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Monday, March 31, 2014

3/31 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-Once again, your Weekly Vocabulary Words come from our class short story. Take a few minutes to look them over.

3. Vocabulary 3-2-1-Use all of your vocabulary words to complete a 3-2-1. Here are the directions:
Write each word 3 times
Write each word and definition 2 times
Write 1 sentence using each of your vocab words (make sure you underline the vocabulary word)


4. Text Structure-We will review text structures.

5. Text Structure Assignment-Let's see how well we know our structures.

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc. Be sure to fully explain your answer.

Do you think that the Industrial Revolution was a good or bad thing? Be sure to fully explain your answers.

7. Industrial Revolution Inventions-Let's finish up those Industrial Revolution Invention emails. Here again are the directions:

Go to the following website and look at the Industrial Revolution invention timeline. Once you have looked at some of the inventions, send me an email (subject should be "IR-Inventions") and pick the five Industrial Revolution inventions you think are the most important. Be sure to explain why you think so and write in complete sentences!

Friday, March 28, 2014

3/27 Friday


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

2. Article Review-Read the following article. After reading, write a quick review of the article in your Norman Language Arts Google doc. Your review should answer the following questions:

-What was the article's main idea?

-What text structure did the article use?

Write a brief summary of the idea

3. Conflict-Let's see how well we remember our conflicts. 

4. NC Write-Go to NC Write and complete the prompt titled "Indoor Fun or Outdoor Fun". Your essay should be at least 125 words.

5. MDG-Let's get back to reading our class story!

6. Industrial Revolution-Let's review some more.

Thursday, March 27, 2014

3/27 Thursday

1. Games (Again?)-Once again we are going to take some time to play our games. Relax and enjoy
Joy Words!
Before and After
Storyman
Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. Reading Passage-We are going to take some time to complete a reading passage.

3. NC Write-Go to NC Write and complete the prompt titled "Indoor Fun or Outdoor Fun". Your essay should be at least 125 words.

4. MDG-Let's get back to reading our class story!

5. Industrial Revolution-Let's review our notes

6. Industrial Revolution Timeline-Go to the following website and look at the Industrial Revolution  invention timeline. Once you have looked at some of the inventions, send me an email (subject should be "IR-Inventions") and pick the five Industrial Revolution inventions you think are the most important. Be sure to explain why you think so and write in complete sentences!

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

3/26 Wednesday

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. Analyze the Quotes-Read the following quote. In your Language Arts Google doc, analyze each quote. What do you think the speaker meant? Why do you think this? How does this quote relate to you?
Remember to write in complete sentences and to fully explain your answers.

“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”

“What you are is what you have been. What you’ll be is what you do now.”

“It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”

3. Text Structure-Let's take a few minutes to review our Text Structure slides

4. Text Structure Assignment-Let's see how well we know our structures!

5. NC Write-Go to NC Write and complete the prompt titled "Indoor Fun or Outdoor Fun". Your essay should be at least 125 words.

6. Industrial Revolution-Today we will continue looking at the Industrial Revolution.

7. Industrial Revolution Project-Keep working on your assignment.

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

3/25 Tuesday

1. BONUS-The first student who correctly emails me with the answer to the following question will receive 5 bonus points on their next quiz or assignment! This should be in your OWN WORDS and not copied and pasted.

What are the 8 planets located in our solar system?

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 creepy.


3. Text Structure-Today we will begin looking at the various ways a writer can structure a piece of writing and why they might do so. 

4. NC Write-Go to NC Write and complete the prompt titled "Indoor Fun or Outdoor Fun". Your essay should be at least 125 words.

5. Most Dangerous Game-Let's get back to our story.

6. Industrial Revolution-Today we will continue looking at the Industrial Revolution.

7. Industrial Revolution Project-Keep working on your assignment.

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Monday, March 24, 2014

3/24 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. Conflict Review-Let's use this time to review conflict one more time.

3. NC Write-Go to NC Write and complete the prompt titled "Indoor Fun or Outdoor Fun". Your essay should be at least 125 words. 

4. Most Dangerous Game Predictions-We are going to look at some words and try to predict what they will mean for our new story.

5. Most Dangerous Game-Lets get started! First, go to the following website and create an account. 

6. French Revolution Review

7. Industrial Revolution-Today we will be beginning our Industrial Revolution Unit.

8. Industrial Revolution Assignment-You will be beginning a research project on different aspects of the Industrial Revolution. First, you need to go to the Thinglink website and set up an account.






Friday, March 21, 2014

3/21 Friday

1. Free Rice-Free Rice time! Let's learn and help people at the same time.

2. Conflict-We will review our slides and our worksheet from yesterday.

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

4. Weekly Vocabulary-In five minutes, we will be taking our vocab. quiz. Take this time to finish your 3-2-1s and/or study.

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5. Most Dangerous Game-Let's take a few minutes and get some background on our new story. 

6. French Revolution Warm-up

7. SAS Curriculum-Finish up work on your French Revolution timelines.


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