January 26th, 2011
Class activities for Wednesday, January 26
Spelling: We reviewed common spelling patterns for the /ü/ and /yü/ sounds, as in the words blue, music, balloon, and huge.
Cursive: Ten cursive sentences of seven or more words each are due on Fridays.
Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles. Some groups worked on visualizing as a reading strategy.
Writing: Today, we looked at an example of a Choose Your Own Adventure story website (see Underground Railroad). We also noticed that Choose Your Own Adventure stories usually start by describing the main character or the setting of the story.
Our next project is a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook, due Friday, February 11. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. Students should be prewriting to plan the characters, settings and action of their adventure stories.
Choose Your Own Adventure Resources
- See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here
- Look at an Underground Railroad Choose Your Own Adventure website.
- Look through the Underground Railroad Interactive History Adventure book (hint: search for “the end” to see some of the endings of the book).
- Look at some examples of different kinds of endings in a Choose Your Own Adventure Story:
- View the titles of all the Choose Your Own Adventure books to get adventure topic ideas
- Play Zork, a text-based computer game. Here is a list of commands and directions. Here is a map of the dungeon if you get stuck or lost.
- Find a complete list of resources here.
Math: We practiced interpreting the remainder of division problems. There are usually three choices: report the remainder as a fraction or decimal, ignore the remainder, or use the remainder to round up the answer. Homework is to finish Journal pp. 115-117.
Science: None due to library.
Social Studies: We compared the first three English colonies in America to see how they were alike and different. Homework is to finish the comparison page.
- Yellow magnets: 0
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 0
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Notes:
- View or edit the spring “Paper and Coffee” juice volunteer list.
- View our class calendar.
- View grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.
Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.
