Ms. G's Wise Owls: November 2012

Thursday, November 29, 2012

GaMeS!

More, more and more games!

Practice you synonyms, antonyms, and homographs with this game!
sea caption

Build a pyramid

Figurative Language

prefixes and suffixes

Reading Comprehension

Sunday, November 25, 2012

Computer Station

Practice Summarizing and become a millionaire!
Rags to Riches
Take a cause and effect test
cause and effect quiz
cause and effect rags to riches
cause and effect

I came across the perfect example of a journal. A journal is an excellent way to write down any thoughts you may have and jot down memories, especially for the fifth grade year. Anything exciting or not so exciting can fit perfectly into a journal. A poem you liked or a story/movie you saw, write it down! Read Amelia's Notebook and get inspired to start your own journal.

Amelia's Notebook

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Book It!

There is a fantastic new program to encourage kids to read more. the program is called Book It! I have give the students goals every month. if they meet their goal they will get a coupon for one free personal pizza from pizza hut. YUM!!
Here are the students goal for every month:
Read a total of 4 books.
Read at least 2 fiction books (chapter books)
Read at least 2 non-fiction books (informational or biographies)
complete the print outs on the links provided.
*if you do not have a printer just copy it down a a sheet of notebook paper, it's the effort that counts!
Here are the links:

Comic strip activity : Draw and create a comic strip of the chapter book you read.
sequence: Write the events in sequence of the book you read.
Story Box : create a cube with the important story elements in your book.
Story Map: fill in the correct information using the information from your story.
Characterization: Use you main character to complete this assignment.
book review 1
book review 2

Monday, November 19, 2012

Computer Station (Word Games)
These game will help develop word association, spelling and vocabulary. Try it out!
Clueless Crossword

word mash

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

Literary Terms

When we read, we come across many literary terms, but what are they? As a class, we created a foldable to help us learn the definition and an example of the term. We also made a place to write other examples we might find while we read.

We practiced using our foldable when I read Luck of the Loch Ness Monster. We were able to find examples of similies and onomatopoeias.

Here are the definitions and examples of each Literary Term.

At Home: Find more examples in your child's library book. Poets often use a lot of literary terms so look at some poetry to find great examples.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Author's Purpose Group Activity

Students got into groups and were given a text to read and look through. Using text features and by reading the stories, they were able to create circle thinking maps. In the center, they placed what they thought the author's purpose was. In the outer circle they wrote evidence from the text to prove their choice. In the box were the questions they ask themselves and any background knowledge that may have helped with them determining the author's purpose. As a class, we realized that genre of stories play a role in author's purpose.

Author's Purpose Pies

In order to better understand what we read, we need to know the purpose behind it. We need to ask ourselves, "why was this written?" and "what is the purpose for this text?". We concluded that there are 4 major reason as to why a selection is written and the reasons are to persuade us, to inform us, to entertain us, or to show emotion. We made (baked) author's purpose pies to help us remember.

Future Poets of America

Lately we have been learning a lot about poems and the terms used, for example, stanzas, onomatopeoia, and rhyme patterns. So I put the students to the test! The students were able to create beautiful poems on any topic they chose. Here are some great poems. Enjoy!