Week 6 Day 2

Showing Not Telling -Day 2  ENVY

Katie's feeling spread across the room as she looked at all the boys and girls wit htheir fancy suits and dresses for photo day. A purple sparkled dress flourished in the room and out of Katie's ears came steam. Katie had a plain white skirt with stains and faded demin denim shorts. With curled hair and a sparkled dress, Katie tried to keep it together. Katie pleaded with Mrs. Bellshaw to take her out of the photograph. Katie wanted that dress so badly.

As the people walked by, they stopped and stared at the dark, fudge chocolate cake. Adults and kids made pandemonium all around the cashier. Molly, the cute girl with bouncy pigtails noticed the crowd and scurried to see what was happening. Seeing the fudged chocolate cake, she pleaded with big kitty eyes, but her father refused to buy her even one piece.


Use this video to review lattice multiplication


Use this video to practice lattice using decimals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tP06KwoWknM



FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE EXERCISES AND PRACTICE. Tackle at least 3 of the exercises below.

Simile

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/similepractice.html
http://www.worsleyschool.net/socialarts/simile/page2.html

Personification Practice

http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/personificationpractice.html

Metaphor
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0112392/metaphorpractice.html
http://www.quia.com/quiz/234882.html

Examples of Figurative Language

http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/jacob_wismer/leahy/2006/flb/flb.htm

Week 6 Day 1

Showing Not Telling - Day 1 Loneliness

Enjoy the two strongest pieces below:

Sabine and Caroline, two BBF's, sat eating lunch while I sit far away staring at them out of the corner of my eye. Many other 10-11 year old boys and girls were buzzing around, making pandemonium fill the cafeteria. Nibbling on my Ritz crackers, I anxiously wait for someone, anyone to come and sit next to me, but not a single person came close. I deeply sigh as the bell rings for the end of lunch. Soon not a sound can be heard in the big room

Pandemonium spread across the playground like butter spread on bread. Everyone was playing widely accept me. I was standing near the aqua swings. I thought I was invisible. People looked through me like a clear glass window. I winced. "This was the worst 15 minutes recess of my life. What was I to do?" I started pacing around the swings. People brushed past my petite body. I felt like my body was in a different dimension, but my senses were still on earth.

Watch this video again to review partial products multiplication.



Social Studies
Complete your photovisi and note taking from Ch. 4 for Wednesday's session.

RLA
Do your Book Club reading assignment. (Due: Wed)

Next Week

Tech Integration Tools Coming Next Week - Check these out

www.photopeach.com
http://notaland.com/

and for fun

http://www.shinysearch.com/
(but ask your parents' permission before creating your custom google search homepage)

Week 5 Day 5

• Enjoy Maddy's excellent Book Talk below. Listen to how well she uses BEVES and PEX to make her presentation both informative and engaging.

Enjoy some of the most engaging narrative stories. Listen carefully to see if team's accomplished the WILF..

• Strong lead
• Description of a place
• Description of a person
• Use of 4 appostives
• Use of 5 advanced vocabulary words

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBPJkU1yLFU


Student of the Week - Anisha

Week 5 Day 4

Complex Sentences

Watch this video and tackle the exercises below:



When trying these exercises - think about how many independent clauses (sentences) there are in the sentence. Tackle any three from the list below.
http://eslbee.com/cgi-bin/quiztest.cgi?simplecompoundorcomplex
http://eslbee.com/cgi-bin/quiztest.cgi?helenkeller
http://www.csus.edu/owl/index/sent/clause_quiz.htm
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/sensort/index.html

 We will do ALOT more work over the year on these types of sentences. Do not worry if you do not completely understand all these questions at this time. We needed to cover the material quickly so we had a basic idea of  what types of sentences we can create. We will now spend most of the year mastering these sentence types (and more)!

Enjoy Rachel's and Anisha's  Sammy Snake winning Book Talks below: