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Monday, September 28, 2015

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?

Friday, September 25, 2015

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. 

Thursday, September 24, 2015

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:
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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!


Wednesday, September 23, 2015

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

Image result for prince john robin hood

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

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

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. 

Monday, September 21, 2015

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

Friday, September 18, 2015

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?