Weekly Schedule
8/29: Welcome! Classroom Expectations and Procedures, Get to know you notecard
8/30: Review classroom expectations, Expectations Quiz Game
9/2: Labor Day, No School
9/3: Do Now - Expectations Review; Complete Sentences Activity. Slides for the day
9/4: Do Now - Complete Sentences review: Complete sentence task cards. Exit slip - turn in answers to questions. Slides for the day
9/5: Do Now - Complete Sentences review; Vocabulary: inference, explicit information, evidence. Go over what it means to make an inference, and use evidence to justify it. Turn in practice inferences with pictures as an exit slip. Slides for the day
9/6: Do Now - Inference review. Flocabulary: Inference lesson, Slides for the day
9/9: Do Now - inference review with pictures. Practice making inferences while reading short texts, learn about quoting properly. Slides for the day
9/10: do Now - review text inferences. Continued group and partner work practicing making text inferences.
9/11: Do Now - Read My Name is Bilal as a class.
9/12: Content stop day. Not much work to get caught up on, so Flocabulary Inference practice.
9/13: Author's Purpose Lesson
9/16: Reread My Name is Bilal in groups. Work on finding evidence to support inferences that we can make about Bilal.
9/17: Library Day. CNN 10
9/18: Inference Assessment #1
9/19: IXL Practice and Running Records Testing
9/20: IXL work on inferences and Author's Purpose and Running Records Testing
9/23: Introduction adverbs and to The Red Kayak Vocabulary
9/24: Review importance of having quotes with inferences; Listen to The Red Kayak
9/25: Read The Red Kayak out loud as a class and list character traits of main character
9/26: Paragraph writing: Inference Assessment #2 Practice
9/27: Inference Assessment #2
9/30: Define "Week 2: Words to Watch" words using the online Webster Learner's Dictionary
10/1: Media Center, CNN 10
10/2: Parts of Speech Flocabulary Review
10/3: IXL Parts of Speech work day
10/7: Island of the Blue Dolphins vocabulary practice
10/8: Listen to Island of the Blue Dolphins
10/9: Summarizing introduction, short story and 5 W's
10/10: Content stop day. Finish 5 W's worksheet, Parts of Speech IXL work day
10/11: Ms. Lena gone. Summary IXL work day.
10/14: Partner read Island of the Blue Dolphins. Story Sequence worksheet.
10/15: Finish Story Sequence worksheet and Media Center.
10/16: Flocabulary assignment day - subject and predicate.
10/17: NO SCHOOL!
10/18: NO SCHOOL!
10/21: Introduce theme. Practice with video, and then Calvin and Hobbes theme practice.
10/22: Flocabulary: Theme practice
10/23: Class and table work: Identifying Theme worksheet
10/24: Partner work: Identifying themes of Island of the Blue Dolphins
10/25: Theme and Summary Assessent #1
10/28: Ms. Lena gone. IXL work day.
10/29: Media Center and CNN 10 or Week in Rap
10/30: Short story read aloud - find the theme!
10/31: Dependent and Independent Clause: Flocabulary
11/1: Dependent and Independent Clause: IXL practice and Flocabulary Practice
11/4: Background information about baseball.
11/5: Mini Lesson on Main Idea and Supporting Details and practice.
11/6: Listen to Satchel Paige
11/7: Reread Satchel Paige and find the main idea/supporting details (turn in for grade)
11/8: Flocabulary - Main Idea
11/11: Review and Practice Main Idea and Supporting Details - table work
11/12: Media Center and CNN 10
11/13: Continued Practice with Main Idea and Supporting details - NewsELA
11/14: Main Idea and Supporting Details assessment #2
11/15: Main Idea IXL Work
11/18: Read about Roberto Clemente, Puerto Rican baseball player
11/19: Partner read Roberto Clemente story
11/20: Introduce Roberto Clemente trifold - work day
11/21: Roberto Clemente trifold work day - due by the end of class
11/22: Main Idea IXL work day
11/25: Fancy Fruits - Finding and Forming Four Inferences
11/26: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs - read in class and work on Story Elements
11/27: NO SCHOOL!
11/28: HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
11/29: NO SCHOOL!
12/2: Story elements review and listen to story of Thunder Rose
12/3: Media Center and Week in Rap
12/4: Partner read Thunder Rose and find story elements (turn in for grade - progress monitor)
12/5: ELA Content Stop Day
12/6: Story Elements IXL Review
12/9: Centers, Day 1
12/10: Centers, Day 2
12/11: Centers - Makeup Day
12/12: Story Elements Assessment #1
12/13: Point of View review game
12/16: Popcorn read The Legend of John Henry and find story elements
12/17: FIELD TRIP DAY!
12/18: Watch the Disney Animated John Henry and fill out Google Forms finding the story elements
12/19: Story Elements Assessment #2
12/20: Assessment makeup and IXL work day
12/23-1/3: NO SCHOOL! WINTER BREAK!
1/6: Intro to The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
1/7: Media Center
1/8: Intro to Text Structure and notes
1/9: Popcorn read The Dinosaurs of Waterhouse Hawkins
1/10: Compare/Contrast assignment on Google Classroom
1/13: Centers
1/14: Centers
1/15: Problem/Solution movie trailer activity and Text Structure review
1/16: Text Structure Assessment #1
1/17: Text Structure Assessment #1 Day 2
1/20: MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY - NO SCHOOL!
1/21: Media Center and Story Elements Assessment revision
1/22: Intro to Leonardo's Horse
1/23: Partner Read and Text Structure Practice (turn in by end of hour)
1/24: Begin Centers
1/27: Centers
1/28: Centers
1/29: Text Structures Assessment #2
1/30: Content Stop Day
1/31: Quizlet Live or Quizziz Game Day
2/3: Similes and Metaphors Introduction
2/4: Begin The Winter of Red Snow (TWRS) - audio recording
2/5: Continue TWRS audio recording - question and answer
2/6: TWRS Journal Entry - due by end of hour
2/10: TWRS Partner Reads, close reading practice
2/11: SNOW TUBING FIELD TRIP!!! Centers in Ms. Lena's room at return
2/12: TWRS audio recording, idiom lesson
2/13: TWRS Journal Entry #2 - Due by end of the hour
2/14: Quizizz Figurative Language Review Game! Which group will win?
2/17: PRESIDENT'S DAY - NO SCHOOL!
2/18: TWRS - Lucy's Story (introduce descriptive language)
2/19: Listen to the conclusion of Lucy's Story, Media Center
2/20: TWRS Journal Entry #3, due by the end of the hour
2/21: Figurative Language IXL practice
2/24: The Winter of Red Snow listening day
2/25: Learning about Proverbs: African Proverbs Flocabulary
2/26: Revise and turn in Journal Entry #2 - look at teacher's edits
2/27: Content Stop Day
2/28: Test Prep Vocab Quizlet Live Competition
3/2: Figurative Language Centers
3/3: Figurative Language Centers
3/4: Last day of Centers, finish the movie The Winter of Red Snow
3/5: Figurative Language Retest
3/6: Test Prep Vocab Quizlet Live Competition
3/10: Introduction to Greek and Latin roots, put together booklet
3/11: Read The Stormi Giovanni Club
3/12: Reread The Stormi Giovanni Club and watch How to Use a Dictionary video
3/13: Dictionary Speed Word Search competition - bonus points if you can name the Greek root in the word!