We had a busy day to get us back in the groove! Beginning with writing in our writers' notebooks, we put our Holiday Fragrance papers into our portfolios. Next, students read through their notebooks to look for a piece of writing that they want to publish. The requirements for this piece are as follows: 1. A story with a beginning, middle and end; 2. 1 to 2 pages long. We will be working on the trait of organization, with particular focus on leads, conclusions, and transitions among the piece.
In reading today, we read aloud. The book is very intense at this point. I talked a bit about the test to end this unit on Monday. The test will consist of multiple choice where students will be given sentences from the read aloud and they must identify them by the figure of speech. Next, it will have a matching section where there are four different conflicts and students match them with the type of conflict. Finally, there is one short answer and one essay question based on the individual books they have read for this unit.
In spelling, we broke up into 3 different groups to work on 3 different activities. These activities are Making Big Words, Sort It, and Find It from unit 4 in spelling.
Finally, in science, we played the What's My Substance? game and worked with triple beam balances. Students had a chance to measure mass using these balances.
