Wednesday's Agenda

Some skills with poetry are taking a bit longer than I expected but we will finish up by the end of the week! I am hoping students will poems using alliteration, personification, and repetition in an anothology by the end of the quarter. We are going to be moving on to folktales and folktale writing next week! This will be a nice break during M-class testing. Here is our agenda for tomorrow.
Hugs,
Mrs. Del Balzo

April 22, 2009
9:20 – 9:30 – Mrs. Del Balzo will go over our agenda and the word of the month. We will read a letter from Mrs. Del Balzo and fix mistakes!

9:30 – 10:15 – Guided Reading
All groups will complete a fill in the blank sheet for word wall words.
Group 1 – We will review our story and discuss why bad things were happening to Nolbu. This will help us prepare for our BCR writing on Thursday and Friday! We will review our word wall words by playing WORDO.
Group 2 – We will discuss what Ellie and Jack learned in the story. This will help us prepare for our BCR writing on Thursday and Friday. We will review our word wall words by playing WORDO
Group 3 – We will find details in our book on how father mouse was brave. We will review our word wall words by playing WORDO.

10:15 – 11:10 – Whole Group Reading and Writing
We will discuss the author’s craft of using personification. Personification is when an author makes something not alive have human characteristics. For example making a spoon dance or sing.

11:10 – 12:50 – Music / Lunch / Recess

12:50 – 1:10 – We will copy our homework for the evening and go over our language sentences from the morning.














PM Class 1:10 – 3:10

1:10 – 1:30 – We will go over language sentences and write down our homework for the week.

1:30 – 2:15 Guided Reading
Group 1 1:35 – 1:50– We will discuss our question of the week about what the animals were trying to persuade them man to do.
Group 2 –1:15 – 2:05 - We will discuss the problem in the story and how the characters solved the problem.
Group 3 – 2:05 – 2:20 - We will find examples of exaggeration in our story about Paul Bunyan. Students will use a sticky note to identify those examples.


2:20 – 3:15 – Whole Group Reading and Writing
We will review personification. This is when an author takes and inanimate object like a spoon and makes it do human things like stand up or dance! We will reread a poem called, “Ladybug, Ladybug” to model this skill. Students will try to write their own poems using personification or alliteration, you choose!