Thursday November 19th, 2015

Last class of November! We are on holiday next week and class to resume on Thursday December 3rd at 3:30pm. We had two worksheets assigned for homework, and students should bring any assignments not yet turned in from previous weeks when we reconvene. Have a great week off! 

Vocabulary

1. deeds
2. monuments
3. generous
4. honor
5. outlast
6. darkness
7. doubt
8. impatient
9. fear
10. endure

Reading

Five Minute Reading Challenge

Students listened to a passage Miss Adrienne read out loud in class for specific details, so they could illustrate what they heard. Students encouraged to use creativity while strengthening their listening and comprehension skills. 

Read passage from "Parts", by Tedd Arnold

Visualize Reading Activity

Our goal in this activity is to listen (and read), understand, visualize and draw our reading!

"Wonder" by R.J. Palacio and "Anna's Fish"

Writing

Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: "Potion"

Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They used an  image they selected off of https://storybird.com for their creative inspiration. Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization skills are not the focus of this challenge! Students have five minutes to dig deep into their creative minds and write about what they see! 

Class Writing - Vocabulary Comic Activity

This activity helps strengthen our comprehension, association, spelling, and writing skills! 

• Use 6 out of the 10 vocabulary words and create a short comic strip.
• You may pick any, appropriate, subject in the universe and turn it into a comic strip. Read the vocabulary words out loud and think about their meaning. Do you see a theme in the vocabulary words? It may help you to first visualize, then write the story on another piece of paper. Once you've gotten the story written out and visualized, draw the comic strip and add the words. 
• Include correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, capitalization. Make sure to include setting, characters, and a plot.