January 16th through January 20th
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?
- MLK Monday: What do you know about Martin Luther King Jr.?
- Work Time for MLK project.
- 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?
- Treasure Tuesday: What is your most prized possession?
- Work Time for MLK Project
- 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?
- One Word Wednesday: Write one word describing how you feel about winter.
- Greek and Latin Roots: terr and urb
- 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 nouns every day?
- Finish the Story Thursday: "My fish." "Forget the fish. We have to leave now." "But my fish!"...
- Work Time for MLK Project
- Hanging Up and Displaying MLK Project
- Work Time for 50 States Letters
- None
No School for Students
January 9th through January 13th
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in different states?
- Why write a business letter?
- How do we use nouns every day?
- Man's Best Friend Monday: What is your pet's name and what do you love most about them?
- Melcon Monday!:The Big One of the Quarter!: Is technology harming kids today?
- Update on Missing Work
- Spelling Game: Apples Vs. Oranges
- Write Across the United States Project
- Melcon
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in different states?
- Why write a business letter?
- How do we use nouns every day?
- TV Tuesday: If you could only watch one TV show for the rest of your life, what would it be?
- Spelling: Word Sort
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Using Commas, Dashes, and Parenthesis
- Writing: Write Across America Project
- Grammar Worksheet
- Spelling Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in different states?
- How do we use nouns every day?
- What aspects help us determine the meaning of a word?
- What's Would you Do Wednesday: Children in Kenya, Africa are not required to go to school. They choose to go anyway. If you didn't have to go to school, would you? Why or why not?
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Appositive-ly Correct Game
- Greek and Latin Roots: sect and spect
- Final Draft of Letter due Tomorrow
- Greek and Latin Root Pictures
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in different states?
- How do we use nouns every day?
- Finish the Story Thursday: One day you come to school and find a cookie sitting in your spot. Grateful, you eat it. This continues every day for three months. On the first day of the fourth month, there is no cookies. Instead, there's a note...
- Spelling: Test
- Work Time for Letter
- Greek and Latin Root Review Games
- Study Spelling Words
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in other states?
- How do we use nouns every day?
- No Fail Friday: If you knew you wouldn't fail, what would you do?
- Review game of Greek and Latin, Spelling Words, and Grammer Terms!
- None
January 2nd through January 6th
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in different states?
- Why write a business letter?
- How do we use nouns every day?
- Make a Change Monday: What is your New Year's Resolution
- Update on Missing Work
- Periods 1 and 6: Business Letters
- Spelling Pre-Test: Consonant plus -le syllables
- Hand Out New Spelling Words
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Appositives
- Intro to Write Across the United States Project
- Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in different states?
- Why write a business letter?
- How do we use nouns every day?
- Tell Me Something Tuesday: Tell me something you did over your winter break!
- Spelling Game: Sparkle
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Essential and Nonessential Appositives
- Writing: Choose a city and begin writing letter
- Grammar Worksheet
- Spelling Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in different states?
- How do we use nouns every day?
- What aspects help us determine the meaning of a word?
- What's the Question Wednesday: Goat is the answer. What is the question?
- Grammar: Daily Editing
- Grammar: Using Commas, Dashes, and Parentheses
- Greek and Latin Roots: port and sci
- Work Time for Letters
- Grammar Worksheet
- Greek and Latin Root Pictures
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in different states?
- How do we use nouns every day?
- Finish the Story Thursday: One day you come to school and find a cookie sitting in your spot. Grateful, you eat it. This continues every day for three months. On the first day of the fourth month, there is no cookies. Instead, there's a note...
- Grammar: Review Commas, Dashes, and Parentheses
- Spelling: Editing
- Spelling: Word Sort
- Work Time for Letter
- Study Spelling Words
Essential Questions:
- How can we communicate with people in other states?
- How do we use nouns every day?
- Foodie Friday!: If you could eat any food every day for the rest of your life, what would it be?
- Spelling Test: Consonant plus -le syllables
- Grammar: Appositive-ly correct game
- Work Time for Letters if Needed
- None