2/1 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Game Wednesday! Spend your first 5 minutes, playing Popword

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

2. Setting-Let's review and then show what we know!

3. MDG-Back to the island!

4. 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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

5. Black History Month-February is Black History Month. To celebrate, we will look at prominent African Americans and examine their impact on history.


Today we will look at Walt Bellamy. Go to each of the links here and here and use the information to answer the following questions in a new Google doc titled "Black History Month". Answer each question using complete sentences.

1. Who was this person?

2. When and where did they live?

3. Why were they so important?

4. What are some interesting facts about this person?

1/31 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 exciting!

2. Setting-Will we finally start our new unit?

3. MDG-We really need to get back to our story...

4. 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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

5. 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 think the following quote means?

“I am the state”-Louis XIV

6. Absolute Monarchy-Today we will be introduced to the concept of Absolute Monarchy.

1/30 Monday

1. Warm-Up- In your Norman Language Arts Google doc, answer the following question. Be sure to provide lots of good details! Make sure to use complete sentences.



2. Scope-Let's review our worksheet.

3. Setting-Will we finally start our new unit?

4. 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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

5. 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 think the following quote means?

“I am the state”-Louis XIV

6. Absolute Monarchy-Today we will be introduced to the concept of Absolute Monarchy.

1/27 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. NC Write-Head to NC Write and start working on the "My Favorite Room" prompt.

3. MDG-Things are definitely getting interesting.

4. Scope-We are going to work some more with our play.

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

6. SR Timeline-Keep working hard on those timelines!

7. Study Island-When you are finished with your Timeline, log in to Study Island and get working.

1/26 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 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?

2. Scope-Continue working on your worksheet from our play.

3. NC Write-New week, new prompt! Head over to NC Write and complete the prompt titled "Favorite Room". Your essay should be at least 103 words and the final draft will be due next week.

4. Words-Complete the activities on pages 15 and 16 in your Words: The Power Within! books.

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

6. SR Timeline-Keep working hard on those timelines!

7. Absolute Monarchy-We will start our new unit!

1/25 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Game Wednesday! Spend your first 5 minutes, playing Synonym Toast.

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

2. Vocabulary-Time to feel the POWERWITHIN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

3. MDG-It's starting to get interesting!

4. Setting-Maybe today we can get to our new unit.

5. Scope-Playtime!

Theremin-Here

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

7. Scientific Revolution Review-Let's take some time to review our notes.

8. SR Timeline-Keep working hard on those timelines!

1/24 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 action packed!

2. MDG-Back to our story.

3. Scope-Time to play.....

4. 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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

5. Scientific Revolution Review-Let's take some time to review our notes.

6. SR Timeline-Keep working hard on those timelines!

1/20 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. Weekly Vocabulary-Here are your new words for the week. Use this time to study and/or finish your boxes.

3. Vocabulary Word Boxes- This week you will be using all 11 of your vocab. words to create 11 Vocab Boxes. In case you forgot, here are the directions:

4. 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. Explain how each story might impact your life.


5. Scientific Revolution Review-Let's take some time to review our notes.


6. SR Timeline-Keep working hard on those timelines!

1/19 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 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?

2. COMMON ASSESSMENT-Here we go....

3. FreeRead-When you have finished with your CA, quietly read. 

4. 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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

5. Scientific Revolution Review-Let's take some time to review our notes.

6. SR Timeline-Keep working hard on those timelines!

1/18 Wednesday

1. Game Time-

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

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

3. Vocabulary Word Boxes- This week you will be using all 11 of your vocab. words to create 11 Vocab Boxes. In case you forgot, here are the directions:

4. Conflict-Time to ID some conflicts


5. Edulastic-Log in and get to work!


6. MDG-Let's get back to the island!

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.


8. Scientific Revolution Illustrated Timeline-You are to create a Scientific Revolution illustrated timeline. Your timeline should have at least ten events, people, places, or inventions. I would start by doing research, then creating your timeline. Use this and this to help you with your timelines.







Rubric:




Grammar/Overall Neatness=25 points




Creativity=25 points




Research/Information provided=50 points

1/17 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 silly!

