February 11th, 2011
Class activities for Friday, February 11
Spelling: We reviewed common homophones today: it’s/its, your/you’re, there/their/they’re, two/to/too.
The McGrath Spelling Bee is on February 16. Here are some spelling bee resources to get ready or have your own bee at home!
- Spelling Bee practice lists and more
- Interactives Spelling Bee (spelling words in a story)
- Spelling Bee the Game (just like a real spelling bee!)
- BigIQKids.com Online Spelling Bee (play against other players)
- VisualThesaurus Spelling Bee (hard words!)
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 determining importance and inferring as reading strategies.
Writing: Students continued to work on their Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook, due Monday, February 14. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. Students should be finalizing their story 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 on Fridays.
Science: Students completed a ball-tossing experiment to test if it is easier to catch with one or two hands.
Social Studies: None today. We did watch some live coverage of the celebration in Egypt of their president resigning after two weeks of protests.
- Yellow magnets: 0
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 3
Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at SnapGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with SnapGrades?
Notes:
- Our Feb Factor Valentine’s Party is Monday, February 14 from 10:00-12:30 pm. See the volunteer list here if you would like to help or attend.
- Middle School Course Selection Forms are due Thursday, February 17 or earlier.
- 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.
- Check grades, assignments, and attendance at SnapGrades.
Our Mission:
Every student in Room 130 leaves improved and prepared for 6th grade.
