Thursday, October 2, 2014

Today: 

Prepare to go to Legacy

Fieldtrip to Interview First Graders 


After we get back --

Scribble:  Haley J.   Inspiration from Studio C:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vg0s8Ard2oM


More Me-Bag stories, I hope. 

Announcements and Reminders:  Today is our "field trip" to Legacy Elementary. Dress for the weather and for the walk!  Maybe not quite like this. . .  or like this.

Tentative Schedule for creating Children's books Classroom  Tuesday, September 30 -- Sign up for first grade book buddies, practice interviewing  Legacy        Thursday, October 2 -- Interview first graders   1:35 - 2:15 Classroom   Monday, October 6   -- Prepare rough outline of the story you will create Lab 211       Wednesday, October 8   Lab 223  B8   Friday, October 10 Lab 223  B8, Tuesday, October 14 Lab 223  B8, Tuesday, October 21 Lab 223 B8  Thursday, October 23  -- Books due, ready to print and bind Date to Be Arranged with Ms. Welcker -- Deliver and read the books to the first graders. Illustrations may be hand-drawn, found using google images, cut and glued, but all must be neat and attractive. All work must be carefully revised and edited.

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Announcements and reminders: 

Don't forget to sign the sheet on the clipboard or email me when you finish or revise a piece 

on our Kidblog.  Check my comments first to see whether I've suggested what else you 

should do with your piece.  You don't sign up to have me correct the me-bag story, since 

you are printing and sharing them in class. 

The due date for the Reflections Contest is October  22, but if you enter by  October  15, there is a bonus prize! Don't forget that extra credit is available for entering the PTSA Reflections Contest! 2014 PTSA Reflections Contest  -- The theme is The deadline for entries is  The World Would Be A Better Place If ... Watch the school website for more information, and/or check the front office for entry forms. You can also go here:  http://utahpta.org/reflections  and scroll down for rules and entry forms. Submissions due October 22, but there is a bonus prize if the entry is turned in to the front office before Fall Break!  The categories are Visual Arts, Dance Choreography, Photography, Musical Composition, Film Production, Literature, 3D Art, and Theatre Students may enter as many categories as they would like, with one entry allowed per category (for a total of up to eight entries)

There  is also the scary story contest at the A.F. City Library, the Kawakami speech competition, and other contests. Beginning tomorrow is a free writing workshop for secondary school students who love to write: Logan Roe, a Language Arts Intern at Mountain Ridge Jr., is offering a series of workshops for secondary school students to get them writing for real contexts as his Honors Project at UVU.  These workshops will occur on Wednesday and Friday afternoons from 4-5 PM at the Orem Public Library, October1, 3, 8 and 10. Students whose work really shines may be selected to present at the UVU Writing for Social Change Conference in early November.

Today: 

Scribble:   

Outdoor TV Picture Prompt

Brytan S. 

(Next time: Haley J.)


Sign up for your first grade "buddy."

Practice interviewing to prepare for our trip to Legacy next time. 

Share a couple of me-bag stories.

Tentative Schedule for creating Children's books Classroom  Tuesday, September 30 -- Sign up for first grade book buddies, practice interviewing  Legacy        Thursday, October 2 -- Interview first graders   1:35 - 2:15 Classroom   Monday, October 6   -- Prepare rough outline of the story you will create Lab 211       Wednesday, October 8   Lab 223  B8   Friday, October 10 Lab 223  B8, Tuesday, October 14 Lab 223  B8, Tuesday, October 21 Lab 223 B8  Thursday, October 23  -- Books due, ready to print and bind Date to Be Arranged with Ms. Welcker -- Deliver and read the books to the first graders. Illustrations may be hand-drawn, found using google images, cut and glued, but all must be neat and attractive. All work must be carefully revised and edited.

Favorite Words:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VI1HZFrijeU#t=25

Friday, September 26, 2014

Announcements and reminders: 

Don't forget to sign the sheet on the clipboard or email me when you finish or revise a piece 

on our Kidblog.  You don't have to do that for the me-bag story, since you're printing and 

sharing them in class. 

The due date for the Reflections Contest is October 22, but if you enter by  October  15, there is a bonus prize! Don't forget that extra credit is available for entering the PTSA Reflections Contest! 2014 PTSA Reflections Contest  -- The theme is The deadline for entries is  The World Would Be A Better Place If ... Watch the school website for more information, and/or check the front office for entry forms. You can also go here:  http://utahpta.org/reflections  and scroll down for rules and entry forms. Submissions due October 22, but there is a bonus prize if the entry is turned in to the front office before Fall Break!  The categories are Visual Arts, Dance Choreography, Photography, Musical Composition, Film Production, Literature, 3D