Auburn High School
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 38 |
| |Date: Friday, May 18, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Content Writing: |The children were given time to finish the plot diagram: The |
|Periods 2 |plot diagram needs to be saved to their Google Drive and shared with each of the members of the group. |
| |The students will begin to create a story map using the following website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |Bell Work is over for the rest of the year. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We read over text page 985 in our literature book on “Revising Incorrect Use of Commas” together as a class. |
| |The children watched the following videos on commas: |
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| |I assigned pages 260 and 261 entitled “Grammar: Revising Incorrect Use of Commas” for homework on Monday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete pages 260 and 261 entitled “Grammar: Revising Incorrect Use of Commas” for homework on Monday. Absent students can find this|
| |page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |Book orders are over for the year. Thank you to everyone who ordered this year. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 38 |
| |Date: Thursday, May 17, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Content Writing: |The children were given time to fill out their sheet entitled “Children’s Book Pre-Write Organizaion Guide.” |
|Periods 2 |Have the students visit this website to complete the plot diagram: |
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| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 31 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We read over text page 956 in our literature book on commas together as a class. |
| |We worked page 89 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Commas and Semicolons” together as a class. |
| |I assigned pages 258 and 259 entitled “Grammar: Commas.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet pages 257 and 258 entitled, “Grammar: Commas” for homework. Absent students can find this page under this |
| |class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |Book orders are over for the year. Thank you to everyone who ordered this year. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 38 |
| |Date: Wednesday, May 16, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Content Writing: |The children discussed the children’s book from home today. We talked about why each book would appeal to a young reader. |
|Periods 2 |I helped group the children based on their interest level. They were then given a sheet that they need to fill out based upon their group’s thoughts and ideas |
| |concerning their children’s book. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! The students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 31 Day 3 and 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched the following videos on semicolons and colons: |
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| |I assigned pages 49 entitled “Lesson 20.5 Using Semicolons and Colons.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet pages 49 entitled, “Using Semicolons and Colons” for homework. Absent students can find this page under this |
| |class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |Book orders are over for the year. Thank you to everyone who ordered this year. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 38 |
| |Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |I checked to see that the children completed page # “Lesson 8: Types of Characters, Activity 1.” I showed the students how to fold the page and insert it into their |
| |composition notebooks. |
| |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Content Writing: |The children were giving time in class to add more evidence to support their assertion. The students need to have two reliable sources and claims. They also need |
|Periods 2 |to have an alternative claim. |
| |We began to talk about the next writing assignment. The children will be using Google Slides to create a children’s book. |
| |The children need to bring a children’s book from home to school on Wednesday, March 16th. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to bring a children’s book from home to school tomorrow. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 31 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched the following videos on colons: |
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| |I assigned pages 257 and 258 entitled “Grammar: Colon.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet pages 257 and 258 entitled, “Grammar: Colons” for homework. Absent students can find this page under this |
| |class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 38 |
| |Date: Monday, May 14, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The children were give a page 43 as pre-assessment entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 8: Types of Characters” to complete. This will show me what |
| |they already know about the various eight types of characters. It will help me guide my instruction. |
| |The children need to color, complete, and cut out page # “Lesson 8: Types of Characters, Activity 1” into their composition notebook during class. The children were|
| |taught eight different types of characters. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page # “Lesson 8: Types of Characters” as homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class and on today’s |
| |date on Google Classroom. |
|Content Writing: |We watched a video that explained how we plan an opinion/argumentative essay. The children watched the following video: |
|Periods 2 |, and |
| |The children need pick which one of their three assertion phrases they would like to research. An assertion is a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief.|
| |An example of an assertion statement might be as follows: Testing drugs on animals is the sacrifice we have to make. |
| |The children were given time in class to locate three pieces of evidence that support their assertion. They also need one argument against their assertion. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children were given time in class to locate three pieces of evidence that support their assertion. They also need one argument against their |
| |assertion for homework tomorrow. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 31 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched the videos on punctuation marks on the Pearson website. |
| |We read over text page 932 on punctuation marks together as a class. |
| |I assigned page 51 entitled “Using Apostrophes, Hyphens, Dashes, and Parentheses.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet page 51 entitled, “Using Apostrophes, Hyphens, Dashes, and Parentheses” for homework. Absent students can |
| |find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 37 |
| |Date: Friday, May 11, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due this Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We finished “Lesson 25: Opinion/Argumentative Paragraphs-Exemplar.” The students need to color and cut out pages 162 and 163 into their composition books for |
|Periods 2 |homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 30 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched the videos on subject-verb agreement at these url: Show the following videos to the students: |
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| |We played a game on Kahoot over subject-verb agreement. |
| |I assigned lesson 16.3-4 on page 41 entitled “Special Subjects” for homework on Monday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete lesson 16.3-4 on page 41 entitled “Special Subjects” for homework on Monday. Absent students can find this page under this |
| |class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 37 |
| |Date: Thursday, May 10, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due this Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We worked on “Lesson 25: Opinion/Argumentative Paragraphs-Exemplar.” The students need to color and cut out pages 162 and 163 into their composition books for |
|Periods 2 |homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 30 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched the videos on subject-verb agreement at these url: Show the following videos to the students: |
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| |I assigned lesson 16.2 on page 40 entitled “Problems with Locating the Subject” for homework on Friday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete lesson 16.2 on page 40 entitled “Problems with Locating the Subject” for homework on Friday. Absent students can find this |
| |page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 37 |
| |Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due this Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children are to thoroughly check over their expository essay. The essay needs to be submitted before the end of the day today. |
|Periods 2 |The children need to use their rubric as a guide to know how their expository essay will be graded. |
| |HOMEWORK: Expository essays need to be turned by the end of the day. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 30 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched the videos on subject-verb agreement at these url: Show the following videos to the students: |
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| |I assigned lesson 16.1.5 on page 39 entitled “Making Subjects and Verbs Agree” for homework on Thursday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete lesson 16.1.5 on page 39 entitled “Making Subjects and Verbs Agree” for homework on Thursday. Absent students can find this |
| |page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 37 |
| |Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due this Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |I collected any extra credit forms that were completed parents last night after looking over their child’s essay. |
|Periods 2 |The children got in pairs once again today to have a peer read over their essay and look for any grammatical, spelling, punctuation, or capitalization errors. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to continue to fix any grammatical, spelling, punctuation, or capitalization errors within their essay. |
| |Expository essays need to be turned in by tomorrow, May 9, 2018. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 30 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched the videos on subject-verb agreement at these url: Show the following videos to the students: |
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| |I assigned page 130 entitled “Cause-and-Effect Essay: Integrating Grammar Skills Revising for Subject-Verb Agreement with Compound Subjects.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet page 130 entitled “Cause-and-Effect Essay: Integrating Grammar Skills Revising for Subject-Verb Agreement with|
| |Compound Subjects” for homework. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 37 |
| |Date: Monday, May 7, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We finished lesson seven activity two on characterization by focused on the character Mary. We dissected the character Mary throughout the story and used pages 56 |
| |and 59 to discuss her characterization using her words, actions, feelings, choices and thoughts. |
| |The children were give pages 41 and 42 as an assessment entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 7: Characterization” to complete. This will show me |
| |what they learned about characterization. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to complete pages 41 and 42 as an assessment entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 7: Characterization” for homework |
| |tomorrow. Absent students can find this story on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students met with their peers to look over their first and last paragraph to make sure they were organized correctly. |
|Periods 2 |The following elements need to be in the first and last paragraphs. In the introduction paragraph, begin with a sentence that captures the reader’s attention, give |
| |background information on the topic, and end with the thesis statement. The thesis statement states the main idea of the essay, usually in one sentence. For your |
| |conclusion sentence, “echo” the thesis statement without simply repeating it. You may pose a question for future thought or suggest a course of action. Include a |
| |detail or example from the introduction to “tie up” the essay. Remember to end with a strong concluding statement. |
| |The essay needs to be submitted before the end of the day on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. |
| |The children need to use their rubric as a guide to know how their expository essay will be graded. |
| |The children were given an extra credit page today. Parents, your child can earn 5 extra credit points just for having you check over their essay tonight. They are|
| |working on the revision stage of their paper. In order for your child to earn the extra credit points, you need to examine, whether or not their writing is clear, |
| |and the meaning comes across so that it can be understood. If you are confused when you read their work, please have them rewrite the sections that you feel need to|
| |be clearer. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to work on making sure their first and fifth paragraphs are organized correctly. |
| |Extra credit pages were given to each of the students today. |
| |Expository essays are due on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 30 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched the videos on subject-verb agreement at these url: Show the following videos to the students: |
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| |We read over text page 883 on correcting subject-verb agreement with compound subjects together as a class. |
| |I assigned pages 236-237 entitled “Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet pages 236-237 entitled, “Grammar: Subject-Verb Agreement” for homework. Absent students can find this page |
| |under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 36 |
| |Date: Friday, May 4, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |I collected the extra credit sheets from the students today. |
|Periods 2 |The children worked in pairs to make corrections in spelling, capitalization, grammatical, and punctuation errors throughout their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to begin to fix any items within their essay that are not written clearly. The students need to begin to fix any items within their |
| |essay that are not written clearly. The essays are due on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work due to the early dismissal. The students went to their Google Drive accounts and completed some online quizzes on sentence structure. Here are the |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |urls: |
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| |Click on “Take This Test Now.” This is located at the top of this page: |
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| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 36 |
| |Date: Thursday, May 3, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children got in pairs once again today to have a peer read over their essay to see if their writing was easily understood by a classmate. |
|Periods 2 |The children were given an extra credit page today. Parents, your child can earn 5 extra credit points just for having you check over their essay tonight. They are|
| |working on the revision stage of their paper. In order for your child to earn the extra credit points, you need to examine whether or not your child has five |
| |paragraphs. Each paragraph must contain at least five sentences. Please read over your child’s essay, decide if the essay is written clearly, and if it is not, you|
| |will need to help them clarify their essay. Finally, make sure that your child has stuck to their thesis statement. If they have information that does not stick to |
| |the topic please omit that information. The extra credit sheet will need to be turned in tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to begin to fix any items within their essay that are not written clearly. The essays are due on Wednesday, May 9, 2018. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 29 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We also went through a PowerPoint presentation sentence structure and end punctuation. Here is the url: |
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| |We watched the following video on sentence structure: |
| |I assigned a page 45 entitled “Using the Period and Other End Marks” for homework on Friday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 45 entitled “Using the Period and Other End Marks” for homework on Thursday. Absent students can find this page under |
| |this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 36 |
| |Date: Wednesday, May 2, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |I checked to see if the children added any descriptive elements to their expository essay. They were given extra credit for adding descriptive elements to their |
|Periods 2 |expository essay. |
| |The children got in pairs today to have a peer read over their essay to see if their writing was easily understood by a classmate. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to begin to fix any items within their essay that are not written clearly. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 29 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We also went through a PowerPoint presentation sentence structure and end punctuation. Here is the url: |
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| |We watched videos on sentence punctuation by the famous comedian, Victor Borge. Here is the urls: |
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| |I assigned a page 100 section A only entitled “Integrating Language Skills: Grammar Sentence Functions and Endmarks” for homework on Thursday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 100 section A only entitled “Integrating Language Skills: Grammar Sentence Functions and Endmarks” for homework on |
| |Thursday. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 36 |
| |Date: Tuesday, May 1, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: | The children spent a little time today enhancing the vocabulary, working on adding descriptive elements to their expository essay and highlighting their additions |
|Periods 2 |for extra credit. The students need to highlight items dealing with “sight” green, highlight items dealing with “taste” red, highlight items dealing with “sound” |
| |blue, highlight items dealing with “feelings” yellow, highlight items dealing with “smell” orange, and highlight items dealing with “touch” purple. |
| |The students need to have someone read their essay tonight and help them add descriptive writing to their expository essay. They simply need to help them generate |
| |more details to include in their essay under their ideas categories. |
| |Tomorrow, for extra credit, students may add any descriptive elements to their expository essay. The added elements need to have the text color coded according to |
| |which sense it is referring to on yesterday's lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to add any detail sentences that the two people reading their essay may have suggested. Absent students can find this page under this |
| |class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 29 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched the video on Pearson about sentence structure at this url: Show the following videos to the students: |
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| |We read over text page 858 learning about a sentences function and their endmarks together as a class. |
| |I assigned pages 234 and 235 entitled “Grammar: Sentence Functions and Endmarks.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet pages 234 and 235 entitled, “Grammar: Sentence Functions and Endmarks” for homework. Absent students can |
| |find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 36 |
| |Date: Monday, April 30, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We finished “Lesson 7: Characterization Activity 2” by reading the story “Ta-Na-E-Ka” as a class. We focused on the character Mary. We dissected the character Mary |
| |throughout the story and used pages 56 and 59 to discuss her characterization using her words, actions, feelings, choices and thoughts. |
| |HOMEWORK: Absent students can find this story on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children spent a little time today enhancing the vocabulary within their essay. The students used the following url addresses to help enrich their vocabulary: |
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| |We talked about how we need to add descriptive writing to our formal writing. We discussed how we need to use as many sense as possible. |
| |We completed "Lesson 13: Descriptive Paragraphs, Close Reading of Exemplar" together as a class. |
| |Tomorrow, for extra credit, students may add any descriptive elements to their expository essay. The added elements need to have the text color coded according to |
| |which sense it is referring to on today's lesson. |
| |The children can use their rubric and the paper they received entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to add any descriptive writing elements to their essay that relate to sight, taste, sound, feeling, smell, and touch. Absent students |
| |can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 29 Day 1 & 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We also went through a PowerPoint presentation on double negatives. Here is the url: |
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| |We watched two videos on double negatives. Here is the urls: |
| |We did an online exercise found at: |
| |I assigned a page entitled “Double Negatives Don’t Don’t Not Work” for homework on Tuesday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 53 entitled “Double Negatives Don’t Don’t Not Work” for homework on Monday. Absent students can find this page under |
| |this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 35 |
| |Date: Friday, April 27, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |I checked to see that the children color coded their essay to make sure that they incorporated the necessary sentences for all of their paragraphs. |
|Periods 2 |The children spent the rest of the day enhancing the vocabulary within their essay. I showed the students how to open up tabs and use the following url addresses to |
| |help with enrich their vocabulary: and |
| |The children can use their rubric and the paper they received entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 28 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We also went through a PowerPoint presentation on double negatives. Here is the url: |
| | |
| |We watched two videos on double negatives. Here is the urls: |
| |I assigned the page 53 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Double Negatives” for homework on Monday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 53 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Double Negatives” for homework on Monday. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
| | |
| |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 35 |
| |Date: Thursday, April 26, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |I checked to see that the children color coded their essay to make sure that they incorporated the necessary sentences for their first and fifth paragraphs. |
|Periods 2 |The children spent the rest of the day enhancing the vocabulary within their essay as well as their sentence structure. I showed the students how to open up tabs and|
| |use the following url addresses to help with enrich their vocabulary: and |
| |The children can use their rubric and the paper they received entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to finish enhancing the vocabulary in their essay. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 28 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched the video on Pearson about sentence structure at this url: Show the following videos to the students: |
| | |
| |We read over text page 808 on double negatives together as a class. |
| |I assigned page 214 and section A only on page 215 entitled “Grammar: Double Negatives.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet page 214 and section A only on page 215 entitled, “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar” sections A only for |
| |homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 35 |
| |Date: Wednesday, April 25, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students need to finish their first and fifth paragraph by tomorrow. |
|Periods 2 |The following elements need to be in the first and last paragraphs. In the introduction paragraph, begin with a sentence that captures the reader’s attention, give |
| |background information on the topic, and end with the thesis statement. The thesis statement states the main idea of the essay, usually in one sentence. For your |
| |conclusion sentence, “echo” the thesis statement without simply repeating it. You may pose a question for future thought or suggest a course of action. Include a |
| |detail or example from the introduction to “tie up” the essay. Remember to end with a strong concluding statement. |
| |The children can use their rubric and the paper they received entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete their first and fifth paragraphs for homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on|
| |Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 28 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students completed the Week 28 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
| |• We also went through a PowerPoint presentation on interjections. Here is the |
| |url: |
| |• We completed the following quizzes on interjections at these urls: |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| |• I assigned the page entitled “Interjections.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet entitled “Interjections” for homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class and on today’s |
| |date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
| | |
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|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 35 |
| |Date: Tuesday, April 24, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |I checked to see that the students completed page 52 “Lesson 7: Characterization, Activity 1” in their composition book. The children were given a completion grade. |
| |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students need to add their closing sentences to their second, third, and fourth paragraphs along with a transition sentence. The transition sentences can happen|
|Periods 2 |at the end of the previous paragraph or it can be the first sentence in the next paragraph. Either way, you need to have a transition sentence to show that you are |
| |changing your idea. |
| |The children were give a rubric last Friday that I will be using to grade their essay, and they received a paper entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to |
| |assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete their second paragraph for homework. Absent students need to go to Google Classroom for today’s homework. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 28 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We also went through a PowerPoint presentation on interjections. |
| |The kids viewed a list of interjections were shocked to see how many interjections there are in the English Language. Here are the urls: |
| | |
| | |
| |We watched two videos on interjections. Here is the urls: |
| |I assigned the page entitled “Mild and Strong Interjections.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet entitled “Mild and Strong Interjections” for homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
| | |
| |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 35 |
| |Date: Monday, April 23, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |I checked to see that the students completed page 52 “Lesson 7: Characterization, Activity 1” in their composition book. The children were given a completion grade. |
| |We began “Lesson 7: Characterization Activity 2” by reading the story “Ta-Na-E-Ka” as a class. We will focus on the character Mary. We will dissect the character |
| |Mary throughout the story. |
| |HOMEWORK: Absent students can find this story on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The student’s need to complete their third paragraph by tomorrow. Their third paragraph comes from their third idea category circle with their details. The student |
|Periods 2 |can begin to work on their conclusion sentence for each of the body paragraphs. |
| |The children were give a rubric last Friday that I will be using to grade their essay, and they received a paper entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to |
| |assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete their second paragraph for homework. Absent students need to go to Google Classroom for today’s homework. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 28 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched a “School House Rock” video on interjections. Here is the url: |
| |We also went through a PowerPoint presentation on interjections. |
| |The children were given page 32 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Interjections” today for homework. The children need to complete section A only on page|
| |32. |
| |4th Hour: The children watched the video on Pearson about sentence structure at this url: Show the following videos to the students: |
| | |
| |4th Hour: We read over text page 770 on interjections together as a class. |
