Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH:
All grades--End of Week Quiz

LANGUAGE ARTS:
Final American Poetry presentation
Lesson on Haiku & Senryu poetic forms.
[Assignment: write three poems, one formal haiku, one formal senryu, and one with a topic of your choice. Due Monday.]

BIBLE:
Memory verse quiz & border sheet.

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH:
3rd--Chapter 11 Lesson 1 [all problems]
4th--Investigation #6 [all problems & worksheets]
5th--Finish exam & sort boxtops

LANGUAGE ARTS:
American Poetry Performances: Elijah & Alex
Presentation on poetry form--song. [Write a song following these rules: must syllabically fit the tune, must follow appropriate rhyme scheme, must fit one of the two tune choices, must have between 2 and 4 lines, depending on grade level. Due MONDAY]

SCIENCE:
Unit Exam


BIBLE:
Baptismal Class

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH:
3rd--Ch 10 L3 & 4 [(L3) problems 6-25, (L4) all problems]
4th--L59 [practice set & odd problems]
5th--L58 [practice set & odd problems]

LANGUAGE ARTS:
Lesson presentation on Wordsworth & Blake; student poetry performances. REMINDER--Tuesday's student performances are from Derick, Elijah, & Alex.

SCIENCE:
Bone structure diagram.

SPELLING:
Alphabetize spelling list, capitalizing all vowels (not "Y"). Due Tuesday.

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH:
3rd--Chapter 10 Lesson 1 [#3-62]
4th--Fix last week's End of Week quiz
5th--Lesson 56 [Practice set & all problems]

LANGUAGE ARTS:
Art Class

Lesson on Langston Hughes
Poem presentations by Elijah, Dennis, & Kitty
Read & discussed Harlem [Asg: complete poem evaluation form for Harlem, due tomorrow]

REMINDER: Sonnet due tomorrow (Wednesday)

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH: End of week quiz.

LANGUAGE ARTS: Writer's workshop: writing a sonnet [Assignment: write a sonnet. Due Wednesday]
The sonnet needs to be:
1. Written in iambic pentameter
2. Rhyme scheme ABBA CDDC EFFE GG
3. 14 lines (3 quatrains & 2 couplets)

HERE is an example.

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

MATH:
3rd--Chapter 9 Lessons 4 & 5 [L4 all problems, L5 #3-72]
drawing a picture to solve a problem & multiplication practice
4th--Lesson 57 [worksheet]
rate problems
5th--Lessons 54-55 [Both practice sets, L55 problem set]
dividing by multiples of 10 & multiplying by three-digit numbers

LANGUAGE ARTS:
We learned about the sonnet form of poetry, including one of the meters used (iambic pentameter), one choice of rhyme schemes (ABBA BCCB DEED FF), and the fact that a sonnet has 14 lines: three quatrains and a couplet.

ASSIGNMENT: write a sonnet (will continue in class Friday).
REMINDER: Johnson & Ariana are scheduled to present their Dickinson poems in class Friday.

SCIENCE:
Discussion regarding oral hygiene.

BIBLE:
Baptismal class.

Daily Lesson Plans & Assignments

This morning we had our Step-Up Day program, so we had no regularly schedule classes before lunch.

Spelling: Use each spelling word in a sentence that shows you know its meaning. You may use more than one spelling word in a sentence. Circle the spelling words. Due tomorrow (spelling test tomorrow, too).

Language Arts: We rearranged our poetry performance schedule to account for too many of us being sick lately. Finished choosing poems to perform.