6F started their day in the computer lab typing up their final drafts. The students are working on publishing their pieces to the classroom blog as well. I'm hoping to collect these pieces this week and move on to the next writing piece.
This morning, we combined both classes and watched the movie "Radio". This is part of our Celebrate Our Differences unit. We will talk about the characters, conflict and theme of this movie this week. In turn, we will use these elements as part of a compare/contrast essay where we look at similarities and differences between this movie, the read aloud book and the book each child read in school for this unit. We will work on these essays in writing class.
6F had spelling today after the movie. I passed back the tests and we added to our Words to Learn lists anything that was misspelled. I also handed back Take Home Task #1 and we added words from this as well. We also did a word preview for the next unit.
Instead of science today, we worked on the graphic organizer that goes with the movie "Radio". We began to think about the major characters in the movie and their character traits. This will be used for our compare/contrast essay.
