Date Homework
1/7/08 Welcome back from vacation!
Warm up: What did you do over (during) the winter break?  Tell and write 3 things.
New Year's vocabulary, customs and traditions.  New Year's Resolutions
Looking back and looking ahead:  What did you do in 2007?  What do you want for 2008?
Homework check: "A Christmas Carol" questions.  Review answers together. Collect Q & A.
Make an illustrated "quilt" of "A Christmas Carol".  Students choose their favorite part of the story and illustrate it on 8 X 8 paper.  Write a caption at the bottom.
Sequencing cartoon strip: "Blondie" (New Year's Resolutions)
Homework:
1.  New Years Resolutions: Think of 2-3 goals for this year.  Fill out the chart:     
                Goal            Why            How
2. Write a paragraph about your goals/resolutions. (Use your writing journal.)
3. Finish your quilt square.  Write the sentence on another paper to be corrected tomorrow.
1/8/08 Attendance; collect homework (goals paragraph in writing journal & Christmas Carol quilt picture with caption)
Per. 1-2 Library: To work on biography report.  Writing an introduction.
Organizing note cards by topic;  Write the childhood paragraph, double-spaced.
Per. 3: Check paragraphs & compare phrasing to source (to ensure originality)
Homework: 1. Finish writing your biography paragraph about childhood.
2. Where did each idea come from? (source # 1, 2, or 3?)  Look at your note cards for the answer.  Then write a number (1, 2, or 3) beside each sentence in your paragraph.
Postponed:
Blue Group: Visions Unit D: School.  Map skills, Asking for directions, initial and final blends, r-controlled vowels, compound words.
Green Group: Visions Fables: "Why the Rooster Crows at Sunrise"
1/9/08 Modified Plans:
Checked homework; welcomed our new student; finished checking homework; edited quilt captions; collected them to mount; friendly welcome letter
HOMEWORK:
1. Finish your letter to Mrs. Thacker.
2. Write the second paragraph of your biography. (Goals).
3. Check your note cards to indicate the source each idea came from: # 1, 2, or 3.

Postponed: Warm up: Invitations
   Compare and contrast the 2 versions of "A Christmas Carol"
   Individual appointments:  Do you have enough information on your biography topic?
   Whole class: Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears.  Read Aloud & Reader's Theatre.
   Access History: 13 Colonies; Slavery
 
1/10/08 Welcome, Mrs. Thacker!  Give Mrs. Thacker your welcome letters.
Homework check:  Check and edit goals paragraphs for the biography project. Paragraph form.
Volunteers start placing quilt pieces for our story quilt; to be glued in place.
Blue Group: Visions Unit D.  pp. 62-73.  Workbook pp 54-58.
Homework: Study blends for "l", "s", and "r".  (use Visions book.)
Green Group: "Why the Rooster Crows at Sunrise" p. 110-
Homework:  1. Reread the story.
2. Write new vocabulary in your Vocab. Notebook, including definitions.
3. Activity book, p. 57-59
Whole Class:
Read Aloud, lesson 3:"We Can Do Anything!" scoff, assail, optimistic, lament, steadfast, decisive, gratifying, resigned
Homework: Reread the poem "It Couldn't Be Done"
For more homework, see above (Visions)
 
1/11/08 Warm up: Blends:  Reread the poem, "It Couldn't Be Done".  Circle the blends. In groups, use the dictionary to brainstorm words with those blends. Write them on the board.  Add them to your lists.
Get in groups:  Blue Group: unit D pp. _____ - ________
Green Group: Review vocabulary & correct activity book pp. 57-59.
Homework for all:  Write paragraph about Challenges.  Bring all biography materials & writing on Monday.
Blue Group:  1. Study Visions units A-D.  2. Review vocabulary from the Read aloud book.  3. Practice the syllables -ir, -ur, and -er, -ar;
-nd, -nt, -nk, and -st.
Green Group:  Activity Book pp. 60-62.  Do Questions and answers from the end of the story, p. 114.  Write the questions and answers using complete sentences.