Updates for the Week of Jan 27- Jan 30

Reading

Guiding Question: How do weather patterns affect our lives?

Texts: "Eye of the Storm", "Sever Weather Safety", the National Weather Service Website

Skills: Cause/Effect, Monitoring for understanding

Spelling: Compound Words

Grammar: Past, Future Tense

Tasks:

1. Summarize the causes and effects of hurricanes.
2. Write a summary of the tasks, risks and rewards that Warren and other storm chasers experience when they record dangerous weather.
3. How does the author's use of various text features and photographs help you understand the life of a storm chaser?
4. Write a review of one of the texts to evaluate how well the author used text features to support their main idea and supporting details.

PCR- Should Warren chase hurricanes?  In a well-organized paragraph, state your opinion (claim) and support your ideas with information from both "Eye of the Storm" and the National Weather Service website.

Social Studies

Black History Month Group Posters

Students are continuing to work together to reflect and report on the achievements and societal contributions of various African Americans as well as constitutional amendments.  They will artistically display their projects in the display case in our school's front lobby.

Updates for the Week of Dec 1-5, 2014

Shenandoah National Park and Luray Caverns Field Trip this Friday (7:30-5:00pm)

Reading- Begin Unit 2 (Patterns in Nature), determining the importance of information when determining the main ideas of a text.  Guiding question: How do patterns in nature change things around us?

Spelling- Contractions Pretest

Social Studies- Landforms (Shenandoah Mountains and Luray Caverns)

Weekly Updates: Nov 10-14, 2014

Parent Conferences - Tuesday
Report Cards - Friday

Reading- How do we analyze non-print texts?  Elements of a Story (Literary Text), Literary Theme, drawing inferences, Genre: Fables.  Print Text: "The Tiger and the Fox" a chinese fable, Non-Print Text: "The Tiger and the Fox" video.  We will be comparing and contrasting the print and non-print texts.

Language Arts- Analytic Writing: Comparing and Contrasting the video version of a story to the written version.

Weekly Updates- November 5-7, 2014 (Short Week)

Reading- Finish Why Park Conservation is important essays

Writing- Writer's Workshop (Selecting and Drafting personal narratives about "A Time I Will Never Forget")

Social Studies- Integrated in reading focus for the week

Weekly Updates October 27-31, 2014

Wednesday, October 29, 2014 - MUST #1 county wide quarterly reading assessment

Friday, October 31, 2014 - 2 hr early dismissal for students and the last day of 1st quarter


Reading- Continue researching for essay: Why Park Conservation is Important, drafting park conservation essay using multiple texts (sources), main ideas and supporting details

Language Arts- Long U spelling test thursday, October 30, 2014, complex sentences, writer's workshop- selecting and drafting personal narratives (Topic: A Time I Will Never Forget)

Social Studies: National Parks and Park Conservation

Letters Home from Yosemite Computer Center Activity

Computer Center

Click the link below to take a guided walk through a national park and identify the different types of trees you find.  When you have completed the interactive activity click the purple "Start Over" button in the bottom left corner of the screen and return to your seat where you can finish your main idea/supporting detail chart for "Letters Home from Yosemite".


Click this link --------> A Walk In the Forest: ID a Tree

Weekly Overview 10/20-10/24

Reading- How do we synthesize across texts? (Main Ideas and Details, Summarizing)

Language Arts - Writer's Workshop; Selecting: Deciding What to Publish and Drafting your Personal Narratives,  Spelling pattern: Long u sound, Clauses and Complex Sentences

Social Studies: Review of Cities, Countries, Continents Project, Regions of the United States