Tuesday 05/29 Reading -

1. Book Club: Have your "Characters" Response ready to share
2. Thinking and Writing About Your Reading: "Describing the Plot" Response AS A GROUP:
• The Beginning
• The Exciting Incident
• The Rising Action
• The Climax
• The Falling Action
• The Ending
3. Show to Mr. E, then turn in your Book Club book.
4. FINALIZE your poetry collection and be ready to share @ 11:20

Friday 05/25 Reading - Discuss Conflict

1. Book Club: Have your "Conflict" Response ready to share
2. Thinking and Writing About Your Reading: "Analyze Characters" Response is due Tuesday:
• Appearance
• Actions of the character
• Thoughts/feelings the character has
• What character trait best describes them?
• Your opinion of the character (like/dislike, connections, etc)
3. Free Reading Time

Thursday 05/24 Reading - Describe Conflict

1. Review: Types of Conflict
2. Application: Identify Conflict
3. Thinking and Writing About Your Reading: "Describing Conflict" Response is due Friday:  
• Identify at least two conflicts that are driving your plot.
• Describe the conflicts you identified by writing about who the struggles are between, why, and how they might be solved.
• Compose a paragraph using your outline.
4. Free Reading Time

Thursday 05/24 Science - The Nervous System

Purpose: I can explain how the nervous system works with other body systems.

1. Review: OUR Understanding of the Digestive & Excretory Systems
2. Connection:  Nervous System Challenge
3. Engagement & Learning: "The Nervous System" (textbook pages 202 - 205)
• Read more about the Your Amazing Brain, Your Brain & Nervous System, and/or the Nervous System
• Show Your Understanding
4. Extension: Bill Nye The Brain

Wednesday 05/23 Reading - Describing Conflict

1. Book Club: Have your "Summarizing" Response ready to share
2. Thinking and Writing About Your Reading: "Describing Conflict" Response is due Friday:  
• Identify at least two conflicts that are driving your plot.
• Describe the conflicts you identified by writing about who the struggles are between, why, and how they might be solved.
• Compose a paragraph using your outline.
3. Free Reading Time

Wednesday 05/23 Science - Digestive and Excretory Systems

Purpose: I can explain how the skeletal & muscular systems help the digestive & excretory systems do their jobs.

1. Connection: YOUR Understanding of the Transport Systems
2. Engagement & Learning: Digestive and Excretory Systems (textbook pages 198 - 201)
• Independently read more about the Digestive System
• Show Your Understanding
3. Extension: Bill Nye Digestion

Tuesday 05/22 Reading - Discuss Setting

Purpose: I can share and discuss the setting of my story to help myself and others understand how the time, place, and environment impact the plot.

1. Book Club: Have your "Setting" Response ready to share @ 10:30
2. Thinking and Writing About Your Reading: "Determine Importance by Summarizing" Response is due TOMORROW:
• You should summarize at least two selections of your reading assignment.
• First, identify the text as specifically as you can.
• Then, state the verb that describes what the author does with their writing.
• Next, identify the topic of the text selection--what the text is mostly about.
• Last, record at least three big ideas that support the topic of the selection.
• Finally, use your outline to write a summary paragraph.
3. Free Reading Time

Monday 05/21 Science - Circulatory and Respiratory Systems

Purpose: I can explain how the circulatory system and respiratory system work together to deliver oxygen and remove carbon dioxide.

1. Connection: Heart Facts
2. Teaching Point: Today I want to teach you that your circulatory system can be thought of as a road network within a city.  Like a road system, it carries food to individual homes and carries waste away.  There are major highways (arteries and veins), and side alleyways (capillaries).  In our bodies, blood is a specialized bodily fluid that flows down the roads which carry nutrients and oxygen to cells and carries wastes like carbon dioxide and urea away.  The only way to get the oxygen in (and the carbon dioxide out) is through the lungs, flown in through the "city's" airport.
3. Engagement & Learning: "Circulatory and Respiratory Systems"
• Textbook pages 192 - 197
• Read more about the Circulatory System and/or the Respiratory System
4. Link: Show Your Understanding

Friday 05/18 Reading - Describing the Setting

1. Thinking and Writing About Your Reading: "Describe the Setting" Response is due Monday:
• Describe the time, place, and environment of your book in a written paragraph
• Draw a map of the main setting.
• Include FIVE captions that help explain your setting.
2. Free Reading Time

Friday 05/18 Science - Skeletal & Muscular Systems

Purpose: I can explain how the skeletal system and muscular system work together to perform movements.

1. Connection: Concrete and Granite
2. Teaching Point: Today I want to teach you that your movement is made possible because of your body's systems--the skeletal and muscular systems--working together.
3. Engagement & Learning: "Skeletal and Muscular Systems"
• Textbook pages 188 - 191
• Bill Nye Bones and Muscles or this one
4. Link: Show Your Understanding

Thursday 05/17 Reading - Share Inferences

Purpose: I can share and discuss questions from my story to help myself and others understand the responses we made to the text.

1. Book Club: Have your "Quoting Accurately to Infer" Response ready to share
2. Thinking and Writing About Your Reading: "Describe the Setting" Response is due Monday:
• Describe the time, place, and environment of your book in a written paragraph
• Draw a map of the main setting.
• Include FIVE captions that help explain your setting.
3. Free Reading Time

Thursday 05/17 Science - Systems of the Human Body Vocabulary

Purpose: I can define, understand, and use words/phrases related to the study of Systems of the Human Body.

