We began our day typing our final drafts of the descriptive picture prompts. Students who finished worked on revising their original "Pre Prompt" piece that began the unit. We will finish these up tomorrow and begin our World's Fair Essays.
In reading, we discussed strategies for using context clues when faced with an unknown word in a book. Students then used their vocabulary work from the Avi book to label which strategy was used for determining the meanings of these unknown words. We also read aloud the beginning of a short story by Avi.
This afternoon in science, we continued the work on our paper pets. Students were able to construct the offspring based on the traits from their genotypes. We also watched a Bill Nye video about genetics.
