Reading Update 4-30-Plays, Projects, and more!

This past week, we practiced and performed some plays.  I picked four different plays- one for reading, social studies, math, and science.  See the posters advertising the plays below.  

                                                       

Students went through the process of getting a part, learning a scripts, creating props, having a dress rehearsal and then finally a performance!  See the links below to watch any of the plays.

*Biography Projects went home yesterday, please ask your child to see his/her.  They turned out beautiful!!  We shared them in class and had some treats last Friday.

*Reading Counts Points due by May 27

*Logs are due each Monday.  They are two entries of 6-8 sentences each and should be done online on our Google Classroom.

                                

Mrs. Skeels' Class Plays:

Science Alive

Operation Central

Two Pigs, a Wolf, and a Mud Pie

Marco Millions

Mrs. Will's Class Plays:

Science Alive

Operation Central

Two Pigs, a Wolf, and a Mud Pie

Marco Millions

Mrs. Tyrrell's Class Plays:

Science Alive

Operation Central

Two Pigs, a Wolf, and a Mud Pie

Marco Millions

Mrs. Stoyle & Mrs. Gagel's Class Plays:

Science Alive

Operation Central

Two Pigs, a Wolf, and a Mud Pie

Marco Millions

Will Biography projects and Arbor Day poems

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Stagel biography projects and Arbor Day poems

Skeels biography projects and arbor day poems

Tyrrell biography projects and sharing Arbor Day poems

Earth day pledges

Today we talked about Earth Day. We also made pledges to show things we would do to keep our Earth clean and healthy.

Reading Update 4-20

It has been a few weeks since I updated this...To celebrate Earth and Arbor Day, we wrote poems and made books for those holidays.  In science class, they created posters.  Those are entered in a contest and we have an assembly to celebrate the holiday in May.  Those will come home after that assembly.

Tomorrow is our last PARCC assessment for the end of the year.  It is two passages (one fiction and one non-fiction).  There are only multiple choice questions to assess vocabulary and comprehension. When I told the kids there were no essays, they were excited!  :)

Right now, we are working on biographies.  Students are creating their own project in class.  They had to choose a field of interest like sports, medicine, art, etc.  Then, they had to choose two people who have influence that field.  Next, they took notes on them.  Finally, they are writing an argument essay describing who they felt was more successful.  We are making booklets with this information and hiding in the pocket our own opinions.  They have worked very hard reading and learning new things about people they are interested in.  These projects are due Friday.  Class time will be used tomorrow and Wednesday.  After that, they must be finished at home.

Reading logs are still due each Monday.  Logs are now 2 entries of 6-8 sentences each.

Please continue to check the homework website if need be:

https://leightongreenteam.wikispaces.com/

Our school collected over $3000 last week for kids with leukemia!!  That is awesome!!

Reading Update 4-7

Happy April!!  Hopefully everyone enjoyed their Spring Breaks.  I enjoyed time home with my family.

We did a very fun activity today to start class called Spring Break or Spring Fake.  Everyone had to quick write a narrative that either happened to them over Spring Break or write about something that was fake.  Then, they shared in groups and had to guess if they thought each person's was real or fake.  It also gave them some time to talk about what they did over Spring Break.  They seemed to have a blast!

We are starting biographies this week and next week.  We are looking at different fields of work people can be in like sports, music, art, writing, technology, etc.  Then, students will have to choose two people of interest in that area to research further.  Finally, it will end with an analysis of whom they think is more of a success in that field.  We began this work by discussing what success is and criteria that can be used to evaluate success.  It was very interesting to hear these discussions.

The first field as a class we are looking into is the field of writing.  I chose two authors to read about- Dr. Seuss and Laura Ingalls Wilder (one everyone knows and one not too many knew).  Today we read about Laura Ingalls Wilder and tomorrow Dr. Seuss.  We are going through the process of taking notes and looking at their lives to determine who was more successful in the field of writing.

My goal is to also read about Harry Houdini and Jim Henson as far as the field of entertainment goes to see who has been more successful.  Next week, students will have the opportunity to choose a field of interest and research two people as well.

Reminders:
*Reading Counts Goals for 4th quarter will be set this week.  This is the last one for the school year!
*Report cards go home this Friday
*Reading Logs are online and due each Monday.