January 28th, 2011
Class activities for Friday, January 28
Spelling: None today.
Cursive: Ten cursive sentences of seven or more words each are due on Fridays.
Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles.
Writing: We looked at some common types of endings in Choose Your Own Adventure stories. We noticed that some endings are good and solve the problem of the plot. Some are bad endings that usually result in death of the main character. Some are neutral, not solving the problem, but not dying. Students should have these different kinds of endings in their stories as well, including at least one good ending, at least one bad ending, and at least two neutral endings.
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 or drafting at this time.
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: None today due to STAR Friday.
Science: We reviewed the human variation experiment analysis. Some students didn’t have a complete answer for the last analysis question, so I told the class they could revise their answers. Homework is to revise the analysis answers, if needed.
Social Studies: None on Fridays.
- Yellow magnets: 1
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 1
Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?
Notes:
- Sign up for Spring Parent Teacher Conferences at mrhowd.com/conferences
- 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.
