Thursday January 7th, 2015

Welcome back!

I hope everyone enjoyed their long break. Students returned to class discussing their breaks and our assignments this week focused on the new year. 

Vocabulary

1. gathering
2. celebration
3. noisemaker
4. festivities
5. confetti
6. tradition
7. resolutions 
8. planning
9. anticipate
10. 
    

Reading

New Years Mad Libs

Students completed a list of nouns, adverbs, adjectives,and verbs. They list was then applied to a story. The students read each story aloud, and discussed the elements of the story together in class. Students strengthened their reading and grammar skill with this fun exercise! 

Writing

Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: "Party Crashers"

Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They used a holiday themed worksheet to enhance their creative writing skills. 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

"Ideas for 2016" 

What are you ideas for 2016? Write an essay answering the items below:

1. My goal, what I really want to achieve in 2016, is ...
2. My needs, things I cannot go without, for 2016 are...
3. I can, and will, achieve this goal because of ....  and will do so by taking these steps.... 
4. I will achieve my goal by this time.... 
5. In 2016, I plan to share.... with my community, friends, or family because...
6. My greatest lesson learned from 2015 was....
7. I feel my hardest challenge in 2015 was....
8. The best thing about 2015 was...

Students assigned writing prompt to help strengthen their current writing skills. Students requested to include:

• 10 Complete sentences
• Correct punctuation, spelling, capitalization, BME format
• 4 Vocabulary words (underline vocabulary words)

After students completed their writing, they shared their writing in class. 

Homework

Ms Adrienne's Writing Challenge - Event Description