Good Morning Jocose Jerboas!

Finish your timelines OR write a story using the words: helicopter, jellyfish, mountain lion, reckless, and pickle. 

• CNN Student News
• Crossing the Wire
• Review final project and begin!

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night Monday-Thursday
• WWW quiz Friday!

Good Morning Ingenious Irukandji!

What was your most fun moment over break? Explain what happened. Use as many sensory details as possible!

• Word Log quiz Friday
• 2 homonyms on word log #7
• CNN Student News
• Crossing the Wire
• Minilesson: commas
• Edit your reflection for commas!
• Finish Timeline

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night Monday-Thursday
• WWW quiz Friday!

Good Morning Happy Humans!

Read independent book!

• QOD
• WWW Quiz Friday we get back!
• Student News
• CTW

Homework: have a wonderful break!

Good Morning Goofy Galahs!

Write about your funniest thanksgiving story!

• QOD
• Student News
• CTW
• Minilesson: commas
• Edit reflection for commas!
• Timeline & 2-column notes

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• WWW Quiz TOMORROW!

Good Morning Fancy Felines

Go onto your blog and write your weekly reading reflection. Please select one of the reflection prompts. Make sure the title is the title of the book and that it is labeled humanities and book blog.

8:00-8:30 - attendance & thankfulness leaves

8:30-9:30 - core ½ (open wall)

9:30-10:30 - core ¾

10:30-11:15 - High Fives

11:15-11:45- outside

11:45-12:00 -  start bumper sticker!

12:00-12:30 - Town Meeting

• Food drive extension
• Thankful video!
• Wolf Tracks
• Kind Monkey

• QOD
• Student News
• CTW
• Griffin H2: show final project
• 2-column notes examples 
• Timeline & 2-column notes

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• WWW Quiz TUESDAY!

Good Morning Eager Elk!

Pull the learning scale we shared with you into notability and assess where you are right now. Identify where you are on the scale and write an explanation of why you feel that is where you are.

• QOD
• CNN News
• CTW
• Media agreement
• Timeline & 2-column notes

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• WWW Quiz TUESDAY!

Good Morning Dithering Defassa Waterbucks!

Wait in SILENCE.

• QOD
• Word Logs due (QUIZ TUESDAY!)
• CNN News
• CTW
• Library

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• WWW Quiz TUESDAY!

Good Morning Cuddly Chow Chows

A child moves into a new house and finds out that the other
kids in town think it's haunted. She begins to invent ghost stories to tell at school in order to get attention. But the more stories she tells, the more frightened she becomes of the house...

Todays Schedule:

8:00-8:15 - Attendance/settle in

8:15-9:30 - ODWP - have them review their writing goal

9:30-10:00 - break!

10:00-11:15 - core ½     

11:15-12:30 - core ¾ 

• QOD
• Food Drive
• CTW
• CNN Student News
• Newsela: "Paris is stunned after a wave of terror attacks across the city"
• American Governors refusal to accept Syrian refugees
• What is the implication to the United States immigration and refugee resettlement?
• Brainstorm of questions 

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• Word Log due next Wednesday - have 2 homonyms! (11/18)

Good Morning Bedraggled Black-Backed Jackals!

You have an extra $100,000 to give away; you cannot spend it on yourself. What would you do with the money?

• QOD
• CNN Student News
• CTW
• clarify homonyms on WL
• PN reflection & writing goal
• reread your narrative
• reread your personal reflection
• read our feedback
• set writing goal
• Review ODWP planning sheet

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• Word Log due next Wednesday - have 2 homonyms! (11/18)

Good Morning Agitated Axolotl!

Please write your reading reflection for the week. Remember to use the list of reflection prompts!

• QOD
• CNN Student News
• minilesson: commas and revise RR
• CTW
• Webquest on iCivics - due at end of class!

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• Word Log due next Wednesday - have 2 homonyms! (11/18)

Friday Schedule

8:00-8:05 - attendance

8:05-8:20 - town meeting

• explain get-it-done (Burns/Bronner)
• no HAIR!
• Friendly food competition
• water bottles
• wolf tracks
• kind monkey

8:20-8:40 - reflection

8:40-9:20 - get-it-done

9:20-9:50 - recess

Good Morning Goofy Gazelles!

Please write a poem to humans from an extinct animal. OR Log your most recent book! 

• QOD
• Vision screening
• CNN Student News
• Revised Book Log
• WWW Quiz
• 2 Homonyms this week! - see resource
• CTW
• Webquest on iCivics - due at end of class!

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• Word Log due next Wednesday - have 2 homonyms! (11/11)

Good Morning Magnanimous Minks

Please write a poem about your classroom - OR - You can log a book on the 7th grade reading challenge. 

• Apples 
• QOD
• CNN Student News
• PQPA 
• Webquest on iCivics
• Today you need to complete section 5 using PQPA and evidence from the text to support your answers

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• WWW quiz THURSDAY! (11/12/15)

Good Morning Bumbling Bush Dogs!

Writing Prompt: Pretend that you are in your 70's or 80's and make a top ten list of complaints about kids these days!

• Student News
• Quiz Wednesday
• CTW
• Immigration Webquest 

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• WWW quiz Wednesday! (11/11/15)

Good Morning Rambunctious Roaches!

Writing Prompt: You walk out of the grocery store one day and discover that the streets are full of cows on bicycles. What’s even weirder is that you’re the only one who finds this odd. What is going on?

• Conference make-ups!
• Student News
• Reading reflection: show prompts
• Webquest (give them class code)

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• WWW quiz next Wednesday (11/11/15)

8:00-8:30 - climate survey

8:30-9:00 - Town Meeting

• wolf tracks
• kind monkey
• Citizenship
• appropriate iPad usage
• kindness
• hard time of year - The Dip

9:00-9:30 - Recess

9:30-11:00 - core ½

11:00 - 12:30 - core ¾

Good Morning Neat Narwhals!

 Mr. Griffin's Cores: In your blog this morning please reflect on the immigration myths and stereotypes lessons that we just finished. What surprised you? What did you learn from the experience? Why is it important to find the truth about misconceptions. 
Ms. Kelly's Cores: Write a story with the first line: His voice had never sounded so cold

• CNN Student News 
• Newsela Article
• Please read the article and answer the questions attached. Mr. Griffin also shared a document with you that you need to respond to in your drive. There are also paper copies with the substitute teachers. 
• Independent Read or finish missing assignments if you finish up early. 

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• WWW quiz next Wednesday (11/11/15)

Good Morning Brilliant Bandicoots!

Write a story using the following words: banana, horseshoe, apple tree, carnivorous, solitude. 
-OR- 
You can log one of your books on the 7th grade reading challenge.

• QOD
• CNN Student News
• Immigration Myths Truths  - finish & present
• Blog Reflection on Immigration Truths
•  In your blog this morning please reflect on the immigration myths and stereotypes lessons that we just finished. What surprised you? What did you learn from the experience? Why is it important to find the truth about misconceptions. 
• CTW
• Library

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• WWW quiz next Wednesday (11/11/15)

Good Morning Jumping Jabberwockys!

Write a story about a turkey that nobody picked for Thanksgiving. -OR- You can log one of your books on the 7th grade reading challenge.

• QOD
• CNN Student News
• Crossing the Wire
• Immigration Myths Truths  - finish and present
• Blog Reflection on Immigration Truths

Homework:

• Read 30 minutes each night M-TH
• Word Log due tomorrow! (11/4)