October 30th 2015

Daily Riddle:  How do you fix a Jack-O-Lantern?


Happy (day before) Halloween! I hope you all have fun at the Fall Festival today. Please settle in by attaching your polished copy documents, and the Socratic Seminar Prep to Google Classroom, then begin independent reading.


Schedule

Independent Reading (shortened)

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Socratic Seminar 
 * To enter the Socratic Seminar you need to show me (and turn into google classroom) your Socratic Seminar Prep
 * I will call up groups (these are the same groups you were in for the ACE game) 
 * As a group, we will have an 8-10 minute discussion using our Socratic Seminar Prep.

At the work tables: 

You will be reading chapters 16-20 of FTM and completing a FTM quiz ( in google classsroom). You CAN use your book!

October 29th 2015

Daily Joke/Riddle: What's the difference between a witches broomstick and a pumpkin?

Happy Thursday, one more day closer to Halloween! Today is a catch-up day! Please settle in by independent reading! 

Schedule:

Independent Reading

Brain Break

Catch Up On: 

- Polished Copy QuickWrite (due tomorrow)
 - Socratic Seminar Prep ( due tomorrow!)
- Mantis Shrimp C.R.R.A.A.P. Test 
- Freak the Mighty 13-15
- ACE Post-Asessment

If you finish all of this you can move on to chapters 16-20 of FTM!

Remember: 
Socratic Seminar and Polished Copy Quickwrite is due tomorrow!!!!!!

October 27th 2015

Daily Riddle: What do you call a Witch's garage?

                           

Happy Genius Hour! Please settle in by independent reading. We will then be discussing credible sources!


Schedule: 

Shortened Independent Reading

Mini-Lesson: 
Evalulating Sources
The C.R.R.A.A.P Test Song

Worktime: 
C.R.R.A.A.P. Test #1: The Mantis Shrimp (In Google Classroom)
The Mantis Shrimp Website


Homework:
* Read for 30 minutes
* Socratic Seminar AND Polished Copy is due FRIDAY!
* Be sure your 40 BC Tracking List is updated!

October 27th 2015

                                        

Riddle: 
What do you get when you cross a vampire and a snowman? 

Happy Tuesday! Please settle in by independent reading, or if you have not read chapters 13-15 of FTM do so now! I will call Tuesday library people up after I take attendance! We will be switching seats AFTER independent reading!!!


Schedule:
Independent Reading/FTM Chapters 13-15
Brain Break: Switching Seats
Mini-Lesson: Glow and Grow Comments
Worktime: Polished Copy and Peer Editing "One Glow, One Grow"

October 26th 2015

What road has the most ghosts haunting it?

What comes down but never goes up?

Happy Halloweek! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, please settle in by signing up for the library, then reading FTM chapters 13-15. If you have already read these chapters, you can independent read. If you have NOT finished your ACE Post-Assessment you can do so at this time!

Today we will be preparing for our Socratic Seminar!

Schedule:

Independent Reading/FTM Chapters 13-15/Post-Assessment

Mini-Lesson: Thick vs. Thin Questions

Worktime: Socratic Seminar Prep


Homework:

*Socratic Seminar worksheet is due on Friday! 
*Polished copy of QuickWrite is due Friday!

October 23rd 2015

                                   


Daily Riddles:
What starts with a T ends with a T and has T in it?
What is white when it's dirty and black when it is clean?

Supplies Needed:
Independent Reading Book
Chromebook
Pencil
ISNs (composition notebooks)
YOUR BRAIN :)

HAPPY FRIDAY! We made it through another week! Please settle in by independent reading, if you have not completed your assessment you can do so during this time! If you still need to show me your FTM dictionary, please do so AFTER I take attendance.

Schedule: 
Independent Reading ( Finish FTM chapters 11 and 12)
Mini-lesson: Editing and Revising Review
Brain Break!
Work-time: Choose a quick-write for your polished copy, and begin to edit and revise!

List of QuickWrites:
1. FTM Dictionary Quick Write
2. King Arthur/Freak Quick Write
3. Ms. Weissman Description Quick Write
4. Our opinions vs. Others' Quick Write
5. Moment you find your "greatness"

Homework: Read for 30 minutes each day, have a great weekend!

October 22nd 2015

                              
Daily Riddle: 
Little or middle or holding a gem
Always rest assured you can count on them
They help make a one should you want to boast
Their always on hand when needed the most.


