The Mount Everest reading assignment will move to Monday.  We read the short story "Phone Ahead" today. Journal Entry: Prediction Chart

Book orders were sent home.  Book orders are due by October the 12th.  Any checks should be made out to Scholastic.  A letter went home with information about ordering books on line.

Formative on Complex Sentences will be on Monday.  On my portaportal are some sentence games. Once you are logged into portaportal go to writing to conventions to sentences.   Also students can use their English book for extra practice.

Wednesday:
Reading:  Read the story Climb or Die and complete prediction worksheet
Create Smart Notebook Prediction Presentation

Thursday:
Writing:  Complex Sentence practice.
Assignment: English Book page 5-12

Reading:
Check Prediction Worksheet
Present Smart Notebook Presentations

Friday:
Reading:
Journal Entry:  Mount Everest Predictions

Writing:
Check English Assignment
Pass out practice worksheet

Monday:
Reading:
Pretest over Inferences and Predictions

Writing:
Past back formative on compound sentences: Power Hour and Enrichment
Writing Journal Entry:  If I had a million dollars,

Tuesday:
Reading:
Pass back pretest: Set goals
Introduction to prediction

Writing:
Notes on Complex Sentences and some group practice

Monday:
 Reviewed Summative
Finished Text Features Assignment

Tuesday:
Ima Expert Assignment over Text Features
Simple and Compound Sentence Worksheet Practice
Reading Journal Entry:  Find three compound sentences in your independent book.

Wednesday:
Writing Journal: Write three compound sentences
Posted sentence on web
Library Class
Discussed Ima Expert Sheet

Thursday:
Reading:
Journal Entry: Jamming

Writing:
Writing Journal:  When I was little,...
Formative on Simple and Compound Sentences

Mesopotamia Video:  Three facts that I learned from the video are...

Monday:
Reading:  Genre and Visualization Worksheet
Intro to Making Connections

Writing:  Simple Sentence Smack Down

Tuesday:
Reading:
Making Connections Graphic Organizer turned in

Writing:  Simple Sentence Worksheet
Writing Journal Prompt:  Likes/Dislikes sentence list

Wednesday
Reading:
Making Connections Continued.
Journal Entry:  Make a connection about your book

Writing:
Graded simple sentence worksheet.
Writing  Journal:  Interview of hobbies

Thursday:
Reading:
Test over genre, questioning, making connections, and visulaization.

Writing: Compound Sentences introduction

Monday: No School

Tuesday:
Reading:  Visualization Introduction using Hatchet
Checked journals.  Have you corrected yours?

Writing: Completed goal sheet for pretest over sentences.
Writing Journal:  Draw a place that is important to you.  Label and add captions to your picture

Wednesday:
Reading:  Visualization continued: Website Into The Book Activity
Library today

Writing: Introduction to Sentence Unit
What makes a sentence complete?

Thursday:
Reading: Questioning:  How do you ask questions as a reader?
Reading Journal:  Write three thick questions about your book.

Writing:  Identifying the subject noun and verb of a sentence.
Writing Journal:  Notes about sentences.

Friday:
Reading:  Review of skills: Genre, questioning and visualization.

Writing:  Sentence Smack Down Activity

Monday:
Reading:
Created genre flip book
Writing:
Intro. to three types of writing
Intro. to writing process

Tues.
Reading:
Genre practice
Genre worksheet
Rdg. Journal Entry:  Identify the genre of your book and provide evidence to support your decision.

Writing:
Traits intro.
Writing Journal: Places my feet have taken me

Wed.
Reading:
Library time
Checked worksheet
Wordle about assigned genre

Thurs.
JBAC Assembly
 Tornado and Fire drills
Pretest on sentences

Tuesday
Writing Workshop Procedures
Writing Journal Entry: When I write I...

Read aloud chapter 1 of Night of the Twisters
Reading Journal Prompt: Write about a red or black letter day.
Returned Pretest

Wed.
Music Inside Me Read Aloud
Thought Map in Writing Journal

Reading Workshop Procedures
Journal Entry: Just Right Books

Thurs:
Reading: Silent Reading Procedures
Make sure you have both journal entries completed
Reading Bingo

Writing: Created wanna writes list and defined writing.

Fri:
Reading: How to abandon books.

Writing: Read aloud Weslandia
Writing Journal Prompt: If you could develop a civilization, what would it look like?

Monday:
Pretest Given: Reading Skills Assessed: Making Connections, Questioning, Genre, and Visualization
Reading and Writing Surveys: Please complete and turn in.

Decorated Writing Journals