This morning, I was in meetings so I missed a lot of what went on! Mrs. DiPastina was my sub who handled the plans.
In writing, we worked on editing a couple of paragraphs for complete sentences, capitals and end punctuation. Next, students got their picture prompt piece back with feedback. They will revise these tomorrow.
In reading today, students were introduced to another graphic organizer for their vocabulary assignment this week called Making Connections. They picked 4 previously chosen vocabulary words to work with this week. This assignment is due on Monday of next week. It focuses on thinking about the context from where a word comes to help understand what that word means. This will be a focus of this week. Next, we continued the Avi short story while students wrote on Thinkmarks to keep track of their thinking. This is practicing metacognition.
We got our spelling tests back today. I went over them and we wrote words on our Words to Learn list.
We worked on the Take a Survey lab in science. Students hypothesized whether the majority of their classmates had traits controlled by dominant or recessive alleles. They collected their data by surveying the class for each trait and wrote conclusions based on what they found out.
