January 19th, 2012
Class activities for Thursday, January 19
Spelling: We learned that numbers up to 99 are hypenated:
- thirty-four
- sixty-seven
- ninety-nine
We also reviewed for tomorrow’s spelling test. The skill tested will be common spelling patterns for the /s/ sound.
Cursive: Cursive pp. 60-62 are available and due Friday.
Reading: None today due to Career Fair.
Writing: None today due to art.
Students have been introduced to the next writing piece, a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students will write a fiction adventure story with choices that the reader can make. Each choice can change how the story turns out. The project is due Monday, February 6. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. Students should be prewriting for characters, settings and plot ideas at this time. See below for more details.
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 the Career Fair.
Science: We learned that you can change the states of matter by adding or removing heat. Today, we added heat to melt snow (solid changing to liquid), we added heat to water to make it evaporate (liquid changing to gas), and we removed heat to freeze water into ice (liquid changing to a solid).
Social Studies: We learned more about outsourcing jobs to other countries.
- Yellow magnets: 0
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 5
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Notes:
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All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.
