10/21 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.

2. Act-it-Out-We are going to take about 10 minutes to work on our skits.

3. Scope-We are going to be starting a new article. But first, we are going to complete a pre-reading activity.

4. Main Idea-Let's do some main idea finding together.

5. NC Write-Let's take one more day to work on the "Who am I?" prompt.

6. Social Studies Warm-Up-Answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc.
How do you think the world would have been different if Columbus had not discovered America?

7. Explorer's Map-Today you are going to continue working on a map which will trace the routes and give the reasons for exploration of 6 different explorers. These maps will need to be bright, colorful, and detailed!

Your map should include:
-Explorer's name
-Country they came from
-Route they took
-Years of their expedition
-Reason for expedition

List of Explorers (choose 6)
-Christopher Columbus
-Sir Francis Drake
-Hernando DeSoto
-Ferdinand Magellan
-Hernando Cortes
-Juan Ponce DeLeon
-Sir Walter Raleigh
-Henry Hudson
-Vasco da Gama
-Vasco de Balboa

10/20 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 Words-Here are your new words. Take a few minutes to get familiar with them.

3. Act-it-Out-I may be crazy, but here we go!

4. Small Group-Get with your groups and work on a Main Idea activity.

5. NC Write-We will continue to work on the "Who am I" prompt from last week.

6. Columbus Journal-Head over to this link and follow along as we make our way through a timeline of Columbus's journey. Each section will contain a question which you will need to answer in a new Google doc titled "Columbus Journal." Copy and paste the question into your new Google doc, and then answer the question using complete sentences. Make sure you answer every part of the question. Make sure you date each post (use the date of that is on the timeline.)

7. Discovery of North America - Who really found North America first? Were people already living here? If so, where did they come from? On a blank piece of paper, write 3 facts from each website. That will be a total of 12 facts. Make sure your facts are in complete sentences.

To help answer those questions, please scan through these articles and web resources:
When Did People First Come to North America?
Step by Step Around the Globe
Ancient Migration: Coming to America
Coming to America: Who was First?

10/17 Friday

1. Warm-Up-Free Rice Friday. Today's goal.....3000!

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Finish those 7x7x7s.

3. NC Write-Finish up your "Who am I?" prompt.

http://www.thesaurus.com/

4. Learning Farm- Use this time to bring up those scores on the Main Idea assignment.

5. Scope-We are going to work on some worksheets from our volcano article.

6. Columbus Journal-Head over to this link and follow along as we make our way through a timeline of Columbus's journey. Each section will contain a question which you will need to answer in a new Google doc titled "Columbus Journal." Copy and paste the question into your new Google doc, and then answer the question using complete sentences. Make sure you answer every part of the question. Make sure you date each post (use the date of that is on the timeline.)

7. Discovery of North America - Who really found North America first? Were people already living here? If so, where did they come from? On a blank piece of paper, write 3 facts from each website. That will be a total of 12 facts.

To help answer those questions, please scan through these articles and web resources:
When Did People First Come to North America?
Step by Step Around the Globe
Ancient Migration: Coming to America
Coming to America: Who was First?

10/16/14 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:

-Did you like the article? Explain your answer

-Was the article informative? Explain your answer

-What was one thing about the article that you found fascinating? Explain your answer

2. 7x7x7- Use this time to work on your weekly vocabulary assignment. If you are finished, you can study/and or play some Quizlet games.

3. Main Idea-Let's practice our main idea finding skills (and practice our close reading)

4. NC Write-Keep working on the newest prompt.

5. Scope-We are going to work on some worksheets from our volcano article.

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

What was the most interesting thing you learned about Columbus. Why was this one thing so interesting to you. 

7. Columbus Journal-Head over to this link and follow along as we make our way through a timeline of Columbus's journey. Each section will contain a question which you will need to answer in a new Google doc titled "Columbus Journal." Copy and paste the question into your new Google doc, and then answer the question using complete sentences. Make sure you answer every part of the question. Make sure you date each post (use the date of that is on the timeline.)

