Monday March 6, 2017

Thursday March 9th will be the draw for the Hitmen Tickets. If you want to be in the draw please return your blue forms with the dollar donation by Thursday March 9th***

Reading
We practiced re-reading, pausing after periods, using a loud speaking voice and adding in expression to make our newscasting interesting! Today we filmed 4 more people and we worked on giving thenm praise for what they did really well and two things that they could work on improving for next time. The hardest part is eye contact!  Over the next week we will post our News Reporter Reading in Iris. Please watch it with me and ask me what I think I did well and what I would improve for next time.


RAZ KIDS: This is just a friendly reminder that I have updated all the student's RAZ-KIDS reading levels: 
https://www.raz-kids.com/ 
The username is ilagrana0 and the password is on the cards I have sent home twice, plus most of the kids know them by heart as they are a picture icon. 

Please use this resource a few times a week as an alternative to home reading and to suppliment their reading. It can be used in between home reading, on the weekends or as an extra way to enjoy reading and build their accuracy, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary skills. 

Writing
Today we continued to write our Arctic Myths. We worked on the PROBLEM in our story and build up the middle of our stories. We used sentence starters such as:

-Suddenly I heard a loud ________________
-Out of the corner of my eye I saw a _______________
-Before I could stop it I felt myself ______________________

Once we had described the problem we then talked about how our character felt:

-I felt so ___________ because 
-I was worried becuase _____________
-I knew this could be dangerous and was feeling __________ because
-My body felt ____________as the ____________ seeped through my clothes
-I was wondering if I would ______________________________out here in the________________

Science
In science we continued looking at important temperatures like body temperature, fever temperature, hypothermia temperature, an average arctic winter day temperature, room temperature and the temperature of permafrost! We picked 5 temperatures to record in our books and we had to find the number, draw a line and fill in the mercury with pencil crayon, write the temperature and then write down what the temperature was for. Ask me what 4 temperatures I decided to include. We also continued working on our good copy of our animal research for our flip flap flop books. We learned about different classes/groups of animals: 

http://www.kidzone.ws/animals/animal_classes.htm