Friday, January 27, 2017

museum-exhibitions/remember-the-children-daniels-story

Discussion opportunity with your child


We are supporting our Read Aloud, Milkweed, with contextual information about the treatment of Jewish children, with age and grade appropriate information from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington.

We watched a video on the lives and treatment of Jewish children in Germany during WWII , then discussed, reflected, and wrote or drew our reactions.

 Daniel's Story


For more information please visit:

https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/museum-exhibitions/remember-the-children-daniels-story

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

Academic Calendar and Connections for the Week beginning January 23

Monday

Descriptive Writing Peer Review:  Topics:  Structure and Senses; Vote and Promote
Graphic Novels:  PIQSi Talks - Predict, Infer, Question, (Speculate or Summarize), and Cite evidence in like-novel groups.

Tuesday
Descriptive Writing Peer Review:  Topics:  active verbs, transitions, hooks; Vote and Promote
Graphic Novels: Book exchanges, Central Message Exit Tickets

Reading of Milkweed

Wednesday:

Math:  RDW problem organizational focus
Musical Dress Rehearsal
Reading of Addison Hackney's Essay:  "Hawaiian Beaches"
Homework:  Math Zearn;  Goal Complete Lesson 8 or work toward this.

(Note, Zearn has the ability to set students into topics, and for students who were on a different topic, and not ahead, I moved them to Mission 3; Adding and Subtracting Fractions Pictorially.  I cannot refine the setting to a particular lesson however.  I had wanted all students to work lesson 8 tonight, but once in Mission 3 lesson 3+, they'll have to work their way to 8 on their own.

Thursday:

Math: Eureka Lesson 9,
Adding mixed numbers and representing work on a number line.
HW Select problems from Lesson 9 & 10s HW Sheet
Perennial Math Group took test.

Reading/Writing:  Graphic Novels:  PIQSci Conversation, Evidence Based
Read Aloud: Weedflowers:  The Japanese Family is forcibly relocated to a processing center
Reflexive Pronouns

Wright Brothers Presentation:  6:30.

Friday:

Math: Eureka Lesson 10
RDW Focus

Language Arts with Social Studies Integration
Character Comparison in Graphic Novels
Written response to "Remembering the Children: Daniel's Story:
https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/museum-exhibitions/remember-the-children-daniels-story
Read Aloud: Milkweed: Misha is ridiculed and kicked by German school kids for riding a Merry-Go-Round.  He scavenges and delivers "black-pearls" to an orphanage
Indefinite Pronouns

Video: https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/museum-exhibitions/remember-the-children-daniels-story