Today, we began with band and chorus. Students worked diligently in study hall while others were gone.
In reading, we read an article about Polar Bears and filled out a Bulls-Eye about what was important, nice to know and necessary. Students should be well versed enough in this format to do it for homework which is due Friday.
In writing, we began to talk about persuasive essays. We brainstormed topics in the form of thesis statements. I asked students to begin to think about what they wanted to focus on for their essays.
In science, we talked about the Periodic Table of Elements and its components. This was on a basic level; we will get more in depth in the future. Students worked on a Getting to Know the Elements sheet where they looked through the table and wrote down element names that they knew and where they had heard the names. We also did an activity showing the importance of the organization of the elements.
