Thursday October 29th, 2015

Vocabulary

1. disobeying
2. hygienic 
3. contain
4. carbonated
5. invented
6. nitrogen
7. ancient
8. mosaic
9. machine
10. improved

Reading

Five Minute Reading Challenge
Students listened to a passage Miss Adrienne read out loud in class for specific details, so they could illustrate what they heard. Students encouraged to use creativity while strengthening their listening and comprehension skills. 

Read passage from "The Darke Toad". 

Class Reading Assignment

"Everything You Need to Know About the World"; Chapter 1, pages 11- 20.

Writing

Finish the Story Activity

"Dark, Dark Room" Worksheet

Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They read the beginning of a story and completed the story in their own words. This activity helped students strengthen their writing skills as well as their reading comprehension skills. 

Class Writing Assignment

• Write a 10 sentence essay with beginning, middle, and end format, including correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization. Please make sure I can read your essay.
• Use 5 of the daily vocabulary words in your essay; please underline your vocabulary words.
• Tell me what happened in the story with your own words. Be sure to include the following answers (in complete sentences) in your essay:

1. Name a few different gases that are in the air we breathe. How does our body process those gases? 
2. Describe the history of toilets: describe the oldest toilet, the largest toilet, and the advances made by inventors between the years 1400 and 1800. 
3. Describe the early history of both baked beans and soft drinks. Provide historical dates and advancements made. 
4. What are your thoughts on the items we covered in our reading today? Did you know any of this information already? Did some of it surprise you? Would you have written a book about these topics?  

Thursday October 22nd, 2015

Switched books from "A Brief History of Time" , to "Everything You Need to Know About the World".

Vocabulary

1. intestinal
2. complete
3. folly
4. fossilized
5. technicolor
6. maize
7. petroleum
8. resistance
9. manufacturer
10. antique

Reading

Five Minute Reading Challenge
Students listened to a passage Miss Adrienne read out loud in class for specific details, so they could illustrate what they heard. Students encouraged to use creativity while strengthening their listening and comprehension skills. 

Read passage from "Almost Home". 

Class Reading Assignment

"Everything You Need to Know About the World"; Chapter 1, pages 1- 10.

Writing

Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: Photo Writing Prompt

Students took 5 minutes in class to write as much as they could on the prompt using their creative minds! 

Class Writing Assignment

• Write a 10 sentence essay with beginning, middle, and end format, including correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization. Please make sure I can read your essay.
• Use 5 of the daily vocabulary words in your essay; please underline your vocabulary words.
• Tell me what happened in the story with your own words. Be sure to include the following answers (in complete sentences) in your essay:

1. What do you think Socrates meant when he said "Others live to eat, I eat to live"? 
2. What is the purpose of vomiting and what exactly is it?
3. Explain the "first come, first serve" saying origin.
4. So why are veggies good for you?
5. Describe the history of chocolate and toilet paper. 

Thursday October 15th, 2015

Vocabulary

1. theology
2. metaphysics
3. essentially
4. unchanging
5. static
6. expanding
7. observation
8. infinitesimally
9. dense
10. preclude 

Reading

Five Minute Reading Challenge
Students listened to a passage Miss Adrienne read out loud in class for specific details, so they could illustrate what they heard. Students encouraged to use creativity while strengthening their listening and comprehension skills. 

Read passage from "Froggie Apocalypse". 

Class Reading Assignment

"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking; continued reading chapter 1, pages 8 - 11.

Writing

Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: "Cat and Dragon Share the Food" 

Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They used an  image they selected off of https://storybird.com for their creative inspiration. Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization skills are the focus of this challenge! Students have five minutes to dig deep into their creative minds and write about what they see! 

"A Brief History of Time" writing assignment

• Write a 10 sentence essay with beginning, middle, and end format, including correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization. Please make sure I can read your essay.
• Use 5 of the daily vocabulary words in your essay; please underline your vocabulary words.

Tell me what happened in the story with your own words. Be sure to include the following answers (in complete sentences) in your essay:

1. Why was the question, of the universe having a beginning, looked at as metaphysics and theology back in the day?
2. Who made a landmark observation that changed they way those thought about an unchanging universe? What was that observation and what did it suggest?
3. What what the difference between Hubble's observation of a big bang beginning our universe and what people currently believed was the beginning of our universe? 
4. What two requirements make a good theory?
5. Why are theories always provisional, and how are theories disproved? 

Thursday October 8th, 2015

Vocabulary

1. finite
2. infinite
3. contracting
4. expanding
5. archeologist
6. civilization
7. philosopher
8. examined
9. collapse
10. static

Reading

Five Minute Reading Challenge
Students listened to a passage Miss Adrienne read out loud in class for specific details, so they could illustrate what they heard. Students encouraged to use creativity while strengthening their listening and comprehension skills. 

Read passage from "The Mystery of Dogwood Cross". 

Class Reading Assignment
"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking; continued reading chapter 1, pages 6 -8.

Writing

Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: "The Underworld" 

Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They used an  image they selected off of https://storybird.com for their creative inspiration. Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization skills are the focus of this challenge! Students have five minutes to dig deep into their creative minds and write about what they see! 

"A Brief History of Time" writing assignment

• Write a 10 sentence essay with beginning, middle, and end format, including correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization. Please make sure I can read your essay.
• Use 5 of the daily vocabulary words in your essay; please underline your vocabulary words.
• Tell me what happened in the story with your own words. Be sure to include the following answers (in complete sentences) in your essay:

1. Describe one of the pitfalls of discussing infinity. What is the correct approach? 
2. Before the 20th century, was it common to think of the universe as contracting or expanding?
3. What was common thought about the universe before the 20th century?
4. When do archeologist believe civilization began? 
5. Which philosopher examined whether the universe had a beginning in time, and what did he suggest?

Thursday October 1st, 2015

Vocabulary

1. complicated
2. sphere
3. observable
4. universally
5. model
6. predicting
7. outermost
8. heretic
9. anonymous
10. ellipses

Reading

Creative Reading Exercise
Students listened to a passage Miss Adrienne read out loud in class for specific details, so they could illustrate what they heard. Students encouraged to use creativity while strengthening their listening and comprehension skills. 

Read passage from "Summer Extravaganza Emu Mystery". 

Class Reading Assignment
"A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking; continued reading chapter 1.

Writing

"A Brief History of Time" writing assignment

• Write a 10 sentence essay with beginning, middle, and end format, including correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization. Please make sure I can read your essay.
• Use 5 of the daily vocabulary words in your essay; please underline your vocabulary words.
• Tell me what happened in the story with your own words. Be sure to include the following answers (in complete sentences) in your essay:

1. Explain Ptolemy's assumption of the moon.
2. What was Copernicus' theory and what was he afraid the church would think?
3. What new invention did Copernicus use in his research?
4. What was Kepler's modification of Copernicus' theory?
5. How did Newton contribute to the theory?