Welcome back students! Today's class and next week are the last classes of the year! Classes resume on Thursday January 7th, 2016!
Vocabulary
- earthquake
- skeleton
- immortality
- vulnerable
- odyssey
- migration
- arctic
- hollow
- character
- researcher
Reading
Five Minute Reading Challenge
Students listened to a passage Miss Adrienne read out loud in class for specific details, so they could illustrate what they heard. Students encouraged to use creativity while strengthening their listening and comprehension skills.
Read passage from "Descriptive Writing Tumblr - Comet".
Class Reading
Found our book! We started reading, again,"Everything You Need to Know About the World", Page 30 - .
Writing
Five Minute Creative Writing Challenge: "Photo Writing Prompt"
Students took 5 minutes in class to write as much as they could on the prompt using their creative minds!
Class Writing
- Write a 10 sentence essay with beginning, middle, and end format, including correct spelling, punctuation, grammar, and capitalization. Please make sure I can read your essay.
- Use 5 of the daily vocabulary words in your essay; please underline your vocabulary words.
- Tell me what happened in the story with your own words. Be sure to include the following answers (in complete sentences) in your essay:
- Explain why birds can fly.
- What happens if you swim in the river Styx?
- Explain the migration patterns of terns, monarchs, and hummingbirds.
- Who is Homer and what is an odyssey?
