1/31 Wednesday

1. Game Time- Let's start the day off with some awesome games!

Storyman.
Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch.
Knoword
Synonym Toast

2. Common Assessment-It's time!!!

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

4. 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 Thurgood Marshall. Go to each of the links here and hereand 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?

5. Junior Scholastic-Time to finish your worksheet. 

1/30 Tuesday

1. Weekly Vocabulary- Here are your weekly vocab. words. Let's take some time to look them over.

2. Poetry Practice-Today we are going to work on Imagery.

3. Class Novel-Let's head back to the Sudan.

4. ReadyNC-Continue working on your packets.

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.

7. Junior Scholastic-When you have finished with your Today in History, come up and grab a Junior Scholastic and a worksheet and get to it.

8. Study Island-Work on whatever lessons you have not yet completed.

1/29 Monday

1. Edmentum-Time to stretch, get ready, and head down reading paths!

2. Class Novel Google Doc-Head to your doc and wait for instructions.

3. Class Novel-Let's get back to it!

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. 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.

6. Junior Scholastic-When you have finished with your Today in History, come up and grab a Junior Scholastic and a worksheet and get to it. 

7. Study Island-Work on whatever lessons you have not yet completed. 

1/25 Thursday

1. Poetry Warm-Up-Today it's time for personification.

2. Article of the Day-Head this website, log-in and get to reading! Make sure you take that quiz. This will go in grade book, so make sure to do your best!

3. Vocab Quiz- Here are your first 5 words. Study them. 

4. Long Walk to Water-Let's start on our book!

5. Learning Farm/Edmentum-Use this time to work on your LF or Edmentum assignments. 

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 Timeline-Go to the link for a Scientific Revolution timeline. On a blank sheet of paper and using the timeline, create a fact sheet containing 20 facts that you learned from the time line.

8. Junior Scholastic-It's a new article!

1/24 Wednesday

1. Poetry Warm-Up-Today we will work on simile.

2. Long Walk to Water-Let's start on our book!

3. ReadyNC-Time to do Lesson 14.

4. Edmentum-Back to it!

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 Timeline-Go to the link for a Scientific Revolution timeline. On a blank sheet of paper and using the timeline, create a fact sheet containing 20 facts that you learned from the time line.

7. Junior Scholastic-It's a new article!

1/23 Tuesday

1. Poetry Warm-up-Let's start the day out right....with a poem!

2. Article of the Day-Head this website, log-in and get to reading! Make sure you take that quiz. This will go in grade book, so make sure to do your best!

3.  Vocabulary-We really need to get back to our words again. These are all words which you will see on your common assessments and EOGs. Here are your first 5 words.

4. Google Doc-You are to create and share a new Google doc titled: First Name Last name-Long Walk to Water.

5. Judging a Book by its Cover-Below is the cover to our new class book. A cover is a very good way to try and determine what a book may be about. Using the cover below, make a list in your new Google doc of images and details you see on the cover. What do these images tell you about our book. Finally, based on the images and details on the cover, make predictions about our class book.

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.

1/22 Monday

1. Edmentum-Use this time to finish your second diagnostic. If you are finished, work on your new path.

2. ReadyNC-It's time for a new standard. We will discuss RL 7.5.

3. Google Doc-You are to create and share a new Google doc titled: First Name Last name-Long Walk to Water.

4. Judging a Book by its Cover-Below is the cover to our new class book. A cover is a very good way to try and determine what a book may be about. Using the cover below, make a list in your new Google doc of images and details you see on the cover. What do these images tell you about our book. Finally, based on the images and details on the cover, make predictions about our class book.

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.

1/17 Wednesday

1. Game Time- We have a new game! The new game is called Storyman. I will show you how it works.

Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch.
Knoword
Synonym Toast

1/16 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! Your story also needs to be written in First Person point of view. This link should help.

2. Vocabulary-Starting this week, we will be having weekly vocabulary. These are all words which you will see on your common assessments and EOGs. Here are your first 5 words.

3. Poetry Packet-Let's finish up our packet today. 

4. Poetry Practice-Practice hopefully makes perfect!

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.

1/12 Friday

1. Free Rice Friday- Free Rice time! You can choose your category.

2. Poetry Terms-Let's review and complete our worksheet.

3. ReadyNC-Let's try to finish our packet.

4. FreeRead-Relax and read!

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. Junior Scholastic-Let's finish our packets. 

1/11 Thursday

1. Article of the Day-Head this website, log-in and get to reading! Make sure you take that quiz. This will go in grade book, so make sure to do your best!

2. ReadyNc-Let's work some more on our packet.

3. Poetry Terms-Here are some figurative language terms that we need to know.

4. Poetry Practice-Let's see what we know!

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. Slavery Quiz-Use this time to study for your quiz.

7. Junior Scholastic-We have a new article to read.

1/10 Wednesday

1. Edmentum-Back to your learning paths..

2. Vocabulary-Starting this week, we will be having weekly vocabulary. These are all words which you will see on your common assessments and EOGs. Here are your first 5 words.

3. ReadyNC-We never got a chance to start our new lesson. Here's our chance!

4. FreeRead-Let's grab our books and read.

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. Slavery Quiz-Use this time to study for your quiz.

7. Junior Scholastic-We have a new article to read.

1/ 8 Monday

1. Edmentum-Back to your learning paths..

2. Vocabulary-Starting this week, we will be having weekly vocabulary. These are all words which you will see on your common assessments and EOGs. Here are your first 5 words.

3. ReadyNC-We never got a chance to start our new lesson. Here's our chance!

4. FreeRead-Let's grab our books and read. 

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. Slavery Quiz-Use this time to study for your quiz. 

7. Junior Scholastic-We have a new article to read. 

1/3 Wednesday

1. Read Theory-Jump on Read Theory and get to quizzing.

2. Edmentum-Back to your learning paths...

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. Explain how each story might impact your life.

4. 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.

1/2 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 sad.

2. Storyboard That-Head here and wait for instructions.


3. Poetry-We are going to begin looking at poetry. First up is rhyme and repetition.


4. Read Theory-Let's earn some points!


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.