Global Horizons: Fifth Grade- Foxworth & Bosch

We continued learning about figurative language today.  Hyperbole (exaggeration) was our focus today as we read The Bunyans by Audrey Wood.  Tall tales provide good examples of hyperbole.  Students continued working on their Lt. Governor Writing Contest essays.  Both groups enjoyed a guidance visit from Mrs. Epps either yesterday or today. 
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The wintry weather caught us a little by surprise!  We enjoyed reading A Turkey for Thanksgiving by Eve Bunting today.  We noticed several examples of figurative language and appreciated the surprise ending.  Students began a new writing project today, an essay for the Lt. Governor’s Writing Contest.  After reviewing the four areas of the PACT [...]

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We began the morning with a surprise fire drill.  It was a little chilly outside!  In ELA we continued our unit on figurative language with a minilesson on idioms.  After reading and discussing Fred Gwynne’s book The King Who Rained, students explored the use of idioms on the American Idioms webpage.  Then students finished writing their digital [...]

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Friday was a very “high energy” day.  We read a book called Molly’s Pilgrim by Barbara Cohen.  Students made “tracks” of their thinking by writing some of their thoughts down on sticky notes.  Several times during the story we paused so they could “Pair Share” about their thinking.  This strategy helps to develop awareness of the [...]

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    How do you like the new look? The other template lost the Blogroll links in the sidebar. What a fun day! We finally finished producing our digital stories yesterday. It’s been a long process, but along with our creativity and fun, we managed to address more than 20 state ELA [...]

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Everyone came in wide awake today, which is unusual for a Monday!  We began with a conversation about the value of Web 2.0 tools and the way they enable us to communicate interactively with people around the world.  This morning I received comments posted on my personal learning blog from a teacher in Norway inquiring about [...]

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I apologize for the lapse in posting.  The site went down and lost its template, so I was unable to get it to open in Explorer.  It’s been a busy week!  I was out on Monday on a trip to visit universities in Pennsylvania and Virginia with my daughter, who is preparing to apply for [...]

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Surprisingly, everyone came in relatively calmly this morning. During Morning Meeting we enjoyed hearing about everyone’s adventures. During ELA students practiced reading their digital story texts several times as they looked through their digital illustrations. Then we were able to begin recording narrations. This will be a slow process, but the [...]

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