Free Rice

Today we worked on a vocabulary site called Free Rice.  This site donates 10 grams of rice for every vocabulary word that is answered correctly.  The kids loved it!  Not only is it a great cause, but we learned MANY new vocabulary words that we can use in our writing and everyday conversations! Be sure to check it out!

Voice Thread ~ LIterature Circle Mini Project~ Andrew Clements

Check out our Voice Threads we created!  Students got into their Lit Circle groups and one student was in charge of author's purpose, student 2 created connections, student 3 wrote a summary, and the fourth student wrote a continuation of the novel. These turned out OUTSTANDING! Click on the links to hear these talented students!

No Talking

Troublemaker

Frindle

About Average

What Do YOU Think?

Throughout the year, we have been working very hard on citing evidence when we think or believe something.  Today, we watched the following video, and we came up with our opinion over the video (Are these babies REALLY conversing with one another?) and then we had to suppport our opinion with evidence from the video.  Reviewing sentennce fluency with the class, I also challenged them to use two complex sentences in their writing.  Many accepted this challenge with flying colors!  Click on the link below to check out the video!

Baby Conversation

Blendspace Point of View

When we get back from these snow days, we will continue our discussion on point of view.  I have created a board on Blendspace (if you have never checked it out before, do so, it is AWESOME!) Students will be picking an image found on our board and create a powerpoint presentation containing the points of view of the various people/animals in the pictures. I will definitely post our final projects!

Blendspace- Point of View