 "Luke, I am your dollar!" | by Mr. Maynard ([email protected]) I've decided to hold off on students writing the "Daily Diary" posts until next week as I need to develop a schedule this weekend. Thus, I will write today's and tomorrow's posts. |
All in all, I thought Thursday was a great day for the fifth graders in my classes. I put a lot on my students' plates today, and they were able to finish what they needed to get done. Our self-control was much better in the morning than it was yesterday. I really liked what I saw today and expect a strong finish to what has been a great first full week.
In Reading, we read the next chapter of Because of Mr. Terupt, getting introduced to Luke and the cool "Dollar Words" activity, which we will do tomorrow in class. Students identified Luke's identity, coming up with great nouns like "brain," "genius," "teacher's pet," "comedian," etc., to describe this character. Students then used their whiteboards to explain how "Dollar Words" worked based on their understanding of the read aloud. Last but not least, students continued developing their grasp of the SWBST summarizing strategy, writing their thoughts about what Luke wanted in this chapter. Here's a good one: Luke wanted to find his first dollar word, but Alexia and Peter kept distracting him with their behavior. Then Luke came up with a name for the two. Then he realized that name was a dollar word!"
In Social Studies, I gave my students another article from the day after the 9/11 attacks, this time a story from The Chicago Tribune. We used this article for several purposes, including modeling our non-fiction book reports forms and performing a close read of its first section, circling confusing words, underlining main ideas and summarizing what that section was about. We also watched "CNN Student News," learning about a super typhoon in China, the Paralympics, and a tiny town in Illinois known for making really big things out of wood.
In Writing, we continued developing our understanding of the four types of sentences, taking a quiz on our pneumonic memory tool, Did I Invite Everybody?, to remember Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory sentences. We also used our whiteboards as a formative assessment of our understanding of these different sentences.
I wanted to send a quick shout out to several students today. First and foremost, happy birthday to Genevieve P. I also wanted to say great job by another student, D.G., who showed me her CNN Response from yesterday. If this student could start a charity for any cause, D.G. would do so for breast cancer as a loved one close to this student has been affected. In a similar light, one of my aunts was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, so I understand where D.G. is coming from and think this student's charity would be a great one.
Have a wonderful night everyone! :-) Mr. Maynard :-)
In Reading, we read the next chapter of Because of Mr. Terupt, getting introduced to Luke and the cool "Dollar Words" activity, which we will do tomorrow in class. Students identified Luke's identity, coming up with great nouns like "brain," "genius," "teacher's pet," "comedian," etc., to describe this character. Students then used their whiteboards to explain how "Dollar Words" worked based on their understanding of the read aloud. Last but not least, students continued developing their grasp of the SWBST summarizing strategy, writing their thoughts about what Luke wanted in this chapter. Here's a good one: Luke wanted to find his first dollar word, but Alexia and Peter kept distracting him with their behavior. Then Luke came up with a name for the two. Then he realized that name was a dollar word!"
In Social Studies, I gave my students another article from the day after the 9/11 attacks, this time a story from The Chicago Tribune. We used this article for several purposes, including modeling our non-fiction book reports forms and performing a close read of its first section, circling confusing words, underlining main ideas and summarizing what that section was about. We also watched "CNN Student News," learning about a super typhoon in China, the Paralympics, and a tiny town in Illinois known for making really big things out of wood.
In Writing, we continued developing our understanding of the four types of sentences, taking a quiz on our pneumonic memory tool, Did I Invite Everybody?, to remember Declarative, Imperative, Interrogative, and Exclamatory sentences. We also used our whiteboards as a formative assessment of our understanding of these different sentences.
I wanted to send a quick shout out to several students today. First and foremost, happy birthday to Genevieve P. I also wanted to say great job by another student, D.G., who showed me her CNN Response from yesterday. If this student could start a charity for any cause, D.G. would do so for breast cancer as a loved one close to this student has been affected. In a similar light, one of my aunts was recently diagnosed with breast cancer, so I understand where D.G. is coming from and think this student's charity would be a great one.
Have a wonderful night everyone! :-) Mr. Maynard :-)
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