Wednesday Jan. 21, 2015

We started today with our mal/male PWYK.  Although we improved our overall class score to 71% proficient/advanced, we are still not hitting our goal of 80%.  We will continue to work and study towards this goal.

In social studies we began researching Jamestown colony so we can compare its information to the colony of Plymouth (and Roanoke for a 4 opportunity).  Groups worked hard!

We continued to look at coordinate grids in math and incorporated some geometry terms into explaining relationships between lines on the coordinate grid.

Revisions and personal conferences were the focus of our writing block today.  Students used a very thorough revision checklist and sticky notes to further research and elaborate within each paragraph.

In reading we returned to the topic of Cause and Effect.  Knowing that Cause and Effect is a form of text structure and a way of organizing text is extremely important in this lesson.

Homework

Math- Lesson 34

Social Studies- Roanoke research 4 opportunity

Reading- Bud Not Buddy Ch.1 p. 1-8; Q1-3; Time Travel to Jamestown reading annotation and questions answered

Spelling- Jan. 28 due

Other- planner signed; coins of compassion/food donations Friday (sports spirit day); tissues donated; assessments signed