Monday, January 13th:
Young/Cronin: Read "Amelia Bedelia"--idioms
D.O.L.#4---Test on Wednesday
Young: Worked on Personal Narratives--had peers read each other's stories
Started unit on Native Americans--Text features of text book
Tuesday, January 14th:
Young/Cronin: -Read "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" by Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow
-Read "Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day"---Hyperbole
-Personal Narratives
-Read pages 21-26 in Social Studies book
-Write 3 facts about what you learned from your reading passage
**********D.O.L.#4 Test tomorrow************
Wednesday, January 15th:
Young/Cronin: Took D.O.L. #4 Test
Shared an example of a personal narrative using sensory details and
Figurative Language.
Young: Read pages 28-31 in Social Studies book--3 facts written in writing
journals
Cronin: Explained more of the Biography project--graphic organizer
Introduced Text Structures of the Social Studies textbook
Thursday, January 16th:
Cronin/Young: Read aloud "Mr. Martin's Big Words" by Doreen Rappaport
***Personal Narratives FINAL draft due: Tuesday, Jan. 21st**
Google Classroom-Language Arts
-Figurative Language vocabulary
-Parts of Speech vocabulary
Cronin: Read pages 20-26 in social studies book--Text Structures
Wrote 3 facts from what was read in social studies book
Friday, January 17th:
Young/Cronin: Mr. Rup talked about appropriate Chromebook behavior
Watched videos on the Mayan peoples of today and the past
***Personal Narratives FINAL draft due: Tuesday, Jan. 21st**
Google Classroom-Language Arts
-Figurative Language vocabulary
-Parts of Speech vocabulary
Cronin: Read pages 28-31 in social studies book