Would you rather be born with an elephant trunk or a giraffe neck? Support your thinking in a paragraph with specific details.
Since beginning our "would you rather" prompts, students are more consistently including opening sentences which state what they have chosen, but do not contain specific details. Students are also varying the transition words they are choosing (First, Another reason, Lastly, The third reason)/ . They are including reasons in support of their choice, and some are also including why they would not choose the other choice. Some are also including closing sentences.
Our goal is to include specific details to support our reasons. For example, rather than just saying that, "having an elephant trunk would allow you to eat and drink and do something else with your hands," state something specific that you would like to do with your hands while you use your elephant trunk to eat and drink.
The ratios that related to the choices we made today are:
In math we were working on a new problem, Crossing the River. We needed to figure out the number of trips to get 8 adults and 2 children across to the other side of the river. There was a small row boat which could hold 2 children, 1 child or 1 adult. Then we needed to find the number of trips for 12 adults, 100 adults and 1000 adults and two kids. Finding the pattern rule made this much easier.
We had our evidence and investigation assessment this afternoon.
Our day finished with our "Somewhere in the World Right Now" writing. We met with a peer to receive some feedback and then had time to type up our final copy.
Reminders:
- Please return your blue assessment folder if you haven't already done so (we are still waiting for 3)
- Bring in items in support of the Canadian Mental Health Association (see post from yesterday for details)
- We are also collecting food items for the Mayor's Food Drive.
- Last day of classes before winter break- Thursday, Dec.19- 11:45 am dismissal
- First day of classes in 2020- Tuesday, January 7
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