Biography Project

Here are some of the 'cheat' pictures for our biography mobiles.  Each student's mobile should have the following components, as well as a photograph of the hero and a caption to match.  We will assemble the parts together in class, but some individual pieces may need to be taken home to complete.

Glossary (front and back): alphabetized, defined based on the importance of the word to the hero's life.

A front/back quote card with the quote from the hero on the front, and an explanation for why the student liked it on the back.

A timeline!  Nice and neat, with the dates on the top and the events on the bottom.

This is a "free choice" card--I used a symbol that was important to my hero's life (Clara Barton started the American Red Cross)

Have fun researching your hero!  Remember that hero biographies and projects are due Friday, March 27th (before spring break)

Field Trip to the Crocker and California Indian Museum

On February 20th, we had another fantastic field trip!

We left school at 9:30, and got to the Crocker Art Museum at 10:00.  Our tour wasn't until 11, so we spent some time in groups sketching the river...

...and then we got to eat lunch there!

Our next stop was the Crocker Art Museum, where students learned about how artists use their imagination (and I loved seeing their polite manners on this trip!  They listened to the docent, examined the art and shared their observations, and asked questions without judgment.)

After the Crocker, we got back on the bus and went to the California Indian Museum.  There, we had another half hour or so before our tour so we went on a scavenger hunt around the park.  Here is a group looking quite serious:

...and another, smiling group!

Thank you so much to everyone for your donations, for supporting our field trips, and for the chaperones who came with us and made it possible!  Two field trips down, two to go!

20 Book Challenge Evidence Examples

I apologize in advance for the wonky directions of the pictures...Blogger wouldn't let me rotate them!

For fiction evidence, your child could do a flipbook...

...a booklet...

... a puppet (character from the book)...

...a review/advertisement...

...a poster (limit 2)...

...or a commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdTm-jlWsHE 

Please reference the papers I sent home this week for more ideas and examples!