December 17th through December 21st
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people use money?
English
- Magical Monday: What are you excited for on Christmas?
- Spelling: Christmas Word Fun!
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Plurals of Nouns Ending in O
- Work Time: Worksheet, Summaries, and Character Poster
- 20 Minutes of Silent Reading for Choice Book
- Seminars
- Seminar 1
- Writing: Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Seminar 2
- Writing: Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Seminar 1
- Grammar Worksheet due Tomorrow
- Character Poster and Summaries due Friday
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people use money?
English
- Tradition Tuesday: What is a tradition your family always has at Christmas time?
- Spelling: Fun Christmas Word Games
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Irregular Plurals
- Work Time for Grammar Worksheet, Summaries, and Character Poster
- 20 Minutes of Silent Reading for Choice Books
- Seminar 1
- Writing: Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Seminar 2
- Writing: Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Grammar Worksheet due Tomorrow
- Character Poster due Friday
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people spend money?
English
- Wake Up Wednesday: What's the latest you plan to sleep in over Christmas break?
- Greek and Latin Roots: loc
- Spelling: Christmas Word Fun
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Collective Nouns
- Work Time for Worksheet, Greek and Latin Pictures, Summaries, and Character Poster
- 20 Minutes of Silent Reading for Choice Books
- Seminar 1
- Writing: Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Seminar 2
- Introduction to Decahedron Project
- Greek and Latin Roots due Friday
- Worksheet due Tomorrow
- Summaries and Character Poster due Friday
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people spend money?
English
- Thoughtful Thursday: What's the best gift you got someone this year?
- Spelling: Christmas Word Fun
- Grammar: Noun Review
- 20 Minutes Silent Reading for Choice Books
- Seminar 1
- Work Time for Decahedrons
- Seminar 2:
- Work Time for Decahedrons
- Character Poster due Tomorrow
- Greek and Latin Root due Tomorrow
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people spend money?
English
- Finally Friday: What are your plans for your long break?
- Gift Opening
- Par-tay!
- Seminar 1
- Par-tay!
- Seminar 2
- Par-tay!
- None
December 10th through December 14th
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people use money?
English
- Movie Monday: What is your favorite Christmas movie?
- Spelling: Whiteboard Practice
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Singular and Plural Nouns
- Work Time: Worksheet, PLP, Economy Project, and Poster
- 20 Minutes of Silent Reading for Choice Book
- Seminars
- Seminar 1
- Writing: Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Seminar 2
- Writing: Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Seminar 1
- Grammar Worksheet due Tomorrow
- PLP due December 12th
- Character Poster due December 21st
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people use money?
English
- Tantrum Tuesday: When is the last time your threw a tantrum, and what caused the tantrum?
- Spelling: 15 minutes Spelling City
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Review Common and Proper Nouns
- Grammar: Special Changes to Make Plural
- Work Time for Grammar Worksheet, Poster, Economy Project, and PLP
- 20 Minutes of Silent Reading for Choice Books
- Seminar 1
- Writing: Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Seminar 2
- Writing: Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Grammar Worksheet due Tomorrow
- PLP due December 12th
- Character Poster due December 21st
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people spend money?
English
- Wordy Wednesday: How many words can you make from the Boggle Board?
- Greek and Latin Roots: liber
- Spelling: The Hint Game
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: More Plural Nouns
- Work Time for PLP, Character Poster, and PLP
- 20 Minutes of Silent Reading for Choice Books
- Seminar 1
- Writing: Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Seminar 2
- Writing: Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Greek and Latin Roots due Friday
- PLP due today December 12th
- Character Poster due December 21st
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people spend money?
English
- Thankful Thursday: Pick a teacher and write a nice note to them.
- Spelling: Fill In the Blank Game
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Special Changes to Make Plurals
- Work Time for Poster and Greek and Latin Roots
- 20 Minutes Silent Reading for Choice Books
- Seminar 1
- Writing: Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Seminar 2:
- Writing: Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Character Poster due December 21st
- Greek and Latin Root due Tomorrow
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people spend money?
English
- Favorite Friday: What is your favorite Christmas book?
