Miss Morris classroom blog : July 2013

Monday, 29 July 2013

First 5/20 writing prompts

You are to select one of the 5 fun writing prompts to write on in today's lesson.

Remember to check your work once you have finished, underline words you may think are wrong in red and check these.

Be sure you also check for L- O-N-G sentences and your punctuation.

Finish this sentence: My superpower is…
Use at least five color words to write a poem titled “A Rainbow of Feelings.”
Describe the grossest lunch you’ve ever eaten.
Who is your evil twin? Write about the mischievous deeds that he/she has done today.
What one thing are you an expert on? Fill one page with information about _________ (your expert topic).

Source: http://www.poetry4kids.com/blog/news/twenty-fun-writing-prompts-for-children/

Friday, 26 July 2013

Describe a day in the life of an old lawyer who discovers a talking frog

LI: To write a piece of writing describing a day in the life of an old lawyer who discovers a talking frog.

Think about where the lawyer lives?

How he met the talking frog?

What the talking frog looks/ sounds like?

What do they talk about?

How does the story end?

I would like you to think of the best descriptive words to use in this piece.

Remember, it can be published on the blog. Make sure you check your spelling and puntuation.

Wednesday, 24 July 2013

Following the pre test- in which students wrote own procedural on how to brush their teeth-.

A rubric was designed to allow students to self assess their own pre test/ procedural text and create writing goals.

Writing goals allow both the student and teacher to have a clear indication of what needs to be improved, promoting open discussion and collaboration between class members.

Saturday, 20 July 2013

Mathematics- Division- Online Games

Fact Families

http://www.softschools.com/quizzes/math/fact_family/quiz1139.html

Mathematics- Measurement and Geometry- Length

Length

Measuring how long things are, how tall they are, or how far apart they might be are all examples of length measurements.

Millimeters
Centimeters
Meters
Kilometers

Small units of length are called millimeters.

A millimeter is about the thickness of a plastic id card (or credit card).

Or about the thickness of 10 sheets of paper on top of each other.

This is a very small measurement!

Centimeters

When you have something that is 10 millimeters, it can be said that it is 1 centimeter.

1 centimeter = 10 millimeters

A fingernail is about one centimeter wide.

You might use centimeters to measure how tall you are, or how wide a table is, but you would not use it to measure the length of football field. In order to do that, you would switch to meters.