Lesson Plans for 8/30-9/3

MONDAY

Personal Dictionary- Word #11 "Reputation"

Writing Journal Entry- "Monday Morning Memory"

Activities:
     5th Grade-  Students will be receiving their "Personal Dictionary/Grammar Test #1" back.  They will then look them over and make corrections to only the questions they got wrong and turn them in for a "Redo" grade.  Upon completion we will begin a prewrite for this weeks "Paragraph Practice" assignment (What are your favorite desserts?).
     6th Grade-  Students will be receiving their "Personal Dictionary/Grammar Test #1" back. They will then look them over and make corrections to only the questions they got wrong and turn them in for a "Redo" grade. Upon completion we will be discussing how to(strategies) pick out verbs from a sentence.  We also also discuss the fact that there can be more than 1 verb in a sentence.

Conventions Focus- Verbs

TUESDAY

Personal Dictionary- Word #12 "Expand"

Writing Journal Entry- "Disappointment"

Activities:
     5th Grade-  Today we will continue out "Paragraph Practice" assignement.  We will begin with a mini-lesson about building good topic and conclusion sentences.  We will then take our ideas we brainstromed yesterday and build our detail sentences (3).  With enough time after we will discuss verbs and complete an assignment.
     6th Grade-  Today we are going to focus on narrative writing.  We are going to concentrate on our journal assingment for much of the period.  I want to begin introducing the concept of detailed writing about one event rather than "outline" stories.  After we dissect some of these stories we will then discuss verbs again (our homework and a new assignment).

Conventions Focus- Verbs

WEDNESDAY

Personal Dictionary- Word #13 "Procedure"

Writing Journal Entry- "Tortoise Vs. Hare"

Activities:
     5th Grade-   This lesson will begin with a discussion about fables.  We will then watch "The Tortoise and The Hare" from Disney.  This is an 8 minute video.  Afterwards students will complete a writing activity about the characters and the moral of the story.  Upon completion we will continue our "Daily Paragraph" assigment.  I will be facilitating writing conferences as the time goes by.
     6th Grade-  This lesson will begin with a discussion about fables. We will then watch "The Tortoise and The Hare" from Disney. This is an 8 minute video. Afterwards students will complete a writing activity in which they create a "Part 2" to the story.  Upon completion we will be going over a grammar (verbs) activity.

Conventions Focus- Verb

THURSDAY

Personal Dictionary- Word #14 "Assignment"

Writing Journal Entry- "Freewrite"

Activities:
     5th Grade-  Students will take a Personal Dictionary/Grammar assessment.
     6th Grade-  Students will take a Personal Dictionary/Grammar assessment.

Conventions Focus- Verb

FRIDAY- NO SCHOOL (Kids)

Personal Dictionary-

Writing Journal Entry- ""

Activities:
5th Grade-
6th Grade- 

Conventions Focus-