1. Connection: Organ/System Brainstorm
2. Teaching & Learning: "Introduction" and "Science Vocabulary" on textbook pages 182 - 185.
3. Engagement: Systems of the Human Body Vocabulary Chart
4. Link: Read "Organ Systems" on textbook pages 186 - 187 and show your understanding.

Wednesday 05/16 Science - Classifying Vertebrates

Purpose: I can classify living organisms by describing, providing examples of, and visualizing vertebrates.

1. Connection: Vertebrates
2. Engagement: FINISH Classifying Vertebrates
• Textbook pages 28-37
• Describe the group
• Identify examples
• Provide an image for each example
3. Link: Read and comprehend "Plants and Animals" at ReadWorks Digital
4. Extension: Bill Nye Videos
• Amphibians
• Birds
• Fish
• Mammals
• Marine Mammals
• Reptiles

Wednesday 05/16 Reading - Quoting Accurately to Infer

1. Word Work: Vocabulary Surge Lesson 11 Day 7
2. Thinking and Writing About Your Reading: "Quoting Accurately to Infer" Response is due TOMORROW
• Identify FIVE inferences you have while reading.
• Quote accurately using the author's exact words.
• Explain your inference.

Monday 05/14 Science - Classifying Vertebrates

Purpose: I can classify living organisms by describing, providing examples of, and visualizing vertebrates.

1. Connection: Invertebrates
2. Teaching: Today I want to teach you that scientists classify all animals into two phyla--groups--by a single characteristic: having a backbone or not.  But each family of vertebrates also has its own key structural and functional characteristics.
3. Engagement: Classifying Vertebrates
• Textbook pages 28-37
• Describe the group
• Identify examples
• Provide an image for each example
4. Link: Read and comprehend "Plants and Animals" at ReadWorks Digital
5. Extension: Bill Nye Videos
• Amphibians
• Birds
• Fish
• Mammals
• Marine Mammals
• Reptiles

Friday 05/11 Reading - Practice Identifying Point of View

Purpose: I can identify the point of view of texts to better understand the message, moral, or lesson of the story.

1. Word Work: Vocabulary Surge Lesson 11 Day 6
2. Connection: Point of View and Plot
3. Teaching Point: Today I want to teach you that as you think about perspective, you must also think about the change that occurs as part of the plot.  When you understand the change(s) that are happening to the character, you will understand how this impacts how the story is "seen."
4. Thinking and Writing About Your Reading: "Analyze Point of View" Response is due @ 11:00
• What point of view is the story being told in?
• How do you know? Use examples from the story to support your answer.
• Who's perspective is the story in? How does this impact the story? What does it make you think about the plot?
5. Free Reading Time: "Quoting Accurately to Infer" Response is due Thursday:
• Identify FIVE inferences you have while reading.
• Quote accurately using the author's exact words.
• Explain your inference.

Friday 05/11 Science - Classifying Invertebrates

Purpose: I can classify living organisms by describing, providing examples of, and visualizing invertebrates.

1. Connection: Vascular or Nonvascular Plant
2. Teaching: Today I want to teach you that scientists classify all animals into two phyla--groups--by a single characteristic: having a backbone or not.  But each family of invertebrates also has its own key structural and functional characteristics.
3. Engagement: Classifying Invertebrates
• Textbook pages 22-27
• Describe the group
• Identify examples
• Provide an image for each example
4. Link: Read and comprehend "Plants and Animals" at ReadWorks Digital
5. Extension: Bill Nye - Invertebrates

Thursday 05/10 Science - Compare & Contrast Plant Types

Purpose: I can compare and contrast the types of plants as I classify living organisms.

1. Connection: Plants
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2. Teaching: Today I want to teach you that scientists classify the plant kingdom into two major groups: vascular and nonvascular plants.  Each group has key structural and functional characteristics.
3. Engagement: Classifying Plants
• Textbook pages 16 - 17
• Compare & Contrast Table
4. Link: Read and comprehend "Plants and Animals" at ReadWorks Digital
5. Extension: Bill Nye - Plants

Thursday 05/10 Reading - Discuss Questions

Purpose: I can share and discuss questions from my story to help myself and others understand the responses we made to the text.

1. Word Work: Vocabulary Surge Lesson 11 Day 4
2. Book Club: Have your "Quoting Accurately While Questioning" Response ready to share
3. Thinking and Writing About Your Reading: "Analyze Point of View" Response is due Monday:
• What point of view is the story being told in?
• How do you know? Use examples from the story to support your answer.
• Who's perspective is the story in? How does this impact the story? What does it make you think about the plot?
4. Free Reading Time

Wednesday 05/09 Science - Compare & Contrast Animal Classification

Purpose: I can compare and contrast different animal classifications.

1. Connection: Where are we?
2. Teaching: Today I want to teach you that scientists classify all living things into six major kingdoms based on their characteristics.  The classification of living things becomes more specific as you move down the hierarchy. (Textbook pages 12 - 15)
3. Engagement: Classify Living Organisms: Animal Classification Compare & Contrast
4. Link: Read and comprehend "Plants and Animals" at ReadWorks Digital
5. Extension: Taxonomy - Life's Filing System