Planning for This Week

Morning Work:

• I generally check next to the printer for ideas, but I am in the process of looking up more pieces of morning work. I pass this out every evening before I go home. 
• Monday: Cut apart word work words, Mixed math facts sheet
• Tuesday: Multiplication sheet
• Wednesday: Write to a short prompt. Tell me about one thing that you are looking forward to this week. Why are you looking forward to it?
• Thursday: Cursive Spelling Words: Spelling City
• Friday: Study for the spelling test. 

Word Work/Spelling

• Sort 18
• Homework:
• Monday: Write words in planner and three times each. 
• Tuesday: Sentences 1-12
• Wednesday: Sentences 13-24
• Thursday: Word Sort
• Friday: Test

Writing

• Tuesday-Wednesday:
• Finish Personal Narrative
• Free Choice Prompt
• Look up a few back-up prompts
• Do you want to take the ISTEP+ test? Why of why not?
• Write about a song
• SS Writing Prompt from the homework book
• Thursday:
• Write about the picture: I used images from my Pinterest board about images for writing to create a Microsoft Word document which has 2 images per page. I made a second page that can be used for an inference station or for next Tuesday's writing.
• I would love to designate an area for students to place their completed work for others to read. I could create a sign out sheet so that I can keep track of the work. This work cannot be graded when it is passed around, I could make copies of the papers that we need to grade and that the students want to be available to others. 

Math: Comparing and Equivalent Fractions

• Monday: Using multiplication and division to find equivalent fractions. 
• Equivalent Fractions Anchor chart. 
• Do examples on the art easel.  (Gradual Release) 
• Use white boards for practice. 
• Homework: Spiral Review (Side 1)
• Tuesday: 
• Do a few examples on the board. 
• Copy the anchor chart
• Homework: Spiral Review (Side 2), Double-sided equivalent fractions sheet: Equivalent Fractions (Page 12) and another equivalent fractions sheet. 
• Groups: I had each student find a partner or a small group to practice creating equivalent fractions with. I walked around to have each students rate their ability to create equivalent fractions on a scale of 1 (not very confident) to 5 (I fully understand this). I was surprised by how many students rated themselves as a 5. One student rated himself as a 5, but yesterday I wrote his name down as a student that I wanted to focus on. I felt good that I was right about who most of the ones were. While I walked around, I checked answers. I was glad that most of the students stayed on task without any prompting. 
• If I get to go back to groups, I would love to be able to focus on helping the 1's catch up. We lost our aide, so this may mean that I may be at the reading table with the 1's while my teacher supervises activities with everyone else. I bet that the 3's could catch up during an activity like that. I would pair each 3 with a 5. 
• Wednesday: 
• Butterfly Math Anchor Chart
• Do some problems on the board
• Use white boards for practice. 
• Groups: After most of the students seemed to really get it, I let students choose a partner to compare fractions with. They used a die to create the fractions. I helped the students who seemed to be struggling the most. If I let a student move on from my table, I put them with a group that appeared to be very competent.
• Homework: Dare to Compare (Page 14)
• Thursday: 
• Talk about how the bottom of the butterfly relates to the problem. (Common denominator). 
• Do a few examples as a class. 
• Copy anchor chart
• Repeat the group activity or break up into groups. 
• I need to see if they will be ready for a test. I wanted to get this test out of the way before ISTEP+, but I do not think that that is possible. 
• Homework: Math Aids Comparing Fractions Worksheet using digits 4-7
• Friday: Poster Math
• Fruit Salad Problem
• I am considering using Summative Assessment (Page 27) for homework on review night. 
• I really liked this packet for this unit and I know that this assessment would cover what I taught. 

Reading: Inferring

• Mini Lessons:
• Tuesday: I was going to review a past activity and then have the students interact with the content by answering questions from scenarios, but my teacher had me change my lesson. I created an anchor chart and then read Smoky Night. 
• Wednesday: Review the anchor chart. Miss Nelson is Missing and have students infer throughout the book. 
• Thursday: Sharing responses from the writing activity. (Look at this picture, what do you think is happening?) I will explain how they had to infer what was happening in the picture in order to write their story.  Anchor Chart: Inference stems  No David. The difference between predictions and inferences. 
• Friday: Review the anchor chart. 
• Stations
• Inference Riddles
• Making Inferences
• Spelling Battleship
• Computers: Reading A-Z
• Teacher Station
• My Station: I am finishing up the last resource from Main Idea and then creating a book club. 
• Backup: Inference Cards
• Backup: Hedbanz, I need to ask Mrs. Mabe if I can use her game. 
• Other Ideas:
• Investigation station:
• Set up a crime scene
• Inference Bags
• Next Step: Visualizations, could begin on Thursday or Friday. 

Social Studies: Indiana Culture

• Tuesday: Unit Pretest
• Wednesday: Unit 1: Lesson 3. 
• Lesson Activity: The activity from the homework book. (We read this section on Friday. I feel like the students will scan this lesson a little more quickly than the other section.)  
• Thursday: Visit Indiana Poster. 
• Friday: Finish Visit Indiana Poster. 
• Unit 1: Lesson 4: Pages: 34-38, 39 
• Homework: Page 7

Make a table for sharing?

Special Events:

• Monday: 
• 9:15 ISTEP+ Practice Test during Computer Time
• 1-2PM Search and Rescue Dog
• My teacher's birthday
• Tuesday: 4th Grade Team Meeting
• Wednesday: 
• 7:50AM PLC Meeting
• Thursday: 
• Dragon Store
• Friday:
• 9:15AM: During Gym Time 504 Meeting for a student

• 4/29 I will have Mrs. Cologne as a sub. The Leader in Me based off of the Steven Cubby book.