Fri. 9/25/15

Learning Target:

• Define types of sentences (simple, compound, complex, compound-complex)
• Learn new roots and words that use them (geo, therm, scope, meter, logy)

Work Collected:

• None

Work Assigned/Handed Out:

• Keep reading--weekly goal due Tuesday
• Weekly writing (blog post) due Thursday
• Half sheet for notebook: types of sentences
• Mrs. Boyden passed back vocab/spelling quiz

Summary of Class:

• Read for ten minutes, then check in to your reading progress spreadsheet
  
• Skill of the week: types of sentences
• Glue half sheet of notes into next page of "SoW" section of notebook (around p. 42)
• Highlight with Mrs. Boyden's directions
• Next week: practice identifying and writing these types of sentences
• Reminder: goal = sentence fluency (start paying attention to HOW you share ideas, including the types of sentences you use)
• Word study
• p. 2 of packet: highlight unknown/unfamiliar words (these are the words to study for next week)
• Group work
• Notebooks: write down 3 familiar and 3 unfamiliar words under your root flaps
• Notebooks: write down unfamiliar words + definitions/sentences on the next page (2 per root, or 10 total)