September:
9/21/2017
Social Studies
Reading Core
Math (5th grade math)
Writing
Guided Reading
9/14/2017
Social Studies
9/7/2017
Social Studies
Reading Core
Math
Writing
Guided Reading
Our Class Community
8/31/2017
Social Studies
Reading Core
Math
Writing
Guided Reading
9/21/2017
Social Studies
- Ask me about my ThingLink!
- Ask me to show you my ThingLink online
- Ask me what I have learned about the forms of energy through this process
Reading Core
- Ask me who Jack is
- Ask me how Jack is developing as a character in the novel we are reading
- Ask me about the characteristics of poetry we have learned so far… how is Jack also learning with us?
Math (5th grade math)
- Ask me to show you how to add these decimals! 3.3 + 0.006 = ?
- Ask me to show you how to subtract decimals! 10.89 – 6.097 = ?
- Ask me to show you how I multiply decimals! 1.2 × 3 = ?
- Ask me to show you how I divide decimals! 8.4 ÷ 2 = ?
Writing
- Ask me about the personal narrative I’m writing this week
Guided Reading
- Ask me about the book we are reading closely for deep understanding
- Ask me the three steps we have been working on when responding to a comprehension question in reading
9/14/2017
Social Studies
- Ask me about the ThingLink we will be creating! … despite some technical difficulties
- Ask me how I will use this resource to demonstrate everything I have learned about energy so far
- Ask me what potential energy is
- Ask me what kinetic energy is
- Ask me to explain some forms of energy to you
- Ask me to tell you some characteristics of poetry
- Ask me what imagery is
- Ask me to read a poem with you and discuss that poem’s imagery
- Ask me about the first math assessment I had this week
- Ask me about my strengths and weaknesses on this assessment
- Ask me to tell you one “ah-ha” moment I had during test corrections/test review in class
- Ask me about the personal narrative I’m writing
- Ask me what text evidence is
- Ask me why text evidence is important when creating a response to reading
- Ask me about the Eclipse book we read this week… what is one interesting fact I learned?
- Ask me to read the Eclipse book to you on Miss Schuller’s Google Classroom
9/7/2017
Social Studies
- Ask me about the energy unit we started this week!
- Ask me to show you some pictures on the class Instagram of our energy “wonderings”
- Ask me how we “launched” this unit!
- Ask me how this unit will end… what will I get to do to demonstrate all my learning?
Reading Core
- Ask me about the poetry unit we started this week!
- Ask me what book we will be reading
- Ask me how reading core is different from guided reading… what do we focus on in reading core?
- Ask me what I am most excited for in reading this new novel
- Ask me how this unit will end… what will I get to do to demonstrate all my learning?
Math
- Ask me to draw a place value chart for you!
- Ask me to show you the metric system on a place value chart
- Ask me to see a problem on my homework… let me “teach” you how to do it :)
Writing
- Ask me about summaries and retells… what’s the difference?
Guided Reading
- Ask me about my AR goal!
Our Class Community
- Ask me about our class Social Contract!
8/31/2017
Social Studies
- Ask me about our “bully-proofing” unit
- Ask me what active listening is
- Ask me what active listening looks like
- Ask me what conflict resolution is
- Ask me to give you an example of some conflict resolution techniques
- Ask me what it means to “disagree but don’t be disagreeable”
Reading Core
- Ask me what “Reading Strategies” we reviewed this week
- Ask me why it’s important to practice these reading strategies
- Ask me what it means to “activate my brain” while reading?
Math
- Ask me what place value is
- Ask me why it’s important to understand place value
- Ask me how we learned to manipulate numbers on a place value chart
- Ask me what patterns I started to discover
- Ask me what “exponential form” is
- Ask me what “standard form” is
Writing
- Ask me to label any sentence for you with subject, verb, object, and prepositional phrase
Guided Reading
- Ask me about our reading stamina!