Good Friday Morning Today is December 11 2015

Good Friday Morning! Today is December 11, 2015. 1. Please unpack and find your seat quietly. 2. Write down the daily question. Answer all previous questions. 3. Take care of any morning needs. (Pencils, bathroom, water, check out a book, etc. ) Root Word of the Week: Circ- meaning “ring” and Circum- meaning “round. ” • Circumstance • Circumference • Circus • Circuit • circumnavigate On this day: 1844 - Dr. Horace Wells became the first person to have a tooth extracted after receiving an anesthetic for the dental procedure. Nitrous Oxide, or laughing gas, was the anesthetic. 1872 - Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback became America's first black governor when he took office as acting governor of Louisiana. 1981 - Muhammad Ali fought his last fight. 2009 - The game Angry Birds was released. Trivial Fact of the Day: A Jiffy is an actual unit of time. 1 Jiffy = 1/100 of a second.

Today’s Special: Spanish

10: 00 - 10: 30 Social Studies: What is one new fact you learned about the history of the Midwest today?

The Midwest Region – Historical Events of the Midwest that Shaped the US Today you will learn more about the History of the Midwest. You have a packet of information. Your goal is to read the information (READING COMPREHENSION) and then create a scrapbook page showing some important historical events. You will create pictures of the historical events (at least one picture per event) and a brief SUMMARY of the historical event. Make it neat and tidy!

What do scrapbook pages look like?

10: 30 -11: 00 Writing: Which is your favorite writing and why?

4 Gifts: Want Need Wear Read

What will your project look like? Something I Want Something to Wear Something I Need Something to Read

11: 00 -11: 20 Reading: Write a brief summary of what you read today.

Time to read! • Use post it notes! Write down things that stand out! • While you read, I’m going to walk around to talk to you about your reading. Don’t be nervous! I’m hoping to get to everyone this week!

Homework: 1. Read 30 minutes. 2. Finish quoting, paraphrasing, summarizing half sheet (#3 only). 3. Book talk #1 due Friday on the half sheet. 4. Spelling Bee on December 15 th in class.

Root of the Week circumstances: those events which stand ‘around’ you circumnavigate: to sail ‘around’ circumference: a bearing or carrying ‘around’ a circle circumvent: go or come ‘around’ circle: a figure in the shape of a ‘ring’ circus: Roman track in the shape of a ‘ring’ Circus Maximus: the biggest Roman ‘ring’ or chariot-racing track of all circulate: to move around in a loop or ‘ring’ circulatory: of moving about in a ‘ring’ circuit: path in the shape of a ‘ring’ circuitry: system of ‘ring’-shaped paths

Hour of Code – 2: 30 to 3: 30 Today we are going to learn computer coding for an hour. Don’t worry! You don’t have to know what to do. The tutorial will walk you through it! Go to Code. org. You don’t have to sign in. Click on one of these games! There’s an arrow for a couple more options, but these looked super fun.

Closure: Answer your questions in your agenda. When you are done, you may pack up!