Monday October 12th, 2015

Extended class today! Class runs for an hour and a half today, to make up for our missed class September 28th. As most students did not show for class, we will wait to start our new book next week. 

Vocabulary

1. another
2. agreed
3. fair
4. rainforest
5. complained
6. scampered
7. delicious
8. hungry
9. admiring
10. disappeared

Reading

Five Minute Reading Challenge

Students listened to a passage Miss Adrienne read out loud in class for specific details, so they could illustrate what they heard. Students encouraged to use creativity while strengthening their listening and comprehension skills. 

Read passage from "Seven and Lost!". 

Drawing for Reading Activity
"Fall and Halloween" Theme

Students given a grid with questions. Students must read the sentence and draw what they read. 

Writing

Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: "New Friends"

Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They used an  image they selected off of https://storybird.com for their creative inspiration. Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization skills are not the focus of this challenge! Students have five minutes to dig deep into their creative minds and write about what they see! 

Vertical Vocabulary Challenge

Students picked a vocabulary word off the board and wrote it on the paper vertically. 
For each letter of the selected vocabulary words, the students wrote a word or phrase that related to their vocabulary word. Decoration of work encouraged! 

Vocabulary Baseball

Baseball to strengthen writing skills and vocabulary comprehension!

Student sat at "home-base" with pencil and paper. 
Teacher "pitched" a vocabulary word to student. Student wrote a complete sentence using the "pitched" vocabulary word. A hit occurred when if the sentence was complete and the vocabulary word usage was correct; a strike occurred when the student did not use a complete sentence or the word was used incorrectly. Students were also thrown out on base if they were unable to use the thrown word correctly.