Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Tall Tales



Our last Spelling test is on Friday!

Today we took our test about Paul Bunyan's life as an adult in the story The Bunyans.    This story is rich in figurative language, so we spent a good amount of time reviewing alliteration, personification, similes, metaphors, puns, proverbs, etc.  We also worked on writing a brief tall tale as a portion of the reading test today.

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Figurative Language in Movies Clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSLgxj2dxk

What is a Tall Tale Video Clip - http://www.teachertube.com/video/tall-tales-14148


TOMORROW is our one-day Book Fair.  Students will go with their Block 1 class.  My Block 1 class will be attending from 7:45-8:00.

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

The Bunyans

Figurative Language

Our last Spelling test is on Friday!  

Today we will be read about Paul Bunyan's life as an adult in the story The Bunyans.   Rereading this story is tonight's homework.  This reading story will be our homework assignment tomorrow night.  This story is rich in figurative language, so we spent a good amount of time reviewing alliteration, personification, similes, metaphors, puns, proverbs, etc.

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Figurative Language in Movies Clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSLgxj2dxk

What is a Tall Tale Video Clip - http://www.teachertube.com/video/tall-tales-14148


Thursday is our one-day Book Fair.

Monday, May 9, 2016

Figurative Language

Today we reviewed our Unit 30 Spelling words for our last test on Friday!   We completed workbook 119-120 and made extra credit word searches.

We also worked on Grammar workbook pages 99-100 as we discussed and learned about adjectives.

Tomorrow we will be reading about Paul Bunyan's life as an adult in the story The Bunyans.    This reading story will be our homework assignment tomorrow night.  This story is rich in figurative language, so we spent a good amount of time reviewing alliteration, personification, similes, metaphors, puns, proverbs, etc.

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Figurative Language in Movies Clip - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMSLgxj2dxk

What is a Tall Tale Video Clip - http://www.teachertube.com/video/tall-tales-14148



Wednesday, May 4, 2016

Grand Canyon Test

Today we had our instrument try-outs for band and orchestra.  Students are bringing home an information sheet about the musical instruments that they selected to try out today. 

Our Storytown text today was a non-fiction passage about the Grand Canyon.  Today we took our test over the story vocabulary, comprehension, and we worked hard on a written extended response essay about the Grand Canyon.

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Here are a few Grand Canyon videos:

Grand Canyon for Kids Rafting Adventure Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFX49YQvpfs

Quick Grand Canyon Cartoon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMd6_Xx8wQA

Grand Canyon Flight From Above : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2X4U1mQzoE

Animated Clip : http://pbskids.org/video/?guid=705ba316-a771-4269-92e8-90cbdd641eb9

Formation:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktf73HNZZGY

Spelling Unit 29 is words with prefixes and suffixes.  The main thing is to simply study the base word spelling.  The words look difficult, but when broken into smaller parts, they are really quite easy!  We only have one more week of Spelling after this week!

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

Our "Walk for a Cause" is after school on Wednesday, May 18.  Only students with permission slips can stay for this event.  They should be picked up at 3:00, but families are invited to walk with their children. 

Tuesday, May 3, 2016

Grand Canyon Homework


Our Storytown text today was a non-fiction passage about the Grand Canyon.  This is our Tuesday night homework.  Just a few more stories to go!

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Here are a few Grand Canyon videos:

Grand Canyon for Kids Rafting Adventure Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFX49YQvpfs

Quick Grand Canyon Cartoon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMd6_Xx8wQA

Grand Canyon Flight From Above : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2X4U1mQzoE

Animated Clip : http://pbskids.org/video/?guid=705ba316-a771-4269-92e8-90cbdd641eb9

Formation:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktf73HNZZGY


Spelling Unit 29 is words with prefixes and suffixes.  The main thing is to simply study the base word spelling.  The words look difficult, but when broken into smaller parts, they are really quite easy!  We only have one more week of Spelling after this week!

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

Our "Walk for a Cause" is after school on Wednesday, May 18.  Only students with permission slips can stay for this event.  They should be picked up at 3:00, but families are invited to walk with their children. 

Monday, May 2, 2016

Spelling Unit 29

Today we worked on Spelling pages 115-116.  These are words with prefixes and suffixes.  The main thing is to simply study the base word spelling.  The words look difficult, but when broken into smaller parts, they are really quite easy!  We only have one more week of Spelling after this week!

Spelling Lists

Spelling City

JDRF Envelopes - were due today.  Our "Walk for a Cause" is after school on Wednesday, May 18.  Only students with permission slips can stay for this event.  They should be picked up at 3:00, but families are invited to walk with their children. 

We we will be reading a non-fiction text about the Grand Canyon.  This will be our Tuesday night homework.  Just a few more stories to go!

eBook

Here are a few Grand Canyon videos:

Grand Canyon for Kids Rafting Adventure Link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFX49YQvpfs

Quick Grand Canyon Cartoon : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMd6_Xx8wQA

Grand Canyon Flight From Above : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2X4U1mQzoE

Animated Clip : http://pbskids.org/video/?guid=705ba316-a771-4269-92e8-90cbdd641eb9