| |4th Hour: I assigned page 212 and section A only on page 213 entitled “Grammar: Interjections.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The children were given page 32 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Interjections” today for homework. The children need to complete section A |
| |only on page 32. |
| |The students need to complete the worksheet page 212 and section A only on page 213 entitled, “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar” sections A only for homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 34 |
| |Date: Friday, April 20, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students need to go to Google Drive, open up a new Google Doc, and begin writing their essay. The need to title their essay beginning with their first and last |
|Periods 2 |name followed by the words “Expository Essay.” The students need to hit tab once and type in their topic sentence. Then, they need to begin a new paragraph and hit|
| |tab again to start their second paragraph. Their second paragraph comes from their first idea category circle with their details. |
| |The children were give a rubric today that I will be using to grade their essay, and they received a paper entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to assist |
| |them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete their topic sentence today, and their second paragraph for homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class |
| |and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 27 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched the video on Pearson about sentence structure at this url: Show the following videos to the students: |
| | |
| |We read over text page 770 on interjections together as a class. |
| |I assigned page 212 and section A only on page 213 entitled “Grammar: Interjections.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet page 212 and section A only on page 213 entitled, “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar” sections A only for |
| |homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 34 |
| |Date: Thursday, April 19, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students were given points for completing their three ideas category and their topic sentence. |
|Periods 2 |The students need to continue to fill out their graphic organizer. The graphic organizer is due tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: Graphic organizers need to be completed by tomorrow. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 27 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched one of the following videos on complex sentences: |
| |We also played a game on Kahoot on sentence structure. |
| |I assigned section A on worksheet page 32 entitled “14.2 Complex Sentences” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete section A on worksheet page 32 entitled, “14.2 Complex Sentences” for tonight’s homework.!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 34 |
| |Date: Wednesday, April 18, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |I gave the students a list of possible expository essay topics. |
|Periods 2 |The students do a little research on their three topics and decide which topic they want to use for their expository essay. The students need to decide upon a topic |
| |or their expository essay. Then, they need to begin filling out their graphic organizer. The students need to begin by focusing on their three idea categories. |
| |HOMEWORK: The three idea categories on the graphic organizers need to be completed by Thursday. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s |
| |date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 27 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children were give page 38 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-4: Simple & Compound Sentences.” They were to complete this page by themselves. |
| |We checked section “C” on page 38 together as a class. I checked sections A & B. |
| |The children watched one of the following videos on complex sentences: |
| | |
| |We also played a game on Kahoot on sentence structure. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK TODAY!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 34 |
| |Date: Tuesday, April 17, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We finished pages 91 and 92 “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2” during class. |
|Periods 2 |We watched this video on expository writing: |
| |Absent students will need to watch this video as well. |
| |We began to discuss choosing a topic for our expository essay, and I shared a list of possible essay topics with the students. They can find this list using their |
| |school email address. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish pages 91 and 92 on “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2” if they did not complete it |
| |during class or were absent. The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 27 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched one of the following videos on sentence structure: |
| |We also played a game on Kahoot on sentence structure. |
| |I assigned worksheet page 31 entitled “14.1 Sentences and Clauses” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet page 31 entitled, “14.1 Sentences and Clauses” for tonight’s homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 34 |
| |Date: Monday, April 16, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The children were give a page 39 as pre-assessment entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 7: Characterization” to complete. This will show me what |
| |they already know about characterization. It will help me guide my instruction. |
| |The children need to color, complete, and cut out page 52 “Lesson 7: Characterization, Activity 1” into their composition notebook during class. The children were |
| |taught that writers characterize their characters through the characters thoughts, actions, words, feelings, and choices. |
| |We will begin “Lesson 7: Characterization Activity 2” by reading the story “Ta-Na-E-Ka” as a class. We will focus on the character Mary. We will dissect the |
| |character Mary throughout the story. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 52 “Lesson 6: Character Traits” as homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date|
| |on Google Classroom. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We finished working on “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 1.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 84 and 86 into their |
|Periods 2 |composition books for homework. We are going to work on developing our own expository essay. |
| |We finished “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 91 and 92 into their composition |
| |books for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish pages 84 and 86 from “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 1” and pages 91 and 92 from |
| |“Lesson 11: Expository Essay Structure, Activity 2,” the students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 27 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched one of the following videos on sentence structure: |
| |We then visited this sites and completed the activity: |
| |We also played a game on Kahoot on sentence structure. |
| |I assigned section A on worksheet page 193 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar” and told the children to omit section B on these pages. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet pages 193 entitled, “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar” sections A only for homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 33 |
| |Date: Friday, April 13, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We worked on “Lesson 10: Transition Words.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 77, 78, and 79 into their composition books for homework. |
|Periods 2 |The students were given a list of transition words that they can utilize when writing their upcoming essay. |
| |We began working on “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 1.” We are going to work on developing our own expository essay. We will finish this lesson |
| |tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: HOMEWORK: Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish pages 77, 78, and 79 on “Lesson 10: Transition Words” if they did not complete it during class|
| |or were absent. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 26 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched one of the following videos on sentence structure: / |
| | |
| |We then visited this sites and completed the activity: |
| |I assigned section A on worksheet page 193 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar” and told the children to omit section B on these pages. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the worksheet pages 193 entitled, “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar” sections A only for homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 33 |
| |Date: Thursday, April 12, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |I read aloud some of the students best sentences that they created yesterday. They did an amazing job. |
|Periods 2 |We began working on “Lesson 10: Transition Words.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 77, 78, and 79 into their composition books for |
| |homework. |
| |We worked on “Lesson 10: Transition Words.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 77, 78, and 79 into their composition books for homework. |
| |The students were given a list of transition words that they can utilize when writing their upcoming essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish pages 77, 78, and 79 on “Lesson 10: Transition Words” if they did not complete it during class or were |
| |absent. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 26 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children and I discussed the answers on page 37 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-4: Simple & Compound Sentences” that was assigned yesterday. This |
| |page was a practice page used to see what they currently know about sentence structure. |
| |The children watched the video on Pearson about sentence structure at this url: Show the following videos to the students: |
| | |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 33 |
| |Date: Wednesday, April 11, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |I checked to see that the students completed “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 2” in their composition books. We went through all five steps of good, better, and |
|Periods 2 |best sentence writing. I demonstrated how easy it is to create a complex sentence from a basic sentence. I explained to the children how they need to elevate their |
| |writing skills by writing more complex sentences. |
| |As we progressed through each step, the children were to write their own sentence. I have attached an example of the requirements to Google Classroom. |
| |HOMEWORK: They also need to complete their own steps and write a “best sentence.” |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 26 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children played the following interactive games on independent and subordinate clauses: |
| |I assigned ditto p. 40 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-5: Independent & Dependent Clauses” for homework. |
| |The children are also to complete page 37 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-4: Simple & Compound Sentences. We will check this paper together as a class |
| |tomorrow. The children will begin to learn about sentence structure for the next few days. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to complete page 40 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-5: Independent & Dependent Clauses” and page 37 entitled “Grammar |
| |Practice & Assess Lesson 2-4: Simple & Compound Sentences for homework Thursday. Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 33 |
| |Date: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students were to complete page 50 and 51 “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 1” during class. The students need to color and cut out this page for homework. |
|Periods 2 |We then compared “better sentences” with “best sentences.” The children should understand how to write complex sentences after today’s lesson. They should also |
| |understand the importance of making their writing colorful. |
| |We worked on lesson “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 2.” We went through all five steps of good, better, and best sentence writing. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to finish page 50 and 51 on “Lesson 7: Best Sentences” and pages 53 and 54 on “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 2” if they did not |
| |complete it during class or were absent. Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 26 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children played the following interactive games on independent and subordinate clauses: |
| | |
| |The children are to complete page 58 entitled “Identifying Independent and Subordinate Clauses” for homework Tuesday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to complete page 58 entitled “Identifying Independent and a Subordinate Clauses” for homework Wednesday. Absent students can find this |
| |page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 33 |
| |Date: Monday, April 9, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We watched the following video on character traits: |
| |We then worked pages 35 and 36 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Asses Lesson 6: Character Traits” together as a class. |
| |I then assigned pages 37 & 38 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Asses Lesson 6: Character Traits” as homework for Tuesday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete pages 37 & 38 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Asses Lesson 6: Character Traits” as homework for Tuesday. Absent |
| |students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We worked the top of page 28 together as a class entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences Practice Level C.” |
|Periods 2 |I assigned the bottom of page 28 together as a class entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences Assess Level C.” |
| |The students and I discussed how cut out and glue the “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 1” page in the composition book. The students were given time to complete |
| |this activity. Absent students need to complete this activity using Google Classroom. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned the bottom of page 28 entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences Assess Level C” and “Interactive Writing Notebooks |
| |Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 1.” |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 26 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched one of the following videos on about independent and subordinate clauses at this url: |
| | |
| |The children are to complete the page entitled “Independent and Subordinate Clauses” for homework Tuesday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to complete the page entitled “Independent or a Subordinate Clauses” for homework Tuesday. Absent students can find this page on Google |
| |Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 32 |
| |Date: Friday, March 30, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |NO SCHOOL – Good Friday Day |
|Periods 1 |School resumes Monday, April 9, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |NO SCHOOL – Good Friday Day |
|Periods 2 |School resumes Monday, April 9, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |NO SCHOOL – Good Friday Day |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |School resumes Monday, April 9, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 32 |
| |Date: Thursday, March 29, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We finished page 46 together as a class and glued it into our composition books. A copy of this page can be found on Google Classroom for students who were absent. |
|Periods 2 |The students and I then compared “good sentences” to “better sentences.” We know now what it means to make our writing “more colorful.” |
| |We worked page 25 together as a class entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences.” |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish page 25 on “Lesson 6: “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences” if |
| |they did not complete it during class or were absent. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to PARCC testing and the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children watched one of the following videos on about independent and subordinate clauses at this url: |
| | |
| |The children are to complete the page entitled “Is It an Independent or a Dependent Clause?” for homework Tuesday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to complete the page entitled “Is It an Independent or a Dependent Clause?” for homework Monday, April 9, 2018. Absent students can find|
| |this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 32 |
| |Date: Wednesday, March 28, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students need to write their own sentence using a when, where, why, how, and doubt using the pictures provided. |
|Periods 2 |We worked page 21 together as a class entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence Practice Level C” and checked our answers. |
| |I assigned page 23 entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence Assessment Level C” and checked our answers. |
| |The students and I discussed how to write better sentences. They colored and cut out page 44 “Lesson 6: Better Sentences.” |
| |We began to work on page 46 together as a class. The students and I will finish this together tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 23 entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence Assessment Level C” for homework. The|
| |students need to go to Google Classroom and finish page 44 on “Lesson 5: Better Sentences” if they did not complete it during class or were absent. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to PARCC testing and the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |I used a PowerPoint presentation to teach the children more about independent and dependent/subordinate clauses today. |
| |The children are to complete the page 154 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Independent and Subordinate Clauses” section A only for homework Thursday. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page 154 on the worksheet entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Independent and Subordinate Clauses” section A only for homework. The |
| |students can omit section “B” on page 154. Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 32 |
| |Date: Tuesday, March 27, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students used pictures to learn how to add when, where, why, how, and doubt parts to a sentence. |
|Periods 2 |The students and I discussed how cut out and glue the “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2” page in the composition book. The students were given time |
| |to complete this activity. |
| |The students need to finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2” for homework. The students can find the assignment on Google Classroom on today’s |
| |lesson. The students then need to write their own sentence using a when, where, why, how, and doubt using the pictures provided. |
| |The following site will help the students complete this assignment: |
| |HOMEWORK: The students then need to write their own sentence using a when, where, why, how, and doubt using the pictures provided. The students need to go to Google |
| |Classroom and finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2” if they did not complete it during class. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to PARCC testing and the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |I showed the children the “Grammar Tutorial” on independent and subordinate clauses on the Pearson Website. |
| |We read over and discussed page 662 in the text on independent and subordinate clauses. |
| |I read over and discussed the top of page 186 on the worksheet entitled “Grammar: Appositives and Appositive Phrases.” The children need to complete page 186 and 187|
| |section “A.” The students can omit section “B” on page 187. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page 164 on the worksheet entitled “Grammar: Appositives and Appositive Phrases.” The children need to complete page 164 and 165 section “A.” |
| |The students can omit section “B” on page 165. Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 30 |
| |Date: Friday, March 16, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students and I discussed how cut out and glue the “Good Sentence” page in the composition book. The students were given time to complete this activity. |
|Periods 2 |The students need to finish Lesson 4: Good Sentences by Wednesday. The students can find the assignment on Google Classroom on today’s lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to go to Google Classroom and finish Lesson 4: Good Sentences if they did not complete it during class. Absent students can find this |
| |page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: | |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We began preparing for the PARCC test which will occur next week. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMOEWORK!!! Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 30 |
| |Date: Thursday, March 15, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We worked “Lesson 3: Describers” in our grammar notebooks. |
|Periods 2 |The children colored page 24 brown, cut it out, and wrote the correct adjectives under each flap using the bottom of page 23. |
| |The students need to write three sentences using plain verbs and no describers. They then rewrite each sentence utilizing “vivid” verbs and describers. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 24 entitled “Lesson 3: Describer” for homework. They also need to write three sentences using plain verbs and not |
| |describers. They then need to take those same sentences and add "vivid" verbs and describers to enhance the sentences. This assignment is due Wednesday. Absent |
| |students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 24 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We began preparing for the PARCC test which will occur next week. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMOEWORK!!! Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 30 |
| |Date: Wednesday, March 14, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students, who completed Tuesday’s extra credit, read their eulogies to the class. |
|Periods 2 |Then, students and I discussed using vivid verbs to enhance our writing. |
| |The students completed Lesson 2: Vivid Verbs, Activity 3. They colored the pieces purple, cut them out, and glued them into their composition books. We then |
| |replaced the lesser verbs with vivid verbs. The students can use Google Classroom to complete this assignment. |
| |The students need to write three sentences using plain verbs and then rewrite each sentence utilizing “vivid” verbs. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to write three sentences using pain verbs and then rewrite each sentence utilizing “vivid” verbs. Students need to complete the extra credit |
| |for homework. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 24 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We began preparing for the PARCC test which will occur next week. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMOEWORK!!! Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 30 |
| |Date: Tuesday, March 13, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes. |
|Periods 2 |We worked Lesson 1: Dead Words & Dead Verbs. The purpose of this lesson is to identify boring, non-descriptive verbs that should never be used in academic writings. |
| |I told the children that they need to practice using strong verbs in their writing. The children then copied down better words for each verb that is non-descriptive.|
| |For example, we “buried” the word bad and replaced it with the following words: awful, rotten, mean, wicked, nasty, wretched, etc. The children were given a chart to|
| |help them complete their mummies. This chart can be found on Google Classroom. |
| |I explained an extra credit opportunity that I was offering to the students. The children will need to write an obituary or eulogy for a much over used verb. The |
| |most important part of this activity is naming the “living family members.” For any dead verb, the living family members are better verbs that can be used in place |
| |of the dead verb. Students can use a thesaurus for this activity. The children can go to Google Classroom to look up the instructions for writing their eulogy. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to write weak words on the front of their mummies and write stronger words on the back of the mummy. Students need to complete the extra |
| |credit for homework. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 24 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We began preparing for the PARCC test which will occur next week. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMOEWORK!!! Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 30 |
| |Date: Monday, March 12, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The children then added “Lesson 6: Character Traits” into their composition notebook during class. The children were taught that character traits are found on the |
| |inside of the character. Character traits do not involve the physical appearance of character. |
| |The children need to color and cut out page 45. Then they need to glue it into their composition books and add a list of character traits to their composition book.|
| |The students can use the following websites to add character traits to their composition books: |
| | and |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 45 “Lesson 6: Character Traits” as homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date|
| |on Google Classroom. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: | |
|Periods 2 | |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 24 Day 1 & 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We began preparing for the PARCC test which will occur next week. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMOEWORK!!! Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 29 |
| |Date: Friday, March 9, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children continued working on their children’s book. They began typing their story on Google Slides. We will print out their children’s story, and the will then|
|Periods 2 |be able to add their illustrations. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 23 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video on appositives and appositive phrases: and |
| | |
| |I assigned the page entitled “The Appositive Phrases” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned the page entitled “The Appositive Phrases” for homework. Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 29 |
| |Date: Thursday, March 8, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children were giving time in class to add more evidence to support their assertion. |
|Periods 2 |The students were given time to add more evidence to their Google Slides. The need to have two slides supporting their assertion and one slide arguing against their |
| |assertion which they then counter with evidence. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children will share their three slides in class on Friday. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 23 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video on appositives and appositive phrases: and |
| | |
| |Students, read over the information at this website: |
| |I assigned page 89 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Appositives and Appositive Phrases” section “A” only for homework. The students need to omit section|
| |“B.” |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page 89 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Appositives and Appositive Phrases” section “A” only for homework. The students need to |
| |omit section “B.” |
| |Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 29 |
| |Date: Wednesday, March 7, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children were giving time in class to add more evidence to support their assertion. |
|Periods 2 |The students were given time to add more evidence to their Google Slides. The need to have two slides supporting their assertion and one slide arguing against their |
| |assertion which they then counter with evidence. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children will share their three slides in class on Friday. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 23 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |I showed the children the “Grammar Tutorial” on appositives and appositive phrases on the Pearson Website. |
| |We read over and discussed page 618 on appositives and appositive phrases in the text |
| |I read over and discussed the top of page 164 on the worksheet entitled “Grammar: Appositives and Appositive Phrases.” The children need to complete page 164 and 165|
| |section “A.” The students can omit section “B” on page 165. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page 164 on the worksheet entitled “Grammar: Appositives and Appositive Phrases.” The children need to complete page 164 and 165 section “A.” |
| |The students can omit section “B” on page 165. Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 29 |
| |Date: Tuesday, March 6, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children were giving time in class to add more evidence to support their assertion. |
