5th and 6th Grade MUR: This week we began our mystery unit. For the next few weeks we will be reading the Egypt Game. Students will be working to solve the mystery as well as creating a final Egyptian project.
In writing we are working on research papers. Using three words and symbols we are creating formal outlines, which the students will use to create a final paper. This week we went to the computer lab and worked on formatting in Microsoft word.
In spelling we continue our Words their Way study of prefixes. Our focus was sub- , com-, pro- and en-. The students worked to sort words by prefixes as well as meaning and then created subgroups via meanings.
3rd and 4th Grade MUR: This week began reading Island of the Blue Dolphins. We began the unit with an author study on Scott O'Dell. Our focus for this unit will be written responses to literature. We will continue to review topic sentences and using text evidence to support our topic sentences.
In spelling, we continue our study of classical roots. We had our first set of prefixes in our unit "Lowering". We will continue to work with prefixes throughout the month.
Friday, February 22, 2013
Island of the Blue Dolphins
Click here for Island of the Blue Dolphins online activity! http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/dolphin/home2.shtml
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