by Mr. Avery | Dec 13, 2010 | Blog, Other
In class we have been working on ways to make our writing more descriptive. We often discuss ways to “paint a picture” for our reader. Chris van Allsburg was a master at this. Each student agreed that we could imagine the way that his books would look even...
by Mr. Avery | Dec 9, 2010 | Blog, Other
This week we have been discussing descriptive writing. We have been learning about how adding adjectives and similes can help to build a story that the reader can step right into. Yesterday we came up with some similes and adjectives that describe winter. We then...
by Mr. Avery | Dec 6, 2010 | Blog, Other
Over the past few weeks, we have been doing a Chris van Allsburg author study. In class, we read one of his books, The Z was Zapped. The story is set as a play where each letter is involved in some sort of action. That action begins with the same letter. One example...
by Mr. Avery | Dec 3, 2010 | Blog, Other
This week we did many things. We did fun activities like multiplication bingo, made our second Z was Zapped letter, and we made similes. A simile is when you compare two words using like or as. A few examples are: Rebecca’s simile: When my dog came out of the...
by Mr. Avery | Dec 2, 2010 | Blog, Other
We wrapped up our animal unit in science today. As a final discussion piece, both classes came up with five words that we have talked about in science this year that remind us of animals. Below is our Wordle that we created. Again, the larger a word, the more times...
by Mr. Avery | Dec 1, 2010 | Blog, Other
Today we tried out a new website called Wordle. Wordle creates a word cloud that represents how frequently a word is used. The larger a word in the word cloud, the more times it was repeated. During ELA today, each student came up with at least five words that come to...
