Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Announcements and Reminders: 

• It is so easy to get your points for reading and for partner fluency practice. 
• Read during reading time.  After you read, fill out your reading log.
• Participate in partner fluency practice.  Fill out the graph with 
•      the date, the passage number (usually found in the upper right of the page), and your words per minute.  
• Both are quick and easy.
• If you have not been doing this, complete the make-up work for reading. Pick up a make-up sheet.
• Follow the directions. You need a parent signature for each twenty minutes of make-up reading you complete. 

Our Readathon will be on April 15, and you will move on to  Mrs. Fugal's class on April 17.

Reminder:  This is from the Student Handbook.
DISRUPTIVE ITEMS Items that interfere with learning and cause a disruption are not allowed at school. Items such as radios, ipods, cell phones, CD players, game boys, mp3 players, i-Pods, laser pens, hats (unless tied to a school dress-up day), bandanas, drug promoting items, matches, lighters, firecrackers, chemical devices, lewd items, squirt guns, and any other item deemed as inappropriate and disruptive are not to be brought to school. These items will be confiscated and turned in to school administration. Cell phone usage and text messaging are not allowed during school hours. The school will not be held responsible for the theft of these items.

Pick up your folder from the black crates at the back.
Get out or select reading materials for Individual Reading Time.


1. Individual Reading Time
Fill out your log afterward.


2. Partner Fluency Practice -- Use the passage you are assigned today with your assigned fluency partner.

3. You will read more about Lewis and Clark.  

     First work on your map for 10 minutes.  If your map is ready, use that time to read your choice of materials or to help other students add to their maps. 

     Finish up your map. Study it!  There will be a test!

4. More to read:  Become even more of an expert on Lewis and Clark, and add more information to your map. 

  

How is reading poetry different from reading prose?

Read and be prepared to answer questions about the reading assignment. 

    Check it off with me today.  

    You need at least 40 specific facts, placed appropriately, on your map.

My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas

Planets in our solar system

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
(Pluto) -- Not considered a planet anymore!

Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally = order of operations

Parenthesis
Exponents
Multiplication or
Division
Addition or
Subtraction

Friday, March 27, 2015

Assembly Schedule 3/27 (A Day)
1st Lunch (Second Assembly)
1st period  8:15 – 9:25
2nd period   9:30­ --10:45
Lunch 10:45 – 11:15
3rd period  11:20 – 1:30
Assembly 12:40­- 1:30 (excuse at 12:33)
4th period  1:35 – 2:45

2nd Lunch  (First Assembly)
1st period  8:15 – 9:25
2nd period  9:30­-- 10:45
3rd period 10:50 – 1:00
Assembly 11:00-­-11:50 (excuse at 10:53)
 Lunch 1:00­--1:30
4th period  1:35 --­2:45


Pick up your folder from the black crates at the back.
Get out or select reading materials for Individual Reading Time.


1. Individual Reading Time
Fill out your log afterward.


2. Partner Fluency Practice -- Use the passage you are assigned today with your assigned fluency partner.

3. Study Reading/Viewing:  Creating  a Map to Reduce and Retain


Draw Buffalo:  http://www.wedrawanimals.com/how-to-draw-a-bison/
Draw Grizzly Bear:  http://www.wedrawanimals.com/how-to-draw-a-grizzly-bear/

Thomas Jefferson






Thomas Jefferson




Clark and Lewis 




keelboat



When the expedition came to the Great Falls of Montana,

they had to portage (carry their boats and supplies) around the falls.






Lewis' dog Seaman










5. Learning by Viewing: WE WATCHED PART OF
National Geographic: Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West 41 Minutes LONG
This is available on Netflix. 


A3 to 21:09  to the end

A4 to  17:55  to the end

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Pick up your folder from the black crates at the back.
Get out or select reading materials for Individual Reading Time.

1. Individual Reading Time
Fill out your log afterward.


2. Partner Fluency Practice -- Use the passage you are assigned today with your assigned fluency partner.

3. Practice Study-Reading (Using BICUM) 

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

Link to the Quiz on Lewis and Clark that we took last time in A4.



4. After Reading: Begin creating a Map! (Reducing and Retaining)






Thomas Jefferson






Thomas Jefferson




Clark and Lewis 




keelboat



When the expedition came to the Great Falls of Montana,

they had to portage (carry their boats and supplies) around the falls.






Lewis' dog Seaman -- This is the type of dog he had.














5. Learning by Viewing: WE WATCHED PART OF
National Geographic: Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West 41 Minutes LONG


A3 to 21:09  

A4 to 17:55   

Quiz on Lewis and Clark

1. In what month and year did Lewis and Clark officially begin their expedition?
2. What "city" did they leave from?
3. What total distance did they travel?
4. What year did Thomas Jefferson become President of the United States?
5. What year did Thomas Jefferson buy the Louisiana Purchase?
6. Whom did Jefferson ask to lead the Corps of Discovery?
7. Where did Meriwether Lewis study during the summer before the expedition left?
8.  How many members of the expedition died while on the journey?
9. What was the name of the expedition's first winter camp?
10. What did Lewis and Clark send back to St. Louis in the spring?
11. How many people were in the "permanent party" -- the ones who went on the whole expedition?
12. The party had to carry their boats for 18 miles around what natural feature?
13. With which Indians did they trade for horses to use to cross the mountains?
14. When the party thought they were seeing the ocean, they were actually seeing what?
15. The expedition returned to where they had started on what date?