|Periods 2 |The students were given time to add more evidence to their Google Slides. The need to have two slides supporting their assertion and one slide arguing against their |
| |assertion which they then counter with evidence. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children will share their three slides in class on Thursday and Friday. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 23 Day 1 and 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video on appositives and appositive phrases: and |
| | |
| |We played a couple of appositive games at the following websites: ; |
| | and
| | |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 29 |
| |Date: Monday, March 5, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |NO SCHOOL – Casimir Pulaski’s Day |
|Periods 1 |School resumes tomorrow, Tuesday, March 5, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due on Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |NO SCHOOL – Casimir Pulaski’s Day |
|Periods 2 |School resumes tomorrow, Tuesday, March 5, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |NO SCHOOL – Casimir Pulaski’s Day |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |School resumes tomorrow, Wednesday, March 5, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 28 |
| |Date: Friday, March 2, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due by the end of the day today. Twenty AR points, for the fourth |
| |quarter, are due by Friday, May 11, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children were giving time in class to add more evidence to support their assertion. |
|Periods 2 |We began to talk about the next writing assignment. The children will be using Google Slides to create a children’s book. |
| |The children need to bring a children’s book from home to school on Tuesday, March 6th. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to bring a children’s book from home to school on Tuesday, March 6th. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 22 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video on infinitives verses gerunds: , and |
| | |
| |I assigned two pages entitled “Gerund-Infinitive” labeled GI 3 and GI 4. These pages are homework for Tuesday. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned two pages entitled “Gerund-Infinitive” labeled GI 3 and GI 4. These pages are homework for Tuesday. Absent students can find this page on |
| |Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 28 |
| |Date: Thursday, March 1, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due tomorrow, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We watched a video that explained how we plan an opinion/argumentative essay. The children watched the following video: |
|Periods 2 |, and |
| |The children need pick which one of their three assertion phrases they would like to research. An assertion is a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief.|
| |An example of an assertion statement might be as follows: Testing drugs on animals is the sacrifice we have to make. |
| |The children were given time in class to locate three pieces of evidence that support their assertion. They also need one argument against their assertion. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children were given time in class to locate three pieces of evidence that support their assertion. They also need one argument against their |
| |assertion for homework tomorrow. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 22 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video on infinitives verses gerunds: and |
| | |
| |I assigned page 62 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 4-4: Infinitives & Participles (Principal Parts) Assessment Level C” for homework to assess the |
| |students knowledge of infinitives. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page 62 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 4-4: Infinitives & Participles (Principal Parts) Assessment Level C” for homework. Absent |
| |students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 28 |
| |Date: Wednesday, February 28, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We worked on “Lesson 25: Opinion/Argumentative Paragraphs-Exemplar.” The students need to color and cut out pages 162 and 163 into their composition books for |
|Periods 2 |homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 22 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video on infinitives: and |
| |I read the top portion of page 50 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases,” and then, I assigned section “A” of this page |
| |only for homework. Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned section “A” on page 50 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases” for homework. |
| |Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 28 |
| |Date: Tuesday, February 27, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We worked on “Lesson 25: Opinion/Argumentative Paragraphs-Exemplar.” The students need to color and cut out pages 162 and 163 into their composition books for |
|Periods 2 |homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 22 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went over the following PowerPoint presentation on infinitives: |
| |I read the “Key Information” on the top of page 38 entitled “15.3: Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases,” and then, I assigned this page for homework. The students are|
| |to complete both section “A” and “B.” Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page 38 “15.3: Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases.” The students are to complete both section “A” and “B.” |
| |Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 28 |
| |Date: Monday, February 26, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We watched the following video clips on story devices: suspense |
| | foreshadowing |
| | |
| |flashback |
| |cliffhanger |
| | |
| |I then assigned pages 32-34 “Lesson 5: Story Devices Assessment Level C” as homework for Tuesday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete pages 32-34 “Lesson 5: Story Devices Assessment Level C” as homework for Tuesday. Absent students can find these pages under|
| |this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due this Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We worked on “Lesson 25: Opinion/Argumentative Paragraphs-Exemplar.” The students need to color and cut out pages 162 and 163 into their composition books for |
|Periods 2 |homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 22 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video on infinitives: and . |
| |I assigned page “Reading Kit Grammar: Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases” page 162 and 163 for homework. I worked one problem from each section of the assignment. |
| |The students can omit section “C” on page 163. The students need to complete these pages for homework this evening. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page “Reading Kit Grammar: Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases” page 162 and 163 for homework. I worked one problem from each section of the |
| |assignment. The students can omit section “C” on page 163. The students need to complete these pages for homework this evening. Absent students can find this page on|
| |Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 27 |
| |Date: Friday, February 23, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children are to thoroughly check over their expository essay. The essay needs to be submitted before the end of the day today. |
|Periods 2 |The children need to use their rubric as a guide to know how their expository essay will be graded. |
| |HOMEWORK: Expository essays need to be turned by the end of the day. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 21 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video on infinitives: , |
| |I assigned page “Reading Kit Grammar: Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases” page 162 and 163 for homework. I worked one problem from each section of the assignment. |
| |The students can omit section “C” on page 163. The students need to complete these pages for homework this evening. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page “Reading Kit Grammar: Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases” page 162 and 163 for homework. I worked one problem from each section of the |
| |assignment. The students can omit section “C” on page 163. The students need to complete these pages for homework this evening. Absent students can find this page on|
| |Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 27 |
| |Date: Thursday, February 22, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |I collected any extra credit forms that were completed parents last night after looking over their child’s essay. |
|Periods 2 |The children got in pairs once again today to have a peer read over their essay and look for any grammatical, spelling, punctuation, or capitalization errors. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to continue to fix any grammatical, spelling, punctuation, or capitalization errors within their essay. |
| |Expository essays need to be turned in Friday, February 23, 2018. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 21 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children corrected page 137 “Lesson 4-4: Infinitives & Participles (Principal Parts) Activity 3” and glued it into their composition notebook. |
| |The students watched a video on infinitives and infinitive phrases on the Pearson website. |
| |We read over and worked text page 598 in our Pearson textbook orally as a class on infinitives and infinitive phrases. The children need to learn what it means to |
| |be an infinitive, and they need to be able to recognize infinitives and infinitive phrases in text. |
| |I assigned page “Reading Kit Grammar: Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases” page 162 and 163 for homework. I worked one problem from each section of the assignment. |
| |The students can omit section “C” on page 163. The students need to complete these pages for homework this evening. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page “Reading Kit Grammar: Infinitives and Infinitive Phrases” page 162 and 163 for homework. I worked one problem from each section of the |
| |assignment. The students can omit section “C” on page 163. The students need to complete these pages for homework this evening. Absent students can find this page on|
| |Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 27 |
| |Date: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children got in pairs once again today to have a peer read over their essay and look for any grammatical, spelling, punctuation, or capitalization errors. |
|Periods 2 |The children were given an extra credit page today. Parents, your child can earn five extra credit points just for having you check over their essay tonight. They |
| |are working on the final stage of their paper which is the proofreading stage. In order for your child to earn the extra credit points, you need to check their |
| |essay and help them fix any grammatical, spelling, punctuation, and capitalization errors. As always, it is beneficial, as a writer, to have someone else read over |
| |your paper. Thank you for once again being a part of your child’s education. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to continue to fix any grammatical, spelling, punctuation, or capitalization errors within their essay. |
| |Expository essays need to be turned in Friday, February 23, 2018. |
| |Extra credit pages were given to each of the students today. Parents, please use the sheets given to your child today as a guide for helping them correct their |
| |essay. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 21 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children added pages 136 and 137 “Lesson 4-4: Infinitives & Participles (Principal Parts) Activity 3” to their composition notebooks. Many of the students have |
| |forgotten the correct past participle irregular verb. This was an excellent review!!! |
| |HOMEWORK: The children added pages 136 and 137 “Lesson 4-4: Infinitives & Participles (Principal Parts) Activity 3” to their composition notebooks. Absent students |
| |can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 27 |
| |Date: Tuesday, February 20, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |I collected any extra credit forms that were completed parents last night after looking over their child’s essay. |
|Periods 2 |The children got in pairs once again today to have a peer read over their essay and look for any grammatical, spelling, punctuation, or capitalization errors. |
| |The essay needs to be submitted before the end of the day on Friday, February 23, 2018. |
| |The children need to use their rubric as a guide to know how their expository essay will be graded. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to continue to fix any grammatical, spelling, punctuation, or capitalization errors within their essay. |
| |Expository essays need to be turned in Friday, February 23, 2018. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 21 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children added page 134 “Lesson 4-4: Infinitives & Participles (Principal Parts) Activity 1” to their composition notebooks. |
| |We began working on page 135 “Lesson 4-4: Infinitives & Participles (Principal Parts) Activity 2.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The children added page 134 “Lesson 4-4: Infinitives & Participles (Principal Parts) Activity 1” to their composition notebooks. Absent students can find |
| |this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 27 |
| |Date: Monday, February 19, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students completed pages 29-31 entitled “Lesson 5: Reading Literature Practice & Assess Story Devices Practice.” I am using this page to guide my instruction. |
| | |
| |The students worked pages 23-25 together on “Lesson 5: Story Devices Practice Level C.” We then checked this page during class to see what we already know about the |
| |four different types of story devices. |
| |The children then added “Lesson 5: Story Devices” into their composition notebook during class. The children were taught the definition of a story device. Then, |
| |they were introduced to the different story devices which are as follows: flashback, cliffhanger, foreshadowing, and suspense. |
| |The children need to color and cut out page 42. Then they need to glue it into their composition books. We then worked on writing the definitions for these new |
| |terms. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 42 entitled “Lesson 5: Story Device” in their composition notebooks. Absent students can find these pages under this |
| |class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students met with their peers to look over their first and last paragraph to make sure they were organized correctly. |
|Periods 2 |The following elements need to be in the first and last paragraphs. In the introduction paragraph, begin with a sentence that captures the reader’s attention, give |
| |background information on the topic, and end with the thesis statement. The thesis statement states the main idea of the essay, usually in one sentence. For your |
| |conclusion sentence, “echo” the thesis statement without simply repeating it. You may pose a question for future thought or suggest a course of action. Include a |
| |detail or example from the introduction to “tie up” the essay. Remember to end with a strong concluding statement. |
| |The essay needs to be submitted before the end of the day on Friday, February 23, 2018. |
| |The children need to use their rubric as a guide to know how their expository essay will be graded. |
| |The children were given an extra credit page today. Parents, your child can earn 5 extra credit points just for having you check over their essay tonight. They are|
| |working on the revision stage of their paper. In order for your child to earn the extra credit points, you need to examine, whether or not their writing is clear, |
| |and the meaning comes across so that it can be understood. If you are confused when you read their work, please have them rewrite the sections that you feel need to|
| |be clearer. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to work on making sure their first and fifth paragraphs are organized correctly. |
| |Extra credit pages were given to each of the students today. |
| |Expository essays need to be turned in tomorrow, February 20, 2018. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 21 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students completed page 61 entitled “Lesson 4-4: Grammar Practice & Assess Infinitives & Participles (Principal Parts) Practice.” I am using this page to guide |
| |my instruction. |
| |I then assigned page 68 “Lesson 5-2: Grammar Practice & Assess Prepositional Phrases Practice.” Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
| |HOMEWORK: I then assigned page 68 “Lesson 5-2: Grammar Practice & Assess Prepositional Phrases Practice.” Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 26 |
| |Date: Friday, February 16, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children got in pairs once again today to have a peer read over their essay to see if their writing was easily understood by a classmate. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: The students need to begin to fix any items within their essay that are not written clearly. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 20 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following videos on prepositions: and |
| | |
| |I explained how to determine is a prepositional phrase is an adjective or adverb phrase. Then, I then assigned page 29 “13.3: Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives and|
| |Adverbs.” Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page 29 “13.3: Prepositional Phrases as Adjectives and Adverbs.” Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 26 |
| |Date: Thursday, February 15, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children got in pairs once again today to have a peer read over their essay to see if their writing was easily understood by a classmate. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: The students need to begin to fix any items within their essay that are not written clearly. The essays are due on Friday, February 23, 2018. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 20 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following videos on prepositional phases: and |
| | |
| |I asked the students to complete page 67 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 5-2: Prepositional Phrases Practice Level C,” and we checked it together as a class. |
| |I explained how to determine is a prepositional phrase is an adjective or adverb phrase. Then, I then assigned page 27 “13.1: Prepositions and Prepositional |
| |Phrases.” Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page 27 “13.1: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases.” Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 26 |
| |Date: Wednesday, February 14, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
| |Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!! |
|Content Writing: |I checked to see if the children added any descriptive elements to their expository essay. They were given extra credit for adding descriptive elements to their |
|Periods 2 |expository essay. |
| |The children got in pairs today to have a peer read over their essay to see if their writing was easily understood by a classmate. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to begin to fix any items within their essay that are not written clearly. |
| |Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!! |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 20 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following videos on prepositional phrases: and |
| |The students completed and 153 “Lesson 5-2: Prepositional Phrases” in their composition books. Absent students need to color, cut, and glue these pages into their |
| |composition notebooks. Absent students can find these pages on Google Classroom. |
| |I assigned page 66 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 5-1: Prepositions Assessment Level C” for homework. The student can find examples of prepositions in |
| |their composition book or on page 458 in their Pearson text. All of this information can be found on their Google Classroom too. |
| |HOMEWORK: We worked page 153 entitled “Lesson 5-2: Prepositional Phrases” together as a class. The students are to put these pages in their composition notebooks. I |
| |assigned page 66 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 5-1: Prepositions Assessment Level C” for homework. Absent students need to go to Google Classroom for |
| |today’s homework. |
| |Happy Valentine’s Day!!!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 26 |
| |Date: Tuesday, February 13, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: | The children spent a little time today enhancing the vocabulary, working on adding descriptive elements to their expository essay and highlighting their additions |
|Periods 2 |for extra credit. The students need to highlight items dealing with “sight” green, highlight items dealing with “taste” red, highlight items dealing with “sound” |
| |blue, highlight items dealing with “feelings” yellow, highlight items dealing with “smell” orange, and highlight items dealing with “touch” purple. |
| |The students need to have someone read their essay tonight and help them add descriptive writing to their expository essay. They simply need to help them generate |
| |more details to include in their essay under their ideas categories. |
| |Tomorrow, for extra credit, students may add any descriptive elements to their expository essay. The added elements need to have the text color coded according to |
| |which sense it is referring to on yesterday's lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to add any detail sentences that the two people reading their essay may have suggested. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 20 Day 1 & 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following videos on prepositions: and |
| | |
| |I explained more about how to use the correct pronoun as an object of a preposition. Then, I then assigned page 28 “13.2: Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions.” |
| |Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page 28 “13.2: Pronouns as Objects of Prepositions.” Absent students can find this page on Google Classroom. Absent students need to go to |
| |Google Classroom for today’s homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 26 |
| |Date: Monday, February 12, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |School not in session. |
|Periods 1 |School resumes tomorrow, Tuesday, February 13, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |School not in session. |
|Periods 2 |School resumes tomorrow, Tuesday, February 13, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |School not in session. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |School resumes tomorrow, Wednesday, January 3, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 25 |
| |Date: Friday, February 9, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children their time today enhancing the vocabulary and adding descriptive writing to their essay. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |No Bell Work due to the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students watched the following video on prepositions: |
| |Then we played these games: |
| | |
| |We will play a Kahoot game on prepositions if time permits. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 25 |
| |Date: Thursday, February 8, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children spent a little time today enhancing the vocabulary within their essay. |
|Periods 2 |We talked about how we need to add descriptive writing to our formal writing. We discussed how we need to use as many sense as possible. |
| |We completed "Lesson 13: Descriptive Paragraphs, Close Reading of Exemplar" together as a class. |
| |Tomorrow, for extra credit, students may add any descriptive elements to their expository essay. The added elements need to have the text color coded according to |
| |which sense it is referring to on today's lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to add any descriptive writing elements to their essay that relate to sight, taste, sound, feeling, smell, and touch. Absent students |
| |can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 19 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students watched the following video on prepositions: |
| |We then went over a PowerPoint presentation on prepositions and prepositional phrases. The presentation can be viewed on Google Drive. |
| |I assigned page “Integrated Language Sills: Grammar Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases” page 89 for homework. I worked one problem from each section of the |
| |assignment. The students can omit section “B.” The students need to complete these pages for homework this evening. |
| |We will play a Kahoot! game on prepositions if time permits. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page “Integrated Language Sills: Grammar Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases” page 89 for homework. I worked one problem from each section |
| |of the assignment. The students can omit section “B.” The students need to complete these pages for homework this evening. Absent students can find this page under |
| |this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 25 |
| |Date: Wednesday, February 7, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |I checked to see that the children color coded their essay to make sure that they incorporated the necessary sentences for all of their paragraphs. |
|Periods 2 |The children spent the rest of the day enhancing the vocabulary within their essay. I showed the students how to open up tabs and use the following url addresses to |
| |help with enrich their vocabulary: and |
| |The children can use their rubric and the paper they received entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to finish enhancing the vocabulary in their essay. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 19 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students watched a video on prepositions and prepositional phrases on the Pearson website. |
| |We read over text page 458 in our Pearson textbook as a class on prepositions and prepositional phrases. The children need to learn many of the prepositions on page|
| |458 located within the chart. |
| |I assigned page “Reading Kit Grammar: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases” page 114 and 115 for homework. I worked one problem from each section of the |
| |assignment. The students can omit section “B” on page 114 and section “C” on page 115. The students need to complete these pages for homework this evening. |
| |We played a Kahoot game on prepositions. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page “Reading Kit Grammar: Prepositions and Prepositional Phrases” page 114 and 115 for homework. I worked one problem from each section of the|
| |assignment. The students can omit section “B” on page 114 and section “C” on page 115. The students need to complete these pages for homework this evening. Absent |
| |students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 25 |
| |Date: Tuesday, February 6, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students need to finish their first and fifth paragraph by tomorrow. |
|Periods 2 |The following elements need to be in the first and last paragraphs. In the introduction paragraph, begin with a sentence that captures the reader’s attention, give |
| |background information on the topic, and end with the thesis statement. The thesis statement states the main idea of the essay, usually in one sentence. For your |
| |conclusion sentence, “echo” the thesis statement without simply repeating it. You may pose a question for future thought or suggest a course of action. Include a |
| |detail or example from the introduction to “tie up” the essay. Remember to end with a strong concluding statement. |
| |The children can use their rubric and the paper they received entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete their first and fifth paragraphs for homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on|
| |Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 19 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following videos on prepositions: and |
| |The students completed page 148 and 150 “Lesson 5-1: Prepositions” in their composition books. Absent students need to color, cut, and glue these pages into their |
| |composition notebooks. Absent students can find these pages on Google Classroom. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned pages 148 and 150 entitled “Lesson 5-1: Prepositions” for homework. The students are to put these pages in their composition notebooks. Absent |
| |students need to go to Google Classroom for today’s homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 25 |
| |Date: Monday, February 5, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students worked pages 23-25 together on “Lesson 4: Four Types of Conflict Practice Level C.” We then checked this page during class to check for understanding |
| |about the four different types of conflict. |
| |I then assigned pages 26-28 “Lesson 4: Four Types of Conflict Assessment Level C” as homework for Tuesday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete pages 26-28 entitled “Lesson 4: Four Types of Conflict, Assessment Level C.” Absent students can find these pages under this|
| |class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students need to work on their first and fifth paragraph today. |
