Students report that they were successful in using time management skills to create a homework free night! Awesome!
1. Scholastic News - due tomorrow (if anyone didn't finish) 2. Kidblog - Read your new book. The next Kidblog book review is due on November 19. 3. Social Studies - test next Wednesday. Remember to complete the map on the back of the test announcement guide, and practice writing the answers to the short answer question. Study your cards to remember the MOST important things about each explorer. I am encouraging students to use good time management skills this week so that they have no homework left to do on Halloween night (Thursday night).
1. Math - Complete the homework for Lesson 18. We are not doing Asssitments for Lesson 18. (There will not be any math homework tomorrow.) 2. Kidblog - (Kudos to the 21 students who are done!) Revise your first book review per my comments. Do the revisions INSIDE Google Docs, as demonstrated in class. "Resolve" all of my comments, and erase all blue instructions when you are finished. Then copy the newly revised review and paste it over the old review in Kidblog. This was demonstrated in class today. Due tomorrow. 3. Scholastic News - Due on Friday! Good work students! Over 20 of you have finished already. Great time management! Read the magazine and complete the assignments on Google Reading Classroom. Remember to write strong topic sentences and support your claims with evidence from the text. Remember for the quiz to write the number of the question IN THE TEXT of the article next to where you found the answer. 4. Personal Narrative - Finish your narrative revisions if you didn't finish in class. Due tomorrow. 5. Social Studies - November 6 test on the Age of Exploration. Students have an orange test announcement sheet. They should complete the Diary Entry (review sheet) by Thursday after studying Handout 2, 3, and 4. Before the test, students should complete the practice maps and practice writing the short answers on cost benefit analysis I am encouraging students to use good time management skills this week so that they have no homework left to do on Halloween night (Thursday night).
1. Math - Complete the homework for Lesson 17. Record your answers in Assistments to see if your answers are correct. 2. Kidblog - (Kudos to the 11 students who have finished this assignment already!) Revise your first book review per my comments. Do the revisions INSIDE Google Docs, as demonstrated in class. "Resolve" all of my comments, and erase all blue instructions when you are finished. Then copy the newly revised review and paste it over the old review in Kidblog. This was demonstrated in class today. Due on Thursday. 3. Scholastic News - Read the magazine and complete the assignments on Google Reading Classroom. Remember to write strong topic sentences and support your claims with evidence from the text. Remember for the quiz to write the number of the question IN THE TEXT of the article next to where you found the answer. 4. Personal Narrative - Use your Narrative checklist to guide your revisions. Due not Thursday. 5. Social Studies - November 6 test on the Age of Exploration. Students have an orange test announcement sheet. They should complete the Diary Entry (review sheet) by Thursday after studying Handout 2, 3, and 4. Before the test, students should complete the practice maps and practice writing the short answers on cost benefit analysis I am encouraging students to use good time management skills this week so that they have no homework left to do on Halloween night (Thursday night).
1. Math - Complete the homework for Lesson 16. Record your answers in Assistments to see if your answers are correct. Show your parents your graded math test. 2. Kidblog - Revise your first book review per my comments. Do the revisions INSIDE Google Docs, as demonstrated in class. "Resolve" all of my comments, and erase all blue instructions when you are finished. Then copy the newly revised review and paste it over the old review in Kidblog. This was demonstrated in class today. Due on Thursday. 3. Science - From Miss Henderson: We have our matter test tomorrow. Check out the science page of Miss Henderson's website for more information, and review the 4 ways to study that we wrote in your journal today. 4. Scholastic News - Read the magazine and complete the assignments on Google Reading Classroom. Remember to write strong topic sentences and support your claims with evidence from the text. Remember for the quiz to write the number of the question IN THE TEXT of the article next to where you found the answer. 5. Personal Narrative - Use your Narrative checklist to guide your revisions. Students were given 1/2 hour in class today to work on this. Due on Thursday. 6. Social Studies - Test on the Age of Exploration tentatively scheduled for Wednesday, November 6. Students can stay their handouts and explorer cards. 1. Kidblog book review for a fiction book due November 19.
