Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reading. Show all posts

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Pigometry!

Do you love geometry? Do you love Charlotte's Web? Room 14's students love both, so we created Pigometry Art-o-facts today!

Each student was given a ruler, construction paper, and directions from Catherine Jones Kuhns' wonderful book called Mathematical Art-o-Facts. The class loved measuring and constructing our pigs almost as much as we loved reading Charlotte's Web over the last several weeks. We hope you enjoy these pictures of our piggies and the yummy snacks we enjoyed yesterday while we watched Charlotte's Web!

Have a great Easter and we'll see everyone in a week!














Our snacks: Pigs in a blanket & spider web chocolate!

Thursday, October 6, 2011

Grammar Test Review

Types of Sentences:
1. Statement / Declarative: tells something
2. Question / Interrogative: asks something
3. Command / Imperative: tells someone to do something
4. Exclamation / Exclamatory: shows strong feeling

Grammar Study Guide
1.      This type of sentence is a command. _______________________. It ends with a ____.
2.      This type of sentence asks a question: ______________________. It ends with a ___.
3.      This type of sentence is an exclamation: _____________________. It ends with a ___.
4.      This type of sentence is a statement: _______________________. It ends with a ___.
What type of sentence is this? What punctuation should go at the end?
1.     __________________ what is the weather like at the South Pole
2.     __________________ it is very cold all year long
3.     __________________ has anyone ever been to the South Pole
Underline the subject of the sentence once and the predicate twice.
1.     Tara plays the piano.
2.     She practices everyday.
  3.     Mr. George Massey gives Tara lessons.
  4.     Her three brothers wait outside.
Complete each question with who, what, when, why, how, or where. Remember to start each question with a capital letter.
1.           A lot of wheat is grown in South Dakota.
________________ is a lot of wheat grown?
2.           Wheat grows well there because the soil is rich.
________________ does wheat grow well there?



 
 

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Elements & Features of Poetry

Here are our notes from class today to help you study for the reading comprehension & vocabulary test we will take this Friday. Don't forget to study the first 6 vocabulary words (beats, rhyme, lines, pattern, rhythm, stanzas) on the list the students received Tuesday for the test too!

Elements & Features of Poetry
1. Rhyming words
Example Poems:
- Sneeze tease/sneeze, tickle/ nickel/ prickle/pickle
- Joe: Joe/snow, seeds/breeds, wait/late
- Cloud Dragons: high/sky/by, me/see, blue/do
- Spaghetti: please/cheese, squiggle/ wriggle/wiggle, mound/ around, stuff/enough, great/plate
- Andre: awake/take, too/do, glad/had
- The Bat: sky/fly
- Show Fish: swell/tell/spell/smell/well
2. Rhythm
Example Poem:
- April Rain Song (sounds like rain)
- Sneeze (builds up as the poem gets to the end)
- Andre
3. Repeated words
Example Poems:
- April Rain Song (Let the rain . ., The rain . . )
- Giraffe: stilts
- Spaghetti: spaghetti
- Andre: I had
- Show Fish: school, show and tell
4. Shape Poems
Giraffe - forms the shape of a giraffe
The Bat - the words upside down are written upside down
5. Alliteration - repeated sound/consonant at the beginning of words in a poem
Giraffe: tree-tall giraffe
April Rain Song: liquid...lullaby
Spaghetti: spaghetti, slurpy, squiggle, sauce
The Bat: mobile/mammal/mugs/myriad, batty bat
Show Fish: found, flounder, school, show, smell

Thursday, September 1, 2011

Reading Vocabulary

Our first story in reading is called Cliff Hanger and we will begin studying it tomorrow (Friday, September 2)! Since this is our first story I thought that I'd share the vocabulary list with everyone on our blog so that you can start studying for Thursday's Vocabulary Quiz. Each student will receive a copy of the list in class tomorrow, but feel free to print it out at home for reference if you'd like. Have a great Labor Day weekend and make sure to check back this weekend for a blog with pictures of the class' sewing project from the first few days of school!

Cliff Hanger

Belay
Being tied to a person or a rock with a rope for safety
Harness  
A set of straps that can attach to a safety rope
Ledge
A shelf of rock
 Descent  
A trip down into or from something, such as a mountain
Rappel  
To come down a cliff by sliding down a rope
Trekked  
made a slow and difficult journey on foot
Carabiners
metal rings used by rock climbers to attach ropes to themselves or to climbing nuts
Plunging
falling suddenly and quickly
Foresaw  
knew something before it happened
Vertical
straight up and down
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