Reading:  We worked on reading and talking to the text with our Article of the Week on Newsela. This will be due no later than March 8th and is homework if not finished in class.

Writing:  We practiced with conjunctions. Then, were introduced to our Theme Project at the end of class. This is a group project centered around the story of the group’s choosing. Students will get time on Friday, Monday and Tuesday to work on this in class. All absent students have been placed in a group willing to include them when they return. This project is due on March 6th. We will be presenting in class on this day.

ALL MOBYMAX IS DUE MARCH 15TH.

One Pagers 5 & 6 are in your possession and are due no later than MARCH 22ND.

Homework:

• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) – should have 25 passed since 1/28
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5  & #6 –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!
• Moby Max Language lessons due March 15th
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
  • Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
  • Subject, Object, and Possessive Pronouns
  • Reflexive Pronouns
  • Pronouns and Antecedents
  • Vague Pronouns
  • Conjunctions
  • Correlative Conjunctions
  • Prepositions
  • Prepositional Phrases

Reading:  We read the poem “Message From a Caterpillar” and discussed it’s theme with our groups and as a class.  

Writing:  We helped Mrs. Dailing write a theme CER paragraph about “Message From a Caterpillar”. After discussing this, we read “The Ant and the Grasshopper” and wrote our own theme CER paragraph about it. This was due at the end of class or it was homework. You can find the story here and the prompt in the picture below.

Click on the picture to enlarge.

ALL MOBYMAX IS DUE MARCH 15TH.

One Pagers 5 & 6 are in your possession and are due no later than MARCH 22ND.

Homework:

• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) – should have 25 passed since 1/28
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5  & #6 –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!
• Moby Max Language lessons due March 15th
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
  • Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
  • Subject, Object, and Possessive Pronouns
  • Reflexive Pronouns
  • Pronouns and Antecedents
  • Vague Pronouns
  • Conjunctions
  • Correlative Conjunctions
  • Prepositions
  • Prepositional Phrases

Today was library day.

Reading:  We practiced with poetry rhyme schemes and then took notes about theme. We discussed possible themes of “The Good Deed” and supported it with evidence with our groups. 

Writing:  We took notes about conjunctions. Please use these to help you with MobyMax. 

ALL MOBYMAX IS DUE MARCH 15TH.

One Pagers 5 & 6 are in your possession and are due no later than MARCH 22ND.

Homework:

• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) – should have 20 passed since 1/28
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5  & #6 –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!
• Moby Max Language lessons due March 15th
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
  • Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
  • Subject, Object, and Possessive Pronouns
  • Reflexive Pronouns
  • Pronouns and Antecedents
  • Vague Pronouns
  • Conjunctions
  • Correlative Conjunctions
  • Prepositions
  • Prepositional Phrases

Reading:  Today we reviewed what we learned so far about types of poetry and the different kinds of structure. We then took notes on rhyme scheme and practiced with several poems.

Writing:  One of the poems we practiced with connected to our story “The Good Deed”. We wrote a CER on the type of connection and how we know. 

ALL MOBYMAX IS DUE MARCH 15TH.

One Pagers 5 & 6 are in your possession and are due no later than MARCH 22ND.

Homework:

• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) – should have 20 passed since 1/28
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5  & #6 –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!
• Moby Max Language lessons due March 15th
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
  • Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
  • Subject, Object, and Possessive Pronouns
  • Reflexive Pronouns
  • Pronouns and Antecedents
  • Vague Pronouns
  • Conjunctions
  • Correlative Conjunctions
  • Prepositions
  • Prepositional Phrases

Today we worked in various reading and writing stations to work on individual skill building and practice/extension. 

New lessons have been assigned on MobyMax to help us practice pronouns, conjunctions, and prepositions. ALL MOBYMAX IS DUE MARCH 15TH.

Have a great weekend!

Homework:

• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) – should have 20 passed since 1/28
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5  –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!
• Moby Max Language lessons due March 15th
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
  • Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
  • Subject, Object, and Possessive Pronouns
  • Reflexive Pronouns
  • Pronouns and Antecedents
  • Vague Pronouns
  • Conjunctions
  • Correlative Conjunctions
  • Prepositions
  • Prepositional Phrases

Reading:  We continued our Poetry unit today. We took notes on the last 4 types of poems as well as the 3 terms we use to identify a poem’s structure. 

Writing: We finished making inferences about a character by analyzing the character Clark Kent from the show “Smallville”. Students completed a CER response explaining the character trait they inferred based on his actions and choices. Here are the sentence starters for those that did not finish:

We also worked on several practice pages for pronouns.

New lessons have been assigned on MobyMax to help us practice pronouns, conjunctions, and prepositions. ALL MOBYMAX IS DUE MARCH 15TH.

Homework:

• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) 
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5  –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!
• Moby Max Language lessons due March 15th
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
  • Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
  • Subject, Object, and Possessive Pronouns
  • Reflexive Pronouns
  • Pronouns and Antecedents
  • Vague Pronouns
  • Conjunctions
  • Correlative Conjunctions
  • Prepositions
  • Prepositional Phrases

Reading:  We began our Poetry unit today. We took notes on 4 types of poetry and will finish the last 4 tomorrow.

