January 9th, 2015
Class activities for Friday, January 9
Spelling: None today.
Cursive: Ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each, are due on Fridays.
Reading: None today due to a middle school course scheduling assembly. Your student should be bringing home a course request sheet with details. The sheet is due back by February 13.
Writing: Students continued to draft and revise their adventure 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 Friday, January 16. Students should be finishing their draft this weekend and ready to revise next week.
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: Students worked on partner math tests today about division. Here are some division skills we’ve been working on lately:
Homework is to practice math for 15 minutes or more using MobyMax or Khan Academy.
Science: None today due to our reading skills practice time. We used that time for extra writing today.
Social Studies: We finished learning about how the Columbian Exchange brought new goods and animals between the New World and the Old World.
Notes:
- The second marking period ends next Friday, January 16. Log in to StudentView to look at recent grades and check for missing assignments.
- Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
- Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
- View grades, report cards, behavior, assignments, and attendance online.
Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 6th grade.
