We had a blast with idioms on Friday! Students displayed the idioms they brought from home and walked around trying to figure out each other's idioms. How well can you do? Did you see... *it's raining cats and dogs? *toss your cookies? *Elvis has left the building? *you're nuts? *broken hearted? *cut to the chase? *make a long story short? OPINIONS, PLEASE... We began discussing opinion writing in class as well. Students are learning a framework for this type of writing called boxes and bullets. In this framework, the opinion (we call it a thesis) is placed in a box at the top of the page, and a bullet pointed list of reasons with evidence is written underneath. We began with a thesis MOST children shared the opinion of...I LOVE ICE CREAM. We worked together to "air write" the entire essay, and then children put the essay down on paper. Here they are "air writing" the essay (saying it aloud to a partner): QUESTIONS TO ASK ABOUT OUR RECENT SOCIAL STUDIES LESSONS:
*What were 2 positive outcomes of the Articles of Confederation? (treaty with Britain and the Northwest Ordinance) *What states were created out of the Northwest Territory? (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin) *What are the 3 steps for a territory to achieve statehood? (1-a governor, secretary and 3 judges are assigned; 2-once there are 5,000 free men, a legislature can be formed and 3--once there are 60,000 people, a state constitution needs to be written and approved)
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