In addition to SPARK, MCS kids are also publishing a poetry book for their LA class. Over the course of the year, students have been writing a variety of different types of poems to strengthen their writing skills. As a class, they are taking these poems, and working in teams to help write, proofread, design and publish a class poetry book (which will even have it's own ISBN!) By the end of the year, the students will have a complete book that they created together to share with the world. We're so proud of the hard work they've been doing, and can't wait to share their book with everyone!
The year is slowly starting to wrap up, but that doesn't mean our work is done! Students are working hard on our end of the year projects, including SPARK. Each year, our students find a cause they are passionate about that sparks interest for them, and they create an end of the year project about it. This process includes research, finding credible sources, and creating a call to action to help get others involved. Topics range from gaining support for LD classrooms, to creating pamphlets to raise awareness about water conservation. We can't wait to see how their final projects turn out! In addition to SPARK, MCS kids are also publishing a poetry book for their LA class. Over the course of the year, students have been writing a variety of different types of poems to strengthen their writing skills. As a class, they are taking these poems, and working in teams to help write, proofread, design and publish a class poetry book (which will even have it's own ISBN!) By the end of the year, the students will have a complete book that they created together to share with the world. We're so proud of the hard work they've been doing, and can't wait to share their book with everyone!
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It's Spring, which means it's a perfect time for Shakespeare! Each year, we chose a different Shakespearian play to study in depth, and perform in our Theater Class at our year end graduation. This year, we're studying A Midsummer Night's Dream, discussing Story Structure and plot devices in Literature, Character Traits in LA, and behavior, movement, and motive in Theater. At home, the students worked on creating their own Story Mountain by inserting the plot points at their appropriate place on the story arch. This exercise helps focus not only on story structure, but sequencing and working memory as well. Students also practiced their Shakespeare through pre-learning by practicing a dinner scene with their families that introduced Elizabethan vocabulary. Learning about Shakespeare is so much fun, and it gives us such a wonderful opportunity to integrate our curriculums. We're can't wait to take the stage!
Adventures in Remote Teaching continue! This past week, we worked on our visualizing and descriptive vocabulary by describing concrete images to our partners in small groups. Each student envisioned a tree, and drew a picture of what they saw in their minds. We then compared our images, noting the similarities and differences, and added description words to try to make our trees match.
By focusing on Visual Vocabulary, we enable students to get ready for their Descriptive Writing Projects, strengthen vocabulary, and identify how each student processes and holds information. This also focuses the importance of our language and how they help us create images in people's minds. Words are power, and they help us put someone right in the middle of the world we recreate, the event we describe, or even a fun thing we did over the weekend. Not to mention, words are lot of fun! |
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