February 27th through March 3rd
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?
- 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
- Melcon
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in different states?
- How do we use verbs every day?
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- Writing Projects
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in different states?
- How do we use verbs every day?
- 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
- Grammar Worksheet
- Spelling Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in other states?
- How do we use verbs every day?
- 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
- None
February 20th through February 24th
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?
- Melcon Monday: Forward Test Practice #2
- Spelling: Pre-Test: Frequently Misspelled Words
- Melcon
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in different states?
- How do we use verbs every day?
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in different states?
- How do we use verbs every day?
- 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
- Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in other states?
- How do we use verbs every day?
- 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
- None
February 13th through February 17th
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?
- Melcon Monday: Valentine's Day Would You Rather
- Spelling: Study At Home
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Subject/Verb Agreement
- 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?
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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?
- #TBT: What is the coolest thing you did in elementary school?
- Spelling: Spelling Test: R-Controlled Vowels
- Work Time for Movie Review
- None
No School! Enjoy your day!
February 6th through February 10th
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.
- 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.
- 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?
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- Grammar Worksheet
- Study Spelling Words
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in other states?
- How do we use verbs every day?
- 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
- Letter to Middle School Due
January 30th through February 3rd
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.
- Magnificent Monday: What was magnificent about your weekend?
- Spelling Game: Speed Spell
- Grammar: Using Quotation Marks
- Begin Working on Forward Test Sample Prompts
- 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?
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- None
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in other states?
- How do we use verbs every day?
- Famous Friday: If you could be famous for one thing, what would it be?
- Brain Break! Ten Little Animals Poetry Writing
- Ten Little Animals Poem
