September 15th

Today we continued reading short stories and exploring character development. The goal of reading today was for the students to understand as much as they could about the character of their choice in their short story. They took notes that would help them discover this character.

We also studied the amazing layers of our Earth. We began by reading the Magic School Bus Inside the Earth. Sometimes children's books have similar information as college text books, but the author has taken great care to write the book in a way that is simple and straight forward. Students read the book together and made a list of vocabulary words they found in the Magic School Bus that they thought they would also find in a college text book. They also began creating a scale model of a slice of the Earth, from its surface to the center.


Homework Due Friday, September 16th:

*Character Retrieval Chart for the 2nd short story - include a comment on how the quote helps you understand the character.
*Graph of the Earth's Layers - notice how small the crust is in comparison to the other layers!
*Choose two vocabulary words from the list of geology vocabulary to define. On a half sheet of blank white paper write the word, the definition, and a color illustration of the word. These will be hung in our classroom.