Today in LA, we continued to read chapters 6 & 7 in our mystery genre book, The Westing Game.
We stopped a few times to review our clues to see whether we made any new leads, however, there were very few of them. Our homework was to finish the chapters 6 & 7 Westing Game questions. […]
The very next day we took our rough drafts of our Mother’s Day poems and began to make them into cards. Mrs. Ekstrom supplied us with paper and our homework was to finish these cards to present to our mothers on Mother’s Day,
May 13th.
Today in L.A., 6L and 6H made poems for mothers day that used four stanzas worth of metaphors. For example,
My mother is…
my mother is a rose, expressing love every moment of the day
my mother is the sun, giving warmth to every living thing
my mother is a greeting card, showing everyone that she cares
my mother is […]
India is an interesting place! We learned all about it in a video we watched, Friday 2-16-07. We studied five topics; Varanasi and the Ganges, the Taj Mahal, Hindu ceremonies, Old and New Dheli, and Corbett National Park. Did you know that Varanasi is the city that the Ganges lies in? People … go to Varanasi […]
Today, (2/6/07) in L.A., we were introduced to the ABC project. The ABC project is where we pick key ideas and put them to a letter from the alphabet. EX:
J is for Jonas, the main character of The Giver.
(I haven’t read Mrs. Frisby And The Rats Of NIMH, so I can’t do one for it.) […]
On 1/31/07 in L.A. we reviewed our poems using personification. As said before, personification is giving inanimate objects, human qualities. We also practiced finding better sentence starters, and our homework was to re-write a poorly written pargraph about gym class. In that paragraph, we had to use more sentence starters and insert two golden bricks. […]
Today in L.A. (1.30.07) we studied more about personification. Personification is when you give an inanimate object qualities of a human. We used our L.A. CMT coach books to help us understand the concept. Our homework for the night was to write a poem using at least 5 examples of personification.
Our Assignment today was to summarize the article that we read about the worlds oil supply. It explained that without some help, it could run out very soon. It told us that oil drilling is very expensive, and so when half of the oil is drilled, the other half turns hard and is very hard […]
