January 31st, 2012
Class activities for Tuesday, January 31
Spelling: None today due to our technology time.
Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due on Friday.
Reading: Two groups performed their plays today, reading with fluency using correct speed, tone and volume. The final groups will present tomorrow.
Writing: Students continued to work on 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 nearing the completion of their project 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 partial products today. Here’s an example:
- To multiply 27 x 3, first break the 27 into parts:
- 27 = 20 + 7
- The new problem is (20 + 7) x 3
- Next multiply the parts:
- 20 x 3 = 60
- 7 x 3 = 21
- Now add the products:
- 60 + 21 = 81
- The answer: 27 x 3 = 81
Homework is to complete Journal P5-3.
Science: Students practiced measuring liquid volume using graduated cylinders. Homework is to finish the Measuring Liquids activity.
Social Studies: We reviewed the district economics test today.
- Yellow magnets: 0
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 2
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Notes:
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All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.
