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Post date: Dec 11, 2016 6:34:56 AM
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Monday 12/12
Learn This youtuber lists three specific strategies for ways to remember what you read. Watch the video, write down the three ideas, and then follow through with one of the ideas with Capote's A Christmas Memory. 3 Simple Steps to remember what you read (Tomas Libas 4:20)
Read Truman Capote's short story, A Christmas Memory.
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Tuesday 12/13
Note: Vocabulary Group members are presenting their projects this morning.
"Number sense" is about understanding numbers and their relationships. When you have good "number sense," you can manipulate numbers to do mental calculations, make estimations, identify place values, understand part-whole relationships, and solve many types of story problems.
So, use your age as today's number. Tell me at least 6 ways the number (your age) appears in our world. (Example: If the number were 12, then you could say a dozen muffins, noon, 12 degrees, 14 minus 2, midnight, and 1 dime & 2 pennies.)
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You can also play this place value game. Your job is to click on the numbers to make a number larger than Hacker's number. Don't let him trick you. When your number can't be bigger, then click on CAN'T BE BIGGER. Enjoy!
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Wednesday 12/14
Watch this video for to see another side of some "things." 8 items with reasons you don't know.
Political Parties - We have learned more about the lives of eight U.S. founding leaders. Read the answer to our questions about these leaders in the Eight U.S. Founding Leaders.Dec2016.pdf below.
Today, we will examine the origins and transformations of our two-party political system.
Attached are three different sources describing the evolution of U.S. political parties since 1792. Compare texts. Draw conclusions. We'll talk more in our groups.
Evolution of US political parties.
Explanation about political parties.
Chart begins with George Washington
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Thursday 12/15
Three groups will share their learnings about the heart. Watch this brief video that describes how the heart works.
Do you think you know the vocabulary about blood moving through the heart? Then take this quiz.
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Friday 12/16
We finish reading an adapted version of Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues under the Sea today.
You can listen to or read the original version of the book through LibriVox.
You can also watch how one movie maker envisioned Verne's book.
NOTE: Literacy Action Center is closed for winter holidays from December 17, 2016 to January 2, 2017.
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