Thursday 05/05 Morning Warm-Up

1. Complete the reading warm-up "The Polar Regions" (page 62) in the yellow non-fiction texts packet.
2. Have your Flash Draft materials ready.
3. Free read or write silently.

05/04 Literacy Block Agenda

1. Government and Democracy Informational Writing:
1. Topic: Citizenship, Patriotism, and Symbols of America
2. "Brain Dump” knowledge and questions
3. Categorize using the booklet.
4. Information gather to add knowledge and answer questions.
5. We will flash draft about Citizenship and Patriotism tomorrow.
2. Free choice read for at least 30 minutes
3. Point of View Reading Response Assignment:  What point of view is your story being told from?  How does the point of view affect how the story is told?
4. Complete activities that help YOU become a better reader:
• Read MORE Fiction and/or Non-Fiction
• Practice Spelling/Vocabulary
• Practice Fluency with a partner by choosing one of the poems from "We Are America" by Walter Dean Myers: Read it, reread it, then perform it for a friend.
• Learn more about conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections by leading yourself through the lesson and completing the activity.
• Practice using correlative conjunctions (neither/nor, either/or) with Conjunction game or Conjunctions
• Practice making inferences by answering these riddles or these riddles.

Wednesday 05/04 Morning Warm-Up

1. Record your reading in your Free Reading Log.
2. Complete the reading warm-up "The Rain Forest" (page 61) in the yellow non-fiction texts packet.
3. Practice your vocabulary skills at FreeRice.com
4. Free read silently

05/03 Literacy Block Agenda

1. Realistic Fiction Book Club
• Book Club Outline:
  

  Book Club Members:

  Club Name:

  Meeting Spot:

  Materials All Members Bring to Meetings:

  Consequence of Not Being Prepared for Meeting:

• Set your reading assignments for the month (there are 10 meetings to divide your book into).
• Your Reading Response Assignment is about Point of View:  What point of view is your story being told from?  How does the point of view affect how the story is told?
2. Free choice read for at least 30 minutes
3. Small Group Meetings:  Point of View Practice
4. Complete activities that help YOU become a better reader:
• Read MORE Fiction and/or Non-Fiction
• Practice Spelling/Vocabulary
• Practice Fluency with a partner by choosing one of the poems from "We Are America" by Walter Dean Myers: Read it, reread it, then perform it for a friend.
• Learn more about conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections by leading yourself through the lesson and completing the activity.
• Practice using correlative conjunctions (neither/nor, either/or) with Conjunction game or Conjunctions
• Practice making inferences by answering these riddles or these riddles.

Tuesday 05/03 Morning Warm-Up

1. Return your Historical Fiction Book Club Book.
2. Display your Comparing Decimal worksheet for the Homework Checker.
3. Complete the reading warm-up "Volcanoes" (page 60) in the yellow non-fiction texts packet.
4. Have your Flash Draft materials ready, as well as your Non-Fiction Text Structures "waterfall."
5. Free read or write silently.

05/02 Literacy Block Agenda

1. Government and Democracy Readers' Theatre:
• Rate your fluency
• Assign roles and practice
2. Realistic Fiction Genre Book Club Preview
3. Free choice read for at least 30 minutes
4. Complete activities that help YOU become a better reader:
• Read MORE Fiction and/or Non-Fiction
• Practice Spelling/Vocabulary
• Practice Fluency with a partner by choosing one of the poems from "We Are America" by Walter Dean Myers: Read it, reread it, then perform it for a friend.
• Learn more about conjunctions, prepositions, and interjections by leading yourself through the lesson and completing the activity.
• Practice using correlative conjunctions (neither/nor, either/or) with Conjunction game or Conjunctions
• Practice making inferences by answering these riddles or these riddles.

Monday 05/02 Morning Warm-Up

1. Find your new spot.
2. Checkout our Leadership Roles to see what you are responsible for this week.
3. Return your Historical Fiction Book Club Book to the desk beneath the calendar.
4. Complete the reading warm-up "Static Electricity" (page 59) in the yellow non-fiction texts packet.
5. Have your Social Studies materials ready.
6. Follow these directions for joining the PR LEAD Council Blog
7. Free read or write silently