Week 22

In ELA this week, students utilized our class-developed criteria to draft an article introduction by creating their own 5Ws based on evidence from a provided picture prompt. Then, imagining their own story, students wrote a headline and lead paragraph.  

Requirements for the task included:  

HEADLINE  

- Grab readers’ attention & creates curiosity  

• - Previews 1 or 2 of the 5Ws  

• - Use present tense and active verbs  

• - Leave out articles (a, an, the)  

 

LEAD PARAGRAPH   

This introductory paragraph should only be at LEAST 3 sentences and include:  

- Who – the subject of the article (person, place, idea, event or object)  

- What – the action of the article. What has happened or what is happening?  

- When – the time frame of the article.  

- Where - the place where the action is happening  

- Why – explains the “what,” or the action, of the article.  

 

Once students completed their draft, our objective was to then enhance and improve our work through peer feedback. Students crumpled their work, and participated in an in-class “snowball fight,” having to then pick up a peer’s work and provide feedback.  After a couple of rounds, students evaluated and shared the provided recommendations to improve their work.   

 

 

 

 

 

 Community Walk 

On Monday, we went on a community walk along the Elbow River. In class, we are reading the novel Silverwing. In the story, the main character Shade becomes lost from his colony during their migration and is forced to remember the information his mother had given him before their journey. Within this message, she names specific landmarks to refer to during the migration. During our walk, students were asked to be mindful and to pay attention to landmarks along our walk route. They were then asked to create a map of the path we had taken that day. Maps must be accurate in order to be useful, and students did an excellent job including many of the distinct landmarks in our community. This was a great exercise in mindfulness, as well as a great opportunity to get outside for some physical activity during Healthy Heart Day. 

 

 

 

In Science, students finished up their constellation myths. Next week, we will begin looking at the phases of the moon and the planets. Students will be assigned a planet to research and to compare to Earth. 

 

 

Next week’s learning intentions: 

• - I can recognize that the Moon’s phases are regular and predictable, and describe the cycle of its phases. 

• - I can illustrate the phases of the Moon in drawings.