April 4th through April 8th
Essential Questions:
- What can people accomplish by working together?
- Read The Graveyard Book Chapter 4
- Daily Grammar: Proofreading Verb Tenses
- Daily Spelling: Proofread and Writing
- Daily Vocab: Reinforcing the Words
- Write about the Text: Melcon
- Read The Pot that Juan Built
- Sequencing and Summarizing
- Daily 3/Guided Reading
- Write to Sources Worksheet
- Reading Log
- Study Spelling Words
Essential Questions:
- What can people accomplish by working together?
- Read The Graveyard Book Chapter 4
- Daily Grammar: Avoiding Verb Tense Shifts
- Daily Spelling: Proofreading
- Daily Vocabulary: Kahoot! Review
- Re-read Jewels of the Sea
- Summarize the article
- Practice Sequencing
- Re-read Guided Reading
- Daily 5/Guided Reading
- Reading Log
- Grammar Worksheet
- Vocab Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What can people accomplish by working together?
- Forward Testing Video
- Forward Testing Practice
- Read The Graveyard Book Chapter 5
- Daily Grammar: Proofreading
- Daily Spelling: Word Meanings
- Daily Vocab: Reinforcing the Words
- Narrative Nonfiction Text Features
- Read The Pot that Juan Built
- Reading Log
- Prefixes/Suffixes Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What can people accomplish by working together?
- Read The Graveyard Book Chapter 5
- Daily Grammar: Practicing Verb Tenses Review
- Daily Spelling: Sparkle
- Finish reading The Pot that Juan Built
- Summarize The Pot that Juan Built
- Read A Box of Ideas
- Write Sequence of A Box of Ideas
- Daily 3/Guided Reading
- Reading Log
- Summary
- Sequence
- Write to Sources Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What can people accomplish by working together?
- Read The Graveyard Book Chapter 6
- Daily Spelling: Spelling Test: Frequently Misspelled Words
- Weekly Assessment
- Achieve
- Silent Reading
- Reading Log
March 28th through April 1st
No School! Enjoy your spring break!
No School! Enjoy your spring break!
Essential Questions:
- What can people accomplish by working together?
- Hand out new reading logs
- Watch movie as an Achieve prize!
- Reading Log
No Language Arts: Spring Concert Dress Rehearsal
Essential Questions:
- What can people accomplish by working together.
- Read The Graveyard Book
- Daily Grammar: Mechanics and Usage: Avoiding Verb Tense Shifts
- Spelling: Sparkle
- Daily Vocabulary: Vocab Mimes
- Finish reading The Pot that Juan Built
- Read A Box of Ideas
- Word Study: Frequently misspelled words
- Reading Log
March 21st through March 25th
Essential Questions:
- What can people accomplish by working together?
- Start new read a loud! The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman Chapter 1
- Daily Grammar: Main Verbs, Helping Verbs, and Verb Phrases
- Daily Spelling: Pretest: Frequently Misspelled Words
- Introducing the Concept
- Read Inspired Work
- Fill out Graphic Organizer
- Intro to New Vocab
- Guidance at 1:30
- Pre-read Guided Reading
- Daily 3
- Reading Log
- Grammar Worksheet
- Spelling Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What can people accomplish by working together?
- Read The Graveyard Book Chapter 2
- Daily Grammar: Perfect Tenses and Progressive Forms
- Daily Spelling: Sparkle
- Daily Vocab: Connect to the Words
- Finish up New Vocab
- Predict and Question
- Read Jewels of the Sea
- Summarize Jewels of the Sea
- Daily 3/Guided Reading
- Reading Log
- Vocabulary Worksheet
- Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What can people accomplish by working together?
- Read The Graveyard Book Chapter 2
- Daily Grammar: Review Perfect Tenses and Progressive Forms
- Spelling: Word Meanings
- Daily Vocabulary: Kahoot!
- Melcon: Are screens hurting your friendship?
- Narrative Nonfiction
- Prefixes and Suffixes
- Daily 3/Guided Reading
- Reading Log Due Today!
- Grammar Worksheets
- Prefixes and Suffixes Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What can people accomplish by working together?
- Read The Graveyard Book Chapter 4
- Daily Grammar: Mechanics and Usage: Avoiding Verb Tense Shifts
- Daily Spelling: Spelling City
- Daily Vocabulary: Reinforce the Words
- Read The Pot the Juan Built by Nancy Andrews-Goebel
- Spring Craft
- Daily 3/Guided Reading
- Reading Log
- Grammar Worksheet
- Spelling Worksheet
No School! Enjoy your spring break!
March 14th through March 18th
Essential Questions:
- What kinds of challenges transform people?
