9/30 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Games, games, games!!!
Synonym Toast
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch.
Knoword

2. Scope-Let's get back to our story

3. SQUASH-We will review SQUASH and use it on another reading passage.

4. Independent Read-Let's use this time to read. 

9/29 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 Vocabulary-Here are your words for the week. 

3. Vocabulary Word Boxes- This week you will be using all 10 of your vocab. words to create 10 Vocab Boxes. In case you forgot, here are the directions:



4. Scope-We are going to begin a new Scope story.

5. SQUASH-We will review SQUASH and see how well we did on our homework!





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?

9/28 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.

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2. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your words for the week. Take a few minutes to get familiar with them.

3. Vocabulary Word Boxes- This week you will be using all 10 of your vocab. words to create 10 Vocab Boxes. In case you forgot, here are the directions:



4. S.Q.U.A.S.H. -What is S.Q.U.A.S.H.? Let's find out.

5. 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?

9/25 Friday

1. Warm-Up-Free Rice...Free Rice....Free Rice

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Your 3-2-1 will be due in ten minutes.

3. NC Write-You will continue working on the Chose a Power NC Write that you started last week. Remember, it needs to be at least 150 words!

4. Kahoot-Let's do our first Kahoot of the year!

5. Read-Let's have some quiet and relaxing reading time.

6. Friday Surprise!-Take a few minutes to try some of the games on this website. 

9/24 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 today's article about?

-Was the article informative? Explain your answer

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

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to work on your 3-2-1.

3. MobyMax-Head over to MobyMax, sign in, and await my instructions.

4. NC Write-You will continue working on the Chose a Power NC Write that you started last week. Remember, it needs to be at least 150 words!

5. 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?

6. Middle Ages-Go to the following Middle Ages websites. Read the information contained on the sites. When you have finished, create a fact sheet containing 12 facts you have learned form the sites. Be sure you write in complete sentences and pull facts from both sites. Here are the websites:

Website

Website

When you have finished your fact sheet, head over to this site and play around. There are a ton of cool activities and games to try out. Enjoy!

9/23 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Let's get the day started with some games. Play at least one of our games.
NEW GAME ALERT. Our new is called Synonym Toast and I will show you how it's played.

Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch.
Knoword

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to work on your 3-2-1.

3. Inference Practice-Practice makes perfect!

4. Inference Game-Let's test our inferencing skills. Head the this site and play the game.

5. NC Write-You will continue working on the Chose a Power NC Write that you started last week. Remember, it needs to be at least 150 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. People of the Middle Ages - You will be researching various important figures from the Middle Ages.You will answer questions about each day's person in your Social Studies google doc. Make sure to use complete sentences. You will do all research necessary on your own. You must answer the following questions.

1. What was this person's full name?

2. Where and when was this person born?

3. Where and when did this person die?

4. What was their importance to the Middle Ages?

5. What are 3 interesting facts about this person?

Today's person is: King John

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L1IHxj1u_osHmCQ7W3Vtan7gDpxtW1sYgv_Br9FvhLA/edit?usp=sharing

9/22 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing: Look at the following picture. In your Language Arts Google doc., write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative and try to include some of your weekly vocabulary words. Remember, you are writing a story based on the picture NOT describing the picture!

2. Quote(s) of the Day -- Send an email (titled Quote) responding to the quotes below. Your email should include what you think the quotes means, if you agree or disagree with the author, and supporting details and examples to support your thoughts. Also, comment on how the two quotes relate.

“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.”
- Albert Einstein

“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination”
-Albert Einstein

3. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your Weekly Vocabulary Words. Play some Scatter or Space Race.

4. Weekly Vocabulary 3-2-1-Use all of your words to complete your 3-2-1 assignment. Here are the instructions:
Write each word 3 times
Write each definition 2 times
Write 1 sentence using each of your vocab words (make sure you underline the vocabulary word)

5. Inference Practice-Practice makes perfect!

6. NC Write-You will continue working on the Chose a Power NC Write that you started last week. Remember, it needs to be at least 150 words!

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. Middle Ages-Let's get back to our slides. 

