Tuesday:
Students continued to study the differences between prepositional phrases and adverb phrases.
HW: Prepositions worksheet
Students read a persuasive essay about the Salton Sea.
HW: Complete a T-chart of main ideas and supporting details.
Wednesday:
Students will spend the hour investigating biodiversity and human causes for the loss of diversity. We will read an essay together and highlight main ideas, supporting details, persuasive word choice, and introductions/conclusions. Students will work in groups to answer questions. There will be some short answer essay questions. Students who do not complete the questions by the end of the hour will take the packet home for homework.
Thursday:
MICHIGAN'S ADVENTURE!!
Students who are not able to go on the field trip are expected to be in school all day.
Friday:
We will continue on with prepositions. We will focus on selecting the correct preposition for the sentence.
We will read another informative essay and focus on the main elements of the essay. There will be questions for students to answer at the end of the packet. Students who do not finish during the hour will need to bring the packet home for homework.
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
Monday, May 19, 2014
Week of May 19-23, 2014
Monday:
Delayed start
Students will be doing a writing quiz: writing a four-paragraph essay that is due at the end of the hour.
Tuesday:
Students will begin investigating the final part of speech--prepositions
In reading we will continue with non-fiction reading: persuasive essays
We will read pgs. 580-584. Students will complete the ?? 1-9 on pgs. 585
HW: Selection test
Wednesday:
Continue with prepositions and prepositional phrases
Students will gather information from a cereal box and create a 30-second commercial that will be presented on Thursday. Emphasis on persuasive word choices. They will write their presentation on a note card.
Thursday:
More work with prepositional phrases.
Presentation of cereal commercials.
HW: Read pgs. 589-91 Create T-chart of main ideas and supporting details
Preposition worksheet
Friday:
Go over the information for the Michigan's Adventure field trip. Students who have enough points will be given a permission/informational handout. Students who do not have enough points to go on the trip are expected to attend school that day.
More work on persuasive arguments.
TRIP TO MICHIGAN'S ADVENTURE IS THURSDAY, MAY 29TH.
Delayed start
Students will be doing a writing quiz: writing a four-paragraph essay that is due at the end of the hour.
Tuesday:
Students will begin investigating the final part of speech--prepositions
In reading we will continue with non-fiction reading: persuasive essays
We will read pgs. 580-584. Students will complete the ?? 1-9 on pgs. 585
HW: Selection test
Wednesday:
Continue with prepositions and prepositional phrases
Students will gather information from a cereal box and create a 30-second commercial that will be presented on Thursday. Emphasis on persuasive word choices. They will write their presentation on a note card.
Thursday:
More work with prepositional phrases.
Presentation of cereal commercials.
HW: Read pgs. 589-91 Create T-chart of main ideas and supporting details
Preposition worksheet
Friday:
Go over the information for the Michigan's Adventure field trip. Students who have enough points will be given a permission/informational handout. Students who do not have enough points to go on the trip are expected to attend school that day.
More work on persuasive arguments.
TRIP TO MICHIGAN'S ADVENTURE IS THURSDAY, MAY 29TH.
Monday, May 12, 2014
May 12-14th
Reading: Students continued with non-fiction reading. Emphasis is on persuasive essays.
HW: Read pgs. 572-575
Answer questions # 2-5, all parts on pg. 575. Answers must be in complete sentences.
Writing: "How To Make Favorite Cookie" writing is due on Wednesday.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, students will be taking the Smarter Balanced computerized assessment in 1st-3rd hours. Therefore, there will be no language arts classes on those two days.
HW: Read pgs. 572-575
Answer questions # 2-5, all parts on pg. 575. Answers must be in complete sentences.
Writing: "How To Make Favorite Cookie" writing is due on Wednesday.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, students will be taking the Smarter Balanced computerized assessment in 1st-3rd hours. Therefore, there will be no language arts classes on those two days.
Friday, May 2, 2014
Week of May 5th, 2014
On Monday, we will do English and reading. We will do pg. 241 in the English book, #s 54-63. This is a review of adverbs/adjectives. We will go over the Recipe Writing project which will be due on Tuesday, May 13. Students will be given a rubric for this assignment. There will be no class time given for this project. Students will then complete the Quiz Time sheet for chapters 10-15 in "Worms".
Tuesday will include homework assignments. Students will work in their English books, pg. 245 #s 106-110 & 116-121. Students will read pgs. 60-73 in “Worms”. There will be an English worksheet and a vocabulary crossword for homework.
Wednesday will be a full day. We will continue the review of modifiers by completing #s 1-16 on pg. 256. They will read pgs. 74-82 in “Worms” and complete the comprehension sheet for those chapters.
Thursday will be the same as the previous days. Today’s silent reading pages are pgs. 83-95. We will work on pg. 250 of the English book, #s 1-14. Homework will be the unit test for “Worms”.
Friday will bring completion of both units. Students will finish reading “Worms”. They will complete the comprehension packet and hand it in at the end of the hour. The unit test homework is also due by the end of the hour. Today will also be the last day for modifiers in English.
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