Upcoming: The next social studies test on the Age of Exploration is tentatively scheduled for November 6. Next week, students will make revisions on their latest Personal Narrative and on their October Kidblog book review. 1. Math - Complete the review packet. Test tomorrow. Look at the corrections on today's homework to help you "learn from your mistakes."
2. Wordly Wise - Complete all of the workbook activities to prepare for tomorrow's test. 3. Kidblog - Fiction book. Due November 19 4. Writing - If you didn't finish your sequence paragraph at school, finish it at home. Use the correct transition phrases, and "explain" the steps as you go. Use high-level words to explain the costs and benefits. 5. Read - 20 minutes every night. 1. Math - Complete 1-8 problems on the Review packet. Test Friday. Review your lesson packets if you feel uncertain of any strategies, and ask me tomorrow in class.
2. Reading - Finish the Storyworks packet you started today in class. Hand in tomorrow. 3. Kidblog - Tomorrow, bring me the name of the book you will read for your November Kidblog book review. Read every night for 20 minutes. Start writing your review as soon as you finish the book. The review is due on November 19, but you may submit it early. 4. Wordly Wise - finish the workbook activities before Friday's quiz. The Quizlet practice set is on Google Classroom. 1. Math - Complete homework for Lesson 14. Check the second page with Assistments. Test on Friday. Review previous lesson packets if you have areas you are unsure of.
2. Wordly Wise - complete the workbook activities for Lesson 3 by Friday. Test on Friday. The Quizlet for Lesson 3 is in Google Classroom. 3. Description Paragraph - If you didn't finish the description paragraph on "Life on a Ship" finish it at home tonight. 4. Kidblog - Read a fiction book and write a review by November 19. 5. Writing - Think of an idea for a Small Moment Narrative that you will write in class tomorrow. IT should be a "seed" idea (short in time). You should have a problem/obstacle/or goal in the story. The story must have a Big Moment. You should know your "takeaway" - the lesson your realized from the event. 1. Math - Lesson 13 Homework. Check the second page with Assistments.
2. Scholastic News - If you didn't finish on Friday, finish it tonight and hand in tomorrow. Make sure you complete the back of the magazine questions. (Most students finished on Friday) 3. Partner Book Review - Students wrote the review in class. Print it out at home, and reread and make corrections in Google Docs. Do NOT "turn in" in to Google Classroom, but it must be completed tonight. 4. Wordly Wise - Complete the activities for lesson 3. Test on Friday. 5. Science - Quiz tomorrow 6. Personal narrative - finish the illustration we started in class. Turn in on Wednesday. The next Kiblog book review is due on Tuesday, November 19. Students marked the date in their agenda. We discussed "time management." Most students felt like they needed a week to write the 4-paragraph review. They "worked backward" from the date, and chose a date by which they want to finish their book. We discussed the requirements for the book - including that this must be a FICTION book. We reviewed the Kidblog FAQs in the yellow folder. Think of an idea for the story you will write on Wednesday. Ask yourself: 1. Is it a watermelon (all about my day!) or a seed (true small moment that takes place in 5-20 minutes)? Choose a seed! 2. What is the problem/obstacle I faced? 3. What was the BIG MOMENT in the story? 4. What is the meaning (take-away, theme) of the story ? 1. Math - Test next Friday on Lessons 1-15 of Module 2.
2. Kidblog Book Review - Revise and edit your completed review - due on Tuesday. On Tuesday, we will copy and paste the review into Kidblog to publish and share with our classmates! 3. Scholastic News - If you didn't finish the Scholastic News assignment in class today, it must be finished on Monday night and turned in Tuesday morning. 4. Illustration for Personal Narrative - due on Tuesday. This was started in class today. |