Wow, this week has been a hectic one! I'm so sorry for the late posts. I'm still making up for the lost hour because of Daylight Savings Time!
Well, lately, students have been finishing up some setting activities in reading class. They all completed an Understanding Setting sheet where they had to identify 8 passages in their independent reading books which gave them some idea about the setting of the book. We've talked about inferential clues as well as literal clues that authors give about the setting. We've also done some small group work with this topic during class.
In writing, the persuasive essays are due tomorrow. Students had their last opportunity to work on this in class today. Most were able to pass them in.
In science, we put our cubes together, did some riddles based on the periodic table of elements, and passed back our matter books. We are moving on to our unit on cells and heredity.
