Snow Day 5 Assignments

February 1, 2011 | Posted in: Class Updates

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Good morning! Today is the fifth snow day of the year (contrary to what I said last week when I thought we had the fifth snow day.) Today’s snow day work is a bit different is a bit different from what we’ve been doing lately.  Complete the following tasks in order:

1. Make sure you responded to the five SAR prompts on Study Island in response to the Achoo! passage from last week.  As we discussed in class yesterday, it’s taking me a while to work through the five prompts, particularly when I’m re-reading revisions along with kids’ first drafts.  I’m going to try to get through more of them today (but I have Charlie home with me, so we’ll see how much progress I make!)  Please login to Study Island periodically and see if there’s any new feedback waiting for you.  Please make any revisions that I asked you to do.
2. Please complete the Week C practice problems in the CMT Math Crash Course packet.  Many of you started them in class.
3. Yesterday, I gave you a packet with part of a story called Thank You, Mr. Falker.  This is a great story by a famous author named Patricia Polacco.  Have you read any books by her?  I think she is a CT author!  (She visited PGS one time, many years ago.)  Please read the passage I gave you.  Answer the SAR question at the end.  EXTRA CREDIT:  When you’re done writing your response, jot down a few thoughts about what score you think you earned, and why.  (Hint – If you think you deserve LESS than a 2, go back and revise your response to make it into a 2!)
4. Last night, for homework, you completed two Cloze passages.  (I think they were on pages 18 and 19, but I may be wrong.)  If the grown up with you has time today, ask them to help you check them over.
5. This is fun one!  Write your own Cloze PARAGRAPH (not longer) with a missing word and five choices.  (For inspiration, look through the first few pages of your Cloze packet.)  Email your paragraph and choices to me.  If we have another snow day tomorrow, I’ll post some of the paragraphs for everyone to solve!  Remember to put in good Cloze clues so we can find what word best fits in the blank space!

That’s all!  Be safe if you’re going outside today, and be sure to spend some time reading!  (Remember, you can earn points for Geno’s challenge AND you can earn more footballs!)

When I was your age, I loved it when people read a story to me on a cold, snowy day.  If you’re like me, maybe you’ll like this website that Ms. D-H found yesterday.  UConn basketball players will read stories to you!

Last but not least, here’s today’s Funky Snow Day Video for you.  It’s about palindromes – words or phrases that are the same whether you read them from left to right or right to left.  Such as:

• dad
• racecar
• a man a plan a canal Panama

This is a video that “Weird Al” Yankovic made about lots of palindrome phrases.  You ABSOLUTELY MUST get your parent’s permission before watching the video – they might not like some of the palindromes.  GET PERMISSION FIRST.