January 27th, 2012
Class activities for Friday, January 27
Spelling: Today was a preview of upcoming spelling words.
Cursive: Cursive pp. 63-65 were due today. We’ve completed a review of upper and lowercase cursive letters. For the remainder of the year, the weekly cursive assignment will be to write ten cursive sentences, seven or more words each.
Reading: Students worked on plays to practice reading with fluency using correct speed, tone and volume.
Writing: Students continued to work on the draft of their next writing piece, 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. The project is due Monday, February 6. Students will publish their adventure as a website at sites.mrhowd.com. Students should be drafting their adventure story at this time. See below for more details.
Choose Your Own Adventure Resources
- See examples of Choose Your Own Adventure fiction websites here and here.
- 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 compared mass and weight:
- Weight is the measurement of the force of gravity on an object.
- Mass is the measurement of how much matter an object contains.
- Weight is measured with a scale; mass is measured with a balance.
- Weight can change at different locations; mass doesn’t change at different locations.
Social Studies: Students completed an economics test today.
- Yellow magnets: 1
- Orange magnets: 0
- Red magnets: 0
- STAR Awards: 0
- Magnets moved this week (goal: 10): 4
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Notes:
- Want to grab your favorite time for the Spring Parent Teacher Conferences in March? Do that here.
- Check out our class calendar to stay up-to-date.
- View grades, assignments, and attendance at JupiterGrades.
Our Mission:
All students in Room 130 will do their best and get ready for 5th grade.
