In Language Arts class we are beginning a new writing assignment based on the story, Roanoke The Lost Colony An Unsolved Mystery From History. The book is written by Jane Yolen.
Today in class we watched a video and visited a website which gave us additional information, and at sometimes, conflicting information to what we already thought we knew. I have included the two links so that students can do some additional research if they would like.
http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-history/roanoke-colony.htm
http://www.history.com/videos/mystery-roanoke#mystery-roanoke
We will begin the actual writing piece next week.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
"March"ing Through the School Year
Top-O-The Mornin to ya!
In language arts we continue to discuss adjectives and have moved into the trait of Word Choice. It is one of my favorites because the kids really begin to play with words and try and come up with all kinds of spicy words to excite their writing. Please ask your kids about their decorated words, and look early next week for pictures. Also please practice synonyms, antonyms and homonyms with them as we will be moving to that next. We will have a couple of big writing projects with this unit, and details on those will follow.
In social studies, we continue to study explorers, we are however, at the same time, beginning to move into colonization as the two are so closely entwined. We finished our simulation and I am happy to report that I only had a few students die of typhus or scurvy, and although some got blown off course, all eventually found their way back to Spain or Portugal successfully.
In reading, we are still reading Fever, 1793. If you haven't spoken with your child about the book, please do so. It is a great story that works well with our science curriculum.
Look next week for pictures!
In language arts we continue to discuss adjectives and have moved into the trait of Word Choice. It is one of my favorites because the kids really begin to play with words and try and come up with all kinds of spicy words to excite their writing. Please ask your kids about their decorated words, and look early next week for pictures. Also please practice synonyms, antonyms and homonyms with them as we will be moving to that next. We will have a couple of big writing projects with this unit, and details on those will follow.
In social studies, we continue to study explorers, we are however, at the same time, beginning to move into colonization as the two are so closely entwined. We finished our simulation and I am happy to report that I only had a few students die of typhus or scurvy, and although some got blown off course, all eventually found their way back to Spain or Portugal successfully.
In reading, we are still reading Fever, 1793. If you haven't spoken with your child about the book, please do so. It is a great story that works well with our science curriculum.
Look next week for pictures!
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