Today we looked at our standards and decided, individually, which three standards we were comfortable with and which three standards we still needed to work on.
The winning team was purple! Get excited about pictures to come!
Friday, April 18, 2008
Thursday, April 17, 2008
“Speed dating”
Each student will have one concept/standard/vocabulary word to review. Each chair will be set in front of another chair. Each student will have an index card with the standard and a practice CRCT question on the other side. All students will also have a graphic organizer so that they can fill in their information. Each student will have 2 minutes to discuss, answer their practice question, and then rotate one seat to their right. Only the students on one side will have a chance to share their facts. It should take about 45 minutes.
This game worked so well!! We also used a virtual timer (found online at http://www.timeme.com/timer.htm)
Each student will have one concept/standard/vocabulary word to review. Each chair will be set in front of another chair. Each student will have an index card with the standard and a practice CRCT question on the other side. All students will also have a graphic organizer so that they can fill in their information. Each student will have 2 minutes to discuss, answer their practice question, and then rotate one seat to their right. Only the students on one side will have a chance to share their facts. It should take about 45 minutes.
This game worked so well!! We also used a virtual timer (found online at http://www.timeme.com/timer.htm)
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Today, we split into our color groups and played an AWESOME game of four corners. On each corner of the room, we had a large sheet with either A, B, C, or D on it.
The teams competed against each other with their CRCT knowledge-- they had a minute to answer as many questions as possible!
The teams competed against each other with their CRCT knowledge-- they had a minute to answer as many questions as possible!
Monday, April 14, 2008
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
In the race to McDonalds on Friday, in the morning class, the purple and black teams both are in the lead with 4 points! In a close second are the green and silver teams, both with 3 points. Coming up third are the gold and the yellow teams. It is anyone's game!!
Today we will be playing LINGO (Language Arts + Bingo = LINGO!!) Students will be given a blank board and will be able to choose their 24 words to go in each blank square. They may choose out of the following super hot "must know CRCT words"
1. Clincher sentence
2. Unifying detail
3. Tone
4. Mood
5. Character
6. Personification
7. Alliteration
8. Hyperbole
9. End rhyme
10. Internal rhyme
11. Point of view
12. Author’s purpose
13. Dictionary
14. Thesaurus
15. Encyclopedia
16. Search engine
17. Index
18. Table of contents
19. Rhyme scheme
20. Idiom
21. Foreshadowing
22. Setting
23. metaphor
24. simile
25. bibliography
26. context clues
27. limerick
28. haiku
29. homonym
30. modifies
31. misused
We will also go over the homework from yesterday (10 practice CRCT questions regarding subject verb agreement!). Each student who brings in their homework earns one point for their color team!
Sunday, April 13, 2008
Monday, April 14, 2008
This week the students will be put on random “color teams”— purple, green, yellow, orange, black, white. Today, we will draw names out of a hat to ensure that the groups are random. The winning color team will get lunch from McDonalds on Friday. We will have mini competitions all week long.
We are also going to go over our spring break packets. For each student who brings a packet back, one point will be added to their color team's score. Also, those who brought in their packets (completed!) get an extra 100!
Today's CRCT Games!!
“Musical Chairs”
Students will answer CRCT questions on chairs on individual pieces of paper. There will be as many chairs and questions as there are students. They will be numbered from 1-30(ish… depending on how many students are in the classroom). They will have 45 seconds at each chair. Chairs won’t be taken away—the music and the “switch” part will be the only parts that emulate the original musical chairs. By the end of the game, each student should have an answer to each of the 30 questions. There will be a key placed on the overhead so they can check their own answers.
We are also going to go over our spring break packets. For each student who brings a packet back, one point will be added to their color team's score. Also, those who brought in their packets (completed!) get an extra 100!
Today's CRCT Games!!
“Musical Chairs”
Students will answer CRCT questions on chairs on individual pieces of paper. There will be as many chairs and questions as there are students. They will be numbered from 1-30(ish… depending on how many students are in the classroom). They will have 45 seconds at each chair. Chairs won’t be taken away—the music and the “switch” part will be the only parts that emulate the original musical chairs. By the end of the game, each student should have an answer to each of the 30 questions. There will be a key placed on the overhead so they can check their own answers.
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