Unit 3 Lessons 11 - 12

Lesson 11

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Listening: I have been reading it (instead of a Kurt nillson video), and I’ve been stopping at certain points just to let them talk and make connections. This breaks it up for when it gets pretty vocab-heavy and has those extra science-y explanations. They responded on slides.

Reading: TG usually has us doing this whole group, but the faster readers get bored waiting for everyone else. I find it’s so much better to let them work alone or with a partner. Today they used a page from my interactive notebook.

Writing: “write a good paragraph”  So I had them write an informational paragraph about the eyes or ears, using their reader for text evidence.

Spelling: Yesterday I introduced them (moved the test to the previous Friday) and they wrote them, so today they typed them. We talked a lot about knowing the rules, not memorization.

Lesson 12

We started our healthy body poster contest today! During “A Clean Bill of Health”, the kids took notes on facts they could include in their poster. (Main idea and details, note taking, text evidence)

They created their rough draft, and later during our pausing point day they will get their poster paper to make their final product. I tell them they must include at least 3 ways to stay healthy. Later, I’ll hang them in the hallway and the 4th/5th grade vote for the best! I will be sharing slides with all the details on Friday! (I’m adding in our life-size body project on those slides as well!)

We also finished our paragraphs. I have trained them to underline their topic sentence in green and and their concluding sentence in red.

And since this lesson was shorter, we played Boom Clap Snatch to practice spelling words.

A Clean Bill of Health

On the day of this lesson, we made rough draft posters showing ways to keep your body healthy. Today we made final copies and checked back on the poster checklist. They are hung up and ready for the 4th/5th graders to vote!