Tuesday, January 31, 2017

1/31/17

Please make sure that your child has their snow gear for tomorrow.  We are planning on having a snowball fight with the forts we have made from the blocks we got clearing our egress exits in the gym.

Bible:

Memory Verse - John 11:35
We played a Bible game today to help us learn our Bible books

Language Arts: Writing

Learning how to use quotation marks.  We have learned 4 basic rules to using quotation marks, and we were given 6 sentences for correct for quotation punctuation.  The students were allowed to use their quotation rules page.

They are also working on a 1/2-1 page snippet of quotations.  They are required to have a usage from each of the four rules.

Science:

Please remember to bring cardboard for our cloud identification panels.
We are learning what factors can affect an area's climate
Test Next Wednesday


Social Studies:

Simulation.  Most groups are more than halfway to the Mandan villages, and their first wintering camp.

Language Arts: Reading

We worked on our summary project for our first four chapters of The Giver

Math:

Lesson 69, all problems
Times 8 for Intermediate 5
Dividing fractions for Course 1

Language Arts: Spelling / Handwriting

Spelling - No spelling this week

Handwriting - Lesson 17 Day 2 & 3V

Monday, January 30, 2017

1/30/17

Bible:

Memory Verse - John 11:35
We played a Bible game today to help us learn our Bible books

Language Arts: Writing

We have finished our parts of speech, and this week we will be learning how to correctly punctuate quotations.  As the assessment for this section, we will be writing a 1/2 - 1 page paper of a conversation between people. This will require us to punctuate the quotations  correctly.

Science:

We began to answer #15 on our objectives, by reading page 273

Social Studies:

Lewis and Clark simulation day.  Most of the students have travelled around 500 miles although there are some stragglers.  They are halfway to their winter spot and it is toward the end of July.  Some have starved due to improper supplying, but most are doing well.  We are beginning to travel through the territory of the Yankton and Lakota Sioux.  Two groups got attacked by a grizzly bear.  Lewis and Clark are the first recorded encounter with a grizzly bear by anyone from the United States!

Language Arts: Reading

Chapter 6 of The Giver.

Math:

Lesson  68 all problems,
Times 8

Language Arts: Spelling / Handwriting

Spelling - There is no official spelling list this week. We will be working on commonly misspelled words.

Handwriting -  Lesson 17 Day 1 & 2

Thursday, January 26, 2017

1/26/17

Bible:

Memory Verse - 1 John 4:4
We read the first half of Exodus 7 today

Language Arts: Writing

Our final draft of our Free Write is due tomorrow.  We were working on our final draft and some were working on editing.

If students are wishing to type their paper at home, here is the login information for our class Google account, so they can access Google Docs:

Username: 5and6students
Password: Students

Science:

We worked on our reading for a bit longer today, and worked on getting our simulation running smoothly, so we didn't work on science today

Social Studies:

We worked on two rounds of our simulation today.  The kids are learning how much food it took to feed the Corps of Discovery, and

Language Arts: Reading

We worked on the skill of interpreting an author's foreshadowing by attempting to predict what we think will happen next in our book, The Giver.  To make a prediction, a student will have to supply some evidence from the text we have read that will support their prediction.

Math:

Lesson 66, all problems
Times 7

Language Arts: Spelling / Handwriting

Spelling - Sentences for the back side of the spelling list.

Handwriting - Lesson 16 day 4

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

1/25/17

Bible:

Memory Verse - 1 John 4:4
We played a Bible basketball game today to help us learn our Bible books

Language Arts: Writing

We are on the editing phase of the writing process.  That entails both self-editing and peer editing.  When those steps are done, it is time to write the final draft.  The final draft of this free write paper is due this Friday.
We are "playing" with Mad Libs as a way of assessing how well we know our parts of speech.  It is a fancy and fun way to quiz the kids so I can know how well they understand what we have gone over up to this point.

Science:

We are learning about weather and how to predict weather.

Social Studies:

The first round of travel in our simulation is in the books.  The students are learning about events that occurred during Lewis and Clark's journey, Native American tribes they encountered, and the never ending need for math to calculate the expenses, weight, and distance traveled during an excursion.

Language Arts: Reading

Today we read a chapter out of both The Horse and His Boy, as well as The Giver.

Math:

Lesson 65, all problems
Times 7

Language Arts: Spelling / Handwriting

Spelling - Sentences from the front side.

Handwriting - Lesson 16 Day 2&3

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

1/24/17

Bible: 


Memory Verse: 1 John 4:4
We read the first half of Exodus 6.  We are learning about how Satan works to intimidate you away from God.

Language Arts: Writing

We worked some mad libs to assess our ability to use proper parts of speech, a fun way to do a quiz.

Kids should be on editing their rough drafts for their Free write paper.  They have two steps to editing, self and peer editing.  When they are done with these steps, they then can move onto writing their final drafts.