|Periods 2 |The following elements need to be in the first and last paragraphs. In the introduction paragraph, begin with a sentence that captures the reader’s attention, give |
| |background information on the topic, and end with the thesis statement. The thesis statement states the main idea of the essay, usually in one sentence. For your |
| |conclusion sentence, “echo” the thesis statement without simply repeating it. You may pose a question for future thought or suggest a course of action. Include a |
| |detail or example from the introduction to “tie up” the essay. Remember to end with a strong concluding statement. |
| |The children can use their rubric and the paper they received entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to work on their first and fifth paragraphs for homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on |
| |Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 19 Day 1&2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video on direct and indirect objects: |
| |I asked the students to completed page 64 entitled “Lesson 4-5: Direct & Indirect Objects Assessment Level C” for homework. |
| |I asked the students to completed page 65 entitled “Lesson 5-1: Prepositions Practice Level C.” This page is a pre-assessment that shows me what the students |
| |currently know about prepositions. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page 64 entitled “Lesson 4-5: Direct & Indirect Objects Assessment Level C” for homework. Absent students need to go to Google Classroom for |
| |today’s homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 24 |
| |Date: Friday, February 2, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The student’s need to complete their third paragraph by Monday. Their third paragraph comes from their third idea category circle with their details. |
|Periods 2 |The children were give a rubric Wednesday that I will be using to grade their essay, and they received a paper entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to |
| |assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete their second paragraph for homework. Absent students need to go to Google Classroom for today’s homework. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 18 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |I asked the students to completed page 63 entitled “Lesson 4-5: Direct & Indirect Objects Practice Level C.” This page is a pre-assessment that shows me what the |
| |students currently know about direct and indirect objects. |
| |We watched the following video: |
| |The students completed page 143 “Lesson 4-5: Direct & Indirect Objects.” Absent students need to color, cut, and glue this page into their composition notebooks. |
| |This page can be found on page on Google Classroom. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page 63 “Lesson 4-5: Direct and Indirect Objects Practice Level C.” Absent students need to go to Google Classroom for today’s homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 24 |
| |Date: Thursday, February 1, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The student’s need to complete their second paragraph by tomorrow. Their second paragraph comes from their second idea category circle with their details. |
|Periods 2 |The children were give a rubric yesterday that I will be using to grade their essay, and they received a paper entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to |
| |assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete their second paragraph for homework. Absent students need to go to Google Classroom for today’s homework. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 18 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students watched the following videos: |
| | |
| | |
| |The students completed section “A” on page 222 entitled “Integrating Grammar Skills Revising for Correct Degrees of Adjectives and Adverbs.” Absent students need to |
| |complete this page and turn it in for a grade. This page can be found on Google Classroom. |
| |I assigned page 70 entitled “Lesson 5-3: Adverb & Adjective Phrases Assessment Level C” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page 70 “Lesson 5-3: Adverb & Adjective Phrases Assessment Level C.” Absent students need to go to Google Classroom for today’s homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 24 |
| |Date: Wednesday, January 31, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students need to complete their concluding sentence on their graphic organizer. The students need to go to Google Drive, open up a new Google Doc, and begin |
|Periods 2 |writing their essay. The need to title their essay beginning with their first and last name followed by the words “Expository Essay.” The students need to hit tab |
| |once and type in their topic sentence. Then, they need to begin a new paragraph and hit tab again to start their second paragraph. Their second paragraph comes |
| |from their first idea category circle with their details. |
| |The children were give a rubric today that I will be using to grade their essay, and they received a paper entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to assist |
| |them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete their topic sentence today, and their second paragraph for homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class |
| |and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 18 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students took the test entitled “Unit 2 Grammar Assessment: Adjectives and Adverbs.” |
| |The students completed page 179 “Lesson 8-2: More Adverb Phrases.” Absent students need to color, cut, and glue this page into their composition notebooks. This page|
| |can be found on page 179 on Google Classroom. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page 156 “Lesson 5-3: Adverb & Adjective Phrases.” Absent students need to go to Google Classroom for today’s homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 24 |
| |Date: Tuesday, January 30, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students were given points for completing their three ideas category and their topic sentence. |
|Periods 2 |The students need to continue to fill out their graphic organizer. The graphic organizer is due tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: Graphic organizers need to be completed by tomorrow. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 18 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students completed page 156 “Lesson 5-3: Adverb & Adjective Phrases.” Absent students need to color, cut, and glue this page into their composition notebooks. |
| |Then, they need to write down the sentences under each flap. The sentences can be found on page 155 on Google Classroom. |
| |The students played a Kahoot game on adjectives as review for tomorrow’s test. |
| |HOMEWORK: STUDY!!! The students will take have a test tomorrow over adjectives and adverbs. They can find all of the material to study on Google Classroom dating |
| |from Tuesday, January 9th to Friday, January 26th. I assigned page 156 “Lesson 5-3: Adverb & Adjective Phrases.” Absent students need to color, cut, and glue this |
| |page into their composition notebooks. Then, they need to write down the sentences under each flap. The sentences can be found on page 155 on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 24 |
| |Date: Monday, January 29, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We complete “Lesson 4: Four Types of Conflict, Activity 1” during class. The children were introduced to the terms four different types of conflict. |
| |We also completed “Lesson 4: Four Types of Conflict, Activity 2” to check for understanding about the four different types of conflict. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 21 and 22 entitled “Lesson 4: Four Types of Conflict, Activity 1 and 2” Absent students can find these pages under this|
| |class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |I checked to see that pages 91 and 92 “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2” were finished. |
|Periods 2 |I gave the students a list of possible expository essay topics. |
| |The students are to pick a topic and begin to fill out their graphic organizer focusing on their three idea categories. |
| |HOMEWORK: The three idea categories on the graphic organizers need to be completed by Tuesday. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s |
| |date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 18 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |I had the students complete page 69 “Lesson 5-3: Adverb & Adjective Phrases Practice Lesson C,” and we checked it together. The students will be learning about |
| |adverb and adjective phrases this week |
| |The students played a Kahoot game on adjectives as review for Wednesday’s Test. |
| |HOMEWORK: STUDY!!! The students will take have a test on Wednesday over adjectives and adverbs. They can find all of the material to study on Google Classroom |
| |dating from Tuesday, January 9th to Friday, January 26th. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 23 |
| |Date: Friday, January 26, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We finished pages 91 and 92 “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2” during class. |
|Periods 2 |We watched this video on expository writing: |
| |Absent students will need to watch this video as well. |
| |We began to discuss choosing a topic for our expository essay, and I shared a list of possible essay topics with the students. They can find this list using their |
| |school email address. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish pages 91 and 92 on “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2” if they did not complete it |
| |during class or were absent. The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 17 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We conducted a spelling bee during class to see who will go to the Spelling Bee in Pawnee. |
| |The students then did an activity on Kahoot. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 23 |
| |Date: Thursday, January 25, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We finished working on “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 1.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 84 and 86 into their |
|Periods 2 |composition books for homework. We are going to work on developing our own expository essay. |
| |We finished “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 91 and 92 into their composition |
| |books for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish pages 84 and 86 from “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 1” and pages 91 and 92 from |
| |“Lesson 11: Expository Essay Structure, Activity 2,” the students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 17 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students watched the following videos: What are adverbs? Adverbs Frequency |
| | |
| |The students then did an activity on Kahoot. |
| |I assigned the assessment page 82 on adverbs entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 8-1: Adverbs Assessment Level C” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned the assessment page 82 on adverbs entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 8-1: Adverbs Assessment Level C” for homework. The students need |
| |to complete these pages for homework this evening. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 23 |
| |Date: Wednesday, January 24, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We began working on “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 1.” The students need to color, cut, and glue pages 84 and 86 into their composition books |
|Periods 2 |for homework. We are going to work on developing our own expository essay. We will finish this lesson tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!!! |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 17 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students watched the following videos: |
| | |
| |The students then did an activity on Kahoot. |
| |I assigned section A on page 192 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Adverbs” for homework. The students may omit section B. |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned section A on page 192 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Adverbs” for homework. The students need to complete these pages for |
| |homework this evening. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 23 |
| |Date: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We began working on “Lesson 10: Transition Words.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 77, 78, and 79 into their composition books for |
|Periods 2 |homework. |
| |We finished “Lesson 10: Transition Words.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 77, 78, and 79 into their composition books for homework. |
| |The students were given a list of transition words that they can utilize when writing their upcoming essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish pages 77, 78, and 79 on “Lesson 10: Transition Words” if they did not complete it during class or were |
| |absent. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 17 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students watched a video on adverbs on the Pearson website. The students can view this video after logging into Pearson at the following url: |
| | |
| |We read over text page 360 in our Pearson textbook as a class on adverbs. We learned the meaning of adverb, and we learned how to recognize an adverb because they |
| |answer the question how? when? where? how often? or to what extent? |
| |I assigned page “Reading Kit Grammar: Adverbs” page 88 and 89 for homework. I worked one or two problems from each section of the assignment. The students need to |
| |complete these pages for homework this evening. |
| |If time permits, we will be playing an adverb identification game using this url: |
| |HOMEWORK: I assigned page “Reading Kit Grammar: Adverbs” page 88 and 89 for homework. I worked one or two problems from each section of the assignment. The students|
| |need to complete these pages for homework this evening. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 23 |
| |Date: Monday, January 22, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We worked on “Lesson 4: Four Types of Conflict, Activity 1” during class. The children were introduced to the terms four different types of conflict. |
| |The children and I went over the answers on pages 19 and 20 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 3: Internal & External Conflict Practice Level B” |
| |as a class. |
| |I assigned pages 21 and 22 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 3: Internal & External Conflict Assessment Level B” for homework tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 21 and 22 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 3: Internal & External Conflict Assessment Level B.” |
| |Absent students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We worked on lesson “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 2.” We went through all five steps of good, better, and best sentence writing. |
|Periods 2 |As we progressed through each step, the children were to write their own sentence. I have attached an example of the requirements to Google Classroom. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to finish pages 53 and 54 on “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 2” if they did not complete it during class or were absent. They also need |
| |to complete their own steps and write a “best sentence.” Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 17 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students completed pre-assessment page 81 on adverbs entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 8-1: Adverbs Practice Level C.” |
| |We worked page 174 “Lesson 8-1: Adverbs, Activity 1” and page 175 entitled “Lesson 8-1: Adverbs, Activity 2.” The students need to complete these pages for homework |
| |this evening. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the pre-assessment page 81 on adverbs entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 8-1: Adverbs Practice Level C,” page 174 |
| |“Lesson 8-1: Adverbs, Activity 1,” and page 175 entitled “Lesson 8-1: Adverbs, Activity 2.” Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date |
| |on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 22 |
| |Date: Friday, January 19, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students were to complete page 50 and 51 “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 1” during class. The students need to color and cut out this page for homework. |
|Periods 2 |We then compared “better sentences” with “best sentences.” The children should understand how to write complex sentences after today’s lesson. They should also |
| |understand the importance of making their writing colorful. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Absent students need to go to Google Classroom and finish page 50 and 51 on “Lesson 7: Best Sentences.” |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We discussed the correct answers on page 20 Lesson 12.1-2 entitled “Adjectives, Articles, and Proper Adjectives” for homework. |
| |We watched the following video: |
| | |
| |I assigned section “A” only on page 22 entitled “Demonstratives” and page 78 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 7-1: Kinds of Adjectives Assessment Level C” |
| |for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete section “A” only on page 22 entitled “Demonstratives” and “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 7-1: Kinds of Adjectives |
| |Assessment Level C” page for homework. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 22 |
| |Date: Thursday, January 18, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We finished page 46 together as a class and glued it into our composition books. A copy of this page can be found on Google Classroom for students who were absent. |
|Periods 2 |We worked page 25 together as a class entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences Practice Level C.” |
| |I assigned page 27 together as a class entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences Assess Level C.” |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish page 25 on “Lesson 6: “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences” if they did not |
| |complete it during class or were absent. I assigned page 27 together as a class entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences Assess Level |
| |C.” |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video: |
| |I assigned page 153 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Adjectives” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 153 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Adjectives” for homework. Absent students can find this page under |
| |this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 22 |
| |Date: Wednesday, January 17, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |I checked to see if the students completed their sentence using a when, where, why, how, and doubt using the pictures provided. |
|Periods 2 |We worked page 21 together as a class entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence Practice Level C” and checked our answers. |
| |I assigned page 23 entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence Assessment Level C” and checked our answers. |
| |The students and I discussed how to write better sentences. They colored and cut out page 44 “Lesson 6: Better Sentences.” |
| |We began to work on page 46 together as a class. The students and I will finish this together tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 23 entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence Assessment Level C” for homework. The|
| |students need to go to Google Classroom and finish page 44 on “Lesson 5: Better Sentences” if they did not complete it during class or were absent. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video: |
| |I assigned page 20 Lesson 12.1-2 entitled “Adjectives, Articles, and Proper Adjectives” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 20 Lesson 12.1-2 entitled “Adjectives, Articles, and Proper Adjectives” for homework. Absent students can find this page|
| |under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 22 |
| |Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |NO SCHOOL |
|Periods 1 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |School not in session. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |School not in session. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 22 |
| |Date: Monday, January 15, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |NO SCHOOL – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day |
|Periods 1 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |School not in session. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |School not in session. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 21 |
| |Date: Friday, January 12, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students used pictures to learn how to add when, where, why, how, and doubt parts to a sentence. |
|Periods 2 |The students and I discussed how cut out and glue the “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2” page in the composition book. The students were given time |
| |to complete this activity. |
| |The students need to finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2” for homework. The students can find the assignment on Google Classroom on today’s |
| |lesson. The students then need to write their own sentence using a when, where, why, how, and doubt using the pictures provided. |
| |The following site will help the students complete this assignment: |
| |HOMEWORK: The students then need to write their own sentence using a when, where, why, how, and doubt using the pictures provided. The students need to go to Google |
| |Classroom and finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2” if they did not complete it during class. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 16 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We finished working on page 168 “Lesson 7-2: Degrees of Comparison.” The students need to complete this page for homework this evening. |
| |I assigned page 21 Lesson 12.3-4 entitled “Comparative and Superlative Adjectives” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students finish “Lesson 7-2: Degrees of Comparison” page 168 and glue it into their composition books!!! The students need to complete page 21 Lesson |
| |12.3-4 entitled “Comparative and Superlative Adjectives” for homework. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 21 |
| |Date: Thursday, January 11, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students and I finished discussed all of the elements of “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1.” |
|Periods 2 | |
| |The students are to complete “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1” page 35 for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students are to complete “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1” page 35 for homework. The students need to go to Google Classroom and |
| |finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1” if they did not complete it during class. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 16 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We began working on “Lesson 7-1: Kinds of Adjectives.” The students filled in the explanations for each of the four types of adjectives on page 165. |
| |The students completed page 77 entitled “Grammar Practice & Access Lesson 7-1: Kinds of Adjectives Practice Level C.” We checked this page as a class. |
| |We began working on page 168 “Lesson 7-2: Degrees of Comparison.” The students need to complete this page for homework this evening. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to color, cut out, glue, and fill out “Lesson 7-2: Degrees of Comparison” page 168 into their composition books!!! Absent students can find |
| |this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 21 |
| |Date: Wednesday, January 10, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students and I discussed how cut out and glue the “Good Sentence” page in the composition book. The students were given time to complete this activity. |
|Periods 2 |The students need to finish Lesson 4: Good Sentences by Wednesday. The students can find the assignment on Google Classroom on today’s lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to go to Google Classroom and finish Lesson 4: Good Sentences if they did not complete it during class. Absent students can find this |
| |page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 16 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students took the Unit 2 Grammar Pretest today over adjectives and adverbs. |
| |We began working on “Lesson 7-1: Kinds of Adjectives.” The students need to color, cut-out, and glue page 165 into their composition books for tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to color, cut out, and glue “Lesson 7-1: Kinds of Adjectives” page 165 into their composition books!!! Absent students can find this page |
| |under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 21 |
| |Date: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |We worked “Lesson 3: Describers” in our grammar notebooks. |
|Periods 2 |The children colored page 24 brown, cut it out, and wrote the correct adjectives under each flap using the bottom of page 23. |
| |The students need to write three sentences using plain verbs and no describers. They then rewrite each sentence utilizing “vivid” verbs and describers. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 24 entitled “Lesson 3: Describer” for homework. They also need to write three sentences using plain verbs and not |
| |describers. They then need to take those same sentences and add "vivid" verbs and describers to enhance the sentences. This assignment is due Wednesday. Absent |
| |students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 16 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |I showed the students a quick video on adjectives. We discussed adjectives by reading through text page 334 in our textbook. |
| |We worked a few problems together on Reading Kit page 86 and 87. I assigned the rest of it for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to complete Reading Kit page 86 and 87 entitled “Grammar: Adjectives.” This assignment is due tomorrow. Absent students can find this page |
| |under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 21 |
| |Date: Monday, January 8, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We worked on “Lesson 3: Internal and External Conflict” during class. The children were introduced to the terms internal and external conflict. |
| |We finished reading the story The Stone by Lloyd Alexander. We will use this story to discuss internal and external conflict. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 32 entitled “Lesson 3: Internal and External Conflict.” Absent students can find these pages under this class and on |
| |today’s date on Google Classroom. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students, who completed Friday’s extra credit, read their eulogy to the class. |
|Periods 2 |Then, students and I discussed using vivid verbs to enhance our writing. |
| |The students completed Lesson 2: Vivid Verbs, Activity 3. They colored the pieces purple, cut them out, and glued them into their composition books. We then |
| |replaced the lesser verbs with vivid verbs. The students can use Google Classroom to complete this assignment. |
| |The students need to write three sentences using pain verbs and then rewrite each sentence utilizing “vivid” verbs. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to write three sentences using pain verbs and then rewrite each sentence utilizing “vivid” verbs. Students need to complete the extra credit |
| |for homework. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 16 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We graded the “Extra Practice” page in the verb tense packet. |
| |We went over the last three verb tenses using the following websites: Present Perfect Progressive; Past Perfect |
| |Progressive; Future Perfect Progressive; |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 20 |
| |Date: Friday, January 5, 2018 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students continued working on taking the benchmark test on Reading Plus from yesterday. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would|
| |like to learn more about this reading program, please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes. |
|Periods 2 |We worked Lesson 1: Dead Words & Dead Verbs. The purpose of this lesson is to identify boring, non-descriptive verbs that should never be used in academic writings. |
| |I told the children that they need to practice using strong verbs in their writing. The children then copied down better words for each verb that is non-descriptive.|
| |For example, we “buried” the word bad and replaced it with the following words: awful, rotten, mean, wicked, nasty, wretched, etc. The children were given a chart to|
| |help them complete their mummies. This chart can be found on Google Classroom. |
| |I explained an extra credit opportunity that I was offering to the students. The children will need to write an obituary or eulogy for a much over used verb. The |
| |most important part of this activity is naming the “living family members.” For any dead verb, the living family members are better verbs that can be used in place |
| |of the dead verb. Students can use a thesaurus for this activity. The children can go to Google Classroom to look up the instructions for writing their eulogy. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to write weak words on the front of their mummies and write stronger words on the back of the mummy. Students need to complete the extra |
| |credit for homework. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We graded part of the “Quiz” in class today. |
