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November 29th / 2011x

Today, the teacher checked our homework first. The homework we received was the persuasive paragraph. the teacher gave us a booklet on Q A R and we had to read some things on that booklet and after we were done reading it, we would have to answers some questions on that. The teacher didn't go there any conferences today.

November, 28,2011

What did we do?
Persuasive paragraphs:
 We had to highlight the topic sentence and key words of the sample paragraph. We had to chose one of the topics for exercise one and for exercise 2 we had to chose one of the topics or chose something from our heart maps.
Note making booklet:
 Ms.Lees handed out a booklets on note making. You had to read through the paragraph on the first page and highlight the main points.
 She also started conferencing today and handed out a sheet to explain what to do on the spelling bee.
Why we did it?
 We did the persuasive paragraphs so that we understand what to do when we write persuasive paragraphs. She gave us the booklet on note making so that we would understand how to take notes and not make mistakes and so we understand how to find the main point. We got the sheet on the spelling bee so we would understand the rules on the spelling bee when we do it.
Connections and reflections:
 Later on in the future we would be writing essays and writing paragraphs is very similar because in a essay you need a topic paragraph, two or three paragraphs on points, and a concluding paragraph. Persuasive paragraphs can also be helpful during debates and maybe if you are a politician convincing people to vote for you. Note making would be needed when we write down notes to study for science, social study, math tests and more. Spelling bees help develop experience talking in front of people.
Homework and tips:
 Persuasive paragraph, exercise 1 and 2 for the note making booklet, and practicing for the spelling bee.
 There is a geography test on Friday, so study hard!
Roger would be posting for tomorrow.

Blog Response

Hello, today we did the Explanitory paragraph and also we did some catchup from yesterday, we had to also do a outline for every paragraph we did

Why?

It helps us understand the concepts of writing different types of paragraphs. I find it very enjoying writing these paragraphs, they seemed a bit hard in the begining because I wasn't that strong in grammar, but after I think I understand the different ways of writing a paragraph like a narrative, and also a descriptive paragraph. I hope improving later in the year!

My connection/reflection

I think these paragraph work are very useful, they can probally help us in the future because I can probally use my skills for the future to get a job with paragraph writing

Homework

-Explanotory paragraph with outline
-study for spelling bee!
-Catchup on other paragraphs(if needed)

Blog Response

Novem 24th, 2011

Blog Response

What did we do?

Today we learned about how to write a good blog response (learning log) properly and the purpose of writing this.

Why?

Why do we write blog responses? We write our blog response which is similar to learning log. You can review what you learned on past time. If you don’t remember you can look through these responses again and study for the test which is very useful. Inside the blog response there are “My connection” part and “Homework” part. First my connection part will help you to know what other people in your group think so it will give you good ideas and thinking. Homework part obviously tells you what the homework was so you don’t need to get scared if you don’t know what’s for homework. You can just go on blog and look at other people’s blog response.

My connection/reflection.

 I think these responses are very useful because, I can use these when I have some problem. I sometimes get lazy to write my homework on my Agenda, so I forget what the homework was. But these responses can help me to remember what the homework was and what we learned.

Homework

- You need to pick a topic and write a paragraph about it.

- Second last page for the booklist that we got yesterday.

- Geography: Land form map – South America  

November 22nd / 2011

On November 22nd, 2011 we drew a heart and we wrote on the heart what we liked and disliked. We wrote all the things that we don't like on the outside of the heart and we wrote all the things we like on the in the middle of the heart. The intention of doing the heart was to give an overview for the teacher of your likes and dislikes. We also learned about finding the main sentence of a paragraph. The learning intention of doing this was to try to find out the main sentence that is describing any paragraph.

What did we do?
 Today, we worked on the landforms maps about about South America.
Why?
We did this to help us develop skills to recognize landforms in maps, such as a plateaus or a isthmus.It would also hep with following directions.
My Reflections/Connections
I understood what a isthmus was and other vocabulary such as an archipelago is- a group of islands.But i still did not figure out what are lowlands near the coast is called.This would needed in the future when you travel because you might want to know an isthmus is when you travel to the Isthmus of Panama and when you have a career in mapping.
Homework
Nothing really, unless you're playing catch up.