Thursday January 28th, 2016

Vocabulary

1. ashamed
2. decadent
3. absent
4. grasped
5. complained 
6. insisted
7. happening
8. barely
9. automatically
10. temperature

Spelling Challenge

"Recipe"

Reading

Class Reading

Continued reading "Wonder", chapters "The Bleeding Scream" and "Names"

Worksheets

"Visualize Reading - Before and After"
"Book Critique" 

Writing

Five Minute Writing Challenge - "Sharks in the Forest"

Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They used an  image they selected off of https://storybird.com for their creative inspiration. Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization skills are not the focus of this challenge! Students have five minutes to dig deep into their creative minds and write about what they see! 

Class Writing

Students assigned writing prompt to help strengthen their current writing skills. Students requested to include:

• 10 Complete sentences
• Correct punctuation, spelling, capitalization, BME format
• 4 Vocabulary words (underline vocabulary words)
• Write a short essay about how you would feel if one of your closest classmates or friends talking bad about you to other people. How would you feel? How would you handle the situation? Would you confront the group or your friend? Would you stay friends with those people? Has this happened to you? How did you handle it? 

After students completed their writing, they shared their writing in class. 

Worksheets

"Organize Your Opinion"

Homework

Thursday January 21st, 2017

Vocabulary

1. poison
2. porridge
3. adventure
4. sculpture
5. literature
6. knowledge
7. character
8. wildfire
9. photograph
10. paragraph

Spelling Challenge

"Riddle Me This"

Reading

Class Reading

Continued reading "Wonder", chapters "The Cheese Touch" and "Costumes".

Worksheets

• "Sentence Starters"
• "Character Grid"

Writing

Five Minute Writing Challenge - "Haunted House on the Hill"

Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They used a holiday themed worksheet to enhance their creative writing skills. Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization skills are not the focus of this challenge! Students have five minutes to dig deep into their creative minds and write about what they see! 

Worksheets

"Creative Writing" 

Homework

Writing Challenge - "Adventure Time" 

Students were assigned a writing prompt to help strengthen their current writing skills. Students requested to include:

• 10 Complete sentences
• Correct punctuation, spelling, capitalization, BME format
• 4 Vocabulary words (underline vocabulary words)

Thursday January 14th, 2016

Welcome back!

I hope everyone enjoyed their long break. Students returned to class discussing their breaks and our assignments this week focused on the new year. 

Vocabulary

1. beetle
2. jewelry
3. continued
4. adaptable
5. comfortable
6. coward
7. worthwhile
8. captain
9. expedition
10. animate

Reading

Visualize Reading Worksheet

"Helios"

Class Reading

Bring Your Book to Class! - "Harry Potter" and "Wonder"



Last week's homework was to bring a book to class. Half of the students did not bring a book. We discussed the books the students brought. Students read the first few pages of their books to themselves. Students completed worksheets about their reading. 

Reading Worksheets

• Sentence Starters
• Elements of a Story
• Thumbs Up, Thumbs Down

Writing

Creative Writing Worksheet

Students assigned writing prompt to help strengthen their current writing skills. Students requested to include:

• 10 Complete sentences
• Correct punctuation, spelling, capitalization, BME format
• 4 Vocabulary words (underline vocabulary words)

After students completed their writing, they shared their writing in class. 

Homework

Ms Adrienne's Spelling Challenge - Word Search

Thursday January 7th, 2015

Welcome back!

I hope everyone enjoyed their long break. Students returned to class discussing their breaks and our assignments this week focused on the new year. 

Vocabulary

1. gathering
2. celebration
3. noisemaker
4. festivities
5. confetti
6. tradition
7. resolutions 
8. planning
9. anticipate
10. 
    

Reading

New Years Mad Libs

Students completed a list of nouns, adverbs, adjectives,and verbs. They list was then applied to a story. The students read each story aloud, and discussed the elements of the story together in class. Students strengthened their reading and grammar skill with this fun exercise! 

Writing

Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: "Party Crashers"

Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They used a holiday themed worksheet to enhance their creative writing skills. Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization skills are not the focus of this challenge! Students have five minutes to dig deep into their creative minds and write about what they see! 

Class Writing

"Ideas for 2016" 

What are you ideas for 2016? Write an essay answering the items below:

1. My goal, what I really want to achieve in 2016, is ...
2. My needs, things I cannot go without, for 2016 are...
3. I can, and will, achieve this goal because of ....  and will do so by taking these steps.... 
4. I will achieve my goal by this time.... 
5. In 2016, I plan to share.... with my community, friends, or family because...
6. My greatest lesson learned from 2015 was....
7. I feel my hardest challenge in 2015 was....
8. The best thing about 2015 was...

Students assigned writing prompt to help strengthen their current writing skills. Students requested to include:

• 10 Complete sentences
• Correct punctuation, spelling, capitalization, BME format
• 4 Vocabulary words (underline vocabulary words)

After students completed their writing, they shared their writing in class. 

Homework

Ms Adrienne's Writing Challenge - Event Description