October 10th through October 14th
Essential Questions:
- What are the parts of a sentence?
- What is the difference between a simple and a compound sentence?
- Why do we write personal narratives?
- Sparkle Spelling Review
- Melcon Monday!: Read Should Kids Play Football Together as a Class
- Melcon Monday!: Is football too dangerous for kids to play? This week's challenge is to use evidence from the text we read.
- Work Time for Melcon
- Melcon
Essential Questions:
- What are the parts of a sentence?
- What is the difference between a simple and a compound sentence?
- Why do we write personal narratives?
- Timehop Tuesday: If you could go back to any time period, what would it be and why?
- Review and Practice Clauses
- Personal Narrative Seminars
- Work Time for Homework
- Grammar Worksheet
- Study Greek and Latin Roots
Essential Questions:
- What are the parts of a sentence?
- What is the difference between a simple and compound sentence?
- Why do we write personal narratives?
- Wishing Well Wednesday: If you could have one wish come true, what would it be and why?
- Spelling Test: r-controlled vowels
- Greek and Latin Roots: Attack Review Game
- Greek and Latin Roots Quiz #1
- Silent Reading
- None
No School: Parent Teacher Conferences
No School
October 3rd through October 7th
Essential Questions:
- What are the parts of a sentence?
- What is the difference between a simple and a compound sentence?
- Why do we write personal narratives?
- Sparkle Spelling Review
- Intro to Compound Sentences
- Melcon Monday!: Mini lesson about Main Idea and Conclusion
- Melcon Monday!: Should the voting age be lowered to 13?
- Work Time for Melcon
- Melcon
- Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What are the parts of a sentence?
- What is the difference between a simple and a compound sentence?
- Why do we write personal narratives?
- Tasty Tuesday: What's your favorite breakfast food and why?
- Spelling Test: Frequently Misspelled Words
- Interactive Notebooks: Compound Sentences
- Work Time for Homework
- Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What are the parts of a sentence?
- What is the difference between a simple and compound sentence?
- Why do we write personal narratives?
- Wifi Wednesday: How would your life be different if wifi were never invented?
- Spelling Pretest: r-controlled vowels
- Greek and Latin Roots: duct and fer
- Mix, Match, and Combine Compound Sentences
- Work Time for Homework
- Grammar Worksheet
- Spelling Worksheet
- Greek and Latin Root Pictures
Essential Questions:
- What are the parts of a sentence?
- What is the difference between a simple and a compound sentence?
- Why do we write personal narratives?
- Practice Spelling Words: Practice the words individually on the little whiteboards
- Introduction to Clauses Notes
- Personal Narrative Seminars
- Study Spelling Words
- Grammar Worksheet
Essential Questions:
- What are the parts of a sentence?
- What is the difference between a simple and a compound sentence?
- Why do we write personal narratives?
- Flashback Friday!: What is one thing you remember about your childhood?
- Proofreading Spelling
- Introduction to Complex Sentences
- Complex Sentences Interactive Notebooks
- Grammar Worksheet