January 10th, 2013
Class activities for Thursday, January 10
Spelling: Today we reviewed the idea that some words have silent letters. We also practiced making plural words from words ending in f or fe. In those words, the f is changed to a v, as in wolves, knives, or leaves.
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 making inferences as reading strategies.
Writing: We talked about providing clues in writing to let the reader make inferences, instead of always telling ther reader exactly what happens. Students also 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 multiplying decimals by whole numbers. Homework is to finish Journal P6-5.
Science: We reviewed the experiment from yesterday. Homework is to finish Analysis questions 1 and 3 from the Problem Solving: Save Fred experiment.
Social Studies: We started to learn about the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke.
- Yellow magnets: 1
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 8): 5
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.