Planning for Next Week (for Me)

ISTEP+ Week

Writing: 

• Monday:
• Read personal narratives out loud or move from table to table- everyone shares
• Tuesday:
• Inferring Prompts (Page 2) 
• Thursday:
• Persuasive Writing
• Mini Lesson:
• Anchor Chart: What is persuasive writing?





• I learned that I cannot draw an Oreo. It was tough finding enough space to fit all of the parts of both of the graphic organizers into one anchor chart, but I'm still happy with how it turned out. 
• Use this graphic organizer
• Read Aloud: The Pigeon Needs a Bath Book
• Friday
• Persuasive Writing
• Mini Lesson: How to Persuade
• Read Aloud: The first few pages of Can I Have a stegosaurus
• Examples of persuasive writing
• Continue Graphic Organizer

Special Area: 

• Monday: Computer Lab
• Tuesday: Library, ISTEP+
• Wednesday: Music
• Thursday: Art, ISTEP+
• Friday: Gym

Math: 

• Monday: 
• Review Factors and Multiples (in notebook): Review what they talked about
• Anchor Chart:

• Concrete: Hands-on Array with counters/blocks/graph paper
• Students created the arrays that we assigned. They used dry erase markers to label the table around the model. They took pictures of their models. 
• Homework: Find the factors for 12, 16, 18, 20, and 30. 
• Groups:
• Teachers: Representative: Draw the arrays. Explain that the numbers on the outside are the factors of the total number of blocks. 
• Stations: Work on the prime and composite number sheet
• Tuesday:
• Array City We are using black buildings and yellow windows. Each group of 3 will get a number and each student has to show another way to show the number. 
• 12,  16, 18, 20, 30










• Tuesday Homework: 
• Math Workbook
• Page 2, color composite numbers on this worksheet 
• Wednesday Homework: Finish your array if it is not finished by Wednesday. 
• Wednesday: 
• GCF & LCM
• Anchor Chart

• Finish Array City
• Teacher Groups: Choosing GCF & LCM on whiteboards
• Thursday: Reteaching equivalent fractions: Multiples and Factors
• Groups:
• Station: Use dice to create fractions to create equivalent fractions of with a partner. 
• Teacher: Create equivalent fractions. 
• Homework: Workbook
• Friday: 
• Poster Math
• Sandwich Problem

Reading:

• Monday: 
• Mini Lesson: Making Inferences
• Anchor Chart

• Read Aloud: Officer Buckle and Gloria
• Stations:
• Investigation station:
• Set up a crime scene
• Inference Items
• Mystery Decks
• Inference Cards
• Working with Words: Black Out with this passage: The Monster in the Barn
• Inference Game
• 2 Minute Mysteries
• Graphic Organizers?
• My teacher: Guided Reading
• Me: Guided Reading
• Lowest Groups: Babe Ruth and The Nest
• Highest Groups: Guiding Reading and Comprehension while they read Because of Winn Dixie and Tales of a 4th Grade Nothing
• Tuesday:
• No Reading today!
• Wednesday: 
• Mini Lesson: Mysteries
• Thursday:
• Mini Lesson: Visualization
• Anchor Chart: What is visualization?
• Comparing Visualizations Sheet
• Mental Images Sheet
• Adapting Mental Images Sheet
• Friday: 
• Mini Lesson:
• Visualize a piece of music, draw what you hear/feel?
• Visualize a few pages from a story. 

Social Studies: 

• Tuesday: 
• Unit 1: Lesson 4: Pages: 34-38, 39 
• Homework: Page 7
• Wednesday:
• Unit 1: Lesson 5: Pages: 44-49, 50-51 
• Homework: Page 11-12, maybe 10 as well, but I do not like page 10 as much. I'm only considering it because it talks about diverse people, which may hit home with some of my students. 
• Thursday:
• Unit 1: Lesson 6
• Friday: 
• Review Day 
• Homework: Pg. 14-15
• Monday:
• Unit Test

Events/Reminders:

• Monday: 
• Tuesday: Madison's Birthday, ISTEP+
• Wednesday:
• Thursday: ISTEP+
• Friday: Miss Reed will not be with us. 

Duty: 

• Monday:  Detention
• Tuesday:
• Wednesday:
• Thursday:
• Friday: