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A.C.O.S. Use a wide range of strategies and skills, including using text features to gain meaning, summarizing passages, and drawing conclusions, to comprehend ffith grade informational and functional reading materials.

Skills: Character and Plot Cause and Effect Theme and Setting Sequence


 * Friendly reminder to enter your class into success net**

Monday: Whole Group First Story from Unit 6 Test Booklet- "Dreaming of a Better World" Read Questions, Look for Key Words, Skills and Strategies Use pencil method suggested in data meeting
 * Don't forget anchor chart

Small Group: Fluency Practice-With partner, allow students to use timer and count words read Use Unit 1 Materials for fluency practice For Yellow or Blue Group allow them to use Teacher Led Small Group: Review LR books,use teaching guide.. Re-read LR readers to reniforce skills ( See skills list above if needed)

Tuesday: Whole Group Story from Unit 6 Test Booklet " A Creative Mind" Read Questions, Look for Key Words, Skills and Strategies Use pencil method. Anchor Chart

Small Group: Continue Fluency Practice

Teacher Led Small Group: Students that need skills, review those skills, you can use your LR teaching guide to review skills

Wednesday: Benchmark Test * This test will take your entire reading block

Thursday: Whole Group Review Test with students using same process, as whole group lessons on Monday and Tuesday

Friday: Whole Group: Theme Launch: What makes people want to do the right thing? TE page 140 Unit 2 Finish if needed review of test Small Group: Fluency Practice

Writing-COS- 8.) Express meaning through writing varied sentence structure, detailed paragraphs, and multi-paragraph compositions in an organized manner.


 * Writing Workshop Week**

Monday-Thursday continue with new story prompt. Last week you wrote a story whole group. This week you will allow the students to write a new story based off the same prompt. Allow them to create a new plot, new characters, and setting. Share their stories whole group and meet at your tables with students who are struggling. When they complete their story, match them with another finished students to share, compare, and proofread. Collect the stories to grade for plot. Check for conflict, rising action, climax, resolution, and characters.

Thursday-Friday- students will write their clean copies for their stories and illustrate. Continue to assist struggling students and allowing students to share with partners and whole group.

Math - COS 2 Remember to continue with Daily Practice Problems, Timed Multiplication Tests, and Number Talks.

Monday - Session 3.1 - Solving a Division Problem p. 114 - 119 Students will be representing a multiplication or division problem with a picture/diagram, story problem and describing the strategy they used to solve.

Tuesday - Session 3.2 - Multiple Towers p. 120 - 125 Students will use knowledge of multiples of 10 to help them solve division problems. They will also be relating how 15 x 10 = 150 is the same as 150 / 10 = 15. Introduce the Multiple Tower of the number 21. Student activity book p.49-50 go with this activity.

Wednesday - Session 3.3 - Solving More Division Problems p.126 Students will again work on division problems. The will discuss what each number represents and how that can help the identify a strategy to use to solve the problems.

Thursday - Session 3.4 - Multiplication and Division Relationships on the Multiple Tower Students will discuss finding ways to use multiple towers to help them solve problems. Also they will discuss way to have appropriate notation of division problems.

Friday - Students will test on the 12 problems for tier 2 regarding addition and subtraction of 7 digit numbers and multiplication and division problems all from 5th grade standards.


 * Social Studies: COS 4**
 * Monday**- Chp 3 Lesson 3. Read together and discuss main ideas. Have the students copy the charts on student book page 99 in thier notebook. Complete "Aboard Columbs ships" for HW.


 * Tuesday-** Columbus First Voyage hand-out. Have students work with a partner to read and then have them create thier own journal entry as if they were aboard the ship.


 * Wednesday-** Introduce Frist Explorers to America Hand-out and copy in notebook. Either let the students break into pairs and choose an explorer to learn more about our do it whole group on the computer. Have students look to answer the questions on the hand-out that says video entry.


 * Thursday-** Continue with learning about the different explorers and why they are important.


 * Friday-** Christopher Columbus reader's theatre.


 * SCIENCE** COS (Energy and Body Systems) # 4 Describe forms of energy, including chemical, heat, light, and mechanical. # 8-Identify major body systems and their functions, includig the circulatory system, respiratory system, excretory system, and reproductive system.
 * Monday**- Investigation 2: Heating the Earth Become familiar with the thermometer as a tool to measure temperature in degrees Celsius, measure and compare temps in sun and shade, monitor change in wet and dry earth materials, relate temp changes to material's property.*Don't forget word bank for each investigation.
 * Tuesday-**Cont. and record for Investigation 2
 * Wednesday-Investigation 3** Solar Water Heaters. compare the effects of black and white collectors in solar water heaters. Compare the templ. change in covered and uncovered solar water heaters. Questions for investigations-Which solar water heater heats up faster, a black or white collector. Does water heat up faster in a solar water heater with a cover or without a heater. *Add words to the word bank
 * Thursday- part 2 of investigation 3-**How does the surface area of a collector affect the change in temp.?
 * Friday**- .Assess word bank words for investigation 1-3, Comprehension toolkit lesson on water heater stories in student books.