Thursday 3/24

1. Game Time-It's game time!

Switchword.
Word Confusion
Joy Words
Before and After
Storyman
Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. Easter Games- I have found a couple of games that might entertain us. They are here and here. Here is an egg design site.

3. Read Theory- I will be adding three Read Theory quiz grades into your gradebook. Use this time to get as many A's as you can!

4. Origins of Easter-We are going to use the following links to learn more about the origins of Easter. Once you have visited each link, send me an email titled, "Easter" and list 15 facts you learned from the sites.
Easter Link
Easter Link 2
Easter Link 3

5. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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?

3/22 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing- Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative! The mood for your story should be scary!

2. Reading Passage Review-Let's go over our newest reading passages.

3. Website Tryouts-Since the Friends of Rachel have taken half of my class, we are going to use today to explore some websites and see what we think. This website we have used before, but I think they have added some new games. Here is a site that contains a crazy number of word games. This website has tons of old-school Nintendo games. Finally, here is an awesome site which will test your geography skills.

4. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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?

5. Website Tryout--Why should ELA have all the fun? Let's tryout some new websites. This site has a few different games to play around on. This website has a ton of games. Give them a shot and let me know what is the best. Here is our final site. It is geography focused.

3/21 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.Scope-We are starting our new Scope article today

3. Point of View-Today we will start our POV unit.

4. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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?

3/18 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday-It's Friday....you know what to do! Free Rice time!

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Use this time to finish your short story. 

3. Reading Passage-SQUASH it like it's never been SQUASHed before!

4. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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?

5. People of the Revolution- You will be researching various important figures from both the American and French Revolutions.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. Which revolution was this person involved with?

5. What was their importance to the revolution?

6. What are 3 interesting facts about this person?

Today's person is:


John Paul Jones

http://www.factmonster.com/quizzes/travel/3.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fifth-grade-geography-quiz_us_5649fbebe4b060377349e37f

3/17 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.

-If you were to rename this article, what name would you choose and why?

-Create 2 EOG style questions based on the article

2. ReadTheory-Let's see who can pass the most quizzes!

3. Red Literature-Grab a book and turn to page 340. Read pages 340-342 and in your Textbook google doc answer questions 1-8 on page 343. 

4. FreeRead-Relax and get your read on!

5. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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. St. Patrick's Day-How many of you have no idea why we celebrate St. Patrick's Day? Who exactly was St. Patrick? Was he a leprechaun? Why was he so obsessed with green? Let's solve this mystery. Head here and here and read up on the history of the holiday. Then on a blank sheet of paper, write 15 facts about the day.

3/17 Wednesday

1. Game Time-It's game time! NEW GAME ALERT!!!! Take about 5 minutes and try out our new game, Switchword.

Word Confusion
Joy Words
Before and After
Storyman
Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. MDG Questions-Let's go over our questions.

3. Scope-Time to do some more work on our newest article.

4. Free-Read-Grab a book and get busy!

5. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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?

3/15 Tuesday

1. Warm-Up-Creative Writing- Look at the following picture. Write a quick short story about the picture. Be creative! The mood for your story should be creepy.

2. Scope-Use this time to finish your Scope worksheets. We will go over them soon.

3. MDG Wrap-Up-I will be grading your questions and your sequels very soon. Take this time to make any last minute corrections.

4. Summary Sketches-Will we finally get to this assignment????

5. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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?

3/14 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- Spend a few minutes watching these "K" letter vocabulary videos.

Your assignment is to create a short story using at least seven of the eight K words correctly. You can add suffixes to the words to make them fit better, but all words used must fit the context of your story. Rewatch some of the videos if necessary to better understand the words. This should be completed on paper. Remember to underline each vocabulary word in your story.

3. Scope-Today we are starting our newest Scope article.

4. MDG Wrap-Up-I will be grading your questions and your sequels very soon. Take this time to make any last minute corrections.

5. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answer.

What do you already know about the American Revolution? Who was fighting and why?


What do you already know about the French Revolution? Who was fighting and why?

7. Revolutions-Today we are going to begin to look at revolutions.

3/11 Friday

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

2. Read Theory-I have a theory....the more you read....the better you get at reading...

3. MDG-Work on either finishing your questions or writing your sequels.

4. Google Try-Out-Here we go!

5. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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. Study Island-We are going to work some more on Study Island-We are also going to go over some of the questions together.

3/10 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 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.

-If you were to rename this article, what name would you choose and why?

-Create 2 EOG style questions based on the article

2. Context Clues-Being able to use context clues to figure out a word's definition is an extremely important skill when reading. See if you can figure out the definitions of the bolded words.

Liyana felt exhilarated by the skyscrapers. Their glittering lines lifted her out of her worry. She wished she could ride every sleek elevator up and down, punching buttons, seeing who got off and on.

Although pest like mice, cockroaches, and mosquitos sometimes seem to materialize out of thin air, by the 18th century just about everyone agreed that they born from parents of the same species, not from muck or swamp water.

3. Poetry Review-Let's get in our groups and see if we can break down a poem.

4. MDG Questions-Work on your questions. They are due tomorrow.

5. MDG Sequel-Use this time to work on those sequels. Make them awesome!

6. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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. Study Island-We are going to work some more on Study Island-We are also going to go over some of the questions together.

3/9 Wednesday

1. Game Time-It's time to play our games! Spend your first 5 minutes playing Knoword.

Word Confusion
Joy Words
Before and After
Storyman
Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. ReadTheory-Log on and get to reading.

3. Most Dangerous Game-Make sure you have finished all of your questions on Actively Learn.

4. Most Dangerous Game Part 2-Head over to NC Write and start work on your amazing sequel! Your prompt is titled  Most Dangerous Game Part 2

5. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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. Study Island-We are going to work some more on Study Island-We are also going to go over some of the questions together.

7. Google-Today's Google doodle is about musician Clara Rockmore. Do some quick research and find out who she was and why was she important.

8. Theremin-Here

3/4 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday-Learn new words, donate some rice to the needy, it's a WIN-WIN situation. It's FREE RICE time!!!

2. Conflict ID-You are to identify conflicts from a series of pictures. Good luck!

3. Most Dangerous Game-It's time to finish our story. Who will win....Rainsford or the General?

4. Summary Sketches-Time for something new...

5. MDG Questions-Use this time to finish your questions. These will be due on Monday.

6. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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. Study Island-We are going to work some more on Study Island-We are also going to go over some of the questions together.

GEEK

3/3 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:

-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.

-If you were to rename this article, what name would you choose and why?

-Create 2 EOG style questions based on the article

2. MDG-Let's read and discuss.  Here is your link.

3. Summary Sketches-Time for something new...

4. Scope-It's time for some solo work with our article.

5. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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. Study Island-We are going to work some more on Study Island-We are also going to go over some of the questions together.

3/2 Wednesday

1. Channel One-We are going to watch Channel One news. Afterwards, you are to go 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?

2. Study Island-We are going to work some more on Study Island-We are also going to go over some of the questions together.

3. Glorious Revolution-Let's see exactly why this revolution was so glorious!