January 7th, 2016
Class activities for Thursday, January 7
Spelling: Students continued to work on their Words to Learn list from the Unit 2 spelling test.
Cursive: Cursive pages 37-39 are available and due on Friday.
Reading: Today was a reading day in Literature Circles; some groups worked on using context clues as a reading strategy.
Writing: Students created their adventure websites today and started working on the home page that tells the reader who the main character is.
Our current writing project is a Choose Your Own Adventure fiction gamebook. Students are writing 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 22. Students should drafting at this point. Get some ideas below or right here. Homework is to work on writing for at least 15 minutes and to continue writing on the home page about the main character.
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.
- Play Oregon Trail, another text-based computer game.
- Find a complete list of resources here.
Math: We practiced breaking apart large number to multiply them. For example:
- 4 x 345 can be broken apart into
- 4 x 300 = 1200
- 4 x 40 = 160
- 4 x 5 = 20
- Adding the partial products results in the answer.
Students started working on this skill at MobyMax Math.
Homework is to practice MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for at least 15 minutes.
Science: We finished reviewing our last experiment about states of matter. We learned that solids have a definite shape and size, liquids have a changing shape but a definite size, and gases have a changing shape and size.
Social Studies: None today due to our reading skills and AR practice time.
Notes:
- Grand Blanc Community Education is asking about the interest level for August day camps for kids. Some parents have asked for things to keep their kids busy during the dog-days of summer while gearing them up for school. Please share your ideas in this 3-minute survey.
- Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
- Visit our Links page: keep track of all the websites we use for learning, or try something new.
- View grades, assignments, and attendance at ParentVue or StudentVue.
Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.
