Lesson Plan for Thursday, 02/11/15

English
Finish journal entries from Wednesday.
Assign: Find 10 unusual or fun words.
             Write the definition.
              Give the part of speech. (if the part of speech is not given see if you can determine from the definition what part of speech it is.


Computer
Group Pictionary in the computer lab.
Open a blank word processing file and change page setup to horizontal
Show grid if you want.
Be ready to draw!!!!!

Lesson Plan for Wednesday, 02/10/15

English
Monday's proofreading and correcting assignment is due today.
Assignment: We will free writing in our journal today. If you finish early, add words to your word bank journal entry.

Computer
Page 55 in the book. 30b and 30c.

Lesson Plan for Tuesday, 02/10/15

English
Journal writing
We will discuss "first memories" and choose one to write about for a journal entry.
You will have a 10 minute time limit. When times up, you may share with the class.
This is free writing assignment so you don't have to worry about spelling, capitalization or punctuation while you are writing. You will correct these after the 10 minutes are up.

Remember:  Monday's assignment must be turned in today or a 0 will be entered into the grade book.

Computer

Continue practice keying numbers correctly.
Page 54 and 55, lesson 29f and30a

Lesson Plan for Monday, 02/09/15

English
State Assessment practice
Correcting Convention Errors.
We will be going over some sample writings from the Tom Thumb article we did last week.
We will correct one together.
Assignment:
Choose one of the passages provided in eBackpack or use the sample shown here and rewrite ONE of these passages correcting all errors.
We will grade tomorrow in class.

NOTE: This will be a very important grade in the grade book. If you do not have it done tomorrow in class it will be entered  as a 0 in the gradebook, but you will be given one extra day to get it done and turned in to me for full credit. (I think that's a pretty good deal, so don't let me down!)


Computer
Practice typing numbers.
Continue the keyboarding practice with numbers. (We're almost done)
Pages 53 and 54.