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THIS WEEK
Posted by Mary Allen-Gladstone - April 30th, 2021 at 12:50 PM
Reading:
- Book Clubs
- Read Aloud: Mastermind Payback
Writing:
- Writing of a news article/perspectives
- Free Write Friday
Math:
- OST MATH TESTING
- Hierarchy of Polygons
- Properties of Triangles
- Properties of Quadrilaterals
- Kahoot Games
- OST Warm-Ups
- Khan: Students have 3 assignments due Monday 5/3/20
Inquiry:
- Sound Activities
- Introduction
- How does sound travel?
- What does sound travel through?
- Frequency/Creating Sound
- Super Moon Discussion
Other:
- Soft Start
- Class Meeting
This Week
Posted by Kristin Grant on 4/23/2021 11:00:00 AMReading:
- OST tools review
- OST testing (two days:)
- Review of inference strategy: Taking what we know and what we read to make an educated guess
- Inferencing with pictures
- Making Inferences using Chris Van Allsburg’s Bad Day At Riverbend
- Read Aloud: Mastermind Payback
Writing:
- Revision and submittal of personal argument
- Gathering information like a reporter
- Writing of a news article
- Free Write Friday
Math:
- Hierarchy of Polygons
- Properties of Triangles
- Properties of Quadrilaterals
- Kahoot Games
- Whodunnit? Quadrilaterals
- Classifying Shapes Checkpoint
- OST Warm-Ups
- Khan: Students should be working on Khan 40 minutes weekly. They have 3 assignments due Monday 5/3/20
Inquiry:
- Sound Activities
- Introduction
- How does sound travel?
- What does sound travel through?
- Pitch and Loudness
- Space X Launch Discussion
Other:
- Soft Start
- Earth Day
- Class Meeting
This Week
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 4/16/2021 10:00:00 AMReading:
- Continuation of mood
- Tone and Mood “I have, who has?”
- Context clues
- OST Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and extended responses
- What are some solid test-taking strategies?
- Masterminds: Payback
- Vocabulary: Kahoot and quiz
Writing:
- Revisit body paragraph writing (how to write a strong topic sentence)
- Focusing on reaching your intended audience
- Balance is best
- Conclusion writing
- Peer editing of Independent Argumentative Writing (due Monday)
Math:
- OST Warm Ups
- Discovering, describing, and graphing patterns
- Graphing Patterns Checkpoint
- Khan: 2 Assignments due Monday
- Next week we will begin Classifying Shapes
Inquiry:
- Light
- Students investigated properties of light using light stations and discovered...
- That light travels in a straight line
- What it means to be transparent, translucent, and opaque
- What is means to refract and reflect light
- Spoon activity to explain convex and concave objects and what it does to light
- Next week we will begin sound
Other:
- Class Meeting
- Music
- Ramadan study and celebration
Posted by Mary Allen-Gladstone April 9th @ 12:00 Noon
Reading:
- Hunting for nuggets of gold in reading to support our arguments
- Start of Masterminds Payback
- Mood and Tone Overview
- What is tone?
- Author’s tone in poetry
- Tone-O-Meter
- Independent reading and where am I in the book challenge
- Using context clues to figure out unknown words
- What has been my fave book club of 5th grade???
Writing:
- Revisit body paragraph writing (how to write a strong topic sentence
- Making writing Smooth, like butter, using TRANSITIONS
- How quotations can bolster an argument
- Continuing of personal argument writing
- Letters for “After Prom”
Math:
- Air Test Warm-Ups
- Began Unit 6
- The volume of rectangular prisms
- Khan
Inquiry:
- Energy: Motion
- Gizmo: Force and Fans
Other:
- Class Meeting
- Art (Grant) and PE (Nivert)
- 7-month school picture
3/27/21
Reading:
- Historical Fiction and Independent reading toward book challenge
- Readers think and wonder as they read
- Reading deeply while questioning sources
- Summarization of nonfiction
- Critical reading and thinking to escape St. Patrick’s Day classroom
- Read aloud: Masterminds Criminal Destiny
Writing:
- Taking time to stand and be counted
- Pros and Cons of independent topics
- Organizing our thoughts
- Claims/Reasons/ and bringing the muscle to evidence
- Writing limericks for St. Patrick’s Day
- Free Write Friday
Math:
- Making generalizations about fractions
- Checkpoint: Fraction Times Fraction (sent home Wednesday)
- St. Patrick’s Day math
- Multiplying fractions by fractions
- Number Corner: Students are looking for patterns in multiplying by powers of ten.
- Khan: Students should be working on Khan 40 minutes weekly. They will have new assignments on Monday.
