Tuesday January 3rd and Wednesday January 4th, 2017

Vocabulary

(words; academic vocabulary words)

1. except
2. accept
3. latitude
4. longitude
5. compass
6. certain
7. fountain
8. equator
9. absolute
10. oxen

Spelling Challenge 

"Cut and Paste"

Students frantically looked through magazines to find their list of 10 vocabulary words in a set time limit! 

Reading

Class Reading

In our first day of class, students were presented with a number of books and selected the book the liked best! Class read a portion of the selected work aloud in class. 

Worksheet

• "Character Description"

Writing

Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: "New Year, New... You?" 

Students took 5 minutes in class to creatively write. They used a holiday themed worksheet to enhance their creative writing skills. 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! 

Worksheets

• "Ten Sentence Outline"

Homework

• Any unfinished class work.