Wednesday, June 10/09

Crash by Paul Kropp

Wow … the last day for us to be all together. We had a busy morning. A couple of you were finishing the Reading Assessment. The rest of us worked on a final review. And , we finshed our class with Crash - a Reader’s Theatre piece based on the Paul Kropp novel. Good job.

I wish you all the best of luck with exams and hope you have a fantastic summer. Start it off with a trip to Indigo to spend your gift card! Get a good book to read this summer. I will see you when you come back for your marks and I hope to see you in Literacy class again in the fall.

Take care …. Mrs. P

Monday, June 8/09

Barefoot …..ahhhhh!!!

It most certainly is getting to feel like barefeet weather! This is our last week of classes. A reminder there is no formal exam but we will do some smaller vocabulary  & comprehension tests.  I hope you will all make an effort to be here each day.

Today we did a vocabulary test from Gates McGinitie. Tomorrow we will do the comprehension piece. This helps us identify our reading level.

We also read a piece of non fiction today called “Barefoot.” We tried to incorporate our reading strategies before, during and after our readng of the article. Good work.

I hope you have a great, barefoot evening!

Friday, June 5/09

Happy Friday!!!  It is a gorgeous day and hopefully the weekend will be the same. Today we started out with independent reading. Next we finished up our vocabulary work from yesterday. And finally, we did our weekly Readers’ Theatre. We did an adaptation of Ironman. It is always helpful when you have seen the movie first which all of you did. That is almost like a pre reading activity … it gets you prepared for the script reading we do in class because you already know the storyline and characters.  

Enjoy your weeken

 

 

 

 

Thursday, June 4/09

The brightly coloured Monarch Butterfly

I did a little more digging on the monarch butterfly after class today. We learned that its defense mechanism (to keep it from being eaten by predators) is the fact that it tastes awful! And its bright colour reminds predators to stay away. The term for this is called aposematism. Very interesting.

We did a lot of things today – a mixture of vocabulary and comprehension work. We finished our book Amazing Animals. In our little class time remaining we will be reviewing all the strategies we have been working on.

Wednesday, June 3/09

Something’s missing … it’s you!!!

It was very quiet today without you all! Most of you were on a field trip and hopefully you had a great day. Tobias and I held down the fort. See you tomorrow.

Tuesday, June 2/09

Elephant sanctuary …

This morning we started with independent reading/journal work. Then, after some technical difficulties, we returned to our book-  Amazing Animals, and finshed our exercise on Determining Importance. I think you are getting the idea of finding the “big idea(s)” in text. You started the short comprehension quiz & will finish it tomorrow.

Monday, June 1/09

Ford’s My Key …

It’s June … can you believe it? We started off today with a “thinkaloud” about Ford’s new technology – MyKey. Not so popular with most of you! We read about and discussed the pros and cons of this technology. I was impressed with your connections and questions. We had a great discussion on this topic. You finished our discussion with an exercise that showed us the difference between first and third person point of view.

Next we did vocabulary work. I gave you a list of words. We did various activities using these words. (word search, words meanings …) Finally I gave you an exercise where some letters were missing fron the list words and you had to provide them. Good work.

Have a great evening … see you tomorrow!