- Read Number the Stars Chapter 13
- Daily Grammar: Introducing Verb Tense (present, past, future)
- Daily Spelling: Pretest: R-controlled Vowel Syllables
- Introducing the Concept
- Read Challenges that Transform Us
- Fill out Transforming Experiences Graphic Organizer
- Intro to New Vocab
- Read Facing the Storm
- Pre-read Guided Reading
- Daily 3
- Reading Log
- Grammar Worksheet
- Spelling Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What kinds of challenges transform people?
- Read Number the Stars Chapter 14
- Daily Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement
- Daily Spelling: Sparkle
- Daily Vocab: Connect to the Words
- Re-read Facing the Storm
- Write to Sources
- Theme
- Realistic Fiction
- Paragraph Clues
- Daily 3/Guided Reading
- Reading Log
- Vocabulary Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What kinds of challenges transform people?
- Read Number the Stars Chapter 15
- Daily Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement
- Spelling: Word Meanings
- Daily Vocabulary: Kahoot!
- Write to Sources
- Read Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
- Daily 3/Guided Reading
- Reading Log
- Grammar Worksheets (2)
Essential Questions:
- What kinds of challenges transform people?
- Read Number the Stars Chapter 16
- Daily Grammar: Verb Tenses
- Daily Spelling: Proofread and Write
- Daily Vocabulary: Reinforce the Words
- Read Confronting a Challenge
- R-Controlled Vowel Syllables
- Daily 3/Guided Reading
- Reading Log
- Grammar Worksheet
- Spelling Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What happens when people share ideas?
- Read Number the Stars Chapter 17
- Spelling Test
- Weekly Assessment
- Achieve
- Silent Reading
- Reading Log
March 7th through March 11th
Essential Questions:
- What can you find in a novel?
- Read Number the Stars Chapters 7 and 8
- Fill in Novel Brochure
- Book Club Meetings
- Work Time for Summaries and Putting Together Project
- Achieve
- Final Book Club Project
- Reading Log
Essential Questions:
- What happens when people share ideas?
- Read Number the Stars Chapter 10
- Fill out Brochure
- Daily Grammar: Review Action Verbs; Introduce Direct and Indirect Objects
- Spelling: Sparkle
- Daily Vocabulary: Connect to Words
- Theme
- Realistic Fiction
- Context Clues
- Read How Tia Lola Came to Stay
- Work Time for Tin Project
- Reading Log
- Context Clues Worksheet
- Vocabulary Worksheet
- Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What happens when people share ideas?
- Read Number the Stars Chapter 11
- Daily Grammar: Quotation Marks and Dialogue
- Daily Spelling: Proofread and Write
- Daily Vocabulary: Reinforce the Words
- Read The Music of Many
- Vowel Team Syllables
- Daily 3/Guided Reading
- Reading Log
- Grammar Worksheet
- Spelling Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What happens when people share ideas?
- Read Number the Stars Chapter 11
- Spelling Test
- Weekly Assessment
- Achieve
- Silent Reading
- Reading Log
February 29th through March 4th
Essential Questions:
- What can you find in a novel?
- Achieve
- Discuss Number the Stars: Predict
- Read Number the Stars Chapters 1 and 2
- Fill in Novel Brochure
- Daily Reading Comprehension
- Review Melcon
- Practice Melcon: Is Spring Coming?
- Work time for Book Clubs
- Edit Business Letters
- Practice Melcon
Essential Questions:
- What can you find in a novel?
- Read Number the Stars Chapters 3 and 4
- Fill out Brochure
- Daily Reading Comprehension
- Achieve
- Editing Business Letters with Modeling from Mrs. Rachu
- Read Crisis in California and Drinking Toilet Water
- Fill out Melcon
- Type Formal Melcon
- Watch Example of Discussion
- Book Club Discussion
- Work time for Book Clubs
- Water Melcon Due Today by the End of Class
- Reading Log
- Book Club Summaries
- Daily Reading Comprehension
Essential Questions:
- What can you find in a novel?
- Read Number the Stars Chapters 4 and 5
- Fill out Brochure
- Daily Reading Comprehension
- Melcon Practice
- Editing Business Letters with Modeling from Mrs. Rachu
- Greek and Latin Roots: Mem
- Greek and Latin Roots Review: Kahoot!
- Work time for Book Clubs
- Mrs. Rachu Checks Chapter Summaries
- Reading Log
- Book Club Summaries
- Daily Reading Comprehension
Essential Questions:
- What can you find in a novel?
- Read Number the Stars Chapters 5 and 6
- Fill out Brochure
- Daily Reading Comprehension
- Achieve
- Addressing an Envelope
- Greek and Latin Roots Quiz
- Word Wall Challenge and Work Time
- Work time for Book Clubs
- Reading Log
- Book Club Summaries
Essential Questions:
- What can you find in a novel?
- Read Number the Stars Chapters 8, 9, and 10
- Fill out Brochure
- Daily Reading Comprehension
- Achieve
- Work time for Book Clubs
- Play at 1:30
- Reading Log
- Book Club Summaries