January 15th, 2016
Class activities for Friday, January 15
Spelling: None today.
Cursive: Cursive pages 40-42 are available and due on Friday.
Reading: Students worked on AR tests or informational reading skills today.
Writing: We talked about developing the inner story today. That’s a characters thoughts or feelings that come out in how the characters acts or what they say.
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 and nearing the end of their story. 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 some Interactive History Adventure books (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.
- 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 practice multiplication skills at MobyMax, many by breaking apart large numbers or by using partial products.
Homework is to practice MobyMax Math or Khan Academy for at least 15 minutes.
Science: We reviewed the last experiment about the differences between a solid, liquid, and a gas. We’ll have a MiniQuiz about this topic next week.
Social Studies: We learned about how an economy can grow or shrink from changes in technology, resources, or competition. We looked at an example of Michigan copper mines competing with Arizona copper mines.
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.
