Welcome back! It was great to see so many of you at conferences last week -- thank you for braving the wind and rain and coming in for a chat! Hopefully everyone had a relaxing break and is ready to get back to business! Here is what is cooking in room 102 this week (not turkey!)
Spelling/Vocabulary Words
"Graph" = writing
autobiography (n) writing about a person's life written by that person
autograph (n) the writing of one's own name
bibliography (n) the written list of all the books used in a report or book
biography (n) a book written about a person's life
cartography (n) mapmaking; the writing involved in making maps or charts
homograph (n) a word written the same way as another word but having a different meaning (e.g. bow-hair and bow-ship)
paragraph (n) a section of writing that has a topic and a concluding sentence
phonograph (n) record player; a device that turns the writing on records into sound
photography (n) the use of light to record an image using a camera
seismograph (n) a device that writes down (records) the movements of the earth
"How-To" Paragraph
We are working in the computer lab Monday and Tuesday -- students are getting practice with keyboarding and typing up their "How To" paragraphs. We will do final edits this week.
Keyboarding practice at home! Here are a few websites to visit to become a better typist! Fun stuff!
http://www.learninggamesforkids.com/keyboarding_games.html
http://www.keybr.com/
http://www.jonmiles.co.uk/games/fingerjig/
Social Studies
This week we are exploring ecomonics -- supply/demand, goods/services, producer/consumer, etc. So far, students seem to understand the basic concepts and relating the ideas to their own world!
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