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

3. Vocabulary Word Boxes- This week you will be using all 11 of your vocab. words to create 11 Vocab Boxes. In case you forgot, here are the directions:

4. Conflict-We will review and practice.

5. MDG-Let's see what's going on!

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

7. Scientific Revolution Illustrated Timeline-You are to create a Scientific Revolution illustrated timeline. Your timeline should have at least ten events, people, places, or inventions. I would start by doing research, then creating your timeline. Use this  and this to help you with your timelines.

Rubric:
Grammar/Overall Neatness=25 points
Creativity=25 points

Research/Information provided=50 points

1/13 Friday

1. Origins of Friday the 13th-Head to this site and read about the origins of Friday the 13th. When you are finished, create fact sheet (on a blank piece of paper) of 10 facts about this day. Make sure to write in complete sentences.

2. Conflict-I am going to take up your homework. We will now see what we know!

3. Read Theory-Log in and quiz away!

4. 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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

1/12 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 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?

2. Conflict-We will review and practice. 

3. MDG-Let's get reading!

4. Edulastic-Head to this site and await 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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

6. Scientific Revolution Illustrated Timeline-You are to create a Scientific Revolution illustrated timeline. Your timeline should have at least ten events, people, places, or inventions. I would start by doing research, then creating your timeline.

Rubric:
Grammar/Overall Neatness=25 points
Creativity=25 pointsResearch/Information provided=50 points

1/11 Tuesday

1. Game Time-Game Wednesday! Be sure to play our new game Joy Words!

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

2. Conflict-We will review and practice.

3. Scope-We are going to begin to use our Scope magazines more.

4. MDG-Back to our story!

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

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 think when you hear the word "revolution"? Explain in your own words what you think the word "revolution" means.

7. Scientific Revolution-Today we will begin our unit on the Scientific Revolution.

1/10 Tuesday

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

2. Conflict-We will review and practice.

3. Scope-We are going to begin to use our magazines more.

4. 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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

5. 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 think when you hear the word "revolution"? Explain in your own words what you think the word "revolution" means.

6. Scientific Revolution-Today we will begin our unit on the Scientific Revolution.

1/9 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. ReadTheory/Learning Farm-If you have finished your Character lesson on Learning Farm then take some Read Theory quizzes.

3. Conflict-Time for our new unit

4. 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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

5. 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 think when you hear the word "revolution"? Explain in your own words what you think the word "revolution" means.

6. Scientific Revolution-Today we will begin our unit on the Scientific Revolution.

1/6 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday- Free Rice Friday.

2. Character Worksheet-We will review, then work.

3. NC Write-Finish up your NC Write essay

4. MDG-Hopefully we can start our next story.

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

6. Study Island-Head to this link and wait!

1/5 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 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?

2. Characters-Let's review our worksheet. Let me get that brownie!

3. ReadTheory-Work work work!!!!

4. 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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

5. Study Island-Head to this link and wait!

1/4 Wednesday

1. Game Time-It's game time!

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

2. Judge a Book by its Cover-Below is the cover to our new class story. A cover is a very good way to try and determine what a book or story may be about. Using the cover below, make a list on a blank sheet of paper of images and details you see on the cover. What do these images tell you about our story. Finally, based on the images and details on the cover, make predictions about our new story.


3. Character/Plot- We will review and then move on to our new topic.

4. Learning Farm-Work on your newest topics.

5. NC Write-Continue working on your newest 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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

7. Today in History-Go to the following website and look over some of the things that happened on this date in history. Pick 2 things which you think are important and send me an email (Titled: Today in History) explaining why you chose the 2 events that you did. Remember to fully explain your answers.

1/3 Tuesday

Welcome back! I hope all of you had an awesome break!

1. ELA Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your ELA Google doc:
A New Year's resolution is a commitment that an individual makes to a project or the reforming of a habit, often a lifestyle change for the better.
What are three New Year's resolutions you would consider making? Why did you select these resolutions? Do you think you would be able to keep these resolutions for the entire year? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

2. 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 depressing.

3. ReadTheory-Log in and get to work.

4 NC Write-You are to complete the NC Write prompt entitled 2016 Review. Your essay should be at least 251 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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

6. Today in History-Go to the following website and look over some of the things that happened on this date in history. Pick 2 things which you think are important and send me an email (Titled: Today in History) explaining why you chose the 2 events that you did. Remember to fully explain your answers.