January 26th, 2012
Class activities for Thursday, January 26
Spelling: Students worked on finishing their Words to Learn lists from the words they missed on the last spelling test.
Cursive: Cursive pp. 63-65 are available and due Friday.
Reading: Students read plays to practice reading with fluency using correct speed, tone and volume.
Writing:We learned about using fresh language by writing words and sentences in new and different ways, instead of just using the same words over and over.
Students also continued to work on the draft of their 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 drafting their adventure story 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: We practiced multiplying by 10 and 100. Homework is Journal P5-1.
Science: Students practiced measuring the mass of objects using a balance and some known gram masses. We learned that mass is a measure of how much matter is in an object. It does not change with gravity. Homework is to finish the Using Balances activity if not done in class.
Social Studies: We practiced for tomorrow’s social studies test about economics.
- Yellow magnets: 1
- Orange magnets: 1
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 3
Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at JupiterGrades to see if your student moved their magnet. Need help with JupiterGrades?
Notes:
- Want to grab your favorite time for the Spring Parent Teacher Conferences in March? Do that here.
- Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
- View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.
Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.
