This morning, following spelling bingo, we started with a vocabulary and listening skill. I spoke to the class about the "How to increase your word power" section in Reader's Digests I used to do these religiously as a kid and eventually was scoring full scores after a couple of years of persistence. I have just brought a whole bag of of them into the room and they will inhabit the bottom shelf in our newly acquired withdrawal area. We focused on a list of words with dog as part of their structure, eg dogmatic, dogleg, dogfight etc...
After that we hit The Writer's Notebook and discussed the major genres they need to focus on this year. Students now have the following list written out so they can keep a tally of the text types they do and eventually publish for the portfolios.
Narrative: to entertain
Recount: to retell events or experiences
Procedure: to explain how to do something
Report: to present factual information in a logical sequence
Exposition: to persuade others to think about an issue from a
particular viewpoint
Explanation: explains how or why something works or happens in the world
Then we really got stuck into maths and completed three lessons. It was then off to library. In the afternoon students had time on their mould investigations and their persuasive posters promoting the war-themed picture books for older readers which are due in tomorrow.
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| One persuasive poster complete |
I am still chasing The Lorax film/book report from four students. Two have assured me they will be handed in tomorrow. Students now need to be firmly focused on their Science reports on their mould experiments and be chipping away at each section a bit at a time. These are due before the end of term, one month away.
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