January 12th, 2016
Class activities for Tuesday, January 12
Spelling: Today was our class spelling bee. Congratulations to Skylar and Connor H., our class finalists!
Cursive: Cursive pages 40-42 are available and due on Friday.
Reading: None today due to our class spelling bee.
Writing: Today we talked about writing complete scenes. A fully developed scene has some talking, some action, and some visual details, and those details are used over and over. For example, a scene might start with talking, the some action, then more talking, a visual detail, then more action, then talking, then more action, then a visual detail. All three details should be present. For our current project, each page is like a scene and should have all three kinds of details.
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.
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: Students continued to work on multiplication skills at MobyMax Math.
Homework is to practice MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for at least 15 minutes.
Science: We finished reading about states of matter. We learned that liquids have a definite volume, but a changing shape. Gases have a changing shape and volume.
Social Studies: We reviewed our last assignment about how competition with countries that use cheap materials or labor can cause job losses in the US.
Notes:
- 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.
