Our first Monday of the school year! Phew! It was a busy one!
We began in 6F with an activity that we will do a lot this year: Making Big Words. Students were given a cup full of tile letters that, when put in a certain order, make a big word. The challenge not only was to find that big word but also to find as many two letter, three letter, four letter, etc. words as they could using those letters. They recorded their words in their notebooks. We will do this as a warm up for a few days out of the week. It's great for spelling reinforcement.
In writing class, we worked on our Graphs of Life. Final drafts are due on Friday.
In reading, I read a book called The Conversation Club. The message about this book was for us to take turns talking and listen to one another because we all have valuable things to contribute. I then showed a "You Tube" video called "You Gotta Keep Reading". So cool! Also, I did a lesson on Good Fit books in comparison to shoes. I even had different shoes to prove my point: not all shoes are meant for the purpose or interest in what we are doing. Also, just because the shoes (books) may fit the purpose and interest, they may not all fit. It's important for children to be able to find those "good fit" books for themselves.
2 hours and vocab is due tomorrow.
I taught both classes science today because of our field trip tomorrow. We talked about the Brain Body Reaction Time lab and how and why the results may be flawed. This led into a discussion of all of the things you need to consider when designing an experiment (something they will be doing after the unit on Learning Styles). We then completed a Multiple Intelligence Survey to see which Intelligence that describes us best. If students did not finish this, it is due by Wednesday.
Just a quick reminder that Open House for 6th grade is September 20 from 7:00 to 8:00 PM. We will start in the gym. See you then~
Tomorrow is the field trip!
