Planning for next week

Spelling

• Sort 19: Long -a patterns in accented syllables
• Monday: Word Sort
• Homework: Write words in Planner, Write words three times each
• Tuesday:
• Homework: Sentences 1-12
• Wednesday:
• Homework: Sentences 13-24
• Thursday:
• Homework: Word Pyramids
• Friday: Spelling Test

Writing: Persuasive Writing

• Tuesday:
• Anchor Chart: Writing Stems
• Wednesday:
• Graphic Organizer
• Model how to fill out a graphic organizer
• Prompt: Should the school day be extended? 
• Homework: Submit graphic organizer for topic check
• Thursday:
• Work on graphic organizer
• Homework: Submit graphic organizer for editing

Math:

• Monday: 
• Fractions Test
• Slight introduction to mixed numbers
• What is a mixed number?
• Math antics video?
• Repeat the demonstration
• Tuesday:
• Mixed Numbers
• Concrete: Pattern Blocks 
• Need to use the document camera
• Write the definitions in math notebook
• A mixed number has a part that is a whole and a part that is a fraction of a whole.  
• Groups:
• Pattern block practice
• Wednesday:
• Improper Fractions
• Representation: Chart in notebook: Mixed #, Picture, Improper Fraction
• Thursday:
• Converting from mixed numbers to improper fractions
• Algorithm: MAD Anchor Chart

• Stations: Complete more examples on your chart. 
• Friday: 
• Poster Math: Sandwich Problem

Next Week:

• Homework for converting between mixed numbers and improper fractions

Reading: Visualizing

• Comprehension Connections: Bridges to Strategic Reading
• Pages 89-102
• Monday: 
• Mini Lesson: What is visualization
• Anchor Chart Thinking Stems
• Toilet Paper Roll Tubes with interesting items around the room.
• Tuesday: Mini Lesson: Visualization
• Model while reading The Little Mouse, The Red Ripe Strawberry, and THE BIG HUNGRY BEAR
• Wednesday: Music 4.8.2 Interpret aural musical examples using dance, drama, art, or writing. 
• Listen to a piece of music and draw your visualizations. 
• (I used Music 4.8.4 Sing songs to support learning in another discipline outside the arts such as creating new verses for “Weevily Wheat” using additional multiplication tables, or reading The Drinking Gourd by F.N. Monjo and learning the song, “Follow the Drinkin’ Gourd.” during my IMPACT project)
• Stations
• Comparing Visualizations Sheet
• Miss Lynch Guided Reading
• Monday: Blackout
• Tuesday+: Creating Pictures in your Mind and A Rainy Day Rescue
• Various passages of poetry for students to draw their visualizations using Mental Images Sheet. I might switch to Adapting Mental Images Sheet later in the unit.
• Rainbow Crow?      
• Inferring text
• Word Sort (options 1 and 2) (copy front and back)
• Story Board Summary
• (Rhyming Poetry) Fluency: You'll Read to Me, I'll read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together
• Cinderella, Little Red Hen, Billy Goats Gruff
• Read it once in your mind, once together, and once while taking turns
• Boggle
• Summarize and respond to reading
• Handwriting?
• Computers

Reading: Poetry

• Awesome Classroom Website about Teaching Poetry
• Thursday: Poetry: 
• Read aloud: Opening Days: Sports Poems
• song?
• Friday: Poetry: 
• Read Aloud: Walt Witman?
• Langston Hughes?

Extra Books:

• Emily Dickinson
• Figurative Language and how it works with poetry?
• Somewhere in the World Right Now
• Edgar Allan Poe

 Social Studies

• Monday: 
• Unit 1: Lesson 4: Pages: 34-38, 39 
• Homework: Page 7
• Due: Famous Hoosier Selection Choices and Visit Indiana Poster
• Tuesday:
• 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. 
• Wednesday:
• Unit 1: Lesson 6
• Music 4.9.3 Identify and experience music of renowned musicians throughout Indiana history.
• I have a YouTube playlist that goes with this. I already played Joshua Bell for the students. I also have a famous guitarist and the Jackson 5 on the playlist.  
• Thursday: 
• Review Day 
• Homework: Pg. 14-15
• Friday:
• Unit Test