Thursday

How was your day? Did you enjoy Lunch with a Loved One? And nachos?
We started the day with 100 Mile Club. We were late to the library (thanks Abraham and Caleb for reminding me!). We did Word Work, fluency, close reading, and filled out part of our GRAPES chart. We also worked on DOK questions.
In math we took the Benchmark over topics 1-3.
We worked on science, chapter 1. Remember there is an open book test tomorrow!

Homework:

• read for 30 minutes
• fluency 1 minute
• writing: Greta Grape is sad. Why?
• no math
• no spelling

Tuesday!

Happy Tuesday! We had visitors today.  That was fun!
We started with 100 Mile Club, then came in and shared writing. The stories and poems are amazing! We did Word Work, read fluency, read our close reading for main idea and details, and worked on our GRAPES chart. We also took notes on Mesopotamian Achievements. Then we went to the Book Fair.  In math, we took the Topic 3 assessment.
We continued to work on our new writing prompt, and worked in our science books.

Crazy sock day is FRIDAY!

Homework:

• read for 30 minutes
• fluency 1 minute
• spelling choice
• math -- benchmark review
• writing: why does Waldo keep getting lost?

Monday, start of Unit of Study 2

Happy Monday! Today we did 100 Mile Club, then came in and started Unit of Study 2. The first thing we did was empty our binders of everything from Unit 1. Then we had a spelling pretest (those words!), started Word Work, did a KWL on ancient civilizations, read a fluency selection by echo reading, and did close reading. We watched a Gooru video and starting filling out a GRAPES chart on ancient civilizations.
Some students moved math groups and those started today. We all worked on lesson 3-1 in math (dependent and independent variables).
We started subject and object pronouns and had our last day of this round of science rotations.

Homework:

• read for 30 minutes
• fluency 1 minute
• spelling choice
• writing: red
• my math group reteach 3-1

Tuesday

How was your day? We started with 100 Mile Club, then shared writing. We did two lessons in Boot Camp (we are almost finished with that!), read our fluency, and then did close reading looking for answers as to why the volcano hasn't disrupted the ice. We read in our science books and took AVID notes on what we read.
I read the book Mudball to you. Please take the AR quiz!
In math, my group worked on problem solving, which involved multiplication and division equations. We also practiced graphing equations.
We worked some more on our final drafts of writing. Finally, we had science rotations.

Picture Day is Thursday!

Homework:

• read for 30 minutes
• fluency 1 minute
• spelling choice
• writing: favorite food and least favorite food
• math practice 2-9 (my group)

Baseball Monday

Happy Monday! We started the day with 100 Mile Club. We had our spelling pretest (-able and -ible endings). We read a fluency about red ants predicting earthquakes and worked on a close read about an under ice volcano.  In Boot Camp, we talked about -able and -ible endings (perfect tie-in to our spelling work). We also worked on DEA vocabulary.
In math, my group worked on graphing equations.
We worked on final drafts of our agricultural revolution writing.
We had day 2 of the second round of science rotations.

Picture Day is Thursday!

Homework:

• read for 30 minutes
• fluency 1 minute
• spelling choice (24 new choices today!)
• writing: the letter Q
• my math group: practice 2-8

Library day!

Happy Thursday! I was so happy to go to the library today! We started with 100 Mile Club, then came into the room and got ready to go to the library. After the library, we watched a Gooru video on the agricultural revolution, then shared our writing. After that, we chose pictures to accompany our agricultural revolution writing.
In math, we took a practice test that I created on our new program Illuminate. Then we played Jeopardy to review solving one step equations.
I passed out a list of adverbs and adjectives that would be good to add to writing. We will work with that tomorrow.
Finally, we had science rotations.

Homework:

• read for 30 minutes
• fluency 1 minute (quiz tomorrow)
• spelling practice test
• writing: it was a dark and stormy night...
• my math group finish practice 2-6

Early Release Wednesday

Thank you for the good sub report this morning!
I came to school at math time. We worked on multiplication and division of fractions in equations.
We had another ASB meeting today, and our representatives reported back to the class.

Homework:

• read for 30 minutes
• fluency 1 minute
• spelling choice
• writing: write an alternate ending to your favorite book
• my math group: reteach 2-6