Questions, Answers, and Strategies

"The Eagle Has Landed" Text

"The Eagle Has Landed" Questions, Answers, and Strategies Chart

Questions, Answers, and Strategies Chart

Monday 11/30 Morning Warm-Up

1. Review the Leadership Jobs to see what you are responsible for this week.
2. Have your Social Studies materials ready.
3. Begin working on your American Colonies vocabulary chart: FOCUS ON THE DEFINITIONS.
4. Free read silently

Age of Exploration Website

Age of Exploration: Information and Activities

Tuesday 11/24 Morning Warm-Up

1. Display Monday's Math Homework (Subtracting Decimals Worksheet) for the Homework Checker.
2. Have your Social Studies materials ready.
3. Complete the reading warm-up "It's All Downhill" (page 145) in the green fiction texts packet.
4. Free read silently

Inferring Themes

Inferring Themes Document

Early European Exploration Assessment

Early European Exploration Assessment

Finalizing Early European Exploration

1. Follow the directions for signing-in at TCI, our Social Studies supporting site: the password is wwroom24
2. Complete the Reading Challenge for Lessons 4 and 5.
3. We will complete our assessment for Early European Explorers at the end of today's lesson.

Monday 11/23 Morning Warm-Up

1. Check the Leadership Jobs to see what you are responsible for this week.
2. Display Friday's Math Homework (HomeLink 3.13) for the Homework Checker.
3. Finish AND review your vocabulary document as part of our work today with finalizing our learning about Early European Exploration.
4. Free read silently

Friday 11/20 Morning Warm-Up

1. Display Thursday's Math Homework (Multiplying Decimals Worksheet) for the Homework Checker.
2. Have your Social Studies materials ready.
3. Complete the reading warm-up "The Race" (page 144) in the green fiction texts packet.
4. Free read silently

Tackle the Meaning of Language

Moon by Myra Cohn

Secrets by Myra Cohn

Thursday 11/19 Morning Warm-Up

1. Display Wednesday's Math Homework (Math Journal pg. 106) for the Homework Checker.
2. Have your Social Studies materials ready.
3. Complete the reading warm-up "The Big Buck" (page 143) in the green fiction texts packet.
4. Free read silently

Wednesday 11/18 Morning Warm-Up

1. Display Tuesday's Math Homework (HomeLink 3.12) for the Homework Checker.
2. Log your free reading in your Reading Log.
3. REWRITE your November Reading Goal on a Sticky-Note WITH YOUR NAME ON IT and place it on the chart paper on the front table.
4. Complete the reading warm-up "The Dog Ate It" (page 142) in the green fiction texts packet.
5. Free read silently

Vocabulary - Inferring Meaning

Kids Discover - Titanic

Vocabulary: Inferred Meaning Chart

Tuesday 11/17 Morning Warm-Up

1. Display Monday's Math Homework (HomeLink 3.11) for the Homework Checker.
2. Have your Social Studies materials ready.
3. Complete Social Studies Interactive Student Notebook page 25:  Imagine yourself as your early European explorer.
4. Free read silently

Monday 11/16 Morning Warm-Up

1. Check the Leadership Jobs to see what you are responsible for this week.
2. Display Friday's Math Homework (Adding Fractions Worksheet) for the Homework Checker.
3. Make a copy of the Early European Explorer Project Recording Document to use during the presentations.
4. Free read silently

Friday 11/13 Morning Warm-Up

1. Complete the reading warm-up "My Shadow" (page 141) in the green fiction texts packet.
2. Have your Social Studies materials ready.
3. Free read silently

Thursday 11/12 Morning Warm-Up

1. Have your Social Studies materials AND documents ready.
2. Read the Britannica article about your Early European Explorer.
3. Continue working on your European Exploration vocabulary DEFINITIONS:
• conquistador
• Northwest Passage
• contagious disease
• East Indies
• colony
4. Free read silently

Wednesday 11/11 Morning Warm-Up

1. Log your free reading.
2. In your best and neatest handwriting, record our November spelling words in your Spelling Notebook:
• beautiful
• classify
• community
• communities
• electricity
• happiness
• prettier
3. Be ready for a spelling "quiz" before Specials.
4. Free read silently

Tuesday 11/10 Morning Warm-Up

1. Have your Social Studies materials AND documents ready.
2. Continue working on your European Exploration vocabulary DEFINITIONS:
• conquistador
• Northwest Passage
• contagious disease
• East Indies
• colony
3. Free read silently

Early European Explorer Project

European Exploration Folder

Early European Explorer Project Outline

Early European Explorer Project Rubric

Monday 11/09 Morning Warm-Up

1. Check the Leadership Jobs to see what you are responsible for this week.
2. Complete the reading warm-up "Dinner By Firelight" (page 140) in the green fiction texts packet.
3. Have your Social Studies materials ready.
4. Add these words to your European Exploration vocabulary document:
• conquistadors
• Northwest Passage
• contagious diseases
• East Indies
• colonies
5. Free read silently

Friday 11/06 Morning Warm-Up

1. Turn-in your signed October Behavior Log
2. Complete the reading warm-up "Lost Owner" (page 139) in the green fiction texts packet.
3. Have your Social Studies textbook and Interactive Student Notebook ready.
4. Have your Ch. 4 Vocabulary document ready to use.
5. Free read silently

Thursday 11/05 Morning Warm-Up

1. Turn-in your signed October Behavior Log
2. Enter your Math Summary Statement Data in your binder.
3. Complete the reading warm-up "Neighborly Ghosts" (page 138) in the green fiction texts packet.
4. Have your Social Studies textbook and Interactive Student Notebook ready.
5. Free read silently

Wednesday 11/04 Morning Warm-Up

1. Turn in your signed October Behavior Log
2. Brainstorm what you think our class expectations should be for Literacy Block.
3. Record your October/November free reading in your Reading Log
4. Free Read

Tuesday 11/03 Morning Warm-Up

1. Complete the reading warm-up "The Encounter" (page 137) in the green fiction texts packet.
2. Have your Social Studies textbook and Interactive Student Notebook ready.
3. Free read silently

Monday 11/02 Morning Warm-Up

1. Check the Leadership Jobs to see what you are responsible for this week.
2. Complete the reading warm-up "Washed Ashore" (page 136) in the green fiction texts packet.
3. We will have a schedule change starting today:  SOCIAL STUDIES WILL BE FROM 8:10 - 9:00.
4. Take a Social Studies Textbook and return your Earth Science Textbook.
5. Make a copy of the vocabulary document for How and Why Europeans Came to the New World
6. Free read silently