05/10 Science Activity

Purpose:  I can describe the different kingdoms to classify living organisms.

1. Classifying Living Organisms Vocabulary Chart
2. Kingdoms Graphic Organizer
3. Life Science Packet page 34

Tuesday 05/10 Morning Warm-Up

1. Display your HomeLink 8.1 for the Homework Checker.
2. Complete the reading warm-up "Fossils" (page 65) in the yellow non-fiction texts packet.
3. Have your Writing materials ready.
4. Free read or write silently.

05/09 Literacy Block Agenda

1. Fish Identification Practice: I can classify living things using a dichotomous key.
2. Reading Response Assignment:  I can describe my story's background elements by creating trading cards.
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 05/09 Morning Warm-Up

1. Checkout our Leadership Roles to see what you are responsible for this week.
2. Complete the reading warm-up "Waves" (page 64) in the yellow non-fiction texts packet.
3. Have your Writing materials ready.
4. Free read or write silently

05/06 Literacy Block Agenda

1. Realistic Fiction Book Club
• Review the Response Assignment
• Each member shares their Response
• Have a conversation about the book.
• Review new Reading Assignment
2. NEW Reading Response Assignment:  I can describe my story's background elements by creating trading cards.
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.

Friday 05/06 Morning Warm-Up

1. Display your "Getting to School" math homework for the Homework Checker.
2. Complete the reading warm-up "The Telescope" (page 63) in the yellow non-fiction texts packet.
3. Have your Spelling materials ready.
4. Free read or write silently.

***Dodgeball Golden Whistle Reward @ 8:05***

05/05 Literacy Block Agenda

1. Government and Democracy Readers' Theatre:
• Practice!
• Each group will present to our class in 15 Minutes.
2. Point of View Reading Response:
• Identifying Point of View Activity:  Be ready to share with a partner and explain your thinking.
• Write a journal entry as a character from your story, include details about how the character feels about other characters and the events going on around them.
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.