Homework: September 26th

Independently read and complete a reader response in your r/w notebook. Use the prompts if you get stuck!

Homework: September 25th

Afternoon! Tonight: dialogue practice. Create 10 lines of dialogue about the subject of your choice. 

Open house tonight! Can't wait to meet all of your parents.

Homework: September 24th

Sorry, my awesome students! I haven't been able to access my blog at home. But I'm back up and running!

Tonight's homework is the same as last night: you will read for at least 20 minutes in your independent reading book and respond in your r/w notebook. Please use the prompts if you need guidance or get stuck. A simple summary doesn't cut it! Interact with what you read. 

Reminder: tomorrow evening is open house. It begins at 5:30 in the gym with administration. Classroom visits will begin promptly at 5:47. Remember to fill out the schedule I gave you and give it to your parents. 

Great job on our DRP pretest!

Homework: September 18th

Good afternoon! We finally started Monster today, whoooo! 

Homework: illustrate (draw) each vocabulary word. Start reviewing your words - vocab quiz #2 on Friday.

Homework: September 16th

We've started week #2 of our academic vocabulary. For homework tonight, you're completing the 3,2,1 vocabulary handout. Remember that we changed the 1st exercise: you're putting "tortuous" in a sentence. 

Tomorrow, we'll start learning about one the elements of our Monster unit through reading workshop. Then, you'll have a chance to find examples in your own independent reading.

We will also start writing workshop this week, begin reading Monster, and get organized for our book club.

If you have Scholastic book orders for me, I'll take them thins week.

And don't forget to congratulate Ashley when you see her - her library title won our contest. Now "Just Go Sit and Read!" :)

Homework: Sept. 11th

Reader Response tonight! Read for at least 20 minutes. Log your your reading in the reading log. Respond using the prompts that you pasted into your notebooks (if you need them) and make sure you include the: 

Date

Title of your book

Pages read

Our first vocabulary quiz will be on Friday. Start reviewing!

Homework: Sept. 10th

You all did a fabulous job today during our independent reading run-through. Get ready for the real thing tomorrow. We will start with a reading response mini-lesson. Then, you're on your own in reading workshop!

Tonight we have more vocabulary practice. In the vocab section of your binder, you will write a creative paragraph (about anything you'd like!) and in your paragraph, you will use 5 of the 10 vocab words for this week.

Tomorrow is the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on our country. If you can, ask a family member about the attacks. Ask them to describe to you what they remember. All of the victims and their families will be with us in our thoughts tomorrow. 

Homework: Monday, September 9th

Good evening, scholars! Tonight you should be using each of this week's ten vocabulary words in a sentence. You will also illustrate each word -- this helps you to visualize and remember the word. Vocab quiz on Friday.

Just a reminder that you should have an independent reading book EVERY DAY! Even if we don't have an independent reading day scheduled, you always need to be prepared.

Tomorrow we'll be doing some role-play activities to get acclimated with reading workshop routines and expectations. Put your acting shoes on!

Homework: Sept. 3rd

Welcome to September! Today, you started a writing sample in class. We will continue with that tomorrow.

You will complete the reading survey for homework tonight. The survey will help me get top know you as a reader. Next week, we will get started with our reading workshop and independent reading.