Here is what is happening for the week of Jan. 14-18, 2019

 

 WRITERS' WORKSHOP AND GRAMMAR

Monday:  Periods:  Continue writing lesson "School Uniforms--What is your opinion?" Use graphic organizer from packet  "I Moustashe Your Opinion" packet pp. 3-4 & begin writing rough drafts; work Lesson #7 spelling contracts 

Tuesday:  ALL CLASSES: complete rough drafts & final copies of "School Uniforms--What is your opinion?";  Intro using commas in sentences--

Wednesday:    ALL CLASSES: 20 minute opinion writing prompt  with sharing time;  spelling complete contract & review game 

Thursday:   All Classes: Spelling--Lesson 11 spelling test and contract due today;  

 

Friday: New Spelling List & contract--Lesson #12;  RACER WRITING--based on an Martin Luther King article;  students will respond/write an answer to a question from story packet using the RACER format 

 

 

SPELLING LISTS 

 

LESSON 11 VCCV Pattern   Spelling Test & Contract  January 17, 2019

List A:  bargain, journey, pattern, arrive, object, suppose, shoulder, permit, sorrow, tunnel, subject, custom, suggest, perhaps, lawyer, timber, common, publish, burden,, scissors,  narrate, mentor, attempt, collide, survive

LIST B:  bargain, journey, pattern, arrive, object, suppose, shoulder, permit, sorrow, tunnel, subject, custom, suggest, perhaps, lawyer, timber, common, publish, burden, scissors

LIST C:  bargain, journey, pattern, arrive, object, suppose, shoulder, permit, sorrow, tunnel

 

LESSON 12 

 

SCIENCE  

Text:  

CHAPTER:      

TOPIc:   Planets, Stars, & Galaxies    

  

MONDAY: Switch Units Groups--Ms. Kinnunen's Homeroom   Begin "Take a Look at Light Years"  "Part 1 Measuring Madness"  p. 11 of RANGER RICK'S NATURE SCOPE ASTRONOMY ADVENTURES  

TUESDAY:  Continue "A Rocket to the Sun" Part 2 pp. 11-12 of RANGER RICK'S NATURE SCOPE ASTRONOMY ADVENTURES 

 WEDNESDAY:  Bill Nye Science Guy "Outer Space" Video  and questionnaire

THURSDAY:  Students will use a model to compare size and distance of the Earth, Sun and Moon from each other "How Big and Far Away Are Objects in Space?"  pp. 3-4 of "5th Grade Space Bundle" TEACHERSPAYTEACHERS.COM

FRIDAY:  Continue with "Scale Model of Size and Distance" pp.  5-6 of "5th Grade Space Bundle"