| |I went over the directions for the “Extra Practice” in the verb tense packet and assigned these pages for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the “Extra Practice” in the verb tense packet for homework on Monday. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 20 |
| |Date: Thursday, January 4, 2018 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |NO SCHOOL |
|Periods 1 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |School not in session. |
|Periods 2 |School resumes tomorrow, Wednesday, January 3, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |School not in session. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |School resumes tomorrow, Wednesday, January 3, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 20 |
| |Date: Wednesday, January 3, 2018 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on taking a benchmark test on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more |
| |about this reading program, please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes. |
|Periods 2 |The students and I discussed using better verbs to enhance our writing. We began Lesson 1: Dead Words & Dead Verbs, Activity 1. |
| |The students need to color page three. The coffin needs to be colored brown and the mummies need to be colored grey. They should then glue the coffin into their |
| |assignment notebook and put the mummies in the Ziplock bag that they were given in class. We will work on adding words to the mummies tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to color page three. The coffin needs to be colored brown and the mummies need to be colored grey. They should then glue the coffin into |
| |their assignment notebook and put the mummies in the Ziplock bag that they were given in class. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s |
| |date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |I went over the second page of “Practice Worksheet Three” in class as a refresher after the break. |
| |I went over the directions for the “Quiz” in the verb tense packet and assigned these pages for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the “Quiz” in the verb tense packet for homework. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 20 |
| |Date: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |NO SCHOOL |
|Periods 1 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |School not in session. |
|Periods 2 |School resumes tomorrow, Wednesday, January 3, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |School not in session. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |School resumes tomorrow, Wednesday, January 3, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 20 |
| |Date: Monday, January 1, 2018 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |NO SCHOOL |
|Periods 1 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |School not in session. |
|Periods 2 |School resumes on Wednesday, January 3, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |School not in session. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |School resumes on Wednesday, January 3, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 19 |
| |Date: Friday, December 22, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |School not in session. |
|Periods 1 |School resumes on Wednesday, January 3, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |School not in session. |
|Periods 2 |School resumes on Wednesday, January 3, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!!. |
|ELA: |School not in session. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |School resumes on Wednesday, January 3, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 19 |
| |Date: Thursday, December 21, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |School not in session. |
|Periods 1 |School resumes on Wednesday, January 3, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |School not in session. |
|Periods 2 |School resumes on Wednesday, January 3, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!!. |
|ELA: |School not in session. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |School resumes on Wednesday, January 3, 2018. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 19 |
| |Date: Wednesday, December 21, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children read the children’s book that each group created today during class. The final stories were very cute. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! The students can find this pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We graded “Practice Worksheet Three” in class. |
| |We went over these internet websites pertaining to today’s lesson: |
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| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Absent students can find today’s information under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 19 |
| |Date: Tuesday, December 19, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the third quarter, are due on Friday, March 2, 2018. |
|Content Writing: |The children continued working on their children’s book. They began typing their story on Google Slides. We will print out their children’s story, and the will then|
|Periods 2 |be able to add their illustrations. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! The students can find this pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |We graded “Practice Worksheet Two” in the verb tense packet as a class. I assigned “Practice Worksheet Three” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the page entitled “Practice Worksheet Three” for homework. Absent students can find today’s information under this class and|
| |on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 19 |
| |Date: Monday, December 18, 2017 |
| Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We worked on “Lesson 3: Internal and External Conflict” during class. The children were introduced to the terms internal and external conflict. |
| |The children need to color and cut out page 32. Then they need to glue it into their composition books. We then worked on writing the definitions for these new |
| |terms. |
| |We began reading the story The Stone by Lloyd Alexander. We will use this story to discuss internal and external conflict. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 32 entitled “Lesson 3: Internal and External Conflict.” Absent students can find these pages under this class and on |
| |today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Content Writing: |The children continued working on their children’s book. They began typing their story on Google Slides. We will print out their children’s story, and the will then|
|Periods 2 |be able to add their illustrations. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! The students can find this pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went over these internet websites pertaining to today’s lesson: |
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| |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |We graded “Practice Worksheet One” in the verb tense packet as a class. I assigned “Practice Worksheet Two” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the page entitled “Practice Worksheet Two” for homework. Absent students can find today’s information under this class and |
| |on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 18 |
| |Date: Friday, December 15, 2017 |
| Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by this Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children continued working on their children’s book. They began typing their story on Google Slides. We will print out their children’s story, and the will then|
|Periods 2 |be able to add their illustrations. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! The students can find this pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 15 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |We went over these internet websites pertaining to today’s lesson: |
| |I asked the students to edit the paragraph on Day Nine. Then, the students and I graded Day 9 number 1-4 together as a class and the “Quiz Day” page. |
| |I assigned “Practice Worksheet One” in the verb tense packet for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the page entitled “Practice Worksheet One” for homework. Absent students can find today’s information under this class and |
| |on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 18 |
| |Date: Thursday, December 14, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by this Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children continued working on the sheet that I gave them yesterday to fill out based upon their group’s thoughts and ideas concerning their children’s book. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! The students can find this pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 15 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |We went over these internet websites pertaining to today’s lesson: |
| |I asked the students to edit the paragraph on Day Nine. Then, the students and I graded Day 9 number 1-4 together as a class. |
| |I assigned Day Nine for homework. |
| |I assigned the “Quiz Day” for homework |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the page entitled “Quiz Day” for homework. Absent students can find today’s information under this class and on today’s date|
| |on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 18 |
| |Date: Wednesday, December 13, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by this Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children discussed the children’s book from home today. We talked about why each book would appeal to a young reader. |
|Periods 2 |I helped group the children based on their interest level. They were then given a sheet that they need to fill out based upon their group’s thoughts and ideas |
| |concerning their children’s book. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! The students can find this pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 15 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |We went over these internet websites pertaining to today’s lesson: |
| |The students and I graded Day 8 together as a class. |
| |I assigned Day Nine for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete Day Nine for homework. Absent students can find today’s information under this class and on today’s date on Google |
| |Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 18 |
| |Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by this Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children discussed the children’s book from home today. We talked about why each book would appeal to a young reader. |
|Periods 2 |I helped group the children based on their interest level. They were then given a sheet that they need to fill out based upon their group’s thoughts and ideas |
| |concerning their children’s book. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! The students can find this pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 15 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |We went over these internet websites pertaining to today’s lesson: |
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| |The students and I graded Day 6 together as a class. I asked them to complete numbers 7 and 8 on Day Seven. |
| |I assigned Day Eight for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete Day Eight for homework. Absent students can find today’s information under this class and on today’s date on Google |
| |Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 18 |
| |Date: Monday, December 11, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We worked on “Lesson 3: Internal and External Conflict” during class. The children were introduced to the terms internal and external conflict. |
| |The children need to color and cut out page 32. Then they need to glue it into their composition books. We then worked on writing the definitions for these new |
| |terms. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! The students need to complete page 32 entitled “Lesson 3: Internal and External Conflict.” Absent students can find these pages under this |
| |class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by this Friday, December 15, |
| |2017. |
|Content Writing: |We finished going over “Lesson 25: Opinion/Argumentative Paragraphs-Exemplar.” The students need to color and cut out pages 162 and 163 into their composition books|
|Periods 2 |for homework. |
| |We began to talk about the next writing assignment. The children will be using Google Slides to create a children’s book. |
| |The children need to bring a children’s book from home tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to bring a children’s book from home tomorrow. The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google |
| |Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 15 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |The students and I finished going over Day 5 together. |
| |I assigned Day 6 for homework and the paragraph on Day 7. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete Day 6 for homework and the paragraph on Day 7. Absent students can find today’s information under this class and on today’s |
| |date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 17 |
| |Date: Friday, December 8, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |We worked on “Lesson 25: Opinion/Argumentative Paragraphs-Exemplar.” The students need to color and cut out pages 162 and 163 into their composition books for |
|Periods 2 |homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 14 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |The students graded Day 3 and Day 4 in the Verb Tense Packet. |
| |I worked Day 5 and Day 6 with the students. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Absent students can find today’s information under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 17 |
| |Date: Thursday, December 7, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children are to thoroughly check over their expository essay. The essay needs to be submitted before the end of the day on Thursday. |
|Periods 2 |The children need to use their rubric as a guide to know how their expository essay will be graded. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to thoroughly check over their expository essay. It needs to be submitted before the end of the day today. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 14 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |The students also received a copy of irregular verbs. They need to keep this copy for future reference. |
| |They were also to complete assignments on Google Classroom over Perfect Verb Tense, Past Participle, and Present Participle. |
| |We went over these internet websites pertaining to today’s lesson: |
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| |The children need to use their verb chart to complete Day 3 #1-5 and Day 4 #1-4 and the proofreading paragraph for homework tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete Day 3 and 4 for homework. Absent students can find today’s information under this class and on today’s date on Google |
| |Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 17 |
| |Date: Wednesday, December 6, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children are to thoroughly check over their expository essay. The essay needs to be submitted before the end of the day on Thursday. |
|Periods 2 |The children need to use their rubric as a guide to know how their expository essay will be graded. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to thoroughly check over their expository essay. It needs to be submitted before the end of the day on Thursday. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 14 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |I went over irregular verbs today using a powerpoint presentation. |
| |The children graded Day 2 in the verb packet. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Absent students can find today’s information under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 17 |
| |Date: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children are to thoroughly check over their expository essay. The essay needs to be submitted before the end of the day on Thursday. |
|Periods 2 |The children need to use their rubric as a guide to know how their expository essay will be graded. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to thoroughly check over their expository essay. It needs to be submitted before the end of the day on Thursday. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 14 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |We went over internet websites pertaining to today’s lesson on past and future progressive tense verbs: |
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| |The children are to complete questions three through six on Day 2 for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to questions three through six on Day 2 of their verb tense packet for homework. This page should be turned in at the beginning of the |
| |hour on Wednesday, or it will be late. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 17 |
| |Date: Monday, December 4, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The children and I went over the answers on pages 11-14 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 2: Elements of Plot Practice” for homework. |
| |I assigned pages 15-18 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 2: Elements of Plot Assessment” for homework tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete pages 15-18 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 2: Elements of Plot Assessment.” Absent students can find |
| |these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by |
| |Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children are to thoroughly check over their expository essay. The essay needs to be submitted before the end of the day on Thursday. |
|Periods 2 |The children need to use their rubric as a guide to know how their expository essay will be graded. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to thoroughly check over their expository essay. It needs to be submitted before the end of the day on Thursday. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 14 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |We went over internet websites pertaining to today’s lesson on present progressive tense verbs: |
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| |The children and I completed Day 1 in the verb tense packet along with questions one and two on Day 2. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 16 |
| |Date: Friday, December 1, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children got in pairs once again today to have a peer read over their essay to see if their writing was easily understood by a classmate. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: The students need to begin to fix any items within their essay that are not written clearly. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 13 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |We went over internet websites pertaining to today’s lesson on past future perfect tense verbs: |
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| |The children were assigned the grammar page entitled “Future Perfect Tense Verb Phrases” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to complete the grammar page entitled “Future Perfect Tense Verb Phrases” for homework. This page should be turned in at the beginning |
| |of the hour on Monday, or it will be late. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 16 |
| |Date: Thursday, November 30, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |I checked to see if the children added any descriptive elements to their expository essay. I then told the students to hand in any extra credit slips to me. |
|Periods 2 |The children got in pairs today to have a peer read over their essay to see if their writing was easily understood by a classmate. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to begin to fix any items within their essay that are not written clearly. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 13 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued going over the chart on the twelve different types of verb tenses. |
| |We went over internet websites pertaining to today’s lesson on past perfect tense verbs: |
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| |The children were assigned the grammar page entitled “Past Perfect Tense Verb Phrases” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to complete the grammar page entitled “Past Perfect Tense Verb Phrases” for homework. This page should be turned in at the beginning of |
| |the hour tomorrow, or it will be late. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 16 |
| |Date: Wednesday, November 29, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children spent a little time today enhancing the vocabulary, working on adding descriptive elements to their expository essay and highlighting their additions |
|Periods 2 |for extra credit. |
| |The students need to have someone read their essay tonight and help them add descriptive writing to their expository essay. They simply need to help them generate |
| |more details to include in their essay under their ideas categories. |
| |Tomorrow, for extra credit, students may add any descriptive elements to their expository essay. The added elements need to have the text color coded according to |
| |which sense it is referring to on yesterday's lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to add any detail sentences that the two people reading their essay may have suggested. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 13 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went over internet websites pertaining to today’s lesson on present perfect tense verbs: |
| |Present Perfect: |
| |I wanted to make you aware of the attached late homework assignment. |
| |The children were assigned the grammar page entitled “Present Perfect Tense Verb Phrases” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to complete the grammar page entitled “Present Perfect Tense Verb Phrases” for homework. This page should be turned in at the beginning |
| |of the hour tomorrow, or it will be late. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
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| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 16 |
| |Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |Today in class the students highlighted their expository paragraph like the example in their composition books from "Lesson 13: Descriptive Paragraphs, Close Reading|
|Periods 2 |of Exemplar" using their Google account today. The students need to be highlight items dealing with “sight” green, highlight items dealing with “taste” red, |
| |highlight items dealing with “sound” blue, highlight items dealing with “feelings” yellow, highlight items dealing with “smell” orange, and highlight items dealing |
| |with “touch” purple. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to highlight any detail sentences in their essay. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 13 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went over internet websites pertaining to today’s lesson on present perfect tense verbs: |
| |Simple present: |
| |Simple past: |
| |Simple future: |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 16 |
| |Date: Monday, November 27, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The children are to complete pages 11-14 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 2: Elements of Plot Practice” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete pages 15-18 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 2: Elements of Plot Assessment.” Absent students can find |
| |these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by |
| |Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children spent a little time today enhancing the vocabulary within their essay. |
|Periods 2 |We talked about how we need to add descriptive writing to our formal writing. We discussed how we need to use as many sense as possible. |
| |We completed "Lesson 13: Descriptive Paragraphs, Close Reading of Exemplar" together as a class. |
| |Tomorrow, for extra credit, students may add any descriptive elements to their expository essay. The added elements need to have the text color coded according to |
| |which sense it is referring to on today's lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to add any descriptive writing elements to their essay that relate to sight, taste, sound, feeling, smell, and touch. Absent students |
| |can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 13 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We read over text page 278 together as a class and watched a video on the principal parts of verbs. The children were given a verb tense chart that we went over. |
| |They need to save it for future study purposes. |
| |We completed page 66 together as a class. I will assign part of page 67 for Tuesday as homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: Complete the “Reading Kit page 66 and 67 for homework. This page should be turned in at the beginning of the hour or it will be late. This page is due |
| |Tuesday. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 15 |
| |Date: Friday, November 24, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |NO SCHOOL – BREAK!!! |
|Periods 1 |HOMEWORK: N/A |
|Content Writing: |NO SCHOOL – BREAK!!! |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: N/A |
|ELA: |NO SCHOOL – BREAK!!! |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |HOMEWORK: N/A |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 15 |
| |Date: Thursday, November 23, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING DAY!!! |
|Periods 1 |HOMEWORK: N/A |
|Content Writing: |NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING DAY!!! |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: N/A |
|ELA: |NO SCHOOL – THANKSGIVING DAY!!! |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |HOMEWORK: N/A |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 15 |
| |Date: Wednesday, November 22, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |I checked to see that the children color coded their essay to make sure that they incorporated the necessary sentences for their second through fourth paragraphs. |
|Periods 2 |The children spent the rest of the day enhancing the vocabulary within their essay. |
| |The children can use their rubric and the paper they received entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to finish enhancing the vocabulary in their essay. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students finished “Lesson 2-5: Independent and Dependent Clauses, Activity 1 and 2” today in class. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!!! |
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| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 15 |
| |Date: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students need to finish their first and fifth paragraph by tomorrow. |
|Periods 2 |The following elements need to be in the first and last paragraphs. In the introduction paragraph, begin with a sentence that captures the reader’s attention, give |
| |background information on the topic, and end with the thesis statement. The thesis statement states the main idea of the essay, usually in one sentence. For your |
| |conclusion sentence, “echo” the thesis statement without simply repeating it. You may pose a question for future thought or suggest a course of action. Include a |
| |detail or example from the introduction to “tie up” the essay. Remember to end with a strong concluding statement. |
| |The children can use their rubric and the paper they received entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete their first and fifth paragraphs for homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on|
| |Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students completed “Lesson 4-2: Predicate Nominative and Predicate Adjectives” in their composition book today. |
| |The students began from “Lesson 2-5: Independent and Dependent Clauses, Activity 1” today in class. We will continue to work on this lesson tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: Make sure that your table of contents in your composition book is current. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on |
| |Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 15 |
| |Date: Monday, November 20, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students need to work on their first and fifth paragraph today. |
|Periods 2 |The following elements need to be in the first and last paragraphs. In the introduction paragraph, begin with a sentence that captures the reader’s attention, give |
| |background information on the topic, and end with the thesis statement. The thesis statement states the main idea of the essay, usually in one sentence. For your |
| |conclusion sentence, “echo” the thesis statement without simply repeating it. You may pose a question for future thought or suggest a course of action. Include a |
| |detail or example from the introduction to “tie up” the essay. Remember to end with a strong concluding statement. |
| |The children can use their rubric and the paper they received entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to work on their first and fifth paragraphs for homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on |
| |Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children and I went over the section entitled “Exercise C” in the pamphlet on verbs. We graded the page together, and I took a grade over “Exercise C” in the |
| |packet. |
| |The students and I discussed the material from “Lesson 4-2: Predicate Nominative and Predicate Adjectives.” We will continue to work on this lesson tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 14 |