Science:

We are learning about weather patterns and what causes weather.

Social Studies:

Official day of traveling for our little Lewis and Clark groups!

Language Arts: Reading

During Handwriting, I read to the kids out of our class book, which is The Horse and His Boy, by C.S. Lewis.

Math

Lesson 65 all problems
Times 7

Language Arts: Spelling / Handwriting

Monday, January 23, 2017

1/23/17

Bible:

Memory Verse: 1 John 4:4
We went over Exodus chapter 5 - the theme being that it is easy being a christian when the going is good, but much more difficult when the going gets tough.

Language Arts: Writing

Rough drafts of our free write were due today.  We also worked on

Science:

Due to the length of the Social Studies class and beginning our simulation, we did not have any science today.

Social Studies:

This was the first official day of our simulation.  Today the kids were trying to determine how many of each type of supply they wanted to buy.  We also discussed what some of the different items were that Lewis and Clark brought with them on their trip.

Language Arts: Reading

We read another chapter of our book, The Giver today.  We are discussing how the author is using subtle clues to let us know

Math:

Lesson 64 all problems, 7 Times tables.


Language Arts: Spelling / Handwriting 

Spelling - Pre test 17

Handwriting - Lesson 16 Day 1 & 2

Thursday, January 19, 2017

1/19/17

Bible:

Memory Verse - Proverbs 3:27
We spent today's class talking about dealing with loss and why bad things happen in this world.

Language Arts: Writing

We went over a worksheet of adverbs that modifies adjectives.
We had time to work on our drafting of our Free Write today.

Science:

We read about the different weather instruments today, and how weatherman

Social Studies:

We are beginning our simulation about Lewis and Clark. The kids have been randomly broken up into groups and today I gave them some 'recommended' vocabulary words that they should look up.  There will be benefits to their groups within the simulation if they know these word.

Language Arts: Reading

We read a chapter out of our class book, The Giver

Math:

Lesson 63, all problems
We did not times tables today.

Language Arts: Spelling / Handwriting

Spelling - Lesson 15 sentences

Handwriting - We did not get to handwriting today.

Music

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

1/18/17

Bible:

Memory Verse - Proverbs 3:27
We played a BIble game today to help us with learning our bible books

Language Arts: Writing

We had drafting time today and the students worked on a small quiz on identifying their parts of speech.

Science:

We are learning about different clouds and what weather they portend.

Social Studies:

There will be a Social Studies retake test on Friday.
We began preparing for our Lewis and Clark simulation.  Groups were  randomly chosen and each group chose their name and logo.

Language Arts: Reading

We read The Horse and His Boy in class
We are working on a worksheet in class from the first chapter of the book, The Giver.

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

1/17/17

Bible:

Memory Verse - Proverbs 3:27
We are reading the story of Moses and today we talked about the story of Zipporah and her calling Moses a bloody husband.

Language Arts: Writing

We worked on identifying our parts of speech as we worked on our adverbs on a worksheet.
I handed out a rubric so the students can see what the grading elements of this free write paper are.  We had a bit of time to work on our drafting today.

Science:



Social Studies:

We read about our first president today, George Washington, and will soon begin a simulation about Lewis and Clark!

Language Arts: Reading

I read to the kids from C.S. Lewis' book The Horse and His Boy
We worked on a

Math:

Lesson 61, all problems
6 Times tables


Language Arts: Spelling / Handwriting

Spelling - Pre Test 16

Handwriting - Lesson 15 Day 1 & 2

Thursday, January 12, 2017

1/12/17

Bible:

Memory Verse - Philippians 4:6
We learned about Moses' trip back to Egypt today.  Within that story is a snippet about Zipporah, Moses' wife, circumcising her son to save Moses' life.  We discussed circumcision and what God meant by requiring circumcision of his followers.

Language Arts: Writing

We had brainstorming and drafting time
We are also working on identifying adverbs, adjectives, nouns and verbs.

Science:

We did not have science today so we could work on our review session for our Social Studies test

Social Studies:

Review Day for our Test Tomorrow!!!!

Language Arts: Reading

We worked on understanding a concept that the author has introduced using context clues within the text of The Giver.

Math:

Language Arts: Spelling / Handwriting

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

1/11/17

Martin Luther King Day of Service Notice:
Thanks to all who volunteered to drive, and if your name is not on my list, there will be another teacher contacting you about driving for their class on Monday.
For our day of service activity, we are going to be staying close to school and working

Bible:

Memory Verse - Philippians 4:6
We played a Bible game today to help us learn our Bible books.

Language Arts: Writing

We are doing a free write in which we are assigned to use creative verbs and adverbs.
We are also working on utilizing the concept of a storyline in our writing.

