Thursday

Week 6

Thursday

 Good Morning!

GET OUT YOUR PURPLE NOTEBOOKS and HOMEWORK!

MORNING ROTATIONS

Week 6

Monday

 Good Morning!

GET OUT YOUR PURPLE NOTEBOOKS and HOMEWORK!

MORNING ROTATIONS

Mini Lesson: Today I want you to spent time building stamina as partners. I want you to work and read with your partner to read to your partner and stop after one page then ask your partner to check for understanding. You can do this by asking them to Tell you what they heard.

This will do two things it will help you learn to ask questions, check for understanding and help lock the sequence of this chapter in your head.

Guided Practice: I am going to have two partners model this for us so we can see how to do it correctly.

Independent Practice: Read chapter 2 of food chain frenzy with a partner

Calendar MatH

MatH

Mini Lesson: So we have been working very hard on learning to label and convert fractions to decimals, addding and subtracting decimals and understanding how to represent whole numbers with decimals in writing, and pictures. So now we are going to learn how to identify and complete the operations of estimate and exact.

Guided practice:

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/v/estimation-with-decimals

Some times we need estimates of decimals and sometimes we need exact answers and we need to be able to determine the difference.

Anchor Chart- tree map of differences

Independent Practice:  Estimate and exact worksheet

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RECESS

Shared Reading 10 min

Mini Lesson: Read it as a group. Choral reading, Interactive Reading Guided: We Are Kids

 Reading Workshop

Mini Lesson:  

“Readers, looking at our books with the lens of power leads to all sorts of new thinking. When we investigate who has power, what form power takes (how you see it), and how power changes, that helps us find huge meanings in books.”

Guided Practice:   Today we will create an anchor chart to make our #2 ( Look at the title of the passage 2 sentences to support, explain why they gave the passage that title and #10  Summarize the passage in 4-6 sentences answers stronger. Read How ali BaBa Got his name pg 44. If we chart the characters who the power we begin to understand the authors purpose and we can better summarize.  What do you notice is happening who has the power. Go back re read the title . Let’s make a prediction about this title. And lets create a topic sentence for our summary based on the exchange of power.

Independent Practice: Now I want you to apply this skill to your passage response. Go back and think about the power in the story. Revise or begin writing your answers.

Word Study

Color back cut words and be ready to sort by the time the song is over

http://bit.ly/n52oGl

Open Sort, Explain sorts on over head

Writing Workshop 

Mini Lesson:   Today we are going to add a big piece to our reading knowledge and our  writing skills. We are going to learn how to find and use metaphors and more specifically  similies. So first we will define them on an Anchor chart and then we will listen for them. Metaphor and simile are quite different, but are commonly confused simply because they are so very similar in nature.  This chapter is aimed at clearing up at least some of the confusion, if not the entire sum of the confusion!  As you read on, you'll learn why these two are so similar, and how to clearly separate the two. First, have a look at the  following two examples. A good book is like a good meal. A simile suggesting that a book may be as ( mentally) nourishing and satisfying as a meal. A wire is a road for electrons.     A metaphor suggesting that electrons actually do use a wire as a road to travel on. If I had said above that  "a book is food for thought" rather than "a good book is like a good meal", I would not simply be comparing food and literature, but actually stating that from some perspective they are identical. If I am an avid reader, who hungers for information to digest, gleaning every detail to feed my insatiable appetite for brain candy, literature is not only similar  to food for me - it is food.  A simile - or to be like something - is to retain some irresolvable difference which means one can never fully  substitute for the other. On the other hand, a metaphor actually is a substitution - it is an equation in principle.  Guided Practice: http://books.google.ca/books?id=pxm3X8yR8UkC&lpg=PP1&pg=PT6#v=onepage&q&f=false

Science

Mini Lesson: As science writers we need to not only write in detail but we need to include other elements to help our readers understand what is going on

considering cause and effect, comparing and contrasting, evaluating,

drawing inferences.

