Forty-Fourth Day of School

Today we began discussion of  the last of our tested concepts in Social Science. We will be comparing and contrasting concepts across time and space. For example, we will examine educational practices/circumstances in the past and the present. We will also take a look at how education practices and circumstances differ as a result of culture and geographical location. We will also compare transportation, construction, and commerce.

Forty-Third Day of School

In Writing, we have been examining some procedural-informational texts as an introduction to our new unit. Today we brainstormed lists of subjects we felt we knew enough about in order to teach someone else. Our next step will be to take the pre-unit assessment.

As soon as available, a template for the writing unit will be sent home for parent's writing.

Grades for the Math Fall IAB Exam have been posted to Schoology for those wishing to know how their child performed. Two students achieved a rubric score of 4.

In Science tomorrow, we will explore and decide which form of matter it is based on its properties.

Thirty-Ninth day of School

In Writing today, we reviewed spelling strategies for our editing process. We will soon take our Narrative Writing Assessment.

Thirty-Eighth Day of School

In Writing today, we edited for the first time using red pens. We circled words which were spelled incorrectly and looked for missing periods.

In Health, we learned about healthy ways to express feeling, especially anger.

We also reviewed some concepts in Science and Social Science.

Thirty-Seventh Day of School

In Writing today, we took blue pen in hand to work on the revision process. Recall that, in revising we take our writing from simply having all of the necessary elements to a richly voiced narrative with sensory details. Our process is here.

Thirty-Sixth Day of School

In Writing today, we added closing statements to our narratives.

Please note: three new posts to this blog were added today.

At-Home Assignment #1

Every year Room 11 has the tradition of electing a class president. This supports the government portion of our Social Science standards. Those students interested in running for Room 11 Class President 2019-20 will work on a speech at home to be delivered to the class on November 5, 2019. Speeches will be filmed using chroma key technology and saved to flash drives.

Students who would like to have their videos edited, will make sure they are not wearing any shade of green or yellow in any part of their outfit.

On this day we will also try to film our expert interviews. Those students wanting their interviews to be edited will also need to remember not to wear green or yellow on that Monday. Please review these questions from an early post with your child. Your child should 

be able to ask and answer each of the following:

1. Who was Roberto Clemente?
2. Where was he born?
3. What was he known for?
4. What kind of person was he?
5. What did he want to do?
6. How did he die?
7. How was he honored?

Sometimes we even have time to read our October stories on film to make a third chroma-key film.