Another cold day today! We began our day with reading class where we read a selection of informational print about Atoms. It was from Kids Discover magazine. I talked about how to determine what was important information when reading this genre. We talked about information that is important vs. what was nice to know.
Students then worked on an activity using the nonfiction conventions that we are learning about. They need to pick out examples of each convention (heading, bold print, timelines, sidebars, etc.) from any of the textbooks that they are using in sixth grade. This is a classwork activity and we will continue to work on over the course of the week.
In writing, today, we talked about things to look for when revising their work. Consistent verb tense, paragraphing, redundancies within the writing, and combining sentences are among the skills students are responsible for in this piece. We typed our pieces in the computer lab.
In science (6S), we did a lesson on taking notes. Then students worked on reading the section of their science textbooks about Particles of Matter and taking notes based on what we talked about in class.
