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February 27th through March 3rd

  • Monday
  • Tuesday
  • Wednesday
  • Thursday
  • Friday
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Essential Questions:
  • ​How can we communicate with people in different states?​
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • How can we persuade others of our opinions using writing?
Daily Plan
  • Melcon Monday: Should everyone under the age of 17 have a 9:00 pm curfew?
  • Spelling:Test: Frequently Misspelled Words​
  • Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Proofreading Verb Tenses
Assignments​
  • Melcon
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
Daily Plan
  • Too Tired Tuesday: What do you do to help you fall asleep at night?
  • Spelling: Pre-Test: Words with Prefixes
  • Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Grammar: Linking Verbs
  • ​Writing: Work Time for Movie Review
Assignments
  • ​Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • What aspects help us determine the meaning of a word?
Daily Plan
  • I Wish my Teacher Knew Wednesday: Write on your notecard one thing you wish Mrs. Rachu knew about you.
  • Writing Wednesday
  • Finish Movie Review
  • Finish Letter to Middle School
Assignments​
  • Writing Projects
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
Daily Plan
  • Thrilling Thursday: Tell me about a fair or theme park ride you've been on.
  • Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Grammar: Predicate Nouns and Adjectives
  • Spelling: Building Spelling Words
Assignments
  • Grammar Worksheet
  • Spelling Worksheet
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in other states?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
Daily Plan
  • Feel the Love Friday: What do you love about your homeroom class?
  • Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Grammar: Proofreading
  • Spelling: Spelling Test: Frequently Misspelled Words
  • Writing: Work Time for Movie Review
Assignments
  • None

February 20th through February 24th

  • Monday
  • Tuesday
  • Wednesday
  • Thursday
  • Friday
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Essential Questions:
  • ​How can we communicate with people in different states?​
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • How can we persuade others of our opinions using writing?
Daily Plan
  • Melcon Monday: Forward Test Practice #2
  • Spelling: Pre-Test: Frequently Misspelled Words​
Assignments​
  • Melcon
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
Daily Plan
  • Talk It Up Tuesday Round 3: Tell me a story from your life in 2017 so far. You must talk for two minutes straight with no pauses!
  • Spelling: Spelling Baseball
  • Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Grammar: Main and Helping Verbs
  • ​Writing: Work Time for Movie Review
Assignments
  • Spelling Worksheet
  • ​Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • What aspects help us determine the meaning of a word?
Daily Plan
  • What Woudl You Do Wednesday: What would you do if everything you touched turned into gold?
  • Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Grammar: Perfect Tenses and Progressive Forms
  • Interactive Notebooks: Verb Tenses
Assignments​
  • Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
Daily Plan
  • Thirst Quenching Thursday: What is your favorite beverage?
  • Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Grammar: Avoiding Verb Tense Shifts
  • Spelling: Practicing With Frequently Misspelled Words
  • Work Time for Movie Review
Assignments
  • Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in other states?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
Daily Plan
  • Feel the Love Friday: What do you love about your homeroom class?
  • Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Grammar: Proofreading
  • Spelling: Spelling Test: Frequently Misspelled Words
  • Writing: Work Time for Movie Review
Assignments
  • None

February 13th through February 17th

  • Monday
  • Tuesday
  • Wednesday
  • Thursday
  • Friday
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Essential Questions:
  • ​How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How does Martin Luther King Jr.'s life work pertain to us?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • How can we persuade others of our opinions using writing?
Daily Plan
  • Melcon Monday: Valentine's Day Would You Rather
  • Spelling: Study At Home
  • ​Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Grammar: Subject/Verb Agreement
Assignments​
  • Melcon
  • Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How does Martin Luther King Jr.'s life work pertain to us?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
Daily Plan
  • Talk It Up Tuesday Round 2: Tell me a story from your life in 2017 so far. You must talk for two minutes straight with no pauses!
  • Spelling: Word Sort
  • Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement Practice
  • ​Writing: Work Time for Movie Review
Assignments
  • Spelling Worksheet
  • ​Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How does Martin Luther King Jr.'s life work pertain to us?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • What aspects help us determine the meaning of a word?
Daily Plan
  • Weather Wednesday: In your opinions, what is the perfect weather? 
  • Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Grammar: Proofreading Verbs
  • Spelling: Word Meanings
  • Greek and Latin Roots: volv and vor
  • Greek and Latin Pictures
Assignments​
  • Greek and Latin Root Pictures
  • Come up with sentences to practice spelling word meanings. ​ 
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How does Martin Luther King Jr.'s life work pertain to us?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
Daily Plan
  • #TBT: What is the coolest thing you did in elementary school?
  • Spelling: Spelling Test: R-Controlled Vowels
  • Work Time for Movie Review
Assignments
  • None
No School! Enjoy your day!