Inquiry:
- Introduction to Energy Unit
- Kinetic vs Potential Energy
- St. Patrick’s Day STEM activity
- March Madness STEM activity
Other:
- Women’s History Month Door Decoration
- Soft Start
- Class Meeting
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 3/12/2021Reading:
- Historical fiction book clubs
- Researching chocolate milk
- Fact vs. Opinion
- Debating chocolate milk in schools
- Mining texts to find relevant information
- Vocabulary: illuminate, duplicate, sole, bland, conflict, transmit
Writing:
- Investigating to understand an argument
- Claims/reason/evidence
- Gathering evidence for standing our ground
- Suspending judgement to see both sides of an issue
- Argument letters to principals Sedlak and Winiger
Math:
- Multiplying fractions by fractions
- Modeling fraction story problems
- Solving fraction story problems
- Pi Day
- Number Corner-Patterns with powers of ten
- Khan (3 assignments due 3/17)
Inquiry:
- Finished our study of Space
- Solar System Gizmo
Other:
- Art (Grant) and PE (Nivert)
Posted by: Mary Allen-Gladstone @ 4:30 PMReading:- WWII background
- WWII tied historical fiction book clubs
- Figurative Language: Metaphors in stories
- How culture impacts our view of fictional stories (both fantasy and historical fiction)
- Identifying archetypes in fiction
Writing:
- Organizing for research
- Using a graphic organizer to prepare for research
- Cornell notetaking and question writing
Math:
- Unit 4 Review & Scavenger Hunt
- Unit 4 Post-Test
Inquiry:
- Space systems
- How Do Stars Form? Newsela Article
- The landing of The Perseverance Land Rover on Mars
Other:
- Art and Library
This Week
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 2/12/2021Reading:
- Fantasy book clubs
- Olympian Set
- Vocabulary strategies for unknown words
- Making sense of Jabberwocky
- Complexity of fantasy characters
- Symbolism in fantasy and across literature
- Introduction of historical fiction and World War II Era
Writing:
- Modern events in history
- Self-selection of independent research for informational essay
- Reflection over Trimester 2’s writing
Math:
- Strategies for story problems
- Review Super 7
- Division number stories
- Review of division strategies
- Pixel assignment
Inquiry:
- Introduction to space
- Space systems
- Star Spectra Gizmo
Other:
- Art and Library
- Chinese New Year
- Valentine’s celebration
Posted by Mary Allen-Gladstone 1/29/21 at 4:00 PMReading:
- Thinking metaphorically
- Slaying our dragons
- Life Lessons
- Types of Conflict
- Internal/External Struggles
- Fantasy Book Clubs
- Independent reading…Where am I in meeting my goal for the year?
- Zeus vocabulary set-Quiz on Thursday 2/4/20211
- Read aloud: Finished Masterminds: Criminal Destiny
Writing:
- Continued taking notes on Ancient Civilizations
- Awareness of Timelines
- Thinking about our own thoughts as we gather information
- Metacognition: Assembling our thinking
- Topic Sentences
Math:
- Bridges Unit 4 - Multiplication Strategies/Relationships
- Half-Tens
- Double and Half
- Ratio Table
- Multiply and divide decimals
- Multiplication and Division Checkpoint
- These went home Thursday/Friday
- Scores are on slide 14
- Math iReady score are on slide 2
- Number Corner: Students identifying patterns and creating an equation for the pattern
- Khan: Students should be working on Khan 40 minutes weekly. Their 5 new assignments are due 2/5 (I will be teaching the standard algorithm this week.)
Inquiry:
- European Exploration
- Discussed why Europeans explored the New World
- Columbian Exchange
- French Explorers and their last impacts
- Black History Month Door Contest Brainstorming
Other:
- Music
- Class Meeting
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 1/22/2021 10:00:00 AMReading:
- Fantasy book clubs
- Suspending Judgement of characters and plots in fantasy books
- Good vs. Evil
- Reflecting to raise the level of discussions in book clubs
- Poetic devices: Amanda Gorman’s Inaugural poem
- Newsela: MLK Jr.
- Completion of mid-year assessments
- Where am I in independent reading?
Writing:
- Asking questions and extending thinking while we research
- Contradictory sources
- Using Maps to strengthen thoughts on Ancient Civilization
- Introductions for Informational essays
Math:
- IReady and mid-year assessments
- Number corner
- Reflection on Unit 3
Inquiry:
- Regions, how where you live affects how you live
- Completed Native American studies
- NA culminating projects
- Introduction of European Exploration
Other:
- Music
Read Aloud: Masterminds Criminal Destiny by Gordon Korman
Posted by Kristin Grant on 1/14/2021 11:00:00 AMReading:
- Fantasy book clubs
- Elements of a fantasy
- Independent reading… where am I in meeting my goal for the year?
- Hercules vocabulary set
- Read aloud: Finished Masterminds
- iReady Reading
Writing:
- Continued taking notes on Ancient Civilizations
- Flash Draft Ancient Civilizations due Tuesday
Math:
- Place value patterns
- Division story problems
- Reviewed “Super 7” model
- Students wrote their own division story problems
- Students solved their peers’ story problems
- Unit 3 Jeopardy
- Unit 3 Assessment
- Number Corner: Students identifying patterns and creating an equation for the pattern
- Khan: Students should be working on Khan 40 minutes weekly. Their decimal assignments are due Monday.
Inquiry:
- Guiding Question: How does where you live affect how you live?
