Grade 5/6 ELA
Missed ELA this week? Check out what you can do from home.
September 14-17th, 2020
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Novel Study - We read up to Chapter 8 and then answered Questions on Wish.
Writing (News Article) - We filled in the 5 W's and H for our field trip to the Stavely Museum and then wrote a News Article.
September 21-24th, 2020
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September 21st, 2020
Novel Study - We finished questions for Chapter 6,7,8 of Wish.
Writing (News Article) - We finished our news article for our field trip to the Stavely Museum and then wrote a News Article. (And attached on Google Classroom)
September 28-October 2nd, 2020
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September 28th, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 11 and responded to questions about the setting.
Writing - We continued working on our "Suspense Writing Prompt". Pay attention to only giving the reader small pieces of information at a time to build suspense.
September 29th, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 12 and discussed how the current setting impacted Charlie.
Writing - We continued working on our "Suspense Writing Prompt". If you are ready to begin typing it on the computer, think about what suspenseful details you can add. Check out the words on the handout.
September 30th, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 13 and discussed how we visualized the story in our heads, including the atmosphere of both the settings Charlie was in.
Writing - We continued working on our "Suspense Writing Prompt". If you are ready to begin typing it on the computer, think about what suspenseful details you can add. Check out the words on the handout.
October 1st, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 14 and discussed "Cause and Effect".
Writing - We continued working on our "Suspense Writing Prompt" and watched a video to get ideas of how else to build suspense into out writing.
October 2nd, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 15 and discussed why she is still making her wishes even after finding Wishbone.
Writing - We continued working on our "Suspense Writing Prompt" and attached it to Google Classroom (for me to look over - over the weekend). We will work on Editing and Revising next week.
October 5th - 8th, 2020
October 5th, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 16 and discussed how things may have gone differently at the end of Chapter if Charlie were with Howard.
Writing - We continued working on our "Suspense Writing Prompt" and focused on a conclusion. We also discussed the Polar Expressions writing contest that students may wish to enter a short story or poem into.
October 6th, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 17 and discussed how our predictions from yesterday related to todays chapter.
Writing - We continued working on our "Suspense Writing Prompt" and focused on rereading our writing and separating our writing into distinct paragraphs.
October 7th, 2020
Novel Study - We answered questions on Google Classroom for Chapters 15-17.
Writing - We continued working on our "Suspense Writing Prompt" and made sure to reread our writing and separate our writing into distinct paragraphs.
October 7th, 2020
Today was a ketchup day. There is a list names in Mrs. Guittons room for next week.
We also continued working on our Suspense writing.
October 13th - 16th, 2020
October 13th, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 18 and discussed whether we feel Charlie's wish may still change and why.
Writing - We continued working on our "Suspense Writing Prompt" and focused on Editing and Revising.
October 14th, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 19 and discussed what Howards wish might be.
Writing - We continued working on our "Suspense Writing Prompt" and focused on what a paragraph looks like.
October 15th, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 20 and discussed the difference between Charlies expectations of seeing her sister and what the reality was.
Writing - We continued working on our "Suspense Writing Prompt" and focused on what a paragraph looks like,
October 19th - 22nd, 2020
October 19th, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 21 and discussed the character Jackie.
Writing - We read a poem as a class and then students chose 1 of the provided "Fall/Spooky" Poems to read in groups. We looked at theme (what the poem is about) along with what patterns or "elements of poetry" are in the different poems. We began sharing our group poems with the class.
October 20th, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 22 and discussed what may have happened different in the chapter had things ended differently at the end of dinner.
Writing - We finished reviewing the four poems from yesterday, looking at theme (what the poem is about) along with what patterns or "elements of poetry" are in the different poems, and spooky description. After we made a list of spooky words in the poems and that we could think of to use in our poems later this week.
October 21st, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 23 and discussed whether Charlie ever realized what Jackie had told her at the end of the Chapter.
Grammar - We learned about synonyms, antonyms, and homophones. Watch the video, complete the quiz, and you will have a booklet to work on when you get back (unless a sibling was able to bring it home for you)
October 22nd, 2020
Novel Study - We read chapter 23 and discussed whether Charlie ever realized what Jackie had told her at the end of the Chapter.
Grammar - We learned about synonyms, antonyms, and homophones yesterday. Watch the video, complete the quiz. We have worked to finish Lesson 1-2.
October 26th - 30th, 2020
October 26th, 2020
Novel Study - We worked on Comprehension questions for Wish. They are for Chapters 21-23 (page 8) on Google Classroom.
Writing - We watched a video on Elements of Poetry and picked out these elements in a couple poems we read in class. We then thought of a spooky topic and began writing our own poem.
November 9th-10th, 2020
November 9th, 2020
Novel Study - We made predictions on how the story will end and finished the novel. After we began a story sketch of the book.
L.A. - We read the story Sergeant Billy last week and have started researching ONE animal that was used in the war. Today we started working on presenting our findings.
November 16th-20th, 2020
November 16th, 2020
Novel Study - We finished our story sketch and then completed a question on Google Classroom about Wish. When finished we discussed "book trailers" for Wish.
November 17th, 2020
Novel Study - We watched a book trailer and brainstormed what Key Details we could include in our own Book Trailer for Wish. We recorded our ideas on a graphic organizer.
November 18th, 2020
Novel Study - We reviewed what details we could include in our book trailer. After finishing out storyboard template we began work on our Google Slide "Book Trailer". Please attach your document to Google Classroom.
November 19th, 2020
Novel Study - We continued working on our "Book Trailer". Please attach your document to Google Classroom.
November 23rd - 27th, 2020
November 23rd, 2020
Novel Study - We are working on finishing our "Book Trailer". Please attach your document to Google Classroom.
Writing - We watched a video on friendly letters and then started our own friendly letter to Charlie from Wish. We wrote it from the perspective of if we were sending it to her near the start of the book.
November 24th, 2020
Novel Study -This is our last class to finish our "Book Trailer". Please attach your document to Google Classroom if you haven't already!
Writing - We watched a video on friendly letters yesterday and then started our own friendly letter to Charlie from Wish. Go back and ensure you have date, salutation, body and signature!
What different things might you include in your letter?
November 25th, 2020
Novel Study - At the end of class, find someone at home to share you Book Trailer at! (11:40ish)
Writing - Today is the last day "in class" to work on Letters. To start the class we shared some of the things we wrote about in our friendly letters to Charlie.
After, (11:15) we reviewed "Story Maps" and began writing a short story outline, focussing on introducing the characters and plot. Check out the plot generator for more ideas.
November 26th, 2020
FINAL DAY FOR POEMS - SUBMIT ONLINE/MAIL BY TOMORROW
Read - Read for 20 minutes and then find someone at home to share what is happening in your book with.
Don't have a book? Check out Epic books. Login info on Google Classroom.
Writing - Continue working on your Short story. Review you plot map before starting/continuing writing.
Make sure that your introduction include background information (characters & setting).
November 30th - December 4th, 2020
See Google Classroom for each days tasks.
December 7th-11th, 2020
Monday:
ELA - today we learned about "Figures of Speech". We completed a page on Similes before talking about how we could add figures of speech to our own writing. For the rest of the class we worked on our Short Stories (due Friday).
Tuesday:
ELA - today we reviewed "Figures of Speech" - Similes and Metaphors. We completed a pages on Similes and metaphors before talking about how we could add more figures of speech to our own writing. For the rest of the class we worked on our Short Stories (due Friday).