Guided Practice:  Let’s look at our picture and try to find a cause and effect we could write about. Let’s try to find a compare and contrast as well

Page 5 17 or 19 in text

  Turn and talk  Share out

Independent practice: Go back and read your ecosystem page and tell me if you are using extreme details

   

Social Studies 

AGENDAS

Reading – Check how many pages read in agenda 

Science-- Partner Check each others work  attach homework cards

Lang Arts	Chose 1 word from the book you are reading and create 5 antonyms
Math	Multiplication Review
Science	Write 4 sentence to compare and contrast 2 living things on page 5 of your text book
Social S
Writing
Word  S	Practice book page 29

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Calendar MatH

MatH

Mini Lesson: Last week was exciting we learned about whole numbers with decimals and we began to understand how to write numbers into the decimals. So let’s reveiw that skill again and try to strengthen our strategies and understanding by making a relationship between  fraction and decimals.

Guided practice: So I want you to look at this question and see if you can find a strategy to figure it out and label it.

Independent Practice: Mac Market. Today I want you to take out your math notebook and you are going to select 10 items from Mac Market and convert them into written form.

Challenge Round the decimals

http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/decimals/v/rounding-decimals

RECESS

Shared Reading 10 min

Unit of Study: Preamble of the Constitution

Mini Lesson: Last we were reading the preamble for fluency today we are going to read it for understanding. So we are going to use some representations to help us build understanding Guided: We Are Kids

 Reading Workshop

Mini Lesson: “When we read novels, and specifically when we study texts really closely, we are looking at (I held up a giant question mark) ...We are looking at ...some­thing.And here is the thing.No one can tell you, as a reader, what to look at, what to notice, what to think.One reader and another will tend to notice similar things about what is happening in the story—about the plot. but each reader brings his or her own meaning to the story, and to do that, we let different parts reverberate in our lives. Each one of us is the author of our own reading.”

Guided Practice: Let’s create an anchor chart today that will help us remember that when we are doing a passage response we need to understand the you need to take from the text what you need and we  all have different answers. Part to whole map  question 3 response

Read aloud “ The Surprise” pg 40

Main idea

Independent Practice; Read passage and answer questions

Word Study

Introduce new word study words.

Teacher sort

Practice book page 28

Do first 3 the rest is for homework

Writing Workshop 

Unit of Study: Personal Narrative Mini Lesson:” Today I want you to go back and look at every adjective you used in  your writing and ask yourself, Is this the most powerful adjective is the another  adjective that is a synonym that may mean the same and give more power to my writing”  Adjective Video http://bit.ly/oXEBBg Guided Practice: Let’s look at a passage and see if we can find an adjective that we  may want to change. ( MY life Alfredo Balthazar Independent Practice: Go back and re read your piece and find and edit or revise  adjectives. If you are having trouble then have a friend read your work and  decide where to add more powerful adjectives.

 LUNCH

Science

Mini Lesson: We are science and information writers so we need to stop and develop our observational skills writing. So we are going to practice this skill today.

One kind of writing is observational writing—they will record in extreme detail all

that they observed while studying a primary document or drawing from the time period.

Guided Practice: We are going to get 3 minutes to write in extreme detail what we see.

Page 5  17 or 9 in Science Text

 Share out  I noticed I see

Independent practice: Go back and read your ecosystem page and tell me if you are using extreme details.

   

Social Studies 

Mini Lesson; Constitution day

Today we are working on the Constitution of the United states preamble. We are going to draw inferences to create meaning of the preamble.

Guided practice: Interactive choral response

Independent work: Today I want you to take on piece and illustrate and explain what it means to you living in America today. You can give an example if you like.

AGENDAS

Reading – Check how many pages read in agenda

Lang Arts	Passage response
Math	Rw  113
Science
Social S	Complete Preamble worksheet
Reading	Read Ar book 20 min Right down number of pages read
Writing
Word  S	Practice book page 28