9/21 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-Here are your Weekly Vocabulary Words. Take a few minutes to look them over and we will discuss them soon.

3. Weekly Vocabulary 3-2-1-Use all of your words to complete your 3-2-1 assignment. Here are the instructions:
Write each word 3 times
Write each definition 2 times
Write 1 sentence using each of your vocab words (make sure you underline the vocabulary word)

4. NC Write-You will continue working on the Chose a Power NC Write that you started last week. Remember, it needs to be at least 150 words!

5. Learning Farm-Head over to Learning Farm and work on bringing those scores up on the Inference assignment.

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. People of the Middle Ages - You will be researching various important figures from the Middle Ages.You will answer questions about each day's person in your Social Studies google doc. Make sure to use complete sentences. You will do all research necessary on your own. You must answer the following questions.

1. What was this person's full name?

2. Where and when was this person born?

3. Where and when did this person die?

4. What was their importance to the Middle Ages?

5. What are 3 interesting facts about this person?

Today's person is: Marco Polo

9/18 Friday

1. Free Rice-Free Rice Friday time......Our score to beat is 2000.

2. Weekly Vocabulary-You guys have about 20 minutes to finish your 7x7x7s. If you are finished, then study the words.

3. Reading Passage Review-We will use this time to review our reading passage from the other day.

4. NC Write-Head back to  NC Write. You will be completing the writing prompt titled "Choose a Special Power." Your essay should be at least 150 words long.

5. 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?

9/17 Thursday

1. Reading Passage Review-We will use this time to review our reading passage from yesterday.

2. NC Write-When you have finished your Common Assessment, you need to log in to NC Write. You will be completing the writing prompt titled "Choose a Special Power." Your essay should be at least 150 words long.

3. 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?

9/16 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Let's get the day started with some games. You can play eitherEight Letter Game or Wordsearch.
Also play our new game, Knoword. Here is the website's definition:

Knoword is a game of quick thinking, smart decisions and great words. When you begin, you will be given one randomly generated dictionary definition along with the first letter of its corresponding word. You must fill in the rest of the word to experience a gain in points and an added time bonus. You will start off with one minute before the game ends, and every word is an opportunity to extend your time. If you're ever stuck on a word, just hit the skip button and a new puzzle will present itself.

If you're able to string together correct answers, you will notice yourWord streak counter increasing. You can accumulate badges and additional points by achieving certain amounts of consecutively correct words... How far can you get?

So, I'd like you try out KNOWORD and write up a review and email it to me! Did you like it? Was it easy or hard?

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Study those words, work on your 7x7x7 or play Scatter or Space Race.

3. Reading Passage Review-We will use this time to review our reading passage from yesterday.

4. Learning Farm-You need to head over to Learning Farm and log in. Once there, wait for my instructions. 

5. 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?

6. People of the Middle Ages - You will be researching various important figures from the Middle Ages.You will answer questions about each day's person in your Social Studies google doc. Make sure to use complete sentences. You will do all research necessary on your own. You must answer the following questions.

1. What was this person's full name?

2. Where and when was this person born?

3. Where and when did this person die?

4. What was their importance to the Middle Ages?

5. What are 3 interesting facts about this person?

Today's person is: Thomas Beckett


REMEDIATION ASSIGNMENT-
Nuclear Disaster -- Take a few minutes and read about the accidents at nuclear power plants in Japan in 2010. In an email addressed to me please type out a list of 10 facts that you learned. Please use complete sentences and include the most important facts you found.
Also, leave your thoughts about nuclear energy. Nuclear is a relatively clean energy source (and doesn't contribute to global warming), but also has major drawbacks. Is it safe enough? Do you feel safe that a nuclear power plant is in Raleigh and Wilmington? We haven't had any major accidents here, but who knows about the future?

9/15 Tuesday

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.

What were the names of all 7 dwarves from the Disney movie Snow White and the Seven Dwarves?

2.Warm-Up-Creative Writing: Look at the following picture. In your Language Arts Google doc., write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative and try to include some of your weekly vocabulary words. Remember, you are writing a story based on the picture NOT describing the picture!

3. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are this week's Weekly Vocabulary. Go ahead and get to know them!

4. Weekly Vocabulary Assignment-This week we are doing a 7x7x7. Here are the instructions:

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

5. Reading Form-Head to this link, and answer the questions. Make sure to submit when finished.

6, Main Idea-Today we will begin looking at our second standard.

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. People of the Middle Ages - You will be researching various important figures from the Middle Ages.You will answer questions about each day's person in your Social Studies google doc. Make sure to use complete sentences. You will do all research necessary on your own. You must answer the following questions.

1. What was this person's full name?

2. Where and when was this person born?

3. Where and when did this person die?

4. What was their importance to the Middle Ages?

5. What are 3 interesting facts about this person?

Today's person is:Richard The Lionheart

9/14 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-Here are this week's Weekly Vocabulary. Go ahead and get to know them!

3. Weekly Vocabulary Assignment-This week we are doing a 7x7x7. Here are the instructions:

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

4.Inference Battleship-What is Inference Battleship? Let's find out!

5. Inference-We are going to complete a worksheet which should show how well we can infer. 

6. Reading Time-Let's all read!

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

Have you ever heard of the Middle Ages? If you have, what do you know about it?If not, can you make an educated guess as to when it may have occurred.

8. Middle Ages-Today we will begin looking at the time period known as the Middle Ages.

9/11 Friday

1. Making Inferences-Grab a red Literature book. Read pages 827-829. On a blank piece of paper, answer questions 1-10 on page 830. When you are finished, complete the Making Inferences activity on page 833.

2. Free Rice-Free Rice is a game we play every Friday. It's an awesome way to start the day!

3. Weekly Vocabulary-I will now take up your weekly vocabulary.

4. Scope-We have one more activity for Sleepy Hollow.

5. Read-Time-Grab your books and read. When we finish you will have a question to answer in your Reading Notebook.

6.9/11 K.W.L.-I will pass out and explain our K.W.L. charts.

9/10 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 today's article about?

-Was the article informative? Explain your answer

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

2.Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to either study and/or play around with your Weekly Vocabulary words or work on your word boxes.

3. Making Inferences-Grab a red Literature book. Read pages 827-829. On a blank piece of paper, answer questions 1-10 on page 830. When you are finished, complete the Making Inferences activity on page 833.

4. Scope-We are going to complete a worksheet from our Sleepy Hollow story.

5. NC Write-Let's get into NC Write and take a look around.

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. Continent Presentation Wrap-up-We have finished our presentations! Now it is time for you  to review your team members. Go to this link an wait for my directions.

ENRICHMENT-Today for Enrichment we are going to have a Website battle. You will visit both websites. Really spend some quality time on each site. Then you will send me an email titled "Website Battle 1". In the email you should tell me which site you preferred and why. Remember to write in complete sentences and to fully explain you answers.

TODAY'S BATTLE
Paint VS Art Pad

9/9 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Let's get the day started with some games. You can play either Eight Letter Game or our new game, Wordsearch.

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to either study and/or play around with your Weekly Vocabulary words or work on your word boxes.

3. Inference-Let's review and then watch a video that may help us perfecting our inferencing skills.

4. Inference Activity-We are going to use this time to work on an Inference activity.

5. Making Inferences-Grab a red Literature book. Read pages 827-829. On a blank piece of paper, answer questions 1-10 on page 830. When you are finished, complete the Making Inferences activity on page 833.

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?

9/8 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing: Look at the following picture. In your Language Arts Google doc., write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative and try to include some of your weekly vocabulary words. Remember, you are writing a story based on the picture NOT describing the picture!

2. Weekly Vocabulary-It's time to get familiar with your new Weekly Vocabulary.

3. Weekly Vocabulary Assignment-This week, we will be using our words to create vocabulary boxes. Here is what a 4 square vocabulary box looks like.




4. Standards-We will look over the standards which we will cover in class this year. We will then start looking at the first standard.

5. Reading Notebook-Use this time to get your Reading Notebooks ready. I will give you your first prompt when you start reading.