- Read and discussed the Southeast, Great Plains, and Southwest regions
Other:
- Music
- Nivert: Guidance Lesson
- Class Meeting
Posted on January 8th, 2021 at 3:45 PM
Reading:
- Introduction of Fantasy Unit of Study
- Elements of Fantasy
- Non-Fiction Reading - Newsela article
- Beginning Fantasy Book Clubs 1/11/21
- Introducing Hercules Root Word, prefix, suffix study 1/11/21
- Hercules Root Word Study due Wednesday, 1/20/21 & Root Word Test Thursday 1/21/21
- Independent reading… where am I in meeting my goal for the year?
- Read aloud: Masterminds
Writing:
- Ancient Civilization Research-Aztecs, Mayans, Incas
- How does where one live affect how one lives?
- Categorization of Research Notes
- Preparing for Informational Writing Flashdraft on 1/11/21
- Free Write Friday
Math:
- Unit 3 Bridges-Rounding, Adding/Subtraction of Decimals
- Unit 3 Bridges- Metric Conversions
- Unit 3 Review 1/11/21 due 1/13/21
- Unit 3 Optional Review Study Session 1/14/21 @8:00AM
- Unit 3 Post-test 1/14/21
- Number Corner: Algebraic equations and patterns
- Khan: Students should be working on Khan for 40 minutes weekly.
- Khan Monday morning weekly check-in
Inquiry:
- Beringia-10,000 years ago
- Native American Study: How does where one live affect how one lives?
- Eastern Woodland Native Americans
- Central Plain Native Americans
- Grant and Nivert: Orchestra, band, & music class
- Random Acts of Kindness
This Week
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 12/11/2020 12:00 PMReading:
- Finished mystery book clubs
- Main idea writing based off of selected details
- Thinking from small to big within a topic
- Script writing for self-selected nonfiction topics
- Creation of slideshow presentation
- Independent reading… where am I in meeting my goal for the year?
- Apollo vocabulary set
- Read aloud: Masterminds
Writing:
- Elaborating on fictional narratives
- Lifting styles of writing from mentor texts
- Making main characters and secondary characters come alive based on their actions
- Dialogue
- Complex sentence structure and review of simple and compound sentences
- Peer/self editing for fictional narratives
- Submission of fictional narratives
- Free Write Friday
Math:
- Multiplying and dividing by powers of 10
- Introduction of exponents, exponential notation
- Reading, modeling, and comparing decimals
- Decimals through the thousandths
- Rounding Decimals
- Unit 2 Assessment
- Number Corner: Students identifying different quadrilaterals.
- Decimal Review and Checkpoint due Monday for blue group and due Tuesday for white group
- Khan: Students should be working on Khan 40 minutes weekly.
Inquiry:
- Symbiosis
- Multi-tiered timelines
- Research due Monday for blue group and due Tuesday for white group
Other:
- Grant: PE and Nivert: Art
- Random Acts of Kindness
- Class Meeting
Posted by Mary Allen-Gladstone on 12/5/2020 1:00:00 PMReading:
- Nonfiction: Distinguishing Primary from Secondary Sources
- Individual Nonfiction Topics finalized
- Note Taking strategies using Cornell Notes
- Review of text features in nonfiction text
- Apollo vocabulary-How do roots fit together to form words?
- Read Loud: Masterminds-Criminal Destiny
Writing:
- Compare/contrast Personal Narratives to Fictional Narratives
- Fictional Narratives story ideas activity
- Choosing a Fictional Narrative Story Line
- Complete Fictional Narrative graphic organizers
- Predicate expanders: When, where, why, or how
- Flashdraft of Fictional Narratives
Math:
- Completed Bridges Unit 3 Screener - Place Value & Decimal
- Monday morning Khan check-in, 40-minute minimum
- Introduced Bridges Unit 3 - Place Value & Decimals
- Introduced December Number Corner - Quadrilaterals
Inquiry:
- Energy Pyramids
- Ecosystem Task Card Activity
- Ecosystem Mystery Point Activity
Posted November 6th, 2020Reading:
- Variety of nonfiction texts
- Review of text features in nonfiction text
- Nonfiction text structures: chronological, cause/effect, compare/contrast, problem/solution
- Complex main ideas and the video, “How to keep elephants and wolves out of your yard.”
- Read Aloud: When Lunch Fights Back
- Helios vocabulary set. How do roots fit together to form words?