Writing: We continued making inferences about a character by analyzing the character Clark Kent from the show “Smallville”. Students began a CER response explaining the character trait they inferred based on his actions and choices. We will finish this tomorrow.

New lessons have been assigned on MobyMax to help us practice pronouns, conjunctions, and prepositions. ALL MOBYMAX IS DUE MARCH 15TH.

Homework:

• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) 
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5  –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!
• Moby Max Language lessons due March 15th
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
  • Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
  • Subject, Object, and Possessive Pronouns
  • Reflexive Pronouns
  • Pronouns and Antecedents
  • Vague Pronouns
  • Conjuntions
  • Correlative Conjunctions
  • Prepositions
  • Prepositional Phrases

Reading:  We worked on making inferences about a character by completing a media activity where we analyzed a video clip with the character Clark Kent from the show “Smallville”. 

Writing: Today we began to learn about the different types of pronouns and took notes on them. I will be adding lessons to MobyMax today which are still due March 15th. Personal narratives were also due today and are subject to a 10% loss of points if not printed and turned in to me today. 

Homework:

• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) 
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5  –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!
• Moby Max Language lessons due March 15th
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
  • Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
  • MORE LESSONS TO COME AS WE LEARN THEM IN CLASS

Today was a half day so classes were shorter.

Reading:  We finished reviewing making connections and reading “The Good Deed” by Marion Dane Bauer. We wrote a CER about the connections we made with the story. If you missed it or didn’t finish making your connections here is a copy of it.

Writing: We were given time to type our personal narrative final copies. FINAL COPIES DUE TUESDAY FEBRUARY 19TH. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR PRINTING IT TO TURN IN.

Homework:

• Personal Narrative final copy is due no later than Tuesday, February 19th. YOU are responsible for printing it out!
• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) 
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5  –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!
• Moby Max Language lessons due March 15th
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
  • Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
  • MORE LESSONS TO COME AS WE LEARN THEM IN CLASS

We went to the library today to make up for yesterday! 

We also reviewed making connections and practiced with reading “The Good Deed” by Marion Dane Bauer. If you missed it or didn’t finish making your connections here is a copy of it.

Homework:

• Personal Narrative final copy is due no later than Tuesday, February 19th. YOU are responsible for printing it out!
• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) 
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5  –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!
• Moby Max Language lessons due March 15th
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
  • Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
  • MORE LESSONS TO COME AS WE LEARN THEM IN CLASS

We had an assembly about wild animals today which threw off our schedule so classes were shorter. 

Reading: We reviewed making inferences to front load for tomorrow’s in class activity.

Writing:  We finished Peer Editing and communicated our feedback to our partner. Final copies are due February 19th – student must be print it themselves. 

Homework:

• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) 
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5  –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!
• Moby Max Language lessons due March 15th
  • Adjectives and Adverbs
  • Comparative and Superlative Adverbs
  • Relative Pronouns and Adverbs
  • MORE LESSONS TO COME AS WE LEARN THEM IN CLASS

Assembly permission slips are due no later than 8am Monday! Please see Mr. Peterson’s blog for more information!

Reading: We took our Figurative Language quiz today.

Writing:  We continued Peer Editing to provide our partners with our feedback.

Homework:

• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) 
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5  –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!

Assembly permission slips are due tomorrow! Please see Mr. Peterson’s blog for more information!

Reading: We had a small group and whole class discussion about “The Jacket” by Gary Soto.  We also practiced identifying figurative language in a short story to review for tomorrow’s quiz.

Writing:  We practiced with Adverbs. We also continued the Peer Editing process. We will finish Peer Editing tomorrow and provide our partners with our feedback.

FYI: 

Figurative Language Quiz TOMORROW – study ISN pgs 49-51, there’s some practice on Quizlet but your notes and the practice we did in class today will help you the most!

Homework:

• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) 
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5  –  due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!

Today we reread “The Jacket” by Gary Soto with the purpose of analyzing the figurative language used. We focused mainly on similes, metaphors, and personification. 

We also began taking notes on Adverbs and did some practice with them. 

Personal Narrative Rough Drafts were due today. We began the Peer Editing process at the end of class, which will continue through Thursday. 

FYI: 

Figurative Language Quiz on Friday – study ISN pgs 49-51, there’s some practice on Quizlet but your notes will help you the most!

Homework:

• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) 
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking
• One-Pager #5 was passed out on Friday – this is due March 22nd! Don’t wait until the last minute to begin these!

Today we took a Mid-Year CER writing prompt assessment. This is used to assess where students are in terms of the writing process and skills.  Students that have been absent and needed to finish the NWEA did so in class during this time and will complete the writing prompt when they are finished. 

When students finished, they were asked to read “The Jacket” by Gary Soto so we can begin an activity with it tomorrow. If you didn’t read it, it is to be read at home. You can read the story HERE.

Personal Narrative Rough Drafts are due TOMORROW! 

FYI: 

All late work is subject to a 10% loss of points in cardmarking 3.

Figurative Language Quiz on Friday – study ISN pgs 49-51

Homework:

• Read “The Jacket” (posted above)
• Personal Narrative rough draft due tomorrow
• 5 ReadTheory passed by Sunday! (every week) 
• Read 100 minutes of your chapter book every week!! (about 20 minutes per day) – Read 2 full novels EVERY card marking