Wednesday, January 26

 Hi parents,

We had a pretty good day today - the class seemed to be mostly back on track, although they did take 8 minutes to quietly get ready and line up for gym with Ms. Brown.....

In the morning, we did a couple of different literacy activities. First, the students practiced using commas, by adding commas and periods to some sentences that were severely lacking. At the end of this post, you will find the sentences, for anyone who like to practice again at home / was not here today.

We also practiced the skill of 'scanning for information'. The students read a paragraph about Mrs. Gorf (from Wayside School), and highlighted information that they felt was most important (that paragraph is attached to this post as well). We then answered some questions about the paragraph, and talked about how the information that is "important" always depends on what questions we're trying to answer. For example, typically it wouldn't be necessary to highlight a paragraph that goes into excessive detail about a character's clothing. But, if we were writing a paragraph about the fashion trends of Droon, then that might be the only information we'd want to highlight. We might have to do an activity about Droon fashion, now that I think about it.

In the afternoon, we had Daily LA, Gym, and Music. 

Have a nice night,

Zac

Punctuation Practice!

 

 

It is cold snowy and windy

 

On Friday I went to school

 

I play soccer baseball and football

 

The cat is small fuzzy and orange

 

I am from Calgary Alberta Canada

 

The dog is big brown and soft

 

I feel mad sad and grumpy

 

At school I learned math

 

At the zoo I saw monkeys bears and birds

 

When I went to USA I went to Disneyland

 

For dinner I had beans potatoes corn and gravy

 

For breakfast I had bacon eggs and pancakes

Scanning for Important Information

 

I am going to tell you about Mrs. Gorf.

 

Mrs. Gorf was born in Calgary, AB, in the year 1925. She went to school at Hogwarts. She learned how to cast spells from Professor Snape. When Mrs. Gorf was a student, she turned her Principal into an apple. Then, she was expelled from school. That was not good! Oh no, not good at all. And let me tell you why.

Mrs. Gorf was very angry about being expelled. She decided that she wanted to be a teacher so she could expel students. She was not a very kind person, if you were wondering about that. Mrs. Gorf adopted a cat named Greg and taught it how to scratch furniture at other people’s houses.

She started to work at Wayside School when she was 80 years old. She turned a lot of students into apples. She drove a big, shiny, dark green car. One day a student held up a mirror and then she turned into an apple too, and the spell was broken.