Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Students are drafting for our first Chanterelle classroom literary magazine. Rubrics for revision and editing will help students in the next phase, then they will type their final drafts. The magazine will likely be published in about two weeks.

The graphic organizer for planning the piece. If students do this well, the story writes itself.

The editing rubric asks students to use their personal writing goals as guides.

A lesson on hooks: students wrote the first sentence from about a dozen of their favorite novels and we compared their characteristics. The best, in my opinion, was from Shooting Kabul, a new book about a photographer in Afghanistan. 

Making state maps. 


Students write one thing they learned each week on a shiny ribbon, as a way of consolidating learning. The ribbons make a beautiful decoration and document the wide range of learning experiences we have had so far this year. 
Homework:
•Math worksheets in grades 4 and 5 can be downloaded in the toolbar. 
Map scale worksheet, both sides. Use the skinny piece of card stock you received in class to make a ruler. 
•Read 20 minutes or more and fill out your reading log. 

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