In Chapter 8 of "Holes", Louis Sachar gives an in depth description of the infamous yellow-spotted lizards.
How to integrate this activity into class: 1. Read Chapter 8 aloud to your class 2. Ask them "Why did Louis Sachar dedicate an entire chapter just to the yellow-spotted lizards? 3. Re-read chapter 8 and ask students to close their eyes and imagine what the author is describing. 4. Ask students to lock that picture in their brain! 5. I passed out blank lizards and had students color the lizard to match the picture they had imagined. 6. Then, students found a quote from chapter 8 that supported their image(an example of imagery) 7. Last, I had students copy the definition of imagery '"into" their hole.
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How often do you hear.. "What page are we on?","Wait, what page?" Even when you write it on the board OR repeat yourself 5 times, students still seem to ask "What page?" One of the first things I went over this year was a solution to that problem. This is on the top of my board in bright green and blue. Students know exactly where to look & we get back those extra minutes that can be wasted repeating directions. My students know exactly where to look when we are switching subjects and opening our books. I write the page # we are on AND the book we are working in. It takes a lot of time to put together a classroom library BUT it is totally worth it! To start you need to: 1. Sort books by genre 2. Sort books by level 3. Build a variety of genres 4. AND create a comfortable reading environment :) (especially for those students who are non-readers) This is one of my FAVORITE library accessories. Anyone who visits our classroom, knows EXACTLY what we are reading. How can we answer that question? This week in 5th grade we had a globe toss! We tossed the globe 100 times and tallied where our left thumb landed: Water or Land? You can get more specific and tally which body of water or which continent you land on. Each student wrote a hypothesis before conducting the class experiment. Extra Globe Toss Activities: 1. Create a pie chart with the class results 2. Probability:"What is the probability my thumb will land in water?" 3. Percents:"If I toss the globe 50 times and my thumb lands in water 47 times, what is the percentage of times my thumb landed on water?" Materials: 1. Inflatable globe 2. Sheet to record globe toss results Instead of giving a presentation to the parents, I allowed them to explore! Parents took a tour of the room led by neon green signs.
Everyone needs words of encouragement! Use a whiteboard marker to leave your students a nice note :)
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