Week 5: February 4 - 8

MONDAY:  After completing today's bell ringer assignment, I led the students through the process of grading another student's homework assignment.  Through this process, the students are getting reinforcement of the learning that should have taken place already.  Next, I led the students through the process of now "applying" (3rd level on Bloom's taxonomy) what they should have learned through the reading, annotating, and creation of an outline of Lesson 4.

Homework: Complete the Graphic Organizer Applications work that we started in class (see below).

TUESDAY: Today, I collected last night's homework, and we began our study of Lesson 5: Setting Goals.  We also added another word to our vocabulary list: TRIVIA.  Trivia is unimportant information.

While reading through Lesson 5, we discussed how to set "SMART" goals once again.  We learned about this acronym last semester during our study of Habit #2: Begin with the End in Mind.  This time, we identified a slightly different way to use the acronym (which represents what every goal should be).

S: specific
M: measurable
A: achievable
R: recorded
T: timely (deadline-oriented)

For HOMEWORK, the students are required to finish reading and annotating Lesson 5 and complete the Setting Goals activity (that was discussed in class and which is shown below). 
NOTE:  A PARENT SIGNATURE IS REQUIRED for this assignment to be complete.

WEDNESDAY:  After completing today's bell ringer assignment, I allowed student volunteers to sit in the "hot seat" and share out their goal while the rest of the class listened and asked questions of the "hot seat" student to help clarify whether the goal described was a "SMART" goal.  As they listened to each others' responses, they were encouraged to "tweak" their homework assignment to be more accurate.  Then, I collected the students' work.

THURSDAY: After the bell ringer activity today, I distributed an "open book quiz" to all of the students to complete.  They were required to work independently to answer each question.  If they did not finish it during the class period, the students were instructed to complete it for homework.

FRIDAY: Ms. Ellie Adams substituted for me today.  She worked with the students as they completed their bell ringer and then discussed the answers to the take-home assignment.  Finally, she conducted a "pop quiz" on a few of the vocabulary words that the students should have been reviewing.  

No homework was assigned today.  Have a great weekend!

This week's BELL RINGERS:

MONDAY:  Correct the sentences.
1. mom brung the flowers in from the garden or it could of been dad
2. this bush should of grown to become the largest of these to

TUESDAY: Correct the sentences.
1. the man he has took to cans to the charity drive
2. we saw prof guarino buying the following items four notebooks two pens and an eraser

WEDNESDAY:  Correct the sentences.
1. it's two much to believe that won bird stealed all that fruit
2. clean youre room mother said or your not going swimming

THURSDAY:  Correct the sentences.
1. i like to watch the world cup the winter olympics and the indianapolis 500 on television
2. my sister in africa rights a letter twice a week to mom and dad

FRIDAY:  Correct the sentences.
1. that there library is the more beautiful building in town
2. i have just finished reading how to paint the portrait of a bird an interesting poem