Introducing the Independent Writers' Guild!

Following this text is "blogwork" from my Independent Writers' Guild who has been given the task of blogging daily classroom activities. There will be mistakes in this area, which I think is part of the process. The kids will see their mistakes, be able to go edit their mistakes, and learn about the writing process in a real way. I have not included all of the blogs (one wasn't finished), nor have I put the names of the students. The students and I will discuss how we want to deal with names. I hope you enjoy!

Cool Books!!

In the book we’re reading in class, George’s Cosmic Treasure Hunt, it has gotten SERIOUS. A character named Annie has gotten a message from an E.T.!!!! It was strange since it happened right after Annie’s family saw a robot touch down on Mars mysteriously after losing contact for several minutes. Why were they at a space station you ask? Well Annie’s dad Eric is a scientist that studies space so..... yeah. It’s an interesting book series and you should read. It is by Stephen Hawking. Check it out. The first book is George’s Secret Key to the Universe. There is a Stephen Hawking website, that is cool too!!

FINALLY!!! maybe....

In Math we finished our models of the play ground! They looked great in the end after all that hard work!! The people who worked on the swings got to use some mini chains that were so adorable!!! Although it was a lot of hard work it really paid off. Especially working in groups because people don’t always agree....... it was still fun though!

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Iliev Math

Yesterday in Ms.Iliev’s at math we did a chapter test for chapter 6 which was about adding and subtracting fractions in the McDougall Litell math book. Also we did a pretest for chapter 7 which was about multiplying and dividing fractions.

Today in Ms. Iliev’s class we learned how to multiply fractions by whole numbers, while
Nyah did home design. Home design is our little class project this year, in other words, we’re building little cardboard models of houses.

Ileiv Reading

Yesterday we read a story from our Jr. great books. This story was called The Devoted Friend. In the story there’s a miller and a gardener. The miller is the gardener’s best friend. The miller promises his friend a wheel barrow. Then he makes the gardener do his dirty work based on that. During running the miller’s errands the gardener dies. He never even got the wheelbarrow.
Today in Ms.Iliev’s reading we reread The Devoted Friend, and marked vocabulary words. Then we looked up the definitions of the words we marked, and wrote them in our booklets.