Week of January 30 to February 3

I really didn't mean for this to become a weekly blog. My writing life has gotten away from me.

This week we began our codex project. Students are in randomly assigned groups and were given a tribe hand out. The handout was organized for easy note-taking in these categories:
Geography
Lifestyle
Culture
Homes
Miscellaneous including what happened when Europeans arrived

After careful note taking and comparing notes with our group, we began our codex projects. Students are writing bullet notes for each category on one side of a flop and drawing illustrations on the other side. They are looking great and are due Friday. Students may work over the weekend if they need or want to. This is a crossover social studies and language arts project as will be our next big project, starting Monday, report writing on a specific tribe. It can be the same tribe as the codex. We will be reading two other sources and watching a video on the tribe while taking notes and prepare an organized report.

In math students have a new skill sheet due Friday and a packet they have been working on.

Students also have a new list of word study words this week. The entire packet should be done by tomorrow. Word study has moved into homework this second half of the year. New words and first sort happens on Mondays. Monday homework is 8 sentences, Tuesday repeat sort, Wednesday word hunt, Thursday blind sort. This will free up class time for reading, writing and Ms. Lamb teaching us other important new skills and methods.

Homework for Thursday:
LA : Finish word study packet - blind sort
10  minutes of edutyping if you can
Read for 20 minutes your choice of material
Math: Skill sheet due tomorrow
Optional homework: Codex - this is due end of day tomorrow. You may work over the weekend if you choose.