- Portfolio and reflection on our work
Writing:
- Revision of PN graphic organizers
- Predicate expanders: When, where, why, or how
- Flashdraft of Personal Narratives
- How to write a strong lead
- Portfolio and reflection on our work
Math:
- Practice adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators
- Better Buy problems
- Scavenger Hunt Review
- Adding & Subtracting Fractions Checkpoint
- Introduce November Number Corner
Inquiry:
- Look at important issues and see where candidates stand
- Vote and discuss election results
Other:
- Art (Grant) and Library (Nivert)
- Read Aloud: Masterminds by Gordon Korman
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 10/30/2020Reading:
- Selection of nonfiction texts
- PreAssessment of nonfiction strategies
- Comparing and contrasting fiction and nonfiction texts
- Review of nonfiction text features
- Structures of Nonfiction texts
- Independent reading check-ins
- FInal book clubs and theme analysis
- Athena vocabulary set
- Read Home of the Brave
Writing:
- Generating ideas for powerful personal narratives
- First times, last times, and times we realized something
- Writing fast and furiously to get our ideas on paper
- Seed ideas vs. Watermelon topics
- Showing language vs. Telling sentences
- Multiple narrative drafts
- Analysis of “The Bike” by Gary Soto
Math:
- River trail problem, finding common denominators using the multiple strategy, and Whodunnit? activity
Inquiry:
- Voting mini-Unit
- President eligibility
- Create a candidate activity
- Electoral college
Other:
- Art (Grant) and Library (Nivert)
- Panorama survey
- Halloween Activities!
This Week....
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Posted by Sharon Nivert on 10/2/2020 3:00:00 PM
Reading:
- Strategy work: Visualization strategy
- Root study: Poseidon set
- Where are we in our independent reading?
- Revision of our thinking while we read
- Launching Interpretation Book Clubs
- Setting a constitution about our reading clubs
- Book Club discussions
- Characters find meaning in the struggle
- Home of the Brave read aloud
Writing:
- What is a literary essay and analysis of its components
- Graphic organizer for Panyee writing
- Panyee flashdraft essay
- Introduction to short stories and self-selection of one to write about
- “Shells” short story, as model
- Writing to grow ideas
- Starting with small details, or quotes, leading to big ideas
Math:
- Unit 1:
- New strategies: 5 and 50 strategy and partial products
- Multiplication facts and strategies
- Division using the Area Model
- Reviewed and took Multiplication & Volume Checkpoint *This came home with your student either Thursday or Friday depending on their group.
- Number Corner: Students are finding equivalent fractions using both time and money. They are also looking for patterns between the two. Continued “Layer a Day” activity.
- Khan: Students should be working 10-15 daily on Khan.
Inquiry:
- Climate vs Weather
- What is latitude and how does it affect climate?
- Gizmo Activities C: Comparing Climates
- Water Cycle Activities
Other:
- Class Meetings
- Morning Messages
- #hashtag
- Focus time
Posted by Kristin Grant on 9/25/2020 12:00:00 PMReading:
- Strategy work: continued focus on Connections and Predictions/Clarifications
- Root study: Nike set
- Where are we in our independent reading?
- Reading with a writerly “wide-awakeness”
- Rereading of the text to clarify thinking
- How perspective of the author and narrators impact the text
- Analytical thinking: dividing into parts, selecting and ranking, and comparing
- Home of the Brave read aloud
Writing:
- What is a literary essay and analysis of its components
- Panyee Football Club analysis tied to a literary essay
- Flushing out big ideas
- How to state a claim/thesis: the character is, the character learns, the text teaches…
- How we can support our thesis and claim: through parts of the story, reasons, or parts
- Free Write through the week
Math:
- Unit 1:
- New strategies: Area Model and Ratio Tables
- Multiplication facts and strategies
- Volume = length x width x height and Surface Area
- Reviewed and took Numerical Expressions Checkpoint *This came home with your student either Wednesday or Thursday depending on their group.
- Number Corner: Students are finding equivalent fractions using both time and money. They are also looking for patterns between the two. Introduced “Layer a Day” activity.
- Khan: Students should be working 10-15 daily on Khan.
Inquiry:
- Climate vs Weather
- What is latitude and how does it affect climate?
- Gizmo Activities A & B: Comparing Climates
Other:
- Music begins on Monday
- Morning Messages
- #hashtag
- Focus time
This Week....
Posted by Kristin Grant on 9/18/2020 12:00:00 PMReading:
- Strategy work: Connections and Predictions/Clarifications
- Roots, Prefixes, and Suffixes
- Started root study with Nike set
- Interpretation book clubs pre-assessment
- Revisiting goals and creating our plan
- Choosing “just right” books
- How do we write well about reading?
- Shared reading Because of Mr. Terupt and introduced Home of the Brave
Writing:
- Using graphic organizers to compose our thoughts
- Thinking out loud through our writing
- The Best Part of Me: analysis of writing and composing our own
- Kami extension and annotating other’s writing
- What is a literary essay and analysis of its components
- Free Write Friday
Math:
- Began Unit 1-Topics introduced:
- New strategies: Over Strategy, Double-Half and Double/Double/Double
- Product Game
- Multiplication facts and strategies
- Volume = length x width x height
- Vocabulary Introduced: product, factor, multiple. expression, equation, finding equivalences, and dimensions
- Number Corner: Students are finding equivalent fractions using both time and money. They are also looking for patterns between the two.
- Khan: Students should be working 10-15 daily on Khan.
- iReady and Forefront Assessments
Inquiry:
- Introduced Biomes of the World
- What are the different biomes?
- Investigating which biome a cactus could survive.
- What makes one biome different from another?
