Last Day of May

• 1st/2nd - Literacy Block
• We started the day with breakfast, and then moved to collecting homework.  I was shocked, that with 3 days off, how many students had excuses for no homework.  NOT GOOD!  We have 4 weeks of school left, and many students are going to see very low scores on report  cards from lack of completing work!
• Then we went over the shortened spelling list for this week.  We are only doing 10 words since we had a day off.  Still working on compound words so it should be a good week for spelling.
• Then we moved into ReadyGen Lesson 3b.6.  The focus was using key ideas and details to focus on main idea and using illustrations to understand difficult text.  We reread "WEATHER" together.  We answered some questions and then did some turn and talk activities with the concepts.  Finally, we did a KWL chart using pg. 30 as our guide.  What did we KNOW about smog, what did we WANT to learn about smog, and finally, what did we LEARN about smog.  Students did 7 minutes of independent work, and then were allowed to partner work for 8 minutes to finish.  We went over the possible answer for each section before moving into our mini-lesson on writing.  The writing will be done in Social Studies though.
• 3rd/4th - Math Block
• We started by going over homework from the weekend.  Again, more than half didn't do their homework.  It was on the blog!  I am tired of excuses.  
• I then reviewed the vocabulary from the last few sections and introduced the vocabulary for the new section.  We reviewed the "I Can" statement and knew that today's focus was classifying shapes by sides and angles.  
• We did the number talks and the daily number review before moving into the mini-lesson with professor Burger and the interactive unlocking the problems with Rebecca Rabbit.  We went over each section step by step to make sure they understood the criteria for polygons.  (Must be a closed shape, must NOT have any curved surfaces, must be made of connect line segments).  Then we talked about the different polygons (Triangle, Quadrilateral, Pentagon, Hectagon, Octagon, and Decagon.)
• We did the unlock the problems and the share and show (I do, and we do).  Finally, students did the on your own sections (you do) and we checked them for understanding.  We finished with enough time to start their homework or to quietly read for the last 5 minutes before lunch.
• 5th - Lunch
• 6th - Science (Sub In Class - Ms. Galan is doing 4th grade Science Testing)
• 7th - Social Studies
• Using the reading skills we learned and practiced in Literacy in short non-fiction text on China.

Homework:

• Math 
• GoMath 12.3 Practice/Homework pages
• Study Vocabulary for Chapter 12
• Literacy 
• Study Spelling Words
• Reading Comp Wk26/Day 1 and Spelling 2x Each
• Review: Adjective and Adverbs
• Read 45-60 minutes for AR test