Our word study this week focuses on the welded sounds made in words like mold, string, and think. Talk at home about these words. Did you know that if you use a new skill in different environments, it helps you to fully cement it into your brain so that it is easier to recall the information? That is why talking about your day at the dinner table is SO VALUABLE (so is sitting together atthe dinner table, but with very busy fall schedules, it is hard to do that!). Try talking to your parents about what we are learning in word study, about how to break the words apart and look at them differently. Also, tell them how you have learned how to mark up the words with different symbols. You can just leave out the part about any mistakes I MAY have made during a lesson or two...they don't really care to hear all of that!! :-)
Today's homework includes writing 15 sentences with our new word list. Today, you evaluated your own sentences from last week. That first set of sentences was a chance for me to see what you'd do without any sentence direction. I took lots of notes in my notebook about what I noticed. Please use the "4- Wow!" column of your sentence rubric while you are writing your sentences today. Show your parents the scores you gave yourself. If you have a parent signature on that rubric tomorrow, I will let you do a "Dolphin Dip" (pick some money), AND you'll earn TWO DOJOS!!! SEE? It PAYS to check the BLOG!!! We will have an assessment on the word study words on Monday, so you will have tomorrow and the weekend to practice that pattern and how to mark up the words.
We have started our study of the circulatory system. Yesterday, we created a word splash with words we know that related to this body system as well as a K-W-L in our notebooks. Today, we watched a Mr. Parr video on Youtube. This man creates videos about science topics that make it fun and easy to learn about SO many topics. Music is a very effective way to learn new things! We will be writing our own parody this year (maybe more than one). Which song would you choose to be the background music for a song about your heart and blood? We had a serious discussion about using Youtube at home, only with a parent supervising us. Youtube is NOT the place to be searching around online since any wackadoo can put any a video on there and teach us the WRONG things about the heart (or worse!). PARENT SUPERVISION is a MUST when it comes to certain websites! Even my blog has educational sites that can carry links to other sites that link to other sites that link to sites that are not meant for kids. THAT MEANS YOU!!! BE CAREFUL!!
TOMORROW'S FRIDAY!!!
HAPPY DANCE!!!
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