Today, we began our day with math and reading. In reading, we read aloud A Day of Tears. We are almost done! I, then, continued my discussion of point of view in literature. I showed a cartoon illustrating the different third person points of view. We also looked at samples of stories and talked about how to determine from which point of view a story is told. I will continue to show examples and chat with students about this topic as it is not always an easy one to grasp. Students spent the rest of the class working on their day one activities (meeting in small group, conferring, reading to themselves, reading to a partner, or responding to reading).
In writing today, we worked on our descriptive paragraphs. Students are practicing their skill at writing description. Parts of speech (nouns, verbs and adjectives) will be a focal point when thinking about good descriptive writing. I did a lesson where students changed the verb in a sentence to give different meanings. We shared these.
In science, we did the same thing in 6S as 6F did yesterday.
