It was a quiet start to the day: band and chorus as well as study hall.
In reading, we had a shorter class so there was no read aloud. I showed a passage from Hatchet and we discussed its point of view. Students, as a group, were able to identify that it was third person limited omniscient (in the point of view of a narrator relating Brian's thoughts and feelings). We picked out sentences from the passage that proved this. We then moved into our 30 minutes of independent work for a Day Two.
Writing was fun today! We watched the Schoolhouse Rock clip on verbs. Verbs are an important part of speech to know in order to have good word choice. Then, students went to a site (http://www.myavatareditor.com) where they built their own Avatars. Each student built one and saved it into their folders. Tomorrow, students will write descriptive paragraphs describing this Avatar. Then, they will give the paragraphs to a partner and that partner will have to build the Avatar based on the description. Very fun!
In science today, we watched a clip about animal cells and plant cells on the computer. Then, I showed specimens through a digital microscope. Finally, students began to look at the parts of the cell and their jobs.