| |Date: Friday, November 17, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The student’s need to complete their fourth paragraph by Monday. Their fourth paragraph comes from their third idea category circle with their details. |
|Periods 2 |The children were give a rubric Wednesday that I will be using to grade their essay, and they received a paper entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to |
| |assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete their fourth paragraph for homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google |
| |Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 12 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |Mrs. Taylor went over a website on the computer with the class. I have attached three of the websites that she might have picked from here. |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| |The children and Mrs. Taylor went over the section entitled “Exercise B” in the pamphlet on verbs. They graded the page together, and she took a grade over “Exercise|
| |B” in the packet. |
| |Mrs. Taylor then read over the section entitled “Distinguishing Between Linking Verbs and Action Verbs.” The students and she worked together “Exercise C #1-8” as a |
| |class. |
| |Mrs. Taylor assigned the rest of “Exercise C #9-24” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete “Exercise C #9-24” in the packet for homework. This page is due Monday. Absent students can find this page under this |
| |class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 14 |
| |Date: Thursday, November 16, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The student’s need to complete their third paragraph by tomorrow. Their third paragraph comes from their second idea category circle with their details. |
|Periods 2 |The children were give a rubric yesterday that I will be using to grade their essay, and they received a paper entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to |
| |assist them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete their third paragraph for homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google |
| |Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 12 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |I showed the students the following video: |
| | and |
| | |
| |The children were given a pamphlet on verbs that they need to keep for the next two days because they will have homework to complete in this pamphlet on verbs. We |
| |orally read through and discussed linking verbs on the first page and the beginning of the second page. |
| |We went over “Exercise A” in the packet as a class. |
| |I assigned “Exercise B” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete “Exercise B” in the packet for homework. This page should be complete at the beginning of the hour, or it will be late. |
| |This page is due Friday. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 14 |
| |Date: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students need to complete their concluding sentence on their graphic organizer. The students need to go to Google Drive, open up a new Google Doc, and begin |
|Periods 2 |writing their essay. The need to title their essay beginning with their first and last name followed by the words “Expository Essay.” The students need to hit tab |
| |once and type in their topic sentence. Then, they need to begin a new paragraph and hit tab again to start their second paragraph. Their second paragraph comes |
| |from their first idea category circle with their details. |
| |The children were give a rubric today that I will be using to grade their essay, and they received a paper entitled “The Elements of an Excellent Essay” to assist |
| |them when writing their essay. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete their topic sentence today, and their second paragraph for homework. Absent students can find these pages under this class |
| |and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 12 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |I showed the children a Power Point presentation on verbs today. |
| |We also watched this video during class: |
| |We worked the page entitled “Transitive and Intransitive Verbs Worksheet” together as a class. |
| |I assigned the page entitled “Transitive and Intransitive Verbs” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: Complete the page entitled “Transitive and Intransitive Verbs” for homework. This page should be turned in at the beginning of the hour, or it will be |
| |late. This page is due Thursday at the beginning of class. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 14 |
| |Date: Tuesday, November 14, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students were given points for completing their three ideas category. Tomorrow, they will be given credit for completing their topic sentence. The students need|
|Periods 2 |to continue to fill out their graphic organizer. The graphic organizers will be due on Thursday. |
| |HOMEWORK: Graphic organizers need to be completed by Thursday. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 12 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children began “Lesson 4-1: Action, Linking, & Helping Verbs.” We will finish these activities tomorrow. |
| |I assigned the page entitled, “Identify Action Verbs Worksheet” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: Complete the page entitled “Identify Action Verbs Worksheet” for homework. This page should be turned in at the beginning of the hour or it will be late. |
| |This page is due Wednesday. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 14 |
| |Date: Monday, November 13, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We worked on “Lesson 2: Elements of Plot & The Plot Pyramid, Activity 2” during class. The children were introduced to the terms of plot which consist of the |
| |following: exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. |
| |The children need to color and cut out page nineteen. Then they need to glue it into their composition books. They then need to use page twelve to write the |
| |definitions under the corresponding flap. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page twelve for homework tomorrow. The students need to go to Google Classroom and finish “Lesson 2: Elements of Plot & The|
| |Plot Pyramid” if they did not complete it during class. Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December|
| |15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |I emailed the students a list of possible expository essay topics. |
|Periods 2 |The students are to pick a topic and begin to fill out their graphic organizer focusing on their three idea categories. |
| |HOMEWORK: The three idea categories on the graphic organizers need to be completed by Tuesday. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s |
| |date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 12 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We read over page 246 in our textbooks and discussed action and linking verb, and I showed a video on this topic. |
| |The children are to complete page 64 and 65 of the Reading Kit entitled “Grammar: Verbs” for homework tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: Complete the “Reading Kit page 64 and 65 for homework. This page should be turned in at the beginning of the hour or it will be late. This page is due |
| |Tuesday. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 13 |
| |Date: Friday, November 10, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |I checked to see if the students had finished pages 91 and 92 “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2.” |
|Periods 2 |I emailed the students a list of possible expository essay topics. The students need to pick a topic and begin to fill out page 98 which is their graphic organizer. |
| |The graphic organizers will be due next Tuesday. |
| |HOMEWORK: Graphic organizers need to be completed by next Tuesday. The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for |
| |this lesson. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work today. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the follow videos to help understand pronouns and antecedents: |
| | |
| |Absent students need to go to this website if at all possible and view the material. |
| |We finished going over the packet entitled “The Antecedent” as a class. |
| |I talked about yesterday’s assignment. |
| |I assigned the page entitled “Pronoun/antecedent Agreement Practice 3” for homework. This page is due Monday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to complete the page entitled “Pronoun/antecedent Agreement Practice 3” for homework. This page is due Monday. Absent students can find |
| |this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
| |11:20 Dismissal Today for School Improvement |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 13 |
| |Date: Thursday, November 9, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |We finished pages 91 and 92 “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2” during class. |
|Periods 2 |We watched this video on expository writing: |
| | Absent students will need to watch this video as well. |
| |We began to discuss choosing a topic for our expository essay, and I shared a list of possible essay topics with the students. They can find this list using their |
| |school email address. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish pages 91 and 92 on “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2” if they did not complete it |
| |during class or were absent. The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 11 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went over yesterday’s lesson entitled “Pronoun/Antecedent Worksheet 1.” |
| |We watched the follow videos to help understand pronouns and antecedents: |
| |Absent students need to go to this website if at all possible and view the material. |
| |I passed out a page entitled, “Study Helper for Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement” and we went over it orally. |
| |I assigned the questions on the back of the “Study Helper for Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement” as homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to complete the worksheet entitled “Study Helper for Pronoun/Antecedent Agreement” for homework tomorrow. Absent students can find this |
| |page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 13 |
| |Date: Wednesday, November 8, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |We finished working on “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 1.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 84 and 86 into their |
|Periods 2 |composition books for homework. We are going to work on developing our own expository essay. |
| |We began working on “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 91 and 92 into their |
| |composition books for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish pages 84 and 86 from “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 1.” If they need to pages 91 |
| |and 92 from “Lesson 11: Expository Essay Structure, Activity 2,” the students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this |
| |lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 11 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went to the following website to continue where we left off yesterday: |
| |
| |jCNH0BVXGMa4Yx8q6i2mtbZ0dTL-HyQ Absent students need to go to this website if at all possible and view the material. |
| |The children were given a handout entitled “The Antecedent.” The students need to keep this handout to help them with their homework. |
| |I went over the directions for ditto page entitled “Pronoun/Antecedent Worksheet 1.” The children need to complete this page for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students are to complete ditto page entitled “Pronoun/Antecedent Worksheet 1” for homework. The students can find these pages under this class and on|
| |today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 13 |
| |Date: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |We finished working on “Lesson 10: Transition Words.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 77, 78, and 79 into their composition books for |
|Periods 2 |homework. |
| |We began working on “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 84 and 86 into their composition books|
| |for homework. We are going to work on developing our own expository paragraph. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish pages 77, 78, and 79 on “Lesson 10: Transition Words” if they did not complete it during class or were |
| |absent. The students also need to complete pages 84 & 85 on “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure.” The students can find these pages under this class and on |
| |today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 11 Day 2 & 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went to the following website: |
| |
| |jCNH0BVXGMa4Yx8q6i2mtbZ0dTL-HyQ Absent students need to go to this website if at all possible and view the material. |
| |HOMEWORK: Absent students are to go to this website and learn the information. The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google |
| |Classroom for this lesson. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 13 |
| |Date: Monday, November 6, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We began today’s lesson by orally discussing the terms protagonist, antagonist, plot, setting, and complication. |
| |I had the student work pages 7 & 8 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 1: Story Vocabulary Practice Level B” one their own. We then went over it |
| |as a class, and I had the students correct their mistakes. |
| |I went over the directions orally and assigned pages 9 & 10 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 1: Story Vocabulary Assessment Level B” for |
| |homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to complete pages 9 & 10 entitled “Reading Literature Practice & Assess Lesson 1: Story Vocabulary Assessment Level B” for homework. Read|
| |at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |We began working on “Lesson 10: Transition Words.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 77, 78, and 79 into their composition books for |
|Periods 2 |homework. |
| |We finished “Lesson 10: Transition Words.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 77, 78, and 79 into their composition books for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish pages 77, 78, and 79 on “Lesson 10: Transition Words” if they did not complete it during class or were |
| |absent. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 11 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We read over page 181 in our textbooks and discussed pronouns and antecedents. We worked the Reading Kit page 42 together as a class and I assigned the back of this |
| |page. |
| |The children are to complete page 43 of the Reading Kit entitled “Grammar: Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement” for homework tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to complete page 43 of the Reading Kit entitled “Grammar: Pronoun and Antecedent Agreement” for homework tomorrow. Grammar Possessive |
| |Pronouns.” I assigned this page for homework. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 12 |
| |Date: Friday, November 3, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |We worked on lesson “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 2.” We went through all five steps of good, better, and best sentence writing. As we progressed through each|
|Periods 2 |step, the children were to write their own sentence. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish pages 53 and 54 on “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 2” if they did not complete it during class or |
| |were absent. They also need to complete their own steps and write a “best sentence.” |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 10 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video on possessive nouns: |
| |I went over the directions for page 200 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Possessive Pronouns.” I assigned this page for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 200 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Possessive Pronouns.” I assigned this page for homework. Absent |
| |students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 12 |
| |Date: Thursday, November 2, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students were to complete page 51 “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 1” during class. The students need to color and cut out this page for homework. |
|Periods 2 |We then compared “better sentences” with “best sentences.” The children should understand how to write complex sentences after today’s lesson. They should also |
| |understand the importance of making their writing colorful. |
| |We began lesson “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 2.” |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Absent students need to go to Google Classroom and finish page 51 on “Lesson 7: Best Sentences.” |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 10 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video on possessive nouns: |
| |I read over the directions for the possessive nouns page 1-15 and 1-10. These pages are due tomorrow for homework and can be found on Google Classroom. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the possessive nouns pages 1-15 and 1-10 for homework tomorrow. Absent students can find this page under this class and on |
| |today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 12 |
| |Date: Wednesday, November 1, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |We finished page 25 together as a class entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences.” |
|Periods 2 |I assigned page 27 for homework entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences.” |
| |We began coloring page 50 entitled “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 1.” The students need to have this page colored by tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Students need to complete page 27 entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences Assessment Level C” for homework if |
| |they did not complete it during class or were absent. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 10 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We used this website to study possessive pronouns: |
| |I assign the page entitled “Possessive Pronouns” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete “Possessive Pronouns.” I assigned this page for homework. This assignment is due tomorrow. Absent students can find this |
| |page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 12 |
| |Date: Tuesday, October 31, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |We finished page 46 together as a class and glued it into our composition books. A copy of this page can be found on Google Classroom for students who were absent. |
|Periods 2 |We worked page 25 together as a class entitled “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences.” |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Students need to go to Google Classroom and finish page 25 on “Lesson 6: “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 6: Better Sentences” if |
| |they did not complete it during class or were absent. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 10 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |Next, we went to the Pearson website and watched a video on possessive pronouns. |
| |We read page 150 as a class then we went to the Pearson website and clicked on the story “from Angela’s Ashes.” We went to “After You Read”/ “Grammar Tutorial” and |
| |the children watched the video. |
| |I went over the directions for “Reading Kit page 40 and 41 entitled “Grammar: Possessive Pronouns.” I assigned this page for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete “Reading Kit page 40 and 41 entitled “Grammar: Possessive Pronouns.” I assigned this page for homework. This assignment is |
| |due tomorrow. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 12 |
| |Date: Monday, October 30, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We watched a quick video on “Little Red Riding Hood.” Here is the url: |
| |We worked on “Lesson 1: Story Vocabulary, Activity 1” during class. The children were reintroduced to the terms protagonist, antagonist, plot, setting, and |
| |complication. We then connect these terms to the brief video we watched in class. This lesson is preparing the students for the next lesson on plot diagramming. |
| |The children need to color and cut out page eight. Then they need to glue it into their composition books. They then need to use the bottom of page 8 to write the |
| |terms on the correct flap and the definitions under the flap. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page eight for homework tomorrow. The students need to go to Google Classroom and finish “Lesson 1: Story Vocabulary, |
| |Activity 1” if they did not complete it during class. Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December |
| |15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |I checked to see if the students completed their sentence using a when, where, why, how, and doubt using the pictures provided. |
|Periods 2 |The students and I discussed how to write better sentences. They colored and cut out page 44 “Lesson 6: Better Sentences.” |
| |We began to work on page 46 together as a class. The students and I will finish this together tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! The students need to go to Google Classroom and finish page 44 on “Lesson 5: Better Sentences” if they did not complete it during class or |
| |were absent. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 10 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students and I discussed the material from “Lesson 2-4: Simple and Compound Sentences” that they completed for homework last Friday. |
| |Today, the students completed page 37 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-4: Simple & Compound Sentences Practice Level C.” We then checked this page as a |
| |class. |
| |I assigned page 38 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-4: Simple & Compound Sentences Assessment Level C.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 38 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-4: Simple & Compound Sentences Assessment Level C.” for homework. This |
| |assignment is due tomorrow. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 11 |
| |Date: Friday, October 27, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students used pictures to learn how to add when, where, why, how, and doubt parts to a sentence. |
|Periods 2 |The students and I discussed how cut out and glue the “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2” page in the composition book. The students were given time |
| |to complete this activity. |
| |The students need to finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2” for homework. The students can find the assignment on Google Classroom on today’s |
| |lesson. The students then need to write their own sentence using a when, where, why, how, and doubt using the pictures provided. |
| |The following site will help the students complete this assignment: |
| |HOMEWORK: The students then need to write their own sentence using a when, where, why, how, and doubt using the pictures provided. The students need to go to Google |
| |Classroom and finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2” if they did not complete it during class. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 9 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video on simple and compound sentences: |
| |The students and I discussed how fill out, cut out, and glue the “Lesson 2-4: Simple and Compound Sentences” page in the composition book. The students were given |
| |time to complete this activity. |
| |The students need to finish “Lesson 2-4: Simple and Compound Sentences” for homework. Absent students can find the assignment on Google Classroom on today’s lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to finish “Lesson 2-4: Simple and Compound Sentences” for homework. Absent students can find the assignment on Google Classroom on |
| |today’s lesson. |
| |This assignment is due tomorrow. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 11 |
| |Date: Thursday, October 26, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students and I finished discussed all of the elements of “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1.” |
|Periods 2 | |
| |We worked page 21 together as a class on “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence.” |
| |The students are to complete “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence Assessment Level C” page 23 for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students are to complete “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence Assessment Level C” page 23 for homework. The students need to go to Google Classroom |
| |and finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1” if they did not complete it during class. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 9 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched the following video on subjects and predicates: |
| |We checked over Practice Level C page 31and 32 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-2: Subjects and Predicates.” |
| |I assigned Assessment Level C page 33 and 34 for homework entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-2: Subjects and Predicates.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete Assessment Level C page 33 and 34 for homework entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-2: Subjects and Predicates.” This|
| |assignment is due tomorrow. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 11 |
| |Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students and I discussed how cut out and glue the “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1” page in the composition book. The students were given time |
|Periods 2 |to complete this activity. |
| |We worked the first half of a page entitled “Lesson 4: Good Sentences” together in class, and the students need to complete the bottom half for homework. |
| |The students need to finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1” for homework. The students can find the assignment on Google Classroom on today’s |
| |lesson. We watched this video to help learn how to complete the lesson: |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete the second half of the page entitled “Lesson 4: Good Sentences” for homework. The students need to go to Google Classroom |
| |and finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1” if they did not complete it during class. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 9 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We finished “Lesson 2-2: Subject & Predicate Activity 2” in our grammar notebooks. |
| |I assigned Practice Level C page 31 for homework entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-2: Subjects and Predicates.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete Practice Level C page 31 for homework entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-2: Subjects and Predicates.” This |
| |assignment is due tomorrow. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 11 |
| |Date: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students and I discussed how cut out and glue the “Good Sentence” page in the composition book. The students were given time to complete this activity. |
|Periods 2 |The students need to finish Lesson 4: Good Sentences by Thursday. The students can find the assignment on Google Classroom on today’s lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to go to Google Classroom and finish Lesson 4: Good Sentences if they did not complete it during class. Absent students can find this |
| |page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 16 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |I showed the students a quick video on adjectives. We discussed adjectives by reading through text page 334 in our textbook. |
| |The students completed the Week 16 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
| |We worked a few problems together on Reading Kit page 86 and 87. I assigned the rest of it for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to complete Reading Kit page 86 and 87 entitled “Grammar: Adjectives.” This assignment is due tomorrow. Absent students can find this page |
| |under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 11 |
| |Date: Monday, October 23, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We discussed the story entitled “The Three-Century Woman” by Richard Peck. |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: | We worked “Lesson 3: Describers” in our grammar notebooks. |
|Periods 2 |The children colored page 24 brown, cut it out, and wrote the correct adjectives under each flap using the bottom of page 23. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 24 entitled “Lesson 3: Describer” for homework. This assignment is due Tuesday. Absent students can find this page |
| |under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 9 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We worked on putting “Lesson 2-2: Subject & Predicate” in our grammar notebooks. We did not finish this lesson; therefore, we will continue it tomorrow. |
| |The children colored page 67, cut it out, and glued it into their grammar notebook. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete “Lesson 2-2: Subject & Predicate” for homework. This assignment is due Tuesday. Absent students can find this page under |
| |this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 10 |
| |Date: Friday, October 20, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |NO SCHOOL – DUE TO PARENT/TEACHER CONFERNECES |
|Periods 1 |Conferences begin at 8:00 a.m. and conclude at 11:00 a.m. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Content Writing: |NO SCHOOL – DUE TO PARENT/TEACHER CONFERNECES |