8. Discovery of North America - Who really found North America first? Were people already living here? If so, where did they come from? On a blank piece of paper, write 3 facts from each website. That will be a total of 12 facts.

To help answer those questions, please scan through these articles and web resources:
When Did People First Come to North America?
Step by Step Around the Globe
Ancient Migration: Coming to America
Coming to America: Who was First?

10/15 Wednesday

1. Game Time-Let's get the day started with some games.

Popword. 

Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch.
Knoword
Synonym Toast

2.Weekly Vocabulary-Take a look at your new words. Once again, these are tone/mood words and are used by authors to set the feel of the story that they are writing.

3. 7x7x7-This week, we will be using our words to create a 7x7x7. 

*Directions: Write each word and its definition seven times. When finished, create a paragraph with at least seven sentences that uses all seven words correctly. Make sure to underline the vocabulary words in your created paragraph.

4. Scope-Let's Finish our story and do some activities.

5. Small Group-We are going to do some more Main Idea practice.

6. NC Write-Continue working on the "Who Am I" prompt.

7 Columbus Journal-Head over to this link and follow along as we make our way through a timeline of Columbus's journey. Each section will contain a question which you will need to answer in a new Google doc titled "Columbus Journal." Copy and paste the question into your new Google doc, and then answer the question using complete sentences. Make sure you answer every part of the question. Make sure you date each post (use the date of that is on the timeline.)

8. Columbus Videos-You are going to watch some Christopher Columbus videos. On a blank piece of paper, you are going to use our Close Reading grades to grade this videos (E, G, S, N, U). Make sure you fully explain why you gave each video the grade you did.

Video 1

Video 2

Video 3

10/14 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.






2.Weekly Vocabulary-Take a look at your new words. Once again, these are tone/mood words and are used by authors to set the feel of the story that they are writing.

3. 7x7x7-This week, we will be using our words to create a 7x7x7. This works just like 5x5x5 except you use two more words. Here are the directions:

*Directions: Write each word and its definition seven times. When finished, create a paragraph with at least seven sentences that uses all seven words correctly. Make sure to underline the vocabulary words in your created paragraph.

4. Small Group-Get with your small groups and complete a main idea assignment.

5. Scope-We will hopefully begin our next Scope article. 

6. NC Write-Continue working on the "Who Am I" prompt. 

7. Social Studies Warm-Up- First, go to this link  and read Christopher Columbus's quote about the natives he encountered. Next, answer the following question in your Norman Social Studies Google doc.

Now that we know more about the real story of Columbus, do you think he was more of a hero or a villain? Fully explain your answers. 

8. Columbus Day-Head over to this link and follow along as we make our way through a timeline of Columbus's journey. Each section will contain a question which you will need to answer in a new Google doc titled "Columbus Journal." Copy and paste the question into your new Google doc, and then answer the question using complete sentences. Make sure you answer every part of the question. Make sure you date each post (use the date of that is on the timeline.)

9. Columbus Quiz-Head over to this site and read the 10 things you may not know about Columbus. Afterwards, you are to use the site to create a 15 question true or false quiz about the information found on the site. Make sure your questions are in complete sentences and make sure to include an answer key. 

10/13 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-Take a look at your new words. Once again, these are tone/mood words and are used by authors to set the feel of the story that they are writing.

3. 7x7x7-This week, we will be using our words to create a 7x7x7. This works just like 5x5x5 except you use two more words. Here are the directions:

*Directions: Write each word and its definition seven times. When finished, create a paragraph with at least seven sentences that uses all seven words correctly. Make sure to underline the vocabulary words in your created paragraph.

3. Main Idea-We are going to do some more practice on finding Main Idea.

4. Scope Magazine-What will this week's article be about?

5. NC Write-Begin working on the prompt titled "Who am I?" Your essay should be at least 115 words. 

6. Columbus Day-Head over to this link and follow along as we make our way through a timeline of Columbus's journey. Each section will contain a question which you will need to answer in a new Google doc titled "Columbus Journal." Copy and paste the question into your new Google doc, and then answer the question using complete sentences. Make sure you answer every part of the question. Make sure you date each post (use the date of that is on the timeline.)