6. Independent Reading-Kick back, relax, and read!

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

Have you ever heard of the Middle Ages? If you have, what do you know about it?If not, can you make an educated guess as to when it may have occurred. 

8. Middle Ages-Today we will begin looking at the time period known as the Middle Ages.

9/4 Friday

1. Free Rice-Free Rice is a game we play every Friday. It's an awesome way to start the day!

2. Awesome or Lame - Watch the video below and send me a quick email (jeremynorman@pamlicoschools.org) letting me know your thoughts. Your comment should include only your first name and last initial. It should contain complete sentences and proper grammar. If you have headphones, you can use them but if you do not just watch the video without the sound.

3. Weekly Vocabulary-Let's take a few minutes to finish your 3-2-1s and/or study your words. I will be taking up your work soon.

4. Pre-test-We are going to begin reviewing our pre-test. Let's see why we missed what we did.

5. Free-Read-It's time to do some independent reading.

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. Weekly Assignment- You will be placed in groups and given the name of a continent. You will then use your netbooks to find the information needed to answer the following questions. The assignment will be due on Friday. You should put all of your info. into Google presentation.

CONTINENT QUESTIONS:

1. What is the name of your continent?
2. How many countries are in your continent?
3. What is the most populous country in your continent?
4. What is the least populous country in your continent?
5. What is the weather like in your continent?
6. What are some of the different languages spoken in your continent?
7. What are some of the landmarks found in your continent?
8. What are some of your continent's natural resources?
9. How big is your continent compared to the other continents?
10.What are some of the rivers, mountains, deserts, and other geographical features found in your continent?

9/3 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

-Was the article informative? Explain your answer

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

2. Weekly Vocabulary-We will once again be doing a quick activity with our words.

3. Scope-We are getting back to our article.

4. Pre-test-We are going to begin reviewing our pre-test. Let's se why we missed what we did.

5. 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?

9/2 Wednesday

1. Game Time-This is a pretty fun vocabulary/word-building game. See what level you can get to on 8 Letter Game!

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Today we are going to do something a little different.

3. Scope-Let's get to our article.

4. Pre-test-We will use this time to correct and finish our pre-test.

5. 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?

6. Weekly Assignment- You will be placed in groups and given the name of a continent. You will then use your netbooks to find the information needed to answer the following questions. The assignment will be due on Friday. You should put all of your info. into Google presentation.

CONTINENT QUESTIONS:

1. What is the name of your continent?
2. How many countries are in your continent?
3. What is the most populous country in your continent?
4. What is the least populous country in your continent?
5. What is the weather like in your continent?
6. What are some of the different languages spoken in your continent?
7. What are some of the landmarks found in your continent?
8. What are some of your continent's natural resources?
9. How big is your continent compared to the other continents?
10.What are some of the rivers, mountains, deserts, and other geographical features found in your continent?

9/1 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing: Look at the following picture. In your Language Arts Google doc., write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative and try to include some of your weekly vocabulary words.

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Take this time to review your Weekly Vocabulary. Play some games and learn at the same time! This time can also be used to work on your Weekly Vocabulary Assignment.

3. Noun Review-Let's see how well you remember our Noun lesson.

4. Noun Activity-It's time for a noun activity.

5. Standards-We are going to take a few minutes to go over the you will learn this year.

6. Scope- We are going to read our first Scope article. We will then complete a worksheet.

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. Weekly Assignment- You will be placed in groups and given the name of a continent. You will then use your netbooks to find the information needed to answer the following questions. The assignment will be due on Friday. You should put all of your info. into Google presentation.

CONTINENT QUESTIONS:

1. What is the name of your continent?
2. How many countries are in your continent?
3. What is the most populous country in your continent?
4. What is the least populous country in your continent?
5. What is the weather like in your continent?
6. What are some of the different languages spoken in your continent?
7. What are some of the landmarks found in your continent?
8. What are some of your continent's natural resources?
9. How big is your continent compared to the other continents?
10.What are some of the rivers, mountains, deserts, and other geographical features found in your continent?