Other:
- Physical Education
- Morning Messages
is Week...
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 9/11/2020 10:00:00 AMReading:
- What is reader’s workshop?
- Reading Inventory
- Marking our thinking
- Thick vs. thin questions
- Assessments
- Choosing books
- Newsela
- Read aloud Because of Mr. Terupt
Writing:
- What is writer’s workshop?
- Writer’s survey
- Setting up Writer’s notebooks
- Generating ideas for writing
- Practicing construct of a paragraph orally before we put pen to paper
- Paragraph about ourselves
- Free Write Friday
Math:
- Million Dollar Project: Part 2-4
- Quick Check Practice: Students practiced computation, taking pictures of their work, and inserting it into their slideshow.
- Number Corner: Students are finding equivalent fractions using both time and money. They are also looking for patterns between the two.
- Khan: Students are in the process of taking the Course Challenge.
- iReady
Inquiry:
- Generation Genius: What is Science?
- Dancing Raisins
- Peppermint racers
Other:
- Continued “Getting to Know You Activities”
- Physical Education
- Morning Messages
This Week...
Posted by: Mary Allen-Gladstone on 2/28/2020 at 3:30 PMReading and Writing:
- Continued Fantasy Book Clubs
- Mini-Lessons: Reading: Various Elements of Fantasy
- Mini-Lessons:
- Reviewed the difference between Tone & Mood
- Introduced: What is a Book Trailer?
- Identified components within a Book Trailer
- Planning out a book trailer for a book of choice
- Read Aloud: Started The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
- Where am I in the 40 Book Challenge?
- Persuasive/Argumentative Writing: Is Chocolate Milk Harmful or Helpful?
- Writing an Introduction with a Thesis and 3 reasons
- Supporting 3 reasons with evidence
- How to cite evidence using quotations
- Introduced Zeus Vocabulary Packet
Math:
- Completed February Number Corner
- Began Unit 5: Module 1: Multiplying Whole numbers by Fractions
- "Who Dunnit?" Multiplying Whole numbers by Fractions Game
- Unit 5 Concept Quest: Adventures and Excursions
Inquiry:
- Introduced Sound Energy Investigations
- What is Sound?
- How does sound travel?
- Does sound travel differently through different mediums?
This Week...
Posted by: Mary Allen-Gladstone on 2/14/2020 at 10:00 AM
Reading and Writing:
- Started our Fantasy Book Clubs
- Mini-Lessons: Reading: Various Elements of Fantasy
- Mini-Lessons:
- Introduction to Fantasy Literature
- Components authors include when writing Fantasy
- Identifying characters and character traits within Fantasy Literature
- Related elements of a story specifically to Fantasy Literature
- Read Aloud: Finished Masterminds: Criminal Destiny
- Read Aloud: Started The Wild Robot by Peter Brown
- Where am I in the 40 Book Challenge?
- Introduced Persuasive/Argumentative Writing: Is Chocolate Milk Harmful or Helpful?
- Hercules Vocabulary Assessment
Math:
- February Number Corner
- New Math Groups
- Began Unit 5: Module 1: Multiplying Whole numbers by Fractions
- Unit 5 Concept Quest: Adventures and Excursions
Inquiry:
- Native Americans: How Does Where We Live Affect How We Live?
- Land Bridge
- Southeast Region
- Eastern Woodlands Region
- Southwest Region
- Northwest Region
- The Central Plains Region
This Week...
Posted by Kristin Grant on 2/7/2020 1:00:00 PMReading and Writing:
- Finished book club meetings of #TopNine books
- Mini-Lessons: Reading Complex Nonfiction text?
- Mini-Lessons:
- Complex text structures
- Using context clues and strategies we know to find unknown words
- Implied and stated main ideas
- Summarizing complex nonfiction text
- Read Aloud: Masterminds: Criminal Destiny
- Where am I in the 40 Book Challenge?
- Constellation story writing
- Hercules Vocabulary Set
Math:
- Division number stories
- Unit 4 Review
- Unit 4 Assessment
- Unit 5 Pre-Assessment
- Introduction to Number Corner: February
Inquiry:
- Space Assessment
- Native Americans: How Does Where We Live Affect How We Live?
- Land Bridge
- Southeast Region
This Week
Posted by Mary Allen-Gladstone on 1/31/2020 6:00:00 PMReading & Writing:
- Small group book club meetings on #TopNine
- Mini-Lessons: Reading Complex Nonfiction text?
- Mini-Lessons:
- Complex text structures
- Using morphology strategies to understand unknown words
- Longer text with fewer breaks
- Introduced non-fiction read aloud: Apollo 11
- Read Aloud: Masterminds: Criminal Destiny
- Where am I in the 40 Book Challenge?
- Constellation story writing
- Kids Love Musicals: You're a Good Man Charlie Brown
Math:
- Standard multiplication algorithm
- What strategy is most efficient?
