by Mr. Avery | Dec 9, 2010 | Blog, Other
This week we have been discussing descriptive writing. We have been learning about how adding adjectives and similes can help to build a story that the reader can step right into. Yesterday we came up with some similes and adjectives that describe winter. We then...
by Mr. Avery | Dec 6, 2010 | Blog, Other
Over the past few weeks, we have been doing a Chris van Allsburg author study. In class, we read one of his books, The Z was Zapped. The story is set as a play where each letter is involved in some sort of action. That action begins with the same letter. One example...
by Mr. Avery | Dec 3, 2010 | Blog, Other
This week we did many things. We did fun activities like multiplication bingo, made our second Z was Zapped letter, and we made similes. A simile is when you compare two words using like or as. A few examples are: Everybody did a great job. In social studies, we...
by Mr. Avery | Dec 3, 2010 | Blog, Other
This week we did many things. We did fun activities like multiplication bingo, made our second Z was Zapped letter, and we made similes. A simile is when you compare two words using like or as. A few examples are: Everybody did a great job. In social studies, we...
by Mr. Avery | Dec 2, 2010 | Blog, Other
We wrapped up our animal unit in science today. As a final discussion piece, both classes came up with five words that we have talked about in science this year that remind us of animals. Below is our Wordle that we created. Again, the larger a word, the more times...
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