January 3rd, 2013
Class activities for Thursday, January 3
Spelling: We reviewed rules for making plural nouns. This will be the skill tested on Monday’s spelling and skill test.
Cursive: Ten cursive sentences of seven or more words each are due on Fridays.
Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles; some groups worked on questioning and visualizing as reading strategies.
Writing: Students continued to draft their story today.
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 drafting 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 learned rules for multiplying decimals by 10, 100, and 1000. Homework is to finish Journal P6-1.
Science: We received new science books today.
Social Studies: We learned about the Columbian Exchange, which is the flow of goods, animals, plants and ideas between the Old and New Worlds after the time of the explorers. Homework is to finish the Columbian Exchange map started in class.
- Yellow magnets: 0
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 0
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 tomorrow, Friday, January 4 (new date) 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.