February 6th through February 10th

  • Monday
  • Tuesday
  • Wednesday
  • Thursday
  • Friday
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Essential Questions:
  • ​How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How does Martin Luther King Jr.'s life work pertain to us?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • How can we use articles and other forms of literature to write a persuasive paper.
Daily Plan
  • Melcon Monday: You've always wanted a pet! The pet store has received a shipment of unusal animals: a hedgehog, a skunk, a tarantula, a chinchilla, a hairless cat, and a kangaroo. Which pet would you choose and why?
  • Spelling: Pretest: r controlled vowel syllables
  • ​Grammar: Verb Tenses Intro
  • Grammar: Verb Tense: What Tense is It? Draw a Picture to represent past, present and future. Hold up the cards when Mrs. Rachu gives you a verb.
Assignments​
  • Melcon
  • Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How does Martin Luther King Jr.'s life work pertain to us?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • How can we use articles and other forms of literature to write a persuasive paper?
Daily Plan
  • Talk It Up Tuesday Round 2: Tell me a story from your life in 2017 so far. You must talk for two minutes straight with no pauses!
  • Spelling Game: Battleship Vs. Mrs. Rachu
  • Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement
  • ​Work on Great Mail Race
Assignments
  • Spelling Worksheet
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How does Martin Luther King Jr.'s life work pertain to us?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • What aspects help us determine the meaning of a word?
  • ​How can we use articles and other forms of literature to write a persuasive paper?
Daily Plan
  • What is it Wednesday?: What has no weight but is heavy enough to sink a ship?
  • Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement
  • Spelling: Word Meanings
  • Greek and Latin Roots: volv and vor
  • Greek and Latin Pictures
  • Writing: Intro to Movie Review
Assignments​
  • Greek and Latin Root Pictures
  • Come up with sentences to practice spelling word meanings. 
  • ​Start deciding on a movie to write. 
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How does Martin Luther King Jr.'s life work pertain to us?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • How can we use articles and other forms of literature to write a persuasive paper?
Daily Plan
  • Think About It Thursday: If someone gave you a $100,000, how would you spend the money?
  • Grammar: Daily Editing
  • Grammar: Proofreading
  • Spelling: Spelling Baseball
  • Work Time for Movie Review
Assignments
  • Grammar Worksheet
  • Study Spelling Words
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in other states?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
Daily Plan
  • Feel Good Friday: What is one nice thing you did for someone this week?
  • Grammar: Extra Practice: Verb-Tenses and Subject-Verb Agreement
  • Spelling: Spelling Test: r controlled vowel syllables
  • Writing: Work Time for Movie Review
Assignments
  • Letter to Middle School Due

January 30th through February 3rd

  • Monday
  • Tuesday
  • Wednesday
  • Thursday
  • Friday
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Essential Questions:
  • ​How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How does Martin Luther King Jr.'s life work pertain to us?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • How can we use articles and other forms of literature to write a persuasive paper.
Daily Plan
  • Magnificent Monday: What was magnificent about your weekend?
  • Spelling Game: Speed Spell
  • ​Grammar: Using Quotation Marks
  • Begin Working on Forward Test Sample Prompts
Assignments​
  • Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How does Martin Luther King Jr.'s life work pertain to us?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • How can we use articles and other forms of literature to write a persuasive paper?
Daily Plan
  • Talk It Up Tuesday: Tell me a story from your life in 2017 so far. You must talk for two minutes straight with no pauses!
  • Spelling: Whiteboard Practice
  • Grammar: Using Quotation Marks
  • ​Work on Forward Test Sample Prompts
Assignments
  • None
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How does Martin Luther King Jr.'s life work pertain to us?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • What aspects help us determine the meaning of a word?
  • ​How can we use articles and other forms of literature to write a persuasive paper?
Daily Plan
  • Wordy Wednesday: What words can you find in the Boggle board?
  • Greek and Latin Roots: vac and void
  • Greek and Latin Pictures
  • ​Greek and Latin Computer Games Challenge
  • Work Time for MLK Project
  • Work Time for 50 States Letters
Assignments​
  • Greek and Latin Root Pictures
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in different states?
  • How does Martin Luther King Jr.'s life work pertain to us?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
  • How can we use articles and other forms of literature to write a persuasive paper?
Daily Plan
  • Think About It Thursday: If you started spelling out all the numbers (one, two, three, four, five, etc.), how long would it take you before you found the letter A?
  • Spelling Test
  • Work Time for 50 States Letters
  • Greek and Latin Games When Finished
Assignments
  • None
Essential Questions:
  • How can we communicate with people in other states?
  • How do we use verbs every day?
Daily Plan
  • Famous Friday: If you could be famous for one thing, what would it be?
  • Brain Break! Ten Little Animals Poetry Writing
Assignments
  • Ten Little Animals Poem
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