December 19th, 2012
Class activities for Wednesday, December 19
Spelling: None today due to extra time with writing.
Cursive: Ten cursive sentences of seven or more words each are due on Fridays.
Reading: Students previewed and selected new Literature Circles books.
Writing: Students started prewriting conferences to discuss their adventure story ideas. They also started to plan their story, including the beginning, middle, end, characters, plot and setting.
Our next writing project is 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.
This project is due Wednesday, January 23. Students should be prewriting to gather ideas at this point.
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.
Math: We played a game to review for tomorrow’s test about division. There is a practice test on math book p. 140.
Science: We played a game to review for tomorrow’s test about body systems, genetics, traits, and survival.
Social Studies: We played a game to review for tomorrow’s test about explorers. Here is a practice test.
- Yellow magnets: 1
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 6
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.