- Checkpoint: Standard multiplication algorithm
- Introduced division through ratio tables
- Story problems: multiplication
- Khan
- Concept Quests
Inquiry:
- Planets and our place within the solar system
- Stars and Constellation
- Asteroids, Meteors, Comets
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 1/24/2020 11:00:00 AMReading and Writing:
- Small group book club meetings on #TopNine
- Mini-Lessons: Reading Complex Nonfiction text?
- Mini-Lessons:
- Complex text structures
- Using context clues and strategies we know to find unknown words
- Read Aloud: Masterminds: Criminal Destiny
- Where am I in the 40 Book Challenge?
- Assessments
- Constellation story writing
Math:
- Area model of multiplication
- Standard multiplication algorithm
- What strategy is most efficient?
- multi-step input/output charts
- Story problems: multiplication
Inquiry:
- Welcome to Earth celebration
- Comparing Earth to other planets: Escape Classroom
- Planets and our place within the solar system
- Stars and Constellation
- The Earth's moon
- The moon's phases
This Week...
Posted by Kristin Grant on 1/17/2020 11:00:00 AMReading:
- Mini-Lesson: Text Complexity in Nonfiction
- Understanding what makes the main idea complex
- Strategies for determining implicit main ideas
- Text structure
- How to read more complex texts
- Apollo Set root studyand quiz
- iReady
- #Topnine bookclubs
- Read Aloud: Masterminds, Payback
Writing:
- Book Review Essays
- Introduction of Essay
- Organization of writing
- Citing evidence
Math:
- iReady
- Multiplication/Division
- Multiplication & Division Checkpoint
- Ratio tables
- Number Corner
Inquiry:
- Create an alien project and worktime
- Passport and alien creation
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 12/13/2019 9:00:00 AMReading:
- Mini-Lesson: Theme
- the central idea, or message, of a story
- Bumpersticker themes developed into ideas
- multiple themes and the Gobstoppers
- "The Climb" and Tune Tuesday
- Theme plays
- Book Clubs and speaking thoughtfully about characters and their experiences
- Iris Set root study
- Where am I in responding to 40 book challenge?
- Read Aloud: Masterminds: Criminal Destiny
Writing:
- Panyee Literary Essay
- Winter fun stories, including all narrative and story elements from first half of the year
Math:
- Decimals
- Metric Conversations
- Place Value Patterns
- Division Number Stories
- Unit 3 Review, Jeopardy, and Trashketball
- Unit 3 Assessment
- Number Corner
Inquiry:
- Rotation and Revolution
- Gravity
- The Sun as a star and center of our universe
This Week...
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 11/22/2019 9:00:00 AMReading:
- Realistic Fiction: Book Clubs
- Mini-Lesson: Context Clues and the Transcontinental Trek Around the World
- Mini-Lesson: Tone and Mood
- Read Aloud: Masterminds: Criminal Destiny
Writing:
- Personal essays
- What are we grateful for?
- Mini-lesson: Simple, Compound, and Complex sentence structures
Math:
- Extending the Great Wall of Powers of 10
- Exponents
- Modeling, Reading, & Comparing Decimals
- Decimals: Thousandths
- Drawing and Comparing Decimals
- Round and Add Tenths
- Trasketball math review
- Number Corner
Inquiry:
- Ancient Civilization Escape Classrooms
- Space Exploration Introduction
- Space Exploration timeline
This Week...
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 11/8/2019 11:00:00 AMReading:
- Mystery Book Clubs: supporting conclusions with evidence
- Mini-Lessons: Determining Importance
- Important vs Interesting
- various passages, fiction and nonfiction
- Vocabulary: Helios set. packet due 11/13, quiz 11/15
- Read Aloud: Masterminds and Masterminds: Criminal Destiny
- Informational text Journal
Writing:
- Informational Essay
- Complete sentences
- Subject and predicates
- sentences vs. fragments
- Organizing information within paragraphs
- writing of essays, expanding on facts
- transitions between topics
Math:
- Simplifying fractions
- LCM and GCF (lowest common multiple and greatest common factor)
- Fraction story problems
- Jeopardy review of fractions
- Unit 2 post-assessment
- Number Corner: Meter a day collection, triangle calendar
- Khan
Inquiry:
- reintroduction of the garden project, scope, sequence, expectations, and calendar
- review and selection of garden
- brainstorm features of garden within group; selection of responsibilities
- research on elements
- writing of justifications and maintenance, based on research
- scale model of garden space
- personalize garden model
- working on group Google Presentation
This Week...
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 11/1/2019 12:00:00 PMReading:
- Mystery Book Clubs: Students began mystery book clubs.
- Mini-Lessons: Determining Importance
- Important vs Interesting
- Vocabulary: Nemesis Set (Quiz)
- Read Aloud: Masterminds
- Various Halloween reading and writing choice selections
Writing:
- Informational Essay
- Continued research
- Organizing information within paragraphs
- Topic sentences
- Transitions within/between paragraphs
- Review of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs
Math:
- Buying granola
- Fractions are ratios
- Finding Common denominators
- Working with Fractions Checkpoint
- Number Corner: completed number corner with finding volume of untraditional shapes
- Khan
Inquiry:
- Viewing of documentary, 'The Biggest Little Farm' in relation to ecosystem study
- Impact of ecology on climate and global warming
- Investigate biotic and abiotic factors in relation to creating a sustainable garden at EW
- Foodwebs impact on local gardening
- Played "Quick Critters 2.0"
THIS WEEK...
