Thursday, May 7, 2015

To avoid fines [and drooled-on shoes], return any classroom books you may have by May 15.]

Last time students handed in their Lewis and Clark Internet Worksheet and their Brochures.

Pick up your folder, make sure you have reading materials, and be seated.

Activity 1. Individual Reading Time and Fill in Your Reading Log

On most class days we will have some quiet individual reading time at the beginning of class. Bring a book to read or borrow something from the teacher's shelves.

Don't forget to fill out your reading log every time. It counts on your grade!

If you're absent, or don't fill out your log, pick up a pink make-up sheet and do the homework.

Leave your reading log and fluency graph in your folder.

Activity 2. Partner Fluency Practice and fill out your fluency graph

Use the passage for today: #613  All That Glitters

Fill out the date, passage number, and your words per minute.

Activity 3. Review

A. Recognizing an internal text structure


B. Mnemonics

Rhymes:

"In fourteen hundred and ninety-two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue."
"I before E, except after C, or when sounds like A, as in neighbor or weigh."
Five Freedoms in the First Amendment

"Speakin' of freedoms, oh what could they be
Freedom of Religion and Assembly,
Freedom of Petition and Freedom of Press,
Freedom of Speech, now don't distress."

Acronyms: BICUM  = 

Acronyms: NASA  = National Aeronautics Space Administration

Acronyms: SCUBA  = Self-Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

Acronyms: HOMES = 

The Five Great Lakes = Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior

Acronyms: FACE = The space notes in the treble clef = F, A, C, E

Acronyms: ROY G. BIV = The colors of the rainbow = 

Acronyms: SKILL = 

Organs in the excretory system = skin, kidneys, intestines, liver, lungs 

Acrostics: 

The categories in the classification of life are Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family,Genus, Species, Variety = Kings Play Cards On Fairly Good Soft Velvet.

Every Good Boy Does Fine = 

lines of the treble clef

Acrostics:  Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally = 

order of operations

My Very Elegant Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas =

 = the Planets in Our Solar System

Other Types of Mnemonics
Mini-Stories:
Songs:  Did you use a song to learn the counties of Utah?
Picture Links: You could use this for vocabulary
Peg System:   Peg System for Memorization

Peg System for Memorizing The Bill of Rights for extra credit

Loci System: Select a place you know well

Activity 4. Begin Study Reading 

for the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Find the article on Pioneer Library:
Go to http://afjh.alpineschools.org/
Look under Resources.
Find PIONEER ONLINE LIBARY.

Log into the Library with Pioneer and Discover.

Go to World Book, Student, and look up Lewis and Clark Expedition.

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