More editing of our scarology papers today! Students worked on beefing up their paragraphs. We also studied our sight words and worked on sentence of the week skills.
Tomorrow we will look at adding dialogue to our paragraphs which will go along with our sentence of the week work.
Tuesday, December 10, 2013
Monday, December 9, 2013
Dec 9, 2013: Scarology
Homework: Sentence of the Week
We started class out with some DEAR time and then practiced our sight words. We learned a new skill during sentence of the week. We learned how to use front-end dialogue, or how to write sentences with the spoken part written first. We will continue to practice this throughout the week.
We spent the second half of class reviewing what goes into every good paragraph, and what the difference is between narrative and expository writing. We then jumped on the computers to do some editing to our scarology stories. Everyone had to go through their paragraphs to make sure they had all of the elements of a good paragraph. They are....
- Topic sentence: Tells your reader what they will be reading about
- Supporting Details: 3-5 per paragraph that support the topic
- Concluding or transition sentence: Wraps up your idea/moves your reader onto what is happening next
- Transition words: Next, later, after, then....etc.
We will continue working on this tomorrow and will work on adding dialogue to our stories!
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Scarology Cont: Nov 13, 2013
We began a new read aloud today in class! The book we started is called Girl Stolen, by April Henry. So far it has us hooked! We left off on a cliffhanger so we might have to pick it right back up tomorrow! While reading today we jotted down notes about the characters we met, the setting, and some other important details. To sum it up, Cheyenne is a 16 year old blind girl that is accidentally kidnapped when Griffin, a confessed career criminal, steals her parents Escalade from a parking lot. At this point Griffin is freaking out about having Cheyenne and is very worried about what "Roy" (a character we don't know anything about yet) is going to do to him for messing up.....
After read aloud everyone practiced their sight words and then we worked on Sentence of the Week. What I found when looking at everyone's homework was that we need to remember that when using conjunctions you need to have a complete sentence on either side of the comma! We'll continue working on that tomorrow!
We finished up class by continuing to discuss scarology. We used this doc (not sure if you'll be able to open it or not). We talked about how a personal narrative is a TRUE story about the author! Some of you were wondering if you could embellish your scar stories but they need to be TRUE! We also talked about creating a good introduction that would suck your reader in. We'll keep working on this tomorrow as well and talk more about personal narratives.
No homework! Have a good night!
After read aloud everyone practiced their sight words and then we worked on Sentence of the Week. What I found when looking at everyone's homework was that we need to remember that when using conjunctions you need to have a complete sentence on either side of the comma! We'll continue working on that tomorrow!
We finished up class by continuing to discuss scarology. We used this doc (not sure if you'll be able to open it or not). We talked about how a personal narrative is a TRUE story about the author! Some of you were wondering if you could embellish your scar stories but they need to be TRUE! We also talked about creating a good introduction that would suck your reader in. We'll keep working on this tomorrow as well and talk more about personal narratives.
No homework! Have a good night!
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Scarology: Nov 12, 2013
We started class with DEAR today....
After DEAR we worked on our sight words and then got into sentence of the week! Our rule for this week was about conjunctions! What they are, when to use them, what punctuation to use with them, etc. Remember FANBOYS. (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)
We also watched the School House Rock "Conjunction Junction" song, because it's awesome!
We finished up class by introducing our next big project, scarology! Scarology will be a personal narrative that students will write based on a scar that they have. We went through what a personal narrative is (a story about yourself) and the project rubric. Tomorrow when you get to class have listed what scar you would like to write about!
After DEAR we worked on our sight words and then got into sentence of the week! Our rule for this week was about conjunctions! What they are, when to use them, what punctuation to use with them, etc. Remember FANBOYS. (For, And, Nor, But, Or, Yet, So)
We also watched the School House Rock "Conjunction Junction" song, because it's awesome!
We finished up class by introducing our next big project, scarology! Scarology will be a personal narrative that students will write based on a scar that they have. We went through what a personal narrative is (a story about yourself) and the project rubric. Tomorrow when you get to class have listed what scar you would like to write about!
Monday, November 4, 2013
Sentence of the Week: Nov 4, 2013
Homework: Sentence of the Week, Reading Strategies Bookmark
After sight words we had our new sentence of the week skill. This week we are learning that for a sentence to be considered complete, it MUST have a subject (who or what the sentence is about) and a verb (what the subject is doing). Your homework for tomorrow is to create three new complete sentences and to label the subject and the verb.
We scored our last Boggle round from Friday, you guys are crazy good at this game! You found words that I hadn't come up with yet!
Finally, we finished up class by reviewing our reading strategies bookmark. Since a number of you had lost yours, if you do not have one your homework is also to complete one of these. You need to create a bookmark with the 6 reading strategies (3 on each side), with the name of the strategy and a picture to represent it.
WKCE testing tomorrow!
Friday, November 1, 2013
Sight Word Quiz! Nov 1, 2013
Welcome to November! We started class today with DEAR time. When we were done everyone begged for 5 more minutes of reading which was AWESOME! So we read for 5 more minutes.....
After DEAR we took our sight word quiz again. So next week we will compare the first sight word quiz we took with the new one to see all of the progress everyone has made!
We reviewed all of the requirements for the dream house project which is due Monday, so make sure you have all of the required materials! Use your checklist!
Since we have had such a long and funky week.....we finished up class today with a little brain break! (But really we were still doing Comm Arts....Shhh!) We played Boggle! I drew a Boggle board up on the whiteboard and everyone had to try to find as many words as they could out of the scrambled letters. You guys did AWESOME! We'll figure out the score on Monday!
After DEAR we took our sight word quiz again. So next week we will compare the first sight word quiz we took with the new one to see all of the progress everyone has made!
We reviewed all of the requirements for the dream house project which is due Monday, so make sure you have all of the required materials! Use your checklist!
Since we have had such a long and funky week.....we finished up class today with a little brain break! (But really we were still doing Comm Arts....Shhh!) We played Boggle! I drew a Boggle board up on the whiteboard and everyone had to try to find as many words as they could out of the scrambled letters. You guys did AWESOME! We'll figure out the score on Monday!
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Oct 31, 2013: Back to Comm Arts!
We finally had a somewhat normal comm arts class today! At the beginning of the week we had WKCE testing, and then we continued working on our dream houses. Today during 8th hour we had a normal comm arts class! We did some journaling, we had DEAR time, reviewed our sight words....it was fabulous!
Tomorrow we will have our sight words test to see how much better we have gotten since the beginning of the year! We will also practice our sentence of the week skills to review everything!
No homework! Happy Halloween!
Tomorrow we will have our sight words test to see how much better we have gotten since the beginning of the year! We will also practice our sentence of the week skills to review everything!
No homework! Happy Halloween!
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