Our RAD class came in third in the pumpkin decorating contest for our teletuby pumpkin! Congratulations to our pumpkin team. We also came in first in the football kick contest and second in the lunch competition today. We are very proud. Homework due on Monday is to finish reading “After Twenty Years” and write at [...]
Continue Reading Add comment October 30, 2009
Today in class we focused on how to write good comments for blog postings. We started by watching part of this wonderful video of a presentation by Mrs. Yollis’ third grade class on their class blog: While these students are younger than our class’s students, they still gave us some excellent suggestions on what constitutes [...]
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Today in class we went over the 20 words on the vocabulary worksheet students began yesterday. Students are to create flashcards tonight for the terms tonight in preparation for a quiz on Friday. The terms are: apparel, besiege, compress, denounce, dispatch, douse, expressly, famished, forsake, gainful, immense, inept, ingenious, instantaneous, irk, libel, misgiving, oaf, recede, [...]
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Today in class students worked on a vocabulary sheet. Homework is to complete the sheet and prepare for a quiz on the terms on Friday.
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We spent the day today in the library reading, checking out books, and taking quizzes. I also read aloud for a few minutes at the end of the period. Homework tonight includes reading AR books. In addition, students who have not yet published their blog posts need to do so. They should also proof their [...]
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Our class will be visiting the library on Monday. Please be sure to have your student IDs. We will be there for the entire period and will have time to read, select books, and take quizzes. I will also be talking to all the students who were short AR points for the first marking period [...]
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Today in class, we used the computers again, and students worked on finishing, peer editing, and publishing their creativity posts. Publishing the posts is homework for those who did not complete them during class. Students can also select a template for their blogs and add items to the sidebars if they wish. Other homework tonight [...]
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Today in class we went over guidelines for blogging, how to create a blog posting on students’ individual blogs, the difference between the class period blogs and individual blogs, and suggestions on how to write about creativity. Students should work on their creativity posting draft tonight and be prepared to do peer editing tomorrow. Any [...]
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Students had a substitute today and took a quiz on the 15 vocabulary words from “All Summer in a Day.” The 15 Accelerated Reader points for the first quarter were due at 3:30 PM today. Be sure to see me if you have a special need warranting an extension. Homework tonight is to read, as [...]
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We had a busy day today! I have extended the AR deadline until the 3:30 PM (library closing time) tomorrow, Tuesday. Students can visit the library before school starting at 8:30 AM or after school until 3:30 PM to take quizzes. I gave each student his/her grade sheet for the “Rikki-tikki-tavi” letter. Students who would [...]
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