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Evidence for Meeting Common Core Standards

2/28/2018

Character Comparison:
How are Jason and David similar and different? What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Character's Past:
"How has Catherine changed during the book?" What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Text-to-Text Connection:
In what ways are Rules and A Dog's Life similar (two books)? What evidence do we have to support our claims?

Character Trait:
What examples from the text are evidence that Catherine is Frustrated? (A character is a specific personality trait)

Inference with Evidence:I think Jason likes Catherine happened because of Catherine giving him word cards and helping. Here's all my evidence.

What's the theme?
Explain how specific moments in the text combine to create a moral or theme and describe that theme.

Prediction with Evidence:
I think Catherine will say to Jason that she likes him this will happen because of Jason saying that he likes Catherine. Here's my evidence.

Responding to a Challenge:
How did Catherine respond to the challenge of Babysitting David?

The Supplies I Get to Take With Me to Mars

2/22/2018

I was absent for this blog post.

The 2018 Inventor's Challenge!

2/22/2018

Leadership Day 2018

2/8/2018

Before Leadership Day

After Leadership Day

If you could make more changes to your poster board, what would you do? Why?
What aspect of your poster board are you most proud of? Why?
How did your speech improve once you had given it several times?
In your opinion, why did it improve?
What do you hope people learned from your poster board and presentation?
What did you do to try to ensure that they learned those things?
What things were surprisingly easy for you today that you thought might have been harder?
What things were difficult today. Why were they hard for you?
What comments were people telling you about your message? What did they say that was meaningful?

I would change what all the panels have on them. I was sick when my partners did those and I got no control of those.
I'm proud of the sides of the board because I like the layout of them.
I felt more confident saying it to people as I got to say to more people.
I think it improved because I watch my partners, Mikey S. and Caleb do it and that helped me a lot.
I hope people learned a lot about Homework Club because that was my topic. I think that the habits were important in my speech so I hope people learned about them.
I tried to insure they learned the habits. Sometimes I would refer back to them during my speech, as I tweaked it a little every time.
I think keeping the audience's attention was actually a whole lot easier than I predicted.
A hard thing was answer the question because most people asked "Do other classes do this?" and I didn't know.
Most people said they liked it and they thought that the topic was very interesting.

Global School Play Day 2018

2/7/2018

Reflection/Synthesis Questions:

Why does Peter Gray feel that children need more experience playing games without adult interference? (Remember: All answers need follow-up sentences! Your answer is always better by the 2nd and 3rd sentences!)
How did you improve your creativity, improvisation, teamwork, and initiative skills today? If you don't know what some of these skills are, please ask me!
Why should other teachers do Global School Play Day in their classrooms?

Peter Gray feels that way because kids don't do that as much today. Though they did back before video games came out.
I didn't know that I could do all that myself. I didn't I could set the rules for a game very well.
I think teachers should do this because it teaches students to make their own rules themselves in a very fun way.

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