1 / 8

AM Focus

AM Focus. Facebook page Home folder. Turn in to purple bucket: Checkbook Give yourself $5 in daily wages Subtract $1 if late, or missing homework-bring checkbook to teacher for initials “What I Will Need Today” Read and complete page “Medical Practices in Ancient Egypt”

levi
Download Presentation

AM Focus

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. AM Focus Facebook page Home folder Turn in to purple bucket: Checkbook Give yourself $5 in daily wages Subtract $1 if late, or missing homework-bring checkbook to teacher for initials “What I Will Need Today” Read and complete page “Medical Practices in Ancient Egypt” Today you will receive your books Make sure there is no writing or torn pages inside Books need to be covered by Friday Read silently or start filling out agenda

  2. Fluencies • Write name, #, date on fluency • Get your red pen. • Find your #1 clock partner • Switch papers. • Decide who will read first. • Put a / on any word skipped, mispronounced, or misread. • Put a ] after last word read when timer goes off.

  3. Calculating your fluency • Find the last word you read and circle it. • Find the last COMPLETE line you read and scan to the # on the right. • Water you’ll need, though, you have some viable alternatives. 118 • You can boil freshwater to make] it safe to drink. Boiling kills the 131 • Starting at that number, count the number of words you read to the bracket. • From the example above, I would start counting at 118 until I reach the word “make”, which would be 124 words. • You can boil freshwater to make] it safe to drink. Boiling kills the 131 • 119 120 121 122 123 124

  4. Finding your cold read score • Write the number of words you read on the “words read” line by Cold Read. • Now find all the words with a / mark on them. Count them. • Write these words on the “words missed” line. • Subtract the words you missed from the words you missed for your cold read total.

  5. Binders • The first thing you should see is your agenda. • Take a sticky note and flag today’s page. Dividers are in this order: • Reading- “Instruction words” should be behind this tab. • Fluency- Finished fluencies are filed here. • Spelling- Graded packets are stored here. • Math- “Computation” resource packet and graded tests go here. • Science- notes, handouts, lab materials, quizzes, and graded tests are stored here until test retakes are returned. • History-notes, handouts, lab materials, quizzes, and graded tests are stored here until test retakes are returned. • Extra binder paper

  6. The Fire Builder • Take out a piece of binder paper • Put name, #, date in top right corner. • On heading line write: • The Fire Builder by Gary Paulsen • Open book to page 20. • Look at “Focus Questions” • Using “Instruction Guide Card”, follow and track while listening to story on CD. • Homework: Copy each focus question. Write 4-5 sentences in response for each.

  7. Reading Project • Select a novel at least 100 pages to read. • Part 1: Weekly Reading Logs • Part 2: Written Responses • Part 3: AR test • Extra Credit: Finish project early!

  8. Homework Tonight • Reading: • Fire Builder: focus questions p20 • Log: 20 minutes, 5-7 sentences • Book for project by Friday • Workshop • Fluency: read twice and parent sign • Spelling • Packet due by Friday • Other • Books covered by Friday • Home folders signed and returned by Wed • Back to School Night forms by Wed

More Related