January 8th, 2013
Class activities for Tuesday, January 8
Spelling: Today was a preview of upcoming spelling words.
Cursive: Ten cursive sentences of seven or more words each are due on Fridays.
Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles.
Writing: Students continued to draft their story websites 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 Monday, January 21. 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 practiced using number sense by estimating to place decimals after multiplying. Here’s an example:
- For 3.2 x 4.1, estimate the problem to be 3 x 4. The answer is 12.
- Using the estimate, the answer must be close to 12.
- To solve this problem, multiply the number without decimals points. The problem would be 32 x 41, and the answer is 1312.
- To place the decimal, use the estimate of 12. Since the answer needs to be close to 12, the decimals should be put after the 13. The answer is 13.12.
Homework is to finish Journal P6-3.
Science: We organized our science notebook to make it easier to use it for science experiment notes. We began the first experiment about solving problems.
Social Studies: None today due to our math skills time.
- Yellow magnets: 1
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 1
Check your student’s Personal and Social Growth grade online to see if your student moved their magnet.
Notes:
- Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
- View grades, assignments, and attendance online.
Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.
