New Spelling Words this week 

 

Monday: Identify character traits for a character in the Willy Wonks Book and design a sticker for them based on the traits. Then, work on "Where should Ms. Papiernik go on summer vacation" project. 

 

Tuesday: Introduce Poetry, go over parts of a poem. Introduce figurative language, simile. Keep working on project from Monday. 

 

Wednesday: Poetry, figurative language (simile and personification). Read poems and figure out meaning of the poems. Keep working on project 

 

Thursday: Poetry, figurative language (simile, personification, and hyperbole). Read poems and figure out meaning of the poems. Keep working on project 

 

Friday: Spelling test and presenting the PowerPoints made for the project 

Monday: Continue working on, Where should Ms. Papiernik go on vacation over summer break? Finishing Researching and making PowerPoint  

Tuesday: CMAS 

Wednesday: CMAS 

Thursday: CMAS  

Friday: Continue working on, Where should Ms. Papiernik go on vacation over summer break? Finishing Researching and making PowerPoint 

Monday: We will be using the same spelling words as last week for our test on Friday. Suffixes -er and -est

 

Tuesday: Context clues activity. Learn 3 new suffixes. 

 

Wednesday: Context clues table passage and reviewing suffixes. 

 

Thursday: Students will create a new word with a group and create a poster with their new word. They will be using it in sentences and using different types on context clues for us to figure out what the new word means. 

 

Friday: Spelling test, suffix flowers, and then writing our realistic fiction narratives on our computers. 

Monday: New spelling words, synonyms and antonyms, and moral of the story table activity

 

Tuesday: Character traits, synonyms activity, and typing our informative essays. 

 

Wednesday: Character traits with Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, antonyms activity, typing informative essay 

 

Thursday: Character trait activity with tables, finish typing informative essay and start posters for informative essay topic 

 

Friday: Spelling test and work on posters the rest of class. Posters will be due today

Monday: NO SCHOOL PRESIDENTS DAY 

Tuesday: New spelling words, Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text. (CCSS: RL.3.2) and continue working on finalizing our informational writing  

Wednesday: Introduce prefixes (re- and pre-), and continue working on finalizing our informational writing 

Thursday:  Central message, lesson or moral from fables, folktales and myths. Start working on typing/writing final of informational writing  

Friday: spelling test, Review prefixes from previous say add 2 new one ( dis- and un-) and final papers will be due today. We will be making posters for them next week and students will have a chance to present them in front of the class if they would like.  

Monday: get new spelling words, Introduce Author’s Purpose: Persuade, Inform or Entertain, do a table activity about author’s purpose, go into centers 

Tuesday: Each table reads a short passage they determine the purpose and tell me why using RACE in their answer, then we go into centers  

Wednesday: Authors Purpose Cute and glue activity, and table task cards discussion, then go into centers 

Thursday: Short quiz on authors purpose, students will read a short story/passage and will answer whether the excerpt is to inform, persuade or entertain. If they finish, they can work on their informational essay about an animal.  

Friday: Spelling Test, work on informational essay and go into centers if we have time 

Monday: Give students new spelling words, go over text features (heading, subheading, photograph, and illustration), then we will go into Reading centers and small groups 

Tuesday: Review text features from Monday, introduce 2 new text features (Illustration and caption), then we will go into Reading centers and small groups  

Wednesday: Review text features from Monday, introduce 2 new text features (Bold/italics words and glossary), then we will go into Reading centers and small groups 

Thursday: Review text features from Monday, introduce 2 new text features (labels and diagrams), then we will go into Reading centers and small groups 

Friday: Spelling Test, RACES writing (working on the R- restating the question), then we will go into centers and small groups  

Monday: Learn about nonfiction text features and then we will go into centers and practice more text features and conference about writing  

Tuesday: Learn about nonfiction text features and then we will go into centers and practice more text features and conference about writing 

Wednesday:  Start typing writing if they have conferenced with me and conferencing with the rest of the students for writing  

Thursday: Ms. Papiernik will be gone all day, Ms. Terry will be the sub. MAPS testing for Reading  

Friday: Text features gallery walk, go around the class and look at different books and mark what text features they have and then continue with typing and conferencing about writing  

Monday: Fact vs. Opinion, reading centers and writing our persuasive essays about our National Parks we have been researching 

Tuesday: Sequence of events, reading centers and writing our persuasive essays about our National Parks we have been researching 

Wednesday: Kahoot to review parts of speech, reading centers and writing our persuasive essays about our National Parks we have been researching 

Thursday: Parts of speech quiz, reading centers and writing our persuasive essays about our National Parks we have been researching 

Friday: NO SCHOOL 

Monday: Get their new spelling words for the week. A packet will be sent home as a study tool, it is not homework. Determine the main idea and key details of a text by underlining text evidence. Lastly, we will be writing Halloween stories!  

Tuesday: Finish reading the story Preserve and Protect. Then go into our Reading Centers.  

Wednesday: Facts Vs. Opinions in a story. Start Researching a Landmark, today they will pick a landmark and start looking on Epic! For books they want to read about their Lanmark. Go into Reading Centers.  

Thursday: Using a graphic organizer, they will find 5 facts about their landmark and form 2 opinions about the landmark as well. Then we will go into Reading Centers.  

Friday: Students will continue researching if needed and then start writing their postcards about their landmark.  

Spelling Packets are never homework, they should be used as a study tool at home. Also, students should be reading at least 15-30 minutes a night. If possible have them read out loud to you   

 Monday: New spelling list given, work on spelling packet, and do our common writing assessment for Q2.  

Tuesday:  Field Trip  

Wednesday: Go over sequence of a story and sequence words. Read story as a class, talk about the sequence of the story using sequence words. Then students, will independently do this with a story they choose on Epic 

Thursday:  Sequence of a story and sequence words. Then we will be working on Restating in our RACES response for writing  

Friday: Spelling Test and Restating the question for RACES response class examples and independent work on this skill.  

Practice math facts with students, we are on multiplication now but addition and subtraction review is always helpful  

Monday: I will be out of town; I have a substitute. Students will be working on reviewing things we have been working on. Students will be given a spelling packet of our spelling words BUT it is not homework, it is a great study tool to study at home!  

Tuesday: Going over spelling center and practicing what they will be doing in our spelling center, then we will write the closing for our personal narratives and start writing our drafts!  

Wednesday: Practice selling center again and continue writing our personal narrative drafts.  

Thursday: Practice spelling center, go over plural nouns, and then finish our drafts, go over our writing checklist and then start typing our final drafts for our personal narratives.  

Friday: Spelling test, more plural nouns and go over irregular plural nouns, and lastly, students will finish their final personal narrative papers.  

Things to do at home: Read for 15 minutes each night (30 is recommended)  

Next week we will start our spelling units, they will start off easy and get harder as the year goes on. We will have a spelling test every week.  

We start off each morning with a Fix the sentence 

Throughout this week I will be testing students for their Reading levels  

Monday: Fiction versus non-fiction, students will then read a book and decide whether it is fiction or non-fiction and will write how they knew it was that genre of book.  

Tuesday: continue testing, parts of a fiction text. Students will go into independent work and read a fiction book and fill out a fiction book report  

Wednesday: continue testing, making predictions/inferences from fiction texts and putting that prediction into writing.  

Thursday: continue testing, continue working on prediction and inferences in a fiction text and start working on describing characters and their traits  

Friday: continue testing, start personal narrative writing. We will be working on our brainstorming and organizers for this