|Periods 2 |Conferences begin at 8:00 a.m. and conclude at 11:00 a.m. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |NO SCHOOL – DUE TO PARENT/TEACHER CONFERNECES |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |Conferences begin at 8:00 a.m. and conclude at 11:00 a.m. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
| |Last day for parent/teacher conferences was today, Friday, October 20th. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 10 |
| |Date: Thursday, October 19, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |NO SCHOOL – DUE TO PARENT/TEACHER CONFERNECES |
|Periods 1 |Conferences begin at 12:00 p.m. and conclude at 8:00 p.m. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Content Writing: |NO SCHOOL – DUE TO PARENT/TEACHER CONFERNECES |
|Periods 2 |Conferences begin at 12:00 p.m. and conclude at 8:00 p.m. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |NO SCHOOL – DUE TO PARENT/TEACHER CONFERNECES |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |Conferences begin at 12:00 p.m. and conclude at 8:00 p.m. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
| |Parent/Teacher Conferences were today. Conferences will continue tomorrow, Friday, October 20th. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 10 |
| |Date: Wednesday, October 18, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students, who completed yesterday’s extra credit, read their eulogy to the class. |
|Periods 2 |The students and I discussed using vivid verbs to enhance our writing. |
| |The students completed Lesson 2: Vivid Verbs, Activity 3. They colored the pieces purple, cut them out, and glued them into their composition books. We then |
| |replaced the lesser verbs with vivid verbs. The students can use Google Classroom to complete this assignment. |
| |The students need to write three sentences using pain verbs and then rewrite each sentence utilizing “vivid” verbs. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to write three sentences using pain verbs and then rewrite each sentence utilizing “vivid” verbs. Students need to complete the extra credit |
| |for homework. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the extremely short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went over page 29 as a class that the children completed homework yesterday entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-1: Four Types of Sentences.” |
| |I assigned page 30 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-1: Four Types of Sentences” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 30 entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-1: Four Types of Sentences” for homework. This assignment is due Monday.|
| |Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
| |Parent/Teacher Conferences will be tomorrow, Thursday, October 19th , and Friday, October 20th. Please sign up for conferences using Skyward. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 10 |
| |Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes. |
|Periods 2 |We worked Lesson 1: Dead Words & Dead Verbs. The purpose of this lesson is to identify boring, non-descriptive verbs that should never be used in academic writings. |
| |I told the children that they need to practice using strong verbs in their writing. The children then copied down better words for each verb that is non-descriptive.|
| |For example, we “buried” the word bad and replaced it with the following words: awful, rotten, mean, wicked, nasty, wretched, etc. The children were given a chart to|
| |help them complete their mummies. This chart can be found on Google Classroom. |
| |I explained an extra credit opportunity that I was offering to the students. The children will need to write an obituary or eulogy for a much over used verb. The |
| |most important part of this activity is naming the “living family members.” For any dead verb, the living family members are better verbs that can be used in place |
| |of the dead verb. Students can use a thesaurus for this activity. The children can go to Google Classroom to look up the instructions for writing their eulogy. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to write weak words on the front of their mummies and write stronger words on the back of the mummy. Students need to complete the extra |
| |credit for homework. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the extremely short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We watched this video on the four types of sentences: |
| |We worked Lesson 2-1: Four Types of Sentences (Activity 1) in our “Grammar Notebooks.” |
| |The children colored in page 56 and filled out the information on each type of sentence. We also completed page 58 which dealt with all of the different types of |
| |sentences. |
| |The children were also given page 29 to complete for homework entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-1: Four Types of Sentences” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to complete page 29 for homework entitled “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 2-1: Four Types of Sentences” for homework. Absent students |
| |can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
| |Parent/Teacher Conferences will be this Thursday, October 19th and Friday, October 20th. Please sign up for conferences using Skyward. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 10 |
| |Date: Monday, October 16, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes. |
|Periods 2 |The students and I discussed using better verbs to enhance our writing. We began Lesson 1: Dead Words & Dead Verbs, Activity 1. |
| |The students need to color page three. The coffin needs to be colored brown and the mummies need to be colored grey. They should then glue the coffin into their |
| |assignment notebook and put the mummies in the Ziplock bag that they were given in class. We will work on adding words to the mummies tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to color page three. The coffin needs to be colored brown and the mummies need to be colored grey. They should then glue the coffin into |
| |their assignment notebook and put the mummies in the Ziplock bag that they were given in class. Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s |
| |date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |No Bell Work this week due to the extremely short week. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students are to go to Google Classroom and use the internet sites to work on possessive and plural nouns. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 9 |
| |Date: Friday, October 13, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |Today was the last day of content writing. Therefore, the students used websites to explore writing. These website can be found on Google Classroom under 2nd Hour |
|Periods 2 |Content Writing. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Last day of rotation for our content writing class. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 8 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went over a PowerPoint presentation on pronoun case together in class. |
| |I went over the directions for an assignment entitled “Pronoun Case.” The children are to complete this page, and we graded it in class. If the students were paying|
| |attention, I gave them all of the answers. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 9 |
| |Date: Thursday, October 12, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children were given time in class to locate three pieces of evidence that support their assertion. They also need one argument against their assertion. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: The children were given time in class to locate three pieces of evidence that support their assertion. They also need one argument against their |
| |assertion for homework tomorrow. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 8 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We used this websites to study personal pronouns: |
| | |
| |I went over the directions for page 161 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Personal Pronouns.” The children are to complete this page for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to complete page 161 entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar Personal Pronouns” for homework. This assignment is due tomorrow. Absent |
| |students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 9 |
| |Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |We watched a video that explained how we plan an opinion/argumentative essay. The children watched the following video: |
|Periods 2 |The children need to come to class tomorrow with three assertion phrases. An assertion is a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief. An example of an |
| |assertion statement might be as follows: Testing drugs on animals is the sacrifice we have to make. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to have three assertion phrases that they could possibly use to write an opinion/argumentative thesis statement. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 8 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We used this website to study personal pronouns: |
| |We continued learning about possessive nouns. I went over the directions for page 38 and 39 entitled “Grammar: Personal Pronouns.” The children are to complete this |
| |page for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to complete page 38 and 39 entitled “Grammar: Personal Pronouns.” This assignment is due tomorrow. Absent students can find this page under |
| |this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 9 |
| |Date: Tuesday, October 10, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the second quarter, are due by Friday, December 15, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |We finished going over “Lesson 25: Opinion/Argumentative Paragraphs-Exemplar.” The students need to color and cut out pages 162 and 163 into their composition books|
|Periods 2 |for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 8 Day 1 & 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We used this website to study personal pronouns: |
| | This website can be found on |
| |PHT!LitOnLine! Suzy and Leah/ After You Read/ Grammar Tutorial section. |
| |We read over page 126 of the textbook on Personal Pronouns. The children learned the difference between object and subject pronouns. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 9 |
| |Date: Monday, October 9, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |No School – Columbus Day |
|Periods 1 | |
|Content Writing: |No School – Columbus Day |
|Periods 2 | |
|ELA: |No School – Columbus Day |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 | |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 8 |
| |Date: Friday, October 6, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children were given time to look over their expository essay during class and make their final changes. They submitted their essay before the end of class. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: The children were given time to look over their expository essay and make any final changes. The essay was to be submitted before the end of class today.|
|ELA: |NO BELL WORK TODAY!!! |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students got on Google Classroom and completed an assignment on possessive nouns. Absent students need to go to Google Classroom and complete this assignment. |
| |Once the children had completed their homework, they were allowed to play visit different website that I chose for them to work on possessive nouns. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to complete the homework on Google Classroom today for homework. This assignment was due today. Absent students can find this page |
| |under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 8 |
| |Date: Thursday, October 5, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children are to thoroughly check over their expository essay. It needs to be submitted before the end of class tomorrow. |
|Periods 2 |The children were given a rubric today so that they know how their expository essay will be graded. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to thoroughly check over their expository essay. It needs to be submitted before the end of class tomorrow. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 7 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued learning about possessive nouns by going over a power point presentation, and I assigned a worksheet entitled “Possessive Noun Phrases.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to complete the pages entitled “Possessive Noun Phrases” tonight for homework. This assignment is due tomorrow. Absent students can |
| |find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 8 |
| |Date: Wednesday, October 4, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The internet was down. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 7 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We continued learning about possessive nouns. I played a possessive noun game with them on the internet. Here is the website: |
| |The students need to complete section A only on the page entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar/Possessive Nouns” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to complete section A only the page entitled “Integrated Language Skills: Grammar/Possessive Nouns.” This assignment is due tomorrow. |
| |Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 8 |
| |Date: Tuesday, October 3, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the firdy quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students met with their peers to look over their first and last paragraph to make sure they were organized correctly. |
|Periods 2 |The following elements need to be in the first and last paragraphs. In the introduction paragraph, begin with a sentence that captures the reader’s attention, give |
| |background information on the topic, and end with the thesis statement. The thesis statement states the main idea of the essay, usually in one sentence. For your |
| |conclusion sentence, “echo” the thesis statement without simply repeating it. You may pose a question for future thought or suggest a course of action. Include a |
| |detail or example from the introduction to “tie up” the essay. Remember to end with a strong concluding statement. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to work on making sure their first and fifth paragraphs are organized correctly. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 6 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |I showed the students a quick video on common and proper nouns. We discussed possessive nouns by reading through text page 68. |
| |The students watched a video and then we visited these websites: |
| | |
| |We worked Reading Kit page 17 section A together as a class and discussed it and I assigned the rest of page 17 and 16 as well. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to complete Reading Kit page 16 and 17 entitled “Grammar: Possessive Nouns.” This assignment is due tomorrow. Absent students can find this |
| |page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 8 |
| |Date: Monday, October 2, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We read and discussed page 8 together as a class to help us prepare to read the fiction text “The Three-Century Woman.” |
| |The children need to read the story entitled “The Three-Century Woman” by Richard Peck. This story starts on page 9. You can read this story on the Pearson website:|
| | |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to read finish reading the story “The Three-Century Woman” by Rickard Peck |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children spent the day enhancing the vocabulary within their essay. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: The children are to finish enhancing the vocabulary in their essay. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 7 Day 1 and 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We began discussing possessive nouns as a class. The children were give page 112 “Lesson 3-4: Possessive Nouns.” The students were to color, cut, and glue the shapes|
| |into their composition books and write down the information under each tab for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students who did not complete “Lesson 3-4: Possessive Nouns” can find this page and the instructions under this class and on today’s date on Google |
| |Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |Book orders were placed today. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 7 |
| |Date: Friday, September 29, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children got in pairs to have a peer read over their second, third, and fourth paragraphs to see that their writing was easily understood by a classmate. |
|Periods 2 |The children are to write their first and fifth paragraphs for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to first and fifth paragraphs for homework. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 6 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students played games and took practice quizzes on the computer over common and proper nouns. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |Book orders were placed today.. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. |
| |Have a terrific homecoming, students. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 7 |
| |Date: Thursday, September 28, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children are to thoroughly explain each detail within their fourth paragraph for homework. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: The children are to thoroughly explain each detail within their fourth paragraph for homework. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 6 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We completed ditto p. 5 entitled, “Proper, Compound, and Collective Nouns” as a class. I wanted the children to learn about the following different nouns: common |
| |nouns, abstract nouns, proper nouns, compound nouns, and collective nouns. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. Book orders are due on Friday, September 29th. The site to order books from |
| |Scholastic is readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 7 |
| |Date: Wednesday, September 27, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The children are to thoroughly explain each detail within their third paragraph for homework. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: The children are to thoroughly explain each detail within their third paragraph for homework. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 6 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |I showed a power point presentation to the students on common and proper nouns. |
| |I gave the children a quick 10 question quiz over the information on the power point presentation. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. Book orders are due on Friday, September 29th. The site to order books from |
| |Scholastic is readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 7 |
| |Date: Tuesday, September 26, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |I checked over the students changes to their idea sentences. I looked to see that their sentences would be interesting enough for their reader. The children are to |
|Periods 2 |thoroughly explain each detail within their second paragraph for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children are to thoroughly explain each detail within their second paragraph for homework. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 6 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The children are to add the following url to their favorites tonight as part of their homework: The students were given a piece of paper |
| |with their user name and password on it for this site. This site allows them to view their literature book whenever they need to use it at home. |
| |I showed the students a quick video on common and proper nouns. |
| |We read text p. 46 together as a class and discussed common and proper nouns together as a class. |
| |We completed part of Reading Kit page 14 and 15 entitled “Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns” together so that you children would understand the instructions. I |
| |assigned the rest of the problems on Reading Kit p. 14 and 15 entitled “Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns”. |
| |HOMEWORK: Students need to complete the “Reading Kit” p. 15 entitled “Grammar: Common and Proper Nouns.” This assignment is due tomorrow. Absent students can find |
| |this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. Book orders are due on Friday, September 29th. The site to order books from |
| |Scholastic is readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 7 |
| |Date: Monday, September 25, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We went over the vocabulary for this story and I assigned page 14 entitled “Vocabulary Warm-up Exercises for: The Three-Century Woman” and “The Fall of the |
| |Hindenburg.” |
| |We read and discussed page 8 together as a class to help us prepare to read the fiction text “The Three-Century Woman.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to complete page 14 entitled “Vocabulary Warm-up Exercises for: The Three-Century Woman” and “The Fall of the Hindenburg” for homework. |
| |Absent students can find a copy of this page on Google Classroom. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |I had the students change their idea sentences to make their reader interested enough to read each paragraph. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: The children are to enhance their idea or first sentence in each paragraph making their reader desire to continue reading their paragraph. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 6 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went over page 27 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-7: Using Commonly Confused Words” as a class. |
| |I assigned page 28 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-7: Using Commonly Confused Words” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 28 on the “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-7: Using Commonly Confused Words.” This assignment is due tomorrow. |
| |Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. Book orders are due on Friday, September 29th. The site to order books from |
| |Scholastic is readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 6 |
| |Date: Friday, September 22, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |I had the students change their expository essay from one paragraph to five paragraphs. I asked the students to take one detail and write two or three strong |
|Periods 2 |sentences on that detail. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!!! |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 5 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students and I finished going over page 50 entitled “Lesson 1-7: Hard & Fast Rules Practice Confused Words.” |
| |I assigned page 27 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-7: Using Commonly Confused Words” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 27 on the “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-7: Using Commonly Confused Words.” This assignment is due tomorrow. |
| |Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. Book orders are due on Friday, September 29th. The site to order books from |
| |Scholastic is readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 6 |
| |Date: Thursday, September 21, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |At the beginning of class, the people who added extra descriptions to the expository paragraph showed me what they had added, and they were given extra credit. |
|Periods 2 |I had the students get into pairs and help each other with their expository piece. They shared their essay to three people today. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!!! |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 5 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students and I went over page 47 “Lesson 1-7: Hard & Fast Rules for Using Commonly Confused Words.” They were to cut it out and glue it into their composition |
| |notebook. Then, they were to enter it write the lesson on the “Table of Contents” page. |
| |I assigned page 50 entitled “Lesson 1-7: Hard & Fast Rules Practice Confused Words” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 50 on the “Lesson 1-7: Hard & Fast Rules Practice Confused Words.” This assignment is due tomorrow. Absent students |
| |can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 6 |
| |Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |Today in class the students highlighted their expository paragraph like the example in their composition books using their Google account today. The topic and |
|Periods 2 |concluding sentences need to be highlighted blue, the idea sentences need to be highlighter orange, and the detail sentences under orange idea sentences need to be |
| |highlighted red. The students need to ask two people to read their expository paragraph tonight for homework. The people reading the essay do not need to look for |
| |errors. They simply need to help them generate more details to include in their essay under their ideas categories. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to add any detail sentences that the two people reading their essay may have suggested. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 5 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students were given the rules for plural nouns page 42. We went over the rules together in class. The students were to cut this page out and glue it into their |
| |composition book and then write Rules for Plural Nouns on their “Table of Contents” page. |
| |The students completed page 45 “Lesson 1-6: Hard & Fast Rules Practice Plural Nouns” during class. We then went over the answers as a class. |
| |HOMEWORK: Absent students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom . |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 6 |
| |Date: Wednesday, September 20, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |I met with each of the students and discussed their progress on the Reading Plus program. |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |At the beginning of class, the people who added extra details to the expository paragraph showed me what they had added, and they were given extra credit. |
|Periods 2 |We talked about how we need to add descriptive writing to our formal writing. We discussed how we need to use as many sense as possible. |
| |We completed "Lesson 13: Descriptive Paragraphs, Close Reading of Exemplar" together as a class. Tomorrow, for extra credit, students may add any descriptive |
| |elements to their expository essay. The added elements need to have the text color coded according to which sense it is referring to on today's lesson. The lesson |
| |has been attached below for any absent students. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to add any detail sentences that the two people reading their essay may have suggested. Absent students can find this page under this |
| |class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 5 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students completed page 45 “Lesson 1-6: Hard & Fast Rules Practice Plural Nouns” during class. We then went over the answers as a class. The students were to cut|
| |this page out and glue it into their composition book and then write Rules for Plural Nouns on their “Table of Contents” page. |
| |I asked the students to complete page 25 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-6: Using Plurals,” and we checked it during class. |
| |I went over the directions for page 26 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-6: Using Plurals.” The students need to complete this page for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 26 on the “Lesson 1-5: Using Numbers.” This assignment is due tomorrow. Absent students can find this page under this |
| |class and on today’s date on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 6 |
| |Date: Monday, September 18, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We read and discussed text pages 6-7 together as a class. We reviewed the many differences between fiction and nonfiction. |
| |Next, the children were asked to complete page 9 entitled “Learning About Fiction and Nonfiction” and page 10 entitled “Literary Analysis: Fiction and Nonfiction” |
| |for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The children need to complete page 9 entitled “Learning About Fiction and Nonfiction” and page 10 entitled “Literary Analysis: Fiction and Nonfiction” for |
| |homework. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students began writing out their expository paragraph using their Google account today. They were also given a rubric with the requirements for the paragraph. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: The rough draft for the expository paragraphs on Google bare due tomorrow. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 5 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went over page 22 and 23 today in class “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-5: Using Numbers” for homework. |
| |I assigned page 24 and |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 24 and 25 on the “Lesson 1-5: Using Numbers.” This assignment is due tomorrow. The students can find this page under |
| |this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 5 |
| |Date: Friday, September 15, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We went to the library to check out a reading book for S.S.R. |