Happy Thursday! Today you will finish your assessment, and we will learn how to set a MAPs reading goal!


Schedule:

Independent Reading

Mini-lesson: How to set a MAPs reading goal

Brain Break

Worktime:   
* Finish your ACE assessment
* Set your MAPs reading goal
* Read Chapter 11 and 12, if you complete this you can move on to next week's reading of 13-15!

October 21st 2015

Daily Riddle: 
There is a butcher who is six feet tall 
With a size ten shoe, his shirts are not small. 
A thirty inch waist, he runs every day
He's forty years old, so what does he weigh?



Happy Back to the Future Day! Please settle in by independent reading, we will leave for the library after I take attendance. Today is Genius Hour, and you will have plenty of time to research, but this week you willl be following a research guide!

Schedule:

Library Check Out

Mini-Lesson: Genius Hour Research Guide

Worktime: Genius Hour Research using the Research Guide

Homework: Read for 30 minutes!

October 20th 2015

Daily Riddle:
A very strong man walked into a bar
He saw a weak man smoking a cigar
"There's a wheelbarrow right outside this door"
"I wil wager you I can push it more".
"Choose what goes inside, matters not to me
"I'll push twice as far, just you wait and see."
The weak man accepts, "I'll bet a week's pay"
How'd the weak man win and what did he say? 

Welcome back! After independent reading today, you will have the ENTIRE class time to work on your post-assessment. Remember, this is not homework. You will have plenty of time to work on this in class. 

Supplies Needed for Today:
Chromebook
Freak the Mighty 
Independent Reading Book 

Schedule:
Independent Reading
ACE Post Assessment
Brain Break 
ACE Post Assessment

October 19th 2015

Daily Riddle:  
A man in all white and not very old
While wearing a hat, stood out in the cold
The sun then came out, he started to run 
But it was too late, he soon would be none. 

Happy Monday! I hope you all had a wonderful weekend! There will be no library sign up today as we will all be heading down to the library as a class to check out on Wednesday. Today, we will have our post-assessment of A.C.E.! If you do not finish today, do not worry, I will be giving time in class tomorrow to complete.

Schedule

Independent Reading/ option to practice ACE (class vote)

Brain Break

ACE Post-Assessment in google classroom


Reminder: If you are missing any assignment it is YOUR responsibility to come to me.

Homework: Read for 30 minutes!

October 16th 2015

Daily Riddle:
There are these four gents each sharing a name.
They're more often seen when playing a game.
Two have a mustache, the others wear none,
Just look at their eyes, two only have one.

Happy Friday, Grizzlies! We made it through another week! Today we will be finishing our ACE review game, however at this time you should be independently reading.

Supplies Needed:
FTM Book
Interactive Student Notebook
Independent Reading
Pencil

Schedule:

Independent Reading/ISN Check-In

Mini Lesson: Quick Write Share Round-Robin

Worktime: ACE Review Game


Have a great weekend!

Homework: Read for 30 minutes each day! Spend time outside!

October 15th 2015

Daily Riddle: Take off my skin, I won't cry-but you will! What am I?

Happy Thursday! We are one more day closer to Friday! I am not here this morning but I will be back this afternoon! I have decided that I will push our post-assessment to next week, so we will finish our review game on Friday! After independent reading, you will complete the following quick-write in your quickwrite folder in google drive:

Using your Freak the Mighty Dictionary you created in your ISN, choose at least SIX of the words from both Freak's dictionary and the unknown words and create a story. Underline the "dictionary" words. There is no length, however your story should include a beginning, middle, and end. 

When you have finished your quick-write, please get out your FTM books and read chapters 11 and 12.

Schedule:
Independent Reading
Quick-Write
Read Chapters 11 and 12

Homework: Read for 30 minutes! 

October 14th 2015

                                                    
 

Daily Riddle: 
One Sunday evening a little past five,The man of the house was found not alive.It was a murder, a knife in his back.Police questioned all about the attack.
Jan had been busy, cooking the dinner
Jill had gone running, just to get thinner.
Jane had gone outside to pick up the mail
Which one of these three would end up in jail?

Happy Genius Hour Day! Today is the day you FINALLY get to research your topics! After a quick independent reading, we will have a mini-lesson on creating a works cited page, and then the time is yours to spend researching!

Schedule:

Independent Reading

Mini-Lesson: Creating a works cited page

Work-time: Preliminary Research of your topic!!!

Homework: Create your own dictionary is due tomorrow! Read for 30 minutes!