2016-2017 school year: day 11 review

Here is a visual reminder of our vocabulary word "fume," which means to become irritated or annoyed.

by Mr. Maynard ([email protected])

Overall, Tuesday was a good day in the classroom (don't be misled by the picture). In "Reading," we read the next chapter of Because of Mr. Terupt, laughing about the wacky science experiment that led to some bigger problems, and then making predictions as a class about what could go wrong later in the story based upon Mr. Terupt's "soft" classroom management.

We then learned how we will be doing weekly vocabulary this year.

• Each week, students will get between 10-12 words.
• Each word (and its part of speech) will be provided, along with a sentence.
• Students will read the sentence and use context clues to infer the meaning of the word.
• Students will then look up the actual meaning of the word and draw a visual reminder (picture) of the word's meaning.
• Students will then attempt to use the word correctly in a sentence.

All in all, each vocabulary word will have seven parts:

1. word.
2. part of speech.
3. inferred meaning.
4. context clues.
5. actual meaning.
6. visual reminder.
7. a sentence.

Vocabulary will be due on Friday, when we will do a word sort with the word's meanings, including their synonyms and antonyms.

In "Social Studies," we took our first CNN Student News quiz of the school year and watched the latest version of current events, learning about the suspect behind the Manhattan and New Jersey bombings, the annual meeting of the United Nations, and the latest blending of technology and medicine, telemedicine.

In "Writing," we wrapped up our introduction to the four types of sentences with a quiz and will move into simple and complex subjects tomorrow! Until then. :-) Mr. Maynard :-)