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.

Thursday November 12th, 2015

We had students absent, so we've pushed our regular class lesson for November 19th. Today, we worked on extra reading and writing challenges!

Vocabulary

1. seriously
2. favorite
3. anxious
4. hunger
5. together
6. escaped
7. chocolate 
8. nicely
9. flee
10. yuck

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 "Marcelline Goes to Music School" and "Petite Grey Cat"

Writing

Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: "Message in a Bottle" and "Super Punch".

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

• Write 10 complete sentences using beginning, middle, and end format. Please write neatly.
• Include correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization.
• Use 3 of the vocabulary words in your essay. Please underline your vocabulary words.
• Create a story about anything. Include a drawing to illustrate your writing. 

Thursday November 5th, 2015

Vocabulary

1. eventually
2. coincidence 
3. imagine
4. contagious
5. unsuspecting
6. assigned
7. pretended 
8. staring
9. curious
10. awful

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 "Unnatural Creatures". 

Class Reading

Continued reading Wonder by R.J. Palacio; chapters "Wake Me Up When September Ends" and "Jack Will".

Writing

Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: "The Library"

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! 

"Wonder" Writing

• Write 8 complete sentences using beginning, middle, and end format. Please write neatly.
• Include correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization.
• Use 4 of the vocabulary words in your essay. Please underline your vocabulary words.
• Tell me what happened in the story with your own words. Be sure to include the following answers:

1. Describe how Auggie's first month of school went. What were the ups and down of attending his first month of school? 
2. How did Auggie feel about the way the other kids treated him when they saw him at school? Was he mad at the other kids for looking at him this way? 
3. Discuss Auggie's friendship with Jack. How does Auggie describe their relationship? What classes do they have together? 
4. Do you think the teachers put Jack Will in the same classes at Auggie and sat them next to each other in class on purpose? Why? 

Vocabulary Baseball

Baseball to strengthen writing skills and vocabulary comprehension!

Student sat at "home-base" with pencil and paper. 
Teacher "pitched" a vocabulary word to student. Student wrote a complete sentence using the "pitched" vocabulary word. A hit occurred when if the sentence was complete and the vocabulary word usage was correct; a strike occurred when the student did not use a complete sentence or the word was used incorrectly. Students were also thrown out on base if they were unable to use the thrown word correctly.