Thursday 3/24

1. Game Time-It's game time!

Switchword.
Word Confusion
Joy Words
Before and After
Storyman
Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. Easter Games- I have found a couple of games that might entertain us. They are here and here. Here is an egg design site.

3. Read Theory- I will be adding three Read Theory quiz grades into your gradebook. Use this time to get as many A's as you can!

4. Origins of Easter-We are going to use the following links to learn more about the origins of Easter. Once you have visited each link, send me an email titled, "Easter" and list 15 facts you learned from the sites.
Easter Link
Easter Link 2
Easter Link 3

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?

3/22 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 scary!

2. Reading Passage Review-Let's go over our newest reading passages.

3. Website Tryouts-Since the Friends of Rachel have taken half of my class, we are going to use today to explore some websites and see what we think. This website we have used before, but I think they have added some new games. Here is a site that contains a crazy number of word games. This website has tons of old-school Nintendo games. Finally, here is an awesome site which will test your geography skills.

4. 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?

5. Website Tryout--Why should ELA have all the fun? Let's tryout some new websites. This site has a few different games to play around on. This website has a ton of games. Give them a shot and let me know what is the best. Here is our final site. It is geography focused.

3/21 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.Scope-We are starting our new Scope article today

3. Point of View-Today we will start our POV unit.

4. 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?

3/18 Friday

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

2. Weekly Vocabulary-Use this time to finish your short story. 

3. Reading Passage-SQUASH it like it's never been SQUASHed before!

4. 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?

5. People of the Revolution- You will be researching various important figures from both the American and French Revolutions.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. Which revolution was this person involved with?

5. What was their importance to the revolution?

6. What are 3 interesting facts about this person?

Today's person is:


John Paul Jones

http://www.factmonster.com/quizzes/travel/3.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fifth-grade-geography-quiz_us_5649fbebe4b060377349e37f

3/17 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. ReadTheory-Let's see who can pass the most quizzes!

3. Red Literature-Grab a book and turn to page 340. Read pages 340-342 and in your Textbook google doc answer questions 1-8 on page 343. 

4. FreeRead-Relax and get your read on!

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. St. Patrick's Day-How many of you have no idea why we celebrate St. Patrick's Day? Who exactly was St. Patrick? Was he a leprechaun? Why was he so obsessed with green? Let's solve this mystery. Head here and here and read up on the history of the holiday. Then on a blank sheet of paper, write 15 facts about the day.

3/17 Wednesday

1. Game Time-It's game time! NEW GAME ALERT!!!! Take about 5 minutes and try out our new game, Switchword.

Word Confusion
Joy Words
Before and After
Storyman
Word Craze.
Eight Letter Game
Wordsearch
Knoword
Synonym Toast
Sentence Unscramble.
Popword

2. MDG Questions-Let's go over our questions.

3. Scope-Time to do some more work on our newest article.

4. Free-Read-Grab a book and get busy!

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?

3/15 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 creepy.

2. Scope-Use this time to finish your Scope worksheets. We will go over them soon.

3. MDG Wrap-Up-I will be grading your questions and your sequels very soon. Take this time to make any last minute corrections.

4. Summary Sketches-Will we finally get to this assignment????

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?