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Country Project Time!

We have completed our note cards and outlines, and now it is time to write. The girls will write their rough drafts this week in class. They have each chosen a country in Asia, and will write a brief country report, and then delve deeper into a cultural aspect of the country.

My Workshop Today

Oh my gosh, Cake Pops! I missed you guys today, but I learned about so many cool resources and web tools for us to use in class! Can't wait to share it with you when I get back! Get ready to be my guinea pigs and to have fun!
:-)

Latin American Tagxedo

Students in Ms. Cheston’s class, researched a topic in Latin America and then wrote a brief essay before sharing what they learned with their classmates. To visual represent their essay, they loaded it in Tagxedo and chose an image that reflected their topic. They could put the words in the shape of their image or around the image leaving the shape plan and their words as the background. Tagxedo is similar to Wordle, in that the more often the words appeared in their essay, the more prominent they were in their Tagxedo! See if you can identify the shape and prevalent words about their topics! Enjoy!

• Scarlet Macaw
• Tango
• Salsa
• Panama Canal
• Carnival
• Mayan Temples
• Diego Rivera
• Bullfighting

Trip to Enoch Pratt

Yesterday, the girls went to the Enoch Pratt Free Libarary Central Branch to begin researching their country project. Our class will be researching countries in Asia! They seem excited and eager to begin!

Fruit Tasting

Today in book club, we discussed and tasted different fruits for our essay. Each chapter is named after a fruit or vegetable as the main character's life patterns the planting and harvesting. Different fruits and vegetables hold various meanings for the character, and students will be writing an essay comparing a happy time in their life to a positive connotation fruit/vegetable, and a sad/angry time to a negative fruit/vegetable. Today, we tasted different chapter titles - Figs, Papayas, Avocado, Canteloupes, and Grapes.


Today in book club, we discussed and tasted different fruits for our essay. Each chapter is named after a fruit or vegetable as the main character's life patterns the planting and harvesting. Different fruits and vegetables hold various meanings for the character, and students will be writing an essay comparing a happy time in their life to a positive connotation fruit/vegetable, and a sad/angry time to a negative fruit/vegetable. Today, we tasted different chapter titles - Figs, Papayas, Avocado, Canteloupes, and Grapes.

Stick It To My Head - Learning Vocab

Ms. Cheston's book club is reading Esperanza Rising. It takes place following the Mexican Revolution, and is about a young wealthy Mexican girl who has to flee Mexico after her father is killed by bandits. Her mother, a few friends, and she journey to California to work on a farm. She learns to look at life through a different set of lenses, since her life in the California is very different than living on her Mexican ranch.

As a review of vocabulary for the first few chapters, we wrote words on sticky notes, and put them on our foreheads. We had to move around the room and talk to at least 5 different people. They had to describe the word and/or give a definition so the person with the sticky note on their forehead could guess the word. The students had a lot of fun helping each other learn the vocabulary!