- Spelling: Sparkle
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: More Plural Nouns
- Seminar 1
- Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Seminar 2
- Candy Cane Compare and Contrast
- Character Poster due December 21st
- Greek and Latin Roots due Today
December 3rd through December 7th
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people use money?
English
- Musical Monday: What is your favorite Christmas song?
- Melcon Monday: What's the hardest thing about being a kid?
- Spelling: Pretest: Irregular Plurals
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns
- Work Time: Worksheet, Melcon, and Poster
- 20 Minutes of Silent Reading for Choice Book
- Seminars
- Seminar 1
- Keefe: Literature Circles (Green 1 and 2)
- Shipman: Exposition (Blue 2)
- Rachu: Economy Project ( Blue 1)
- Orange: PLP Work Time
- Seminar 2
- Keefe: Literature Circles (Green 1 and 2)
- Shipman: Root Words (Orange)
- Rachu: Economy Project (Blue 1)
- Blue 2: PLP Work Time
- Seminar 1
- Melcon due Wednesday
- Grammar Worksheet due Tomorrow
- Run On Poster due Friday
- PLP due December 12th
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people use money?
English
- Together Tuesday: What is something that is easier to do together than alone?
- Spelling: 15 minutes Spelling City
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Review Common and Proper Nouns
- Grammar: Concrete and Abstract Nouns
- Work Time for Grammar Worksheet, Poster, and Melcon
- 20 Minutes of Silent Reading for Choice Books
- Seminar 1
- Keefe: Literature Circles (Blue 1 and 2)
- Shipman: Root Words (Green 1)
- Rachu: Economy Project (Orange)
- Green 2: PLP Work Time
- Seminar 2
- Keefe: Literature Circles (Blue 1 and 2)
- Shipman: Root Words (Green 2)
- Rachu: Economy Project (Orange)
- Green 1: PLP Work Time
- Melcon due Tomorrow
- Grammar Worksheet due Tomorrow
- Run On Poster due Friday
- PLP due December 12th
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people spend money?
English
- Word Ladder Wednesday: Change one letter each time to make a new word. (Starting with line)
- Greek and Latin Roots: liber
- Spelling: The Hint Game
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Reviewing Common, Proper, Concrete, and Abstract Nouns
- Work Time for Poster and Greek and Latin Roots
- 20 Minutes of Silent Reading for Choice Books
- Seminar 1
- Keefe: Literature Circles (Orange)
- Shipman: Root Words (Blue 2)
- Rachu: Author's Point of View (Green 2)
- Green 1 and Blue 1 : PLP Work Time
- Seminar 2
- Keefe: Literature Circles (Orange)
- Shipman: Author's Point of View (Green 1)
- Rachu: PLP Support
- Blue 1 and 2 and Green 2: PLP Work Time
- Melcon due Today
- Poster due Friday at 3:20
- Greek and Latin Roots due Friday
- PLP due December 12th
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people spend money?
English
- Three Things Thursday: If you could only have three things for Christmas, what would they be?
- Spelling: Spelling Baseball
- Grammar: Noun Hunt with Christmas Book
- Work Time for Poster and Greek and Latin Roots
- 20 Minutes Silent Reading for Choice Books
- Seminar 1
- Keefe: Literature Circles (Green 1 and 2)
- Shipman: Root Words (Blue 1)
- Rachu: Economy Project (Blue 2)
- Orange: PLP Work Time
- Seminar 2:
- Keefe: Literature Circles (Green 1 and 2)
- Shipman: PLP Support (Blue 1 and Orange)
- Rachu: Economy Project (Blue 2)
- Poster due Tomorrow
- Greek and Latin Root due Tomorrow
- PLP due December 12th
Essential Question
English
- What factors influence how people spend money?
English
- Favorite Friday: What is your favorite homemade Christmas treat?
- Spelling: Sparkle
- Seminar 1
- All: Weekly Assessment
- Seminar 2
- Work Time for Book Study
- Poster due Today
- Greek and Latin Roots due Today
- PLP due December 12th