Lesson Plan for Wednesday, 1/07/15

English
Review Helping Verbs
Grade worksheet (practice with irregular verbs)
Guided practice for studying the 23 helping verbs. TEST FRIDAY
No assignment

Computer
Keyboarding practice; page 25 in book.

Lesson Plan for Tuesday, 1-6-15

English
Verb review
Review the five family of helping verbs and complete the 5 minute exercise in class.
Assign:
Verb Usage Review:
Complete both sides of Worksheet: Usage Review













Computer
Word Processing
Review what you started on your ABC Soup assignment and finish today if possible.


Lesson Plan for Thursday, 12/18/14

Engish
Review all board work vocab. from the beginning of the year.
Play board work password.

Computer
Work on your ABC soup poem for the word processing assignment.

Lesson Plan for Wednesday, 12/17/14

English
Conjugating verbs contest
pp 7 & 8 in eBackpack.

Compter
Learning how to code with Nolan.

Lesson Plan for Tuesday, 12/16/2014

English
Grade packet page 6 in eBackpack
Write sentences using verb phrases listed below. Underline the verb phrase two times and  in the margin beside your sentence put the number of words used. (You must have at least 8 words in each sentence.
Verb phrases to use:
1. must have been eating
2. will be
3. have had
4. did play
5. am trying
6. would make
7. can gobble


Computer
Keyword quiz.
Word processing assign: Alphabet soup assignment.

Lesson Plan for Monday, 12/15/14

English
Finish the Holiday Spirit paragraph.
Assign: verb packet pages 5 & 6 in eBackpack.

Computer
Timed writing over the 25 key words.
Practice smooth keystroking.

Lesson Plan for Friday, 12/11/14

English
Grade board work. (8 words) worth 24 points.
Write you Holiday Spirit paragraph using the details you've listed on your category table.

Computer
Keyboarding
Introduce 4th finger reaches and add the 4th finger words to your 25 word list.
fat, pat, zip, qt.

Lesson Plan for Thursday, 12-10-14

English
Complete the prewriting for the Holiday Spirit paragraph.
Write your topic sentence.
No Homework

Computer
Work on memorizing the first, second, and third finger words.
We will take turns reciting them.

Lesson Plan for Wednesday, 12/10/14

English
Verb Unit
Grade packet page #4 in eBackpack.
Do prewriting for Holiday Spirit.
List 30 things that put you in the holiday spirit.
Linking Verb quiz for those who want to recite them.
Written test on Thursday if you didn't do the oral one today.

Computer
Keyboarding
Practice 3rd finger reaches and words.
We will take two timed writings for practice at the end of the period.

Lesson Plan for Tuesday, 12/09/14

English
Verb Unit
Take the verb quiz in Socrative.
Complete the verb packet pages 3 & 4 in eBackpack.
Homework:
Be thinking about 30 specific things that put you in the Holiday Spirit!

Computer
Finish your journal entry.
Practice first and second finger reaches.

Lesson Plan for Monday, 12/08/14

English
Verbs
Linking Verb practice today.
Write 10 sentences using linking verbs.
Each sentence must have eight words.
Note: Remember the linking verbs turn, look, sound, feel, stay, grow, smell,  and remain can also be action verbs. Make sure you use them as linking.
The boys appear very, very bored everyday in class. 9 words.
You must remain calm in an emergency situation.

Computer 
Timed writing over 1st and 2nd finger words.
Journal writing: List 25 things that put you in the holiday spirit.

Lesson Plan for Thursday and Friday, 12/4 and 12/5, 2014

English
Verb Unit
Thursday: Action verb worksheet in eBackpack. Grade in class.
Friday: Conjugating verbs work sheet. Conjugate the regular and irregular verbs. Use your dictionary app for help.
Last 10 minutes of class you will get Friday Freedom.

Computer
Thursday: Timed writings over 1st finger and home row words.

Friday: Work on 2nd Finger Reaches.
Get iPad keyboards and we will type practice typing 2nd finger words and 1st finger words combined.
Friday Freedom the last 10 minutes of class

Lesson Plan for Wednesday, 12/03/14

English
Verb Unit
Do the ABC verb activity,
For every letter of the alphabet write an action verb. For example:
A = acting
B = bark
Try to come up with as many vivid, fun verbs as possible.
We will also do a journal entry the first 5 minutes of class. Write about your favorite Christmas tradition. Must be at least six sentences. Don't forget to write a topic sentence!!!!

Computer
Review first finger reaches and add the home row keys to them to make up your own practice keyboarding assignment. You may only use the following letters: A S D F G H J K L R T V B U Y N M
We will use the keyboards for the iPads today and stay in the classroom.

Lesson Plan for Tuesday, 12/04/14

English
Verb Unit Day 1.
 Take notes over teacher lecture.
presentation for lecture can be found in eBackpack.

Computer
Vote for Computer Art contest.
Review first finger words.

Lesson Plan for Monday, 12/01/14

English
Grade Board Work for set one of second trimester. There are six words.
Copy Memory Cards #7 and #8: linking verbs and the five families of helping verbs.
Hand back graded thankful paper and record rating on record sheet.

Computer
Finish your Computer Art contest and convert to jpeg to put in iPhoto so we can vote tomorrow.

Lesson Plan for Monday, 11/24/14

English
Print out your "Thankful Paper" and figure sentence structure.

Computer
Work on computer art contest.

Lesson Plan for Thursday and Friday, 11/20 - 11/21, 2014

English

Work on the next two paragraphs of your thankful paper: the place you're most thankful for and the thing you are most thankful for.

Computer
Continue practice with word processing tools we discussed yesterday. Use your fun file to practice with text boxes, text styles, and the three different line tools.

Lesson Plan for Wednesday, 11/19/14

English
Narrative writing
Thankful Paper assignment
Type your first paragraph about the person or people you are most thankful for from your sloppy copy you wrote on Tuesday. If you finish, you may start on your second paragraph: the place you are most thankful for.

Computer
Word Processing tools
Practice using the following wp tools in your fun file we created yesterday:
margins
page set up
line tools
grid
text box
font and font size
text tools


Lesson Plan for Tuesday, 11/18/14


English
Start working on the first paragraph of your Thankful Paper.
We will look at some examples and pick out the topic sentence and the details.

Computer
Quiz over first finger words.
Learn how to upload files to ebackpack from a computer and create a kybdg file in MS word on the computer for when we practice our keyboarding and word processing skills in the computer lab.

Lesson Plan for Monday, 11/17/14

English
Finish the prewriting for the thankful paper.
Choose one person, place, and thing you are thankful for and write 5 details for each.

Computer
Work on First Finger words and learn how to figure timed writing scores.