Agenda: February 27-March 2

Vocabulary words: Chapters 5-8
flounder
animosity
ailment
disdain
vulgar
jubilant
blunder
zephyr
comrade
feeble

Quiz: Friday, March 2

MONDAY: SSR/CHARACTERIZE
Students will finish chapter 5-6 in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Vocabulary foldable activity. Foldables will be homework if not finished during class.

TUESDAY: SSR/VISUALIZE
Students will read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, chapters 7-8.

WEDNESDAY: SSR/QUESTION
Vocabulary review game
Group discussion of story
Chapters 9-10 of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

THURSDAY: SSR/PREDICT
Vocabulary Bowl: a review game of vocabulary words taken from the text of Tom Sawyer.

FRIDAY: Vocabulary quiz
Chapters 11-12 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Reading logs due!

IMPORTANT DATES TO REMEMBER!
Wednesday, March 7: rough draft of book report due

Agenda: February 21-24

TUESDAY: SSR/PREDICT
Students will have a review session over the vocabulary words used in chapters 1-4, taken from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
Students will continue reading chapters 3-4 (pages 26-50)

WEDNESDAY: SSR/CONNECT
Smartboard activity with the vocabulary words.
Semicolon and colon review on the quizdom.
Discussion of chapters 1-4

THURSDAY: SSR/QUESTION
Vocabulary quiz
Listen to chapters 5-6

FRIDAY: SSR/CHARACTERIZE
Students will continue listening to chapters 5-6.

BOOK TALK: Friday, February 24. Please remind your child to have the assigned book read by this day.

Agenda: February 13-16

Vocabulary: Taken from the book, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
perplexed
vexed
loathed
melancholy
dilapidated
absurd
deluge
edifice
ambition
tedious

A handout was given to students to review these words.
Quiz: Thursday, February 23

MONDAY: SSR/QUESTION

• rough drafts to for book reports. We will be typing the final copy in the computer lab tomorrow.


• introduce vocabulary taken from Tom Sawyer


• listen to chapters 1 and 2 to better understand dialect Students will not be allowed to take these book out of the classroom due to the limited amount of texts that I possess. Reading will be done in class only. If a student is absent, he/she may check out a book from me to catch up on their reading.

TUESDAY: NO SSR

• computer lab for typing of book reports

WEDNESDAY: SSR/CONNECT

• computer lab for typing of book reports


• book reports due at the end of the hour

THURSDAY: SSR/VISUALIZE

• reading logs due today


• finish reading up to chapter 5 (in class work)

Reminders:

NO SCHOOL ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17 AND 20.

ENJOY THE LONG WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Agenda: February 6-10

Progress Reports were sent home with students on Friday, Feb. 3
Computer Matches sold at lunch for $1 each
Job Shadow essay due: Friday, February 10.

Rough draft to book report: Monday, February 13.

Volleyball season begins Thu., Feb 9.

Box Tops for Education, last collection, Feb. 10th.
No School for students Feb. 17-20th
Booktalk Feb. 24th
All School Dance 6:30-8:30, Feb. 24th

MONDAY: PERFORMANCE TESTING IN THE LIBRARY

TUESDAY: PERFORMANCE TESTING IN THE LIBRARY

WEDNESDAY: PERFORMANCE TESTING IN THE LIBRARY

THURSDAY: SSR/VISUALIZE

Mad libs part of speech activity: students will be creating stories based on using certain parts of speech. This is a review of the basic parts of speech (noun, pronoun, adverb, adjective, preposition)

FRIDAY: SSR/PREDICT

JOB SHADOW ESSAYS DUE!

Students will have the entire hour to read for their book report or book talk book. Rough draft of the book report may be worked on as well.

Students may bring a blanket or pillow to use as they are reading. Hot chocolate and cookies will be served!!!!