*Please note: The time for the Halloween Costume Contest has changed from 1:00PM to 1:30PM on Friday, October 29.
We started our day writing in our writers' notebooks. We then talked about verbs for our lesson. Students are responsible for having consistent verb tense in their published pieces. They went through their pieces and highlighted the all of the verbs. Then, they decided if the tense was consistent. This was a bit challenging, but luckily, we had lots of helpers come in to lend a hand.
In reading, I handed out book orders and did some book talks about the books in the orders. These are due on Wednesday. Next, I talked with students about the importance of the weekly reading logs. We talked about keeping data for later use. After about 10 weeks of collecting data, I will ask students to look through their logs and calculate how many pages on average they've been reading each week. We will then write a reflection for our portfolios based on this data. We will also use the vocabulary words at another time to work with in more depth.
Students then proceeded to Read to Self or Respond to Reading or meet in a group during the rest of class.
In science for 6F, we began the Candy Lab. Students mapped out the elements of the experiment and were then able to collect data to answer the question, "How can you make a solid dissolve faster in a liquid?".
