Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Please excuse the heavy handed reference to God and the Bible, this a short example of how to set up a concluding or closing sentence for a paragraph.

In addition to this video, we also did a paragraph puzzle type of activity where sentences needed to be placed in order:

 All the groups agreed that #2 was the Topic Sentence and #1 was the Closing or Concluding sentence.  The supporting details came next.  Two groups agreed on the exact order of the supporting details :  2, 4, 3, 5, 1.  Another thought it could be:  2, 5, 4, 3, 1 and the last group considered:  2, 3, 5, 4, 1.

The last group's suggestion had the sentence beginning with "Also" as the second sentence.  Usually, the word also follows another sentence with a supporting detail.

We followed this up with an activity where the students were given a concluding or closing sentence and then had to build a paragraph.  I have done this before, but can be a little abstract for the class.  So, I do one as an example.  Here are the stages of this exercise that I have for the class to see:

These exercises are designed to help the students in writing their own
paragraphs.  They will be doing this
tonight.  THE FINAL COPIES
WILL BE DUE BY FRIDAY 
and they will be doing a rough
draft for me tonight with the idea
that they will be getting feedback
from me and make any necessary
changes.



2 completed copies done by students:

The Success Criteria for the paragraph is here:

Yesterday, we through are second reading of the Fables.  Again, this is practice for the Storytelling unit we will be getting into in the end of the Term 1/start of Term 2.  The presenters did much better in terms of not reading their scripts and telling the stories.

Here is a video of Kevin and Brandon presenting their fables
and doing the "Expression" warm-up exercise.

The final Math test for this Place Value/Measurement Unit will take place on Thursday.  We did some review today and we will continue with it tomorrow.  I would direct you to this lengthy video, which I have posted before, that may help some of you review:

I think this is it.
This is a handout that I think of as a 99% guarantee for understanding how metric conversion works using the infamous King Henry chart.  I will read through it tomorrow.

I just did a search for an Internet based game.  Here it is; it should help with the review: http://www.mathfox.com/mathgames/metric-system-game/

A metric volume game:  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/measurement/MeasurementLiters.htm

A metric weight/mass game: http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/measurement/MeasurementGrams.htm

Metric length game:  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/measurement/MeasurementMeters.htm

Metric ruler game:  http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/mathgames/measurement/measurement_mania_metric.htm



HOMEWORK:

Complete a rough copy of your opinion paragraph.  Use the Success Criteria chart to guide you.  Feedback will be provided for all completed rough drafts.  Final copies of poster are due on Friday, January 31.

 

Final Math test on Thursday