Mystery

• Readers identify the crime solver and client and ask ‘what is the mystery?

• Readers ask ‘what have we noticed about mysteries

• Readers re read and re think using post its

• Readers keep a list of people they suspect could have committed the crime

• Readers realize that rereading the text can lead to new ideas

Writing Workshop

• Writers find major concerns by asking what is important to them

• Writers add to seed idea by adding reasons why

• Writing partners help their partner by asking questions

• Writers write a persuasive essay on a response

• Revise, edit & publish

• To estimate and measure customary units of capacity, weight
• To determine the volume of a figure
• To identify, classify and describe 3-D figures
• To solve a problem by solving a simpler problem
• To identify geometric patterns and use them to make predictions and solve problems
• Game Day

• Vocabulary- prism, spectrum, absorb, reflect, translucent
   

Topics to be discussed:

California Gold Rush
Vocabulary – ghost towns, railroad, ‘forty-niners’, Boomtowns