Science:

We learned about local winds and global winds and finished #10 and the vocabulary words sea breeze and land breeze on our objectives.

Social Studies:

 For our first review for our test on Friday, we worked on page 358 and 359:
            - Vocabulary - all problems
            - People and Places - all problems
            - Facts and Main Ideas - #1-4, answers written in complete sentences.
They had 30 minutes to do all this

Language Arts: Reading

We worked on a worksheet for our book, The Giver, where we learned and practiced how to use context clues to define the word defiant.
We are also learning how the author, Lois Lowry, uses her language to setting to create the atmosphere of the book, instead of telling the reader directly.
We also read from C.S. Lewis' book, The Horse and His Boy

Math:

Retake of yesterday's test for those who needed it.
The others had concept worksheets to work on for the day, and then free time that they had earned by doing well on the test the first time.

Language Arts: Spelling/Handwriting

Spelling- Sentences for our first three/four words.
Handwriting - Lesson 14 Day 3 & 4

PE

Tuesday, January 10, 2017

1/10/17

Bible:

Memory Verse - Philippians 4:6
We are reading through the story of Moses and today we got to the burning bush.  We noticed the difference in the character of Moses since he has spent 40 years shepherding sheep.

Language Arts: Writing

Descriptive page was due today.

We worked on identifying adverbs.

Science:

Quick review of terms and concepts we have already gone over.

We read pages 263-264 and learned about winds, fronts, and global and local winds.

Social Studies:

We finished our objectives today.  The rest of the week will be spent reviewing and practicing writing essay answers.
Test on Friday

Language Arts: Reading

We are reading as a class from the book The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis.
Our class reading assignment is the first chapter of The Giver and working on a vocabulary worksheet.


Math

Test 11

Language Arts: Spelling / Handwriting

Spelling - Worksheet day.  We used index cards to write our words and definitions on to create a memory game with our spelling words.

handwriting - Lesson 14 Day 2 & 3

Music

1/9/17

Bible:

Memory Verse - Philippians 4:6
We are learning about Moses' early life.
We have learned that in the killing of all the firstborn Israelite boys, Satan showed his character.  In the salvation of Moses, God showed His.

Language Arts: Writing

Our descriptive scene writing is due on Tuesday.  We are working on Adverbs.  

Science:

We made observations of our sealed terrarium to help us learn about the Water Cycle.  
We also answered #7 of our objectives.

Social Studies:

Test this Friday on our chapter.
We went over pages 354-355 in class and the vocabulary words amendment and Bill of Rights.  All of our vocabulary is now complete.  

Language Arts: Reading

We finished the first Chapter The Giver today and worked on identifying and defining the word defiant today.

Math:

Lesson 59 all problems
4 Times table

Language Art: Spelling / Handwriting

Handwriting - Lesson 14 Day 1 & 2
Spelling - Pre Test 15

PE

We are learning about Basketball in PE.  Today we will be working on basic skills such as dribbling and passing.

Wednesday, January 4, 2017

1/4/17

Bible:

Memory Verse - 2 Peter 3:9
We played a Bible game today to help us learn our Bible books

Language Arts: Writing

We began drafting our descriptive landscapes.  Students, when they are done with their drafting are handing their rough draft to me to help them edit for more expressive adjectives.

Science:

We went over the different steps of the water cycle.

Social Studies:

We learned about Federalists and Antifederalists during the efforts and discussions to ratify the constitution.

Language Arts: Reading

We are working on a pre-reading assignment for the book The Giver in which we learn the value of rules.

Math:

Lesson 58 - all problems

Language Arts: Spelling / Handwriting

Spelling -  Sentences for the first side of lesson 14

Handwriting -  Lesson 13 Day 2 & 3

P.E.- Today we are beginning basketball

Tuesday, January 3, 2017

1/3/17

Bible:

Memory Verse - 2 Peter 3:9
We are beginning the story of Moses, and today we created a KWL chart.  These stand for Know, Want to Know, and Learned.

Language Arts: Writing

Grammar - Adjectives vs. Adverbs
Writing - We are writing a description of a location from or imagination using good adjectives and adverbs.

Science:

Read pages 252-257
Working on our objectives groundwater - water table and questions 5-7
This assignment will be for two days.

Social Studies:

Review of the 3 branches of government and the concept of checks and balances.  Going over objective #6

Language Arts: Reading

We began reading The Giver by Lois Lowry today.  This book is full of symbolism and has a very direct gospel presentation.  We will be reading this together as a whole class.  We had a pre-reading worksheet about the concept of rules entitled 'Do We Need Rules?'  We will use this worksheet to discuss why God has rules and what purpose they serve for our lives.


Math:

Lesson 57 - all problems
3 times tables.

Language Arts: Spelling / Handwriting


Spelling - Pre Test 14

Handwriting - Lesson 13 Day 1 & 2

Music