December 17th, 2012
Class activities for Monday, December 17
Spelling: None today due to extra time with writing.
Cursive: Ten cursive sentences of seven or more words each are due on Fridays.
Reading: Two groups performed their Literature Circles plays today.
Writing: Our next writing project was introduced today, 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. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. See below for more details.
Choose Your Own Adventure Resources
- See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
- Here are some good student examples:
- 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.
This project is due Wednesday, January 23. Students should be prewriting to gather ideas at this point.
Math: We practiced estimating quotients of large numbers and dividing using calculators. Homework is to finish Journal P5-7.
Science: We finished learning about how living creatures survive over time, how catastrophes are involved in making fossils and extinctions, and how animals use traits to survive.
Social Studies: Today, we reviewed the impacts of the explorers we’ve learned about, and tried to order the explorers by importance. Homework is to finish notebook pp. 31-32.
- Yellow magnets: 3
- Orange magnets: 1
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 4
Coming soon: Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade at ParentVue to see if your student moved their magnet.
Notes:
- Our Fiesta Mexicana is Friday, December 21 from 8:45-noon. Sign up or view our volunteer list. Family members are welcome to attend!
- Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
- Coming soon: view grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue.
Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.
