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Monday, March 14, 2016

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.

Friday, March 11, 2016

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.

Thursday, March 10, 2016

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.

Wednesday, March 9, 2016

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

Friday, March 4, 2016

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


Thursday, March 3, 2016

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.

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

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!