Monday, March 23, 2015

Welcome to Term 4!

Pick up your folder from the black crates at the back.
Get out or select reading materials for Individual Reading Time.

1. Individual Reading Time
Fill out your log afterward.


2. Partner Fluency Practice -- Use the passage you are assigned today with your assigned fluency partner.

Trade passages -- Send one partner up to get passages for both of you-- bring your page protectors.

3. Practice Study-Reading (Using BICUM) 

The Lewis and Clark Expedition

Set Study Length -- 15 to 20 minutes
You may work with a partner.


Read to the next heading.
During Reading: Be Active!
Visualize, predict, make connections, etc.




Stop at each Heading.




Check your understanding.


Use fix-up strategies if you need to.

Make notes, annotate, highlight.

Go on through the next section.

Continue on to finish the article.





Highlighting

Helpful


Not helpful





A4 --

Quiz on Lewis and Clark

4. After Reading (if time): Begin creating a Map! (Reducing and Retaining)






Thomas Jefferson






Thomas Jefferson




Clark and Lewis




keelboat



When the expedition came to the Great Falls of Montana,
they had to portage (carry their boats and supplies) around the falls.






Lewis' dog Seaman














5. Learning by Viewing: WE WATCHED PART OF
National Geographic: Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West 41 Minutes LONG

Last time --
A3 to 5:00
A4 to 5:00

Thursday, March 19, 2015

• Have you handed in your computer lab assignment and your inner voices assignments?
• Have you handed in any make-up work.  Today is the last day to hand that in so it will go on Term 3. 
• If you think you have turned something in and it is not recorded on Skyward, have you checked the no-name basket?

Ms. Dorsey is losing/has lost her voice, so she won't be doing much talking today.

Today's Agenda:

Find your new seats.

Turn in your unused hall passes.

Pick up your folder from the black crates at the back.

Get out or select reading materials for Individual Reading Time.

1. Individual Reading Time

Fill out your log afterward.

2. Partner Fluency Practice -- Use the passage you are assigned today with your assigned fluency partner.

Inside: 

Before Reading Self Check  Study Area Emotions Level of Difficulty Feeling physically  Preview Read the title. Ask: What do I know about this subject? Read the first couple of sentences and the last couple of sentences. Look for bold or italicized print. Look at charts, maps, graphs, diagrams. Select or Create  Questions Set Study Length Place check marks

During Reading Be Active "Talk" with the author or text. Visualize Predict      1) predict      2) read      3) check      4) compliment or correct Pace yourself with a pencil. Make Connections!      Text to Self      Text to Text      Text to World Stop at the 's  and Test your Understanding. Yes, I do understand. Mark and highlight text. Continue to next . Read to end of study block. No, I don't understand Use fix-up strategies: --Reread -- Read ahead -- Define unfamiliar words -- Read out loud -- Mark with "?" to clear up later

After Reading -- #1 REDUCE Post View Ask yourself -- *What did I learn from reading this? *What patterns/overall structure did I notice? *What was the overall central idea? *Do I understand it all? If not, use fix-up strategies. Answer Questions Organize for Recall (Select 1) -- make outlines -- take notes -- write summaries -- create maps

Looking at a website: 

http://allaboutexplorers.com/explorers/lewis-clark/

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/meriwether-lewis-is-shot-in-the-leg

Reading about Lewis and Clark:

Before Reading  

Self Check

Study Area

Emotions

Level of Difficulty

Feeling physically



Preview  --  

You may write and highlight in this packet.  

                   

• Read the title.
• Ask: What do I know about this subject?
• Read the headings and subheadings.
• Read the first couple of sentences and the last couple of sentences.
• Look for bold or italicized print.
• Look at charts, maps, graphs, diagrams.

Select or Create   Questions


Set Study Length  -- 15 to 20 minutes

Place check marks  -- or sticky notes.

During Reading:  Be Active!

Visualize, predict, make connections, etc.

Stop at each Heading.   

Check your understanding.

Use fix-up strategies if you need to.

Make notes, annotate.

Go on through the next section.

Continue on to finish the article. 

After Reading (if time):  Begin creating a Map! 

Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson

Clark and Lewis 

keelboat



When the expedition came to the Great Falls of Montana,
they had to portage (carry their boats and supplies) around the falls.

Lewis' dog Seaman

Clean up, then we will watch --

Learning by Viewing: WE WATCHED PART OF

National Geographic: Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West  41 Minutes LONG

 Today -- A3 TO 5:00

 A4 to 5:00

Reading a Map

What do you observe?

http://gizmodo.com/a-map-of-every-device-in-the-world-thats-connected-to-t-1628171291?utm_campaign=socialflow_gizmodo_twitter&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

Thursday, March 19, 2015

Today's Agenda:
Turn in your unused hall passes.

Pick up your folder from the black crates at the back.
Get out or select reading materials for Individual Reading Time.

1. Individual Reading Time
Fill out your log afterward.

2. Partner Fluency Practice -- Use the passage you are assigned today with your assigned fluency partner.