for our gaming. The website FitBrains contains many games designed to test and increase your cognitive abilities. You will need to create an account. We will go over all of this together. The games themselves are fun but challenging. Let's get playing!

2. Weekly Vocab- Take this time to work on your vocab. I would also make sure I studied the words. 

3. Christmas Story-To get in the mood for the holiday season, we will start reading a holiday themed short story. The story is called Gift of the Magi 

4. Scope-Let the madness begin!

5. NC Write-Make your Christmas gift prompt perfect!

6. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to got to your Social Studies google doc and answer the following questions about the newscast. Remember to use complete sentences, and fully explain your answers.

1. What were the stories on today's newscast?

2. Which story did you find most interesting?

3. What was interesting about this story?

7. Slavery Unit-We will continue working on our unit. 

12/9 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. Scope-Today we are going to pick the cast for our play!

3. Study Island-Work on the Main Idea assignment on Study Island. Complete 16 questions.

4. Weekly Vocab-Take this time to work on your word boxes. Here are your words.

5. NC Write-Let's keep working on your newest prompt. 

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answers.

“You are awoken in the dead of night and taken away from your home and family. You are then transported by people who do not speak your language to a country that is completely foreign to you. Write your thoughts, feelings, fears, etc…”

7. Slavery Obituary-Continue working on your obituary. 

12/8 Monday

1.. Warm-Up-In your Norman Language Arts Google doc, answer the following question. Make sure to date your post, fully explain your answer, and use complete sentences.



2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take a few minutes to get to know your new weekly vocabulary words.

3. Vocabulary Word Boxes- This week you will be using all 8 of your vocab. words to create 8 Vocab Boxes. In case you forgot, here are the directions:



4. NC Write-I have always been obsessed with Christmas. It has always been my favorite time of year and I have extremely fond memories of the gifts I received. You are now going to tell me about YOUR favorite Christmas gift. This should be a gift that you will remember for the rest of your life. Go to NC Write and complete the prompt titled "The Greatest Christmas Gift I Ever Received". Your essay should be at least 150 words.

5. Main Idea-We are going to use Learning Farm to test our Main/Central idea finding skills.  Work on the assignment titled "12/2 Main Idea"

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

Where and when do you think slavery started? Why do you think this? Remember to explain your answers.

7. Slavery Unit-Today we will be beginning our Slavery unit.

8. Slavery Obituary-You will each be given a number that will correspond to a name. That name is someone who is important to the topic of slavery. You will use the next few days to research your person and collect as much information as possible. You are to then write an obituary for that person including much of the information you have found in your research. Be sure to mention in the obituary their connection to slavery.
This is what a typical obituary will look like:

Rubric:

Grammar/Overall Neatness=25 points

Creativity=25 points

Research/Information provided=50 points

12/5 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday- Free Rice Friday.

2. Weekly Vocab.-Use this time to finish your 5x5x5s.

3. Reading Passage Review- Let's review our passage from yesterday.

4. Scope-We are going to finish up working on our Peshtigo article

5. NC Write-Put the finishing touches on your Learning a New Skill prompt.

6. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to got to your Social Studies google doc and answer the following questions about the newscast. Remember to use complete sentences, and fully explain your answers.

1. What were the stories on today's newscast?

2. Which story did you find most interesting?

3. What was interesting about this story?

7. Middle Passage-You will be reading a passage on the slave trade. When you have finished reading, you will need to create a 10 question pop quiz on the passage.

12/4 Thursday

1. Article Review-Read the following article. After reading, write a quick review of the article in your Language Arts Google doc. Your review should answer the following questions:

-Did you like the article? Explain your answer

-What was the topic of the article?

-What was the article's main idea? Supporting details?

-What was one thing about the article that you found fascinating? Explain your answer

2. Reading Passage-We are going to do another main idea reading passage.

3. NC Write-Work on your Learning a New Skill prompt.

4. Scope-Lets keep working with our forest fire article.

5. Channel One-We are going to start something new today. Every so often we are going to watch Channel One news in class. Afterwards, you are to got to your Social Studies google doc and answer the following questions about the newscast.  Remember to use complete sentences, and fully explain your answers.

1. What were the stories on today's newscast? 

2. Which story did you find most interesting?

3. What was interesting about this story?

6. Triangle Trade Facts- Go to the following websites. Read the information they contain about the Triangle Trade. Once you have visited all the websites, create on a blank piece of paper a Triangle Trade fact sheet. Your fact sheet should contain at least 20 facts. Your facts need to be written in complete sentences. Turn in once you have finished. The websites are here, here, andhere.

12/3 Wednesday

1. Game Time- HumpDay means Gametime!

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

2. Main Idea-Let's review our main idea reading passage.

3. Scope-Let's finish our new article.

4. Learning Farm-There is a new Central/Main Idea activity on Learning Farm.

5. NC Write-Work on your new prompts.

6. Group Survey-Take this time to go to this link and rate your partners from your food presentation group. Remember to be completely honest. 

7. Triangle Trade-Today, we will begin looking at the Triangle Trade. Go to the following website and wait for my instructions.

8. Triangle Trade Facts- Go to the following websites. Read the information they contain about the Triangle Trade. Once you have visited all the websites, create on a blank piece of paper a Triangle Trade fact sheet. Your fact sheet should contain at least 20 facts. Your facts need to be written in complete sentences. Turn in once you have finished. The websites are here, here, and here.

12/2 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. Weekly Vocab.-Take about 10 minutes to work on your 5x5x5s

3. Reading Passage-You are going to complete a main idea reading passage. Make sure you do close reading!

4. Scope-I am going to read our new article to you. It's a good one!

5. NC Write- Head over to NC Write and begin working on the prompt titled "Learning a New Skill." Your essay should be at least 150 words long. 

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answers.

What was one thing that you learned about your food (that you did your presentation on) that you found interesting, cool, weird, or confusing?

7. Food Presentations-Let's finish our presentations. 

12/1 Monday

1. Warm-Up-In your Norman Language Arts Google doc, answer the following question. Make sure to date your post, fully explain your answer, and use complete sentences.

 

2. Weekly Vocabulary-This week you have 5 words, so naturally you are to do a 5x5x5.

*Directions: Write each word and its definition five times. When finished, create a paragraph with at least five sentences that uses all five words correctly. Make sure to underline the vocabulary words in your created paragraph.

1. aptitude -- the ability to learn or understand something quickly

2. attentive -- paying careful attention to the concerns of others; being considerate

3. banish -- to force or leave a country or place; exile

4. barricade -- an obstacle used to block

5. bluff -- using a false display of confidence to trick or deceive someone

3. Main Idea-Let's keep working on Main Idea.

4. Scope Magazine-We will be starting our new article!

5. Reading Time-Take this time to quietly read your books.

6. Food Presentation-Let's present!