Monday, April 24, 2017

Exhibition Week 2

To begin the week, students worked together to categorize and improve their research questions. On Friday, students met with their groups for the first time to establish a set of essential agreements, or rules, that they will use to guide their group work.   Students will have their first mentoring sessions this week and we will be refining their research questions, working on developing research strategies, and beginning the research process.  









Tuesday, April 18, 2017

Milestones Practice

ELA Practice

Students need to write more than 1 sentence in response to these prompts.  These are intended to be answered with a paragraph/essay.  They need to use the text to support their answers.  Students should also be reminded to use the writing process even though they are typing their responses to the prompts on the iPad.

One way for students to show that they are directly quoting, paraphrasing, or providing evidence is by using sentence stems.

Some examples of these stems are:
In the text the author states______________
The story stated ___________________
I know this because___________________
For example__________________
The author says______________
In paragraph # _____, it says
The graphic showed ____________

Also, don't forget that you can practice summarizing non-fiction on newsela.com.


Math GMAS Practice

Let me know if you have any questions.

Wednesday, April 12, 2017

Tybee Day 2

Thank you students for a wonderful trip to Tybee!  Everyone did a great job and it was a joy to travel with you!  I loved watching everyone last night at the beach.  Here are some pictures of our second day.











We're Going to Be Friends!

Here we are, no one else We walked to school all by ourselves There's dirt on our uniforms From chasing all the ants and worms We clean ...