Posted by Kristin Grant on 10/11/2019 12:00:00 PMReading:
- Mystery Introduction
- Elements of a mystery
- Scooby Doo episode identifying the elements of a mystery
- Read The Mary Celeste
- Played the board game Clue
- Mystery Theater
- End of Book responses due Monday
- Vocabulary: Athena set
- Read Aloud: Masterminds
Writing: Informational Writing
- Informational notetaking
- Organization of notes
- Flashdraft of Ancient Civilization due Monday
Math:
- Fractions on a clock
- River Trail: Multiplying fractions by a whole number
- Measuring the weight of carrots
Inquiry:
- Symbiotic relationships
- Identifying different types of symbiotic relationships
- Symbiotic relationship sort
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Posted by Sharon Nivert on 10/4/2019 8:00:00 AM
Reading:
- Small group book clubs meetings on April, May, and June for Because of Mr. Terupt
- Analyzing song lyrics, "Brave" by Sarah Bareilles
- End of Book responses
- Mini-Lessons: Inference
- Inference riddles
- Making inferences with photos
- Vocabulary: Athena set
- Read Aloud: Mastermind
Writing: Informational Writing
- Introduction of Ancient civilization groups
- Ancient civilization book tasting
- Timelines of the ancient people
- Informational notetaking
Math:
- Fractions in money
- Fractions on a clock
- Fractions with arrays
- finding common denominators
- Measuring the weight of carrots
Inquiry:
- Food Chains and Food Webs... what's the difference
- Food Web simulations and games
- Flow of energy in an ecosystem
This Week...
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 9/27/2019 8:00:00 AMReading:
- Small group book clubs meetings on April, and May for Because of Mr. Terupt
- What Do Powerful Bookclub Conversations Look Like?
- Mini-Lessons: Inference
- Bad Day at Riverbend by Chris Van Allsburg
- Inference riddles game
- Vocabulary: Posiedon Set, Jeopardy, Quiz
- Read Aloud: Mastermind
Writing:
- Stretching the tension of the middle
- Paragraphing
- Story Endings
- Peer Editing
- Self-reflection of writing...
- Students work on taking their narrative to publication
- Narratives due: Monday, September 30
Math:
- Division and multiplication strategies to solve division problems
- Unit 1 Math Jeopardy
- Unit 1 math test
- Number Corner: patterns in money and time and equal volumes with different surface areas
- Portfolio reflection on Unit 1
- Unit 2 Pre-Assessment
Inquiry:
- Producers, Consumers, and Decomposers
- Predator/Prey activity with game Fast Frozen Critters
- Food Chains and Food Webs... what's the difference
- Food Web simulations and games
- Flow of energy in an ecosystem
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 9/20/2019 8:00:00 AMReading:
- Mini-Lessons: Questioning and Inference
- Thick vs. thin questions
- What is an inference?
- Schema + evidence from text= inference
- Inferencing with commercials
- Doritos Cat Bribe: https://youtu.be/GQ4K-TZXt7E?list=PLOUyhkvSzYxD-OBHil9UHCsYbjtPi5Ll1
- Happy Grad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-WbGh6UjCM
- Chevy End of the World: https://youtu.be/uyOu_yfcpFo
- Darth Vader: https://youtu.be/1n6hf3adNqk
- Because of Mr. Terupt:
- Read February and March
- Discussed characters and perspective/point of view
- Discussed schema and connections
- Marking thinking while you are reading
- Marked both explicit and implicit questions
- Played Scattergories
- Read February and March
- Read Aloud: Finished The Insignifigant Life of a Cactus and began Masterminds
Writing:
- Personal Narrative Revisions
- Mini-Lessons:
- Heart of the story
- How stories should go
- stretching the tension
- where and how to use dialogue
- Free write Friday
Math:
- Number Corner: Examining patters, fractions, equations, and volume
- Strategies for Multiplication: over strategy, 5 is half of 10, partial products, standard algorithm, and more...
- Beat the Calculator
- division strategies: area model, super 7, traditional algorithm
- What do we do with remainders?
- Review packet for unit 1 test: next Tuesday
- Khan
Inquiry:
- International Dot Day... how will you make your mark on the world?
- Watercycle and the impact on our Ecosystems
- condensation experiments
- simulations
- writing about the water cycle
- water cycle tasks
- Bill Nye
This Week...
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Posted by Kristin Grant on 9/13/2019 11:00:00 AM
Reading:
- Mini-Lesson: Root Study
- Discussion of prefixes, roots, and suffixes
- Modeled weekly activities
- Because of Mr. Terupt:
- Read and discussed December and January and discussed characters and perspective/point of view in small groups.
- Played Scattergories
- Students wrote a written response to December
- Mini-Lesson: Schema
- Mini-Lesson: Questioning~Readers ask questions before, during, and after reading. We modeled with the book The Stranger.
- Read Aloud: The Insignificant Life of a Cactus
Writing:
- Mini-Lesson:
- Beginnings of stories
- What should be included?
- Modeled with Mrs. Grant's story
- Leads
- Showing vs Telling
- Beginnings of stories
- Free Write Friday
Math:
- Unit 1
- Finding the volume and surface area of rectangular prisms
- WorkPlace Games: Multiple Game
- Boxing and Pricing Baseballs
- Checkpoint
- Khan
- Concept Quests
- Number Corner
Inquiry:
- Mini-Lesson: Photosynthesis
- Plant Stations
- Speaker fro Summit County on Soil
Other: Class Meeting
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This Week...
Posted by Kristin Grant on 9/6/2019 12:00:00 PMReading:
- Mini-Lesson: Root Study
- Discussion of prefixes, roots, and suffixes
- Modeled weekly activities
- Because of Mr. Terupt:
- Read and discussed October and November discussed characters and perspective/point of view in small groups
- Students wrote a written response to November
- Read Aloud: The Insignificant Life of a Cactus
Writing:
- Mini-Lesson: Problem/Solution in personal narratives
- Mini-Lesson: Story mapping
- Analyzed and mapped the story, "The Bike"
- Students mapped out their own personal narrative
- Students wrote a flash draft of their personal narrative
- Free Write Friday
Math:
- Unit 1
- Finding the volume and surface area of rectangular prisms
- WorkPlace Games: Multiple Game
- Khan
- Concept Quests
- Number Corner
Inquiry:
- What is an Ecologist?
- Mini-Lesson: Ecosystems, Abiotic vs Biotic Factors, Plant Needs, and Photosynthesis
- Launched our first PBL: How can we design a habitat that would encourage wildlife around our school?
- Surveyed the school grounds
- Looked at a current map of the school and predicted map of the renovated East Woods
Other: Class Meeting
Posted by Sharon Nivert on 8/30/2019 10:00:00 AMReading:
- Mini-Lesson: Point of View
- Discussion of first-person, second-person, and third-person point of view
- Discussion of the character's perspective
- Activity with pictures where students identified perspectives and wrote sentences from the first-person point of view
- Mini-Lesson: Story Structure
- What needs to be included in a strong story?
- Story Structure Escape Classroom
- Because of Mr. Terupt:
- Our first book club of fifth grade-yay!!!
- Read September and discussed characters and perspective/point of view
- Students wrote a written response to September
- Read and discuss October in small groups
- Modeled a fishbowl
- Read Aloud: The Insignificant Life of a Cactus
Writing:
- Mini-Lesson: The first, last, and memorable moments
- Mini-Lesson: Places that could inspire a personal narratives
- Mini-Lesson: Analyzing a story's structure to map our own
- Letter writing
- Free Write Friday
Math:
- Unit 1
- Multiplication Strategies
- WorkPlace Games: Product Game
- Finding the volume of rectangular prisms
- Checkpoint
- Vocabulary: factors, products, expression, equation, dimensions, and rectangular prism
- Khan
Inquiry:
- What is an Explorer?
- Explorer Escape Classroom
- Investigating modern Explorers and their lasting effects
Other: Class Meeting
This Week...Posted by Sharon Nivert on 8/23/2019 8:00:00 AMReading:
- Mini-Lesson: Character Traits
- Paper Bag Princess
- Discussion of both inside and outside traits
- Analyzing our own traits and creating a Wordle
- Mini-Lesson: Point of View
- Discussion of the character's perspective
- What is the Point of View?
- Analysis of first-person perspectives
- IReady and DIBELS assessments
- Introduced 40 Book Challenge and writing to our teachers
- Read Aloud: Insignificant Life of a Cactus
Writing:
- What should a reading response include?
- Stemming a reading response
- Free Write Friday
Math:
- YouCubed: Inspirational Math
- Growth Mindset
- Anyone Can Be a Math Thinker
- Speed isn’t everything
- Our Brains Think About Math Visually
- Four 4's
- Visual representations
- Prime and Composite Numbers
- Establishing patterns
- Khan Academy
- Unit 1 Pretest
Inquiry:
- STEM thinking
- Peppermint racers
- Testing floatation devices
Other: Continued Team Building Activities, First class meeting, Class Cash incentive
This Week...
Posted by Kristin Grant on 8/19/2019 10:00:00 AM
Reading:
- Reading Inventory
- Independent Reading
- Favorite Book Shares
- Picture Books:
- Pigsty
- The Most Magnificent Thing
- Insignificant Life of a Cactus for read aloud
Writing:
- Letter to "Future Self" to open on the last day of school
Math:
- Figure Me Out
Inquiry:
- STEM Activity: Flotation Device
Other:
- Getting to Know You Activities
- Team Building Activities
- Organize Supplies
- Discuss Classroom Jobs and Expectations
AUGUST, 2019WELCOME5th GRADERS!
WE ARE GLADYOU ARE HERE!