| |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students were given credit for completing their main idea. The students need to fill out their graphic organizer. The graphic organizers will be due on Monday. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: Graphic organizers need to be completed by Monday. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 4 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went over page 40 “Lesson 1-5: Hard & Fast Rules Practice Numbers” and checked the students answers together as a class. |
| |I assigned page 22 and 23 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-5: Using Numbers” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 22 and 23 on the “Lesson 1-5: Using Numbers.” This assignment is due on Monday. The students can find this page under |
| |this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 5 |
| |Date: Thursday, September 14, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the fourth quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |I emailed the students a list of possible expository essay topics. The students are to pick a topic and begin to fill out their graphic organizer. The graphic |
|Periods 2 |organizers will be due on Monday. |
| |HOMEWORK: Graphic organizers need to be completed by Monday. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 4 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students were given the rules for numbers page. They were to cut this page out and glue it into their composition book and then write Rules for Numbers on their |
| |“Table of Contents” page. |
| |We read the rules for numbers page together as a class and then the students. |
| |The students are to completed page 40 “Lesson 1-5: Hard & Fast Rules Practice Numbers” for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students are to completed page 40 “Lesson 1-5: Hard & Fast Rules Practice Numbers” for homework. The students can find this page under this class and |
| |on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 5 |
| |Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |We watched a video on expository writing and we began to discuss choosing a topic for our expository essay. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 4 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went over the answers for page 17 and 18 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-4: Using Quotation Marks” today. |
| |I assigned page 20 and 21 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-4: Using Quotation Marks” for homework tomorrow. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 19 and 20 on the “Lesson 1-4: Using Quotation Marks.” This assignment is due tomorrow. The students can find this page|
| |under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 5 |
| |Date: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |We finished going over “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 1.” We are going to work on developing our own expository paragraph. |
|Periods 2 |We began working on “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure, Activity 2.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 91 and 92 into their |
| |composition books for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 4 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |Then the students completed page 35 on the Lesson 1-4: Hard and Fast Rules for Practice Using Quotation Marks.” The students need to place this page in their |
| |composition notebooks and write the title for the lesson in the table of contents. |
| |The students were then given page 18 and 19 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-4: Using Quotation Marks” to complete for homework. The students can find this page |
| |on Google Classroom for today’s lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 17 and 18on the “Lesson 1-4: Using Quotation Marks.” This assignment is due tomorrow. The students can find this page |
| |under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 5 |
| |Date: Monday, September 11, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |We discussed comprehension skills in the comprehension handbook found in the textbook pages P4-P11. We discussed the following comprehension skills: |
|Periods 1 |Drawing Conclusions |
| |Fact and Opinion |
| |Main Idea and Details |
| |Making Predictions |
| |Making Inferences |
| |Paraphrasing |
| |Setting a Purpose for Reading |
| |Summarizing |
| |We worked a page 2 together on context clues and the students found out how easy it was to use the context to figure out a word that was missing. |
| |The children need to complete page 3 entitled “Reading: Context Clues” for homework |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 3 entitled “Reading: Context Clues” for homework. |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |We finished “Lesson 10: Transition Words.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 77, 78, and 79 into their composition books for homework. |
|Periods 2 |We began working on “Lesson 11: Expository Paragraph Structure.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 84 and 86 into their composition books|
| |for homework. We are going to work on developing our own expository paragraph. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 4 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We went over the over Lesson 1-4: Hard and Fast Rules for Using Quotation Marks. |
| |Then the students were asked to complete page 35 on the Lesson 1-4: Hard and Fast Rules for Practice Using Quotation Marks.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 35 on the Lesson 1-4: Hard and Fast Rules for Practice Using Quotation Marks.” This assignment is due tomorrow. The |
| |students can find this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 4 |
| |Date: Friday, September 8, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |We went to the library to check out a reading book for S.S.R. |
| |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |I checked to see that the students completed page 29 “Writing Skills Practice & Assess Lesson 7: Best Sentences.” Students who completed this page were give |
|Periods 2 |participation points |
| |We then went over page 29 and discussed their answers. I showed the students how to write a complex sentence by putting the dependent clause in front of the |
| |independent clause. |
| |We began working on “Lesson 10: Transition Words.” The students need to color, cut, and glue the shapes on pages 77, 78, and 79 into their composition books for |
| |homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students can find these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 3 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students were then given page 17 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-3: Using Apostrophes” to complete for homework. The students can find this page on Google |
| |Classroom for today’s lesson. This page is an assessment page and will be graded. |
| |Once most of the students were finished, we began going over Lesson 1-4: Hard and Fast Rules for Using Quotation Marks. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 17 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-3: Using Apostrophes.” This assignment is due Monday. The students can find this|
| |page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 4 |
| |Date: Thursday, September 7, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students were to complete “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 1” during class. The students need to color and cut out this page for homework. |
|Periods 2 |We then compared “better sentences” with “best sentences.” The children should understand how to write complex sentences after today’s lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 3 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We reviewed “Lesson 1-3: Hard and Fast Rules for Apostrophes.” |
| |The students were then given page 16 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-3: Using Apostrophes” to complete for homework. The students can find this page on Google |
| |Classroom for today’s lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page16 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-3: Using Apostrophes.” This assignment is due tomorrow. The students can find |
| |this page under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|Special Announcements: |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 4 |
| |Date: Wednesday, September 6, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students were called out of second hour to get their picture taken. |
|Periods 2 |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 3 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students were then given pages 14 and 15 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-2: Using Commas” to complete for homework. The students can find both of these pages|
| |on Google Classroom for today’s lesson. |
| |We reviewed “Lesson 1-3: Hard and Fast Rules for Apostrophes.” |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete pages 14 and 15 “Grammar Practice & Assess Lesson 1-2: Using Commas.” This assignment is due tomorrow. The students can find|
| |both of these pages under this class and on today’s date on Google Classroom for this lesson. |
|Special Announcements: |School pictures were today. SMILE |
| |If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from Scholastic is readingclub My |
| |classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 4 |
| |Date: Tuesday, September 5, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students were given their user name and passwords for the Pearson site today. The Pearson site url is a follows: The children will |
| |have access to their reading book on this website. If the students have access to a computer, they will never need to lug their heavy reading textbook home since the|
| |entire book is online. Parents, please ask your child for their user name and login sheet. That way you can monitor their progress on assignments and tests. |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students were to complete “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 1” during class. The students need to color and cut out this page for homework. |
|Periods 2 |We then compared “better sentences” with “best sentences.” The children should understand how to write complex sentences after today’s lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 3 Day 1 and 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students and I discussed the correct answers on pages 12-13 “Lesson 1-2: Using Commas” today in class. |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!!! |
|Special Announcements: |The children were given their picture forms on Tuesday, August 29th. School pictures will be held tomorrow, September 6th. |
| |I placed our first book order last Friday. If you would like to order books for next time, you can place your order any time. The site to order books from |
| |Scholastic is readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 4 |
| |Date: Monday, September 4, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: |No School – Labor Day |
|Periods 1 | |
|Content Writing: |No School – Labor Day |
|Periods 2 | |
|ELA: |No School – Labor Day |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 | |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 3 |
| |Date: Friday, September 1, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students and I went over the “Lesson 6: Better Sentences” page together as a class. |
|Periods 2 |The students were then “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity 2” to complete. The students need to color and cut out this page for homework. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to finish “Lesson 6: Better Sentences” if they did not complete it during class, and complete “Lesson 7: Best Sentences, Activity |
| |2.”Copies for this assignment can be found on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 2 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students were then given page 12-13 “Lesson 1-2: Using Commas” to complete for Tuesday. I went over the directions in class. We will go over these pages in |
| |class on Tuesday. The students can find both of these pages on Google Classroom for today’s lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete page 12-13 “Lesson 1-2: Using Commas” for Tuesday. We will go over these pages in class on Tuesday. The students can find |
| |both of these pages on Google Classroom for today’s lesson. |
|Special Announcements: |The children were given their picture forms on Tuesday, August 29th. School pictures will be held Wednesday, September 6th. |
| |All children in my classrooms were given Scholastic book orders on Thursday, August 24, 2017. The site to order books from Scholastic is |
| |readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. Book orders were due today, September 1, 2017. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 3 |
| |Date: Thursday, August 31, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |The children began their class time silently reading from a book of their choice. All students who read received participation points for their efforts. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students and I went over the “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2” page together as a class. |
|Periods 2 |The students were then given page 21 “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence Practice” to complete. Once everyone completed this page, we went over the answers as a |
| |class. |
| |The students were then given page 23 “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence Assessment” to complete for homework. The students can find both of these pages on Google |
| |Classroom for today’s lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to finish page 23 “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence Assessment” if they did not complete it during class. Copies for this assignment |
| |can be found on Google Classroom. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 2 Day 4 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |We finished going over Lesson 1-3: Hard and Fast Rules for Apostrophes.” |
| |The students were then given page 10 “Lesson 1-1: Capitalization Practice” to complete. Once everyone completed this page, we went over the answers as a class. |
| |The students were then given page 11 “Lesson 1-1: Capitalization Assessment” to complete for homework. The students can find both of these pages on Google Classroom |
| |for today’s lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to finish page 11 “Lesson 1-1: Capitalization Assessment” if they did not complete it during class. Copies for this assignment can be |
| |found on Google Classroom |
|Special Announcements: |The children were given their picture forms on Tuesday, August 29th. School pictures will be held Wednesday, September 6th. |
| |All children in my classrooms were given Scholastic book orders on Thursday, August 24, 2017. The site to order books from Scholastic is |
| |readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. Book orders are due tomorrow, September 1, 2017. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 3 |
| |Date: Wednesday, August 30, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students and I discussed how cut out and glue the “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2” page in the composition book. The students were given time |
|Periods 2 |to complete this activity. |
| |The students need to finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2’ for homework. The students can find the assignment on Google Classroom on today’s |
| |lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to go to Google Classroom and finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 2” if they did not complete it during class. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 2 Day 3 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students finished their practicing for commas today. |
| |We went over Lesson 1-3: Hard and Fast Rules for Apostrophes.” |
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! |
|Special Announcements: |The children were given their picture forms on Tuesday, August 29th. School pictures will be held Wednesday, September 6th. |
| |All children in my classrooms were given Scholastic book orders on Thursday, August 24, 2017. The site to order books from Scholastic is |
| |readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. Book orders are due Friday, September 1, 2017. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 3 |
| |Date: Tuesday, August 29, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: | The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students and I discussed how cut out and glue the “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1” page in the composition book. The students were given time |
|Periods 2 |to complete this activity. |
| |The students need to finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1’ for homework. The students can find the assignment on Google Classroom on today’s |
| |lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to go to Google Classroom and finish “Lesson 5: Action Parts of a Sentence, Activity 1” if they did not complete it during class. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 2 Day 2 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students learned the rules for commas. They put the page with the rules on it in their composition books. We did not get to finish practicing using commas today.|
| |HOMEWORK: NO HOMEWORK!!! We will finish Lesson 1-2: Hard & Fast Rules for Commas tomorrow. |
|Special Announcements: |The children were given their picture forms today. School pictures will be held Wednesday, September 6th. |
| |All children in my classrooms were given Scholastic book orders on Thursday, August 24, 2017. The site to order books from Scholastic is |
| |readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. Book orders are due Friday, September 1, 2017. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 3 |
| |Date: Monday, August 28, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: | The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |HOMEWORK: Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students and I discussed how cut out and glue the “Good Sentence” page in the composition book. The students were given time to complete this activity. |
|Periods 2 |The students need to finish Lesson 4: Good Sentences by Tuesday. The students can find the assignment on Google Classroom on today’s lesson. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to go to Google Classroom and finish Lesson 4: Good Sentences if they did not complete it during class. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 2 Day 1 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students learned the rules for capitalization. They put the page with the rules on it in their composition books. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to complete Lesson 1-1: Hard & Fast Rules Practice for Capitalization for Tuesday if they did not complete it during class. Examples on |
| |how to complete this can be found on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |All children in my classrooms were given Scholastic book orders on Thursday, August 24, 2017. The site to order books from Scholastic is |
| |readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. Book orders are due Friday, September 1, 2017. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 2 |
| |Date: Friday, August 25, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: | The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes. |
|Periods 1 |The students were able to go to the library today to check out books in order to get their A.R. points. |
| |HOMEWORK: |
| |Read at least twenty minutes tonight. Twenty AR points, for the first quarter, are due by Friday, October 6th, 2017. |
|Content Writing: |The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes. |
|Periods 2 |The students and I discussed how cut out and glue the “Awesome Adjective” page in the composition book. The students were given time to copy the descriptive |
| |adjectives under the correct tab. |
| |The students need to finish Lesson 3: Describers Awesome Adjectives by Monday. |
| |HOMEWORK: The students need to go to Google Classroom and finish copying the descriptive words under each tab for Lesson 3: Describers. |
|ELA: |The students completed the Week 1 Day 5 Bell Work and they were given point for this in class assignment. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |The students need to finish coloring the “Parts of Speech” song. Also, they need complete the definitions and examples for the seven different parts of speech by |
| |Monday. |
| |The students need to complete Lesson 0.5: Parts of Speech for Monday. Examples on how to complete this can be found on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |All children in my classrooms were given Scholastic book orders on Thursday, August 24, 2017. The site to order books from Scholastic is |
| |readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. Book orders are due Friday, September 1, 2017. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 2 |
| |Date: Thursday, August 24, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: | The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes. |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
| |The students need to complete their reading assessment online. |
|Content Writing: |The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes. |
|Periods 2 |The students and I discussed using vivid verbs and adjectives to enhance our writing. We took a simple sentence and enhanced it using what we have learned in class.|
| |The students then began to work on Lesson 3: Describers Awesome Adjectives. They need to color page 22 brown. |
| |HOMEWORK: |
|ELA: |We put the Bell Work in binders and I explained how to complete bell work according to my expectations. The students completed the Week 1 Day 4 Bell Work and they |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |were given point for this in class assignment. |
| |The students need to complete the definitions and examples for the parts of speech in their composition book. We added this information to one of our composition |
| |notebook. Examples on how to complete this can be found on Google Classroom. |
| |The students listened to the “The Parts of Speech” song at the following website: |
| |HOMEWORK: |
| |The students need to finish coloring the parts of speech song. Examples on how to complete this can be found on Google Classroom. |
|Special Announcements: |All children in my classrooms were given Scholastic book orders on Thursday, August 24, 2017. The site to order books from Scholastic is |
| |readingclub My classroom code which is L7GDY. Book orders are due Friday, September 1, 2017. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 2 |
| |Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: | The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
|Content Writing: | |
|Periods 2 | |
|ELA: |We put the bell work in binders and I explained how to complete bell work according to my expectations. The students completed the Week 1 Day 3 Bell Work and they |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |were given point for this in class assignment. |
| |The students and I went over parts of speech which include the following: nouns, verbs, adjective, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. I refer to|
| |this lesson as Lesson 0.5: Parts of Speech. We added this information to one of our composition notebook. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 2 |
| |Date: Tuesday, August 22, 2017 |
|Tuesday |
|Study Skills: | The students were given their classroom codes for their Google Classroom accounts for my classes. They then signed up for the classes |
|Periods 1 |The students then worked on Reading Plus. This computer program increases a variety of reading skills. If you would like to learn more about this reading program, |
| |please visit this website: |
|Content Writing: | |
|Periods 2 | |
|ELA: |We put the bell work in binders and I explained how to complete bell work according to my expectations. The students completed the Week 1 Day 2 Bell Work and they |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |were given point for this in class assignment. |
| |I gave the children a paper with song lyrics on it to the song “Parts of Speech.” We filled it out together and I had the student color the parts of speech that |
| |corresponded to the ones on page 1. The children were to glue the song on page 2 and write, “p. 2 – Parts of Speech song on The Table of Contents page. |
| |The students and I went over parts of speech which include the following: nouns, verbs, adjective, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. I refer to|
| |this lesson as Lesson 0.5: Parts of Speech. We added this information to one of our composition notebook. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 2 |
| |Date: Monday, August 21, 2017 |
|Monday |
|Study Skills: | |
|Periods 1 | |
|Content Writing: | |
|Periods 2 | |
|ELA: |We put the bell work in binders and I explained how to complete bell work according to my expectations. The students completed the Week 1 Day 1 Bell Work and they |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |were given point for this in class assignment. |
| |The students and I went over parts of speech which include the following: nouns, verbs, adjective, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. I refer to|
| |this lesson as Lesson 0.5: Parts of Speech. We added this information to one of our composition notebook. |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 1 |
| |Date: Friday, August 18, 2017 |
|Friday |
|Study Skills: |The children learned how to utilize the Smart Board to do their attendance. |
|Periods 1 |Students learned that each day they will sit down and begin literature by reading from a book of their choice. They will be given points for reading every day in |
| |class. If students do not read during this time they will not receive points. Students must read outside the class this year as they will be required to get 20 A.R. |
| |points a quarter. |
| |The students were given the A.R. requirement sheet and they were told to have their parent sign the form and return it to me tomorrow. |
| |I introduced myself and told the children a little bit about what to expect from me as their teacher. |
| |We collected Kleenex boxes. |
| |Each student was given a classroom syllabus and we went over it on the Smart Board. |
| |Students were given a pass handout for study skills. I explained how to utilize the passes handouts and how they could earn extra credit. |
| |We went over the late work policy and I explain how to turn in late work. The children and I went over the form that needs to be filled out when they have late work.|
| | |
| |I passed out a supply list and asked student to have binders here by tomorrow if possible. Students will be adding materials to their binders tomorrow. |
| |Students learned where to turn in work and find absent work as well as how to check my board for assignments and or my website which is at the following url: |
| | |
|Content Writing: |The children learned how to utilize the Smart Board to do their attendance. |
|Periods 2 |I introduced myself and told the children a little bit about what to expect from me as their teacher. |
| |Each student was given a classroom syllabus and we went over it on the Smart Board. |
| |Students were given a pass handout for content writing. I explained how to utilize the passes handouts and how they could earn extra credit. |
| |We went over the late work policy and I explain how to turn in late work. The children and I went over the form that needs to be filled out when they have late work.|
| | |
| |I passed out a supply list and asked student to have binders here by tomorrow if possible. Students will be adding materials to their binders tomorrow. |
| |Students learned where to turn in work and find absent work as well as how to check my board for assignments and or my website which is at the following url: |
| | |
|ELA: |The children learned how to utilize the Smart Board to do their attendance. |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |Students learned that each day they will sit down and begin ELA by completing that day’s Bell Work. They will be given points for each day they complete and correct |
| |that day’s Bell Work. |
| |I introduced myself and told the children a little bit about what to expect from me as their teacher. |
| |Each student was given a classroom syllabus and we went over it on the Smart Board. |
| |Students were given a pass handout for ELA. I explained how to utilize the passes handouts and how they could earn extra credit. |
| |We went over the late work policy and I explain how to turn in late work. The children and I went over the form that needs to be filled out when they have late work.|
| | |
| |I passed out a supply list and asked student to have binders here by tomorrow if possible. Students will be adding materials to their binders tomorrow. |
| |Students learned where to turn in work and find absent work as well as how to check my board for assignments and or my website which is at the following url: |
| | |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 1 |
| |Date: Thursday, August 17, 2017 |
|Thursday |
|Study Skills: |No School – Teacher’s Institute |
|Periods 1 |School will begin on Friday, August 18, 2017 |
|Content Writing: |No School – Teacher’s Institute |
|Periods 2 |School will begin on Friday, August 18, 2017 |
| | |
| | |
|ELA: |No School – Teacher’s Institute |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |School will begin on Friday, August 18, 2017 |
|Name: Mrs. Hemberger |Week: 1 |
| |Date: Wednesday, August 16, 2017 |
|Wednesday |
|Study Skills: |No School – Teacher’s Institute |
|Periods 1 |School will begin on Friday, August 18, 2017 |
|Content Writing: |No School – Teacher’s Institute |
|Periods 2 |School will begin on Friday, August 18, 2017 |
| | |
| | |
|ELA: |No School – Teacher’s Institute |
|Periods 3, 4A, 4B/5A, and 6 |School will begin on Friday, August 18, 2017 |
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