January 11th, 2013
Class activities for Friday, January 11
Spelling: None today.
Cursive: Ten cursive sentences of seven or more words each are due on Fridays.
Reading: Today was a discussion day in Literature Circles. We also looked at our class reading level progress:
Our most recent class reading level was 6.4, a slight drop from December’s 6.5 level. However, level 6.4 matches our yearly goal! So far, the class reading level has grown a year, and it’s only January! Great work, everyone!
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: None today due to STAR Friday.
Science: We learned about how a scientist investigated the cause of a disease called pellagra.
Social Studies: We learned about the “Lost Colony” of Roanoke. Homework is to finish notebook p. 34.
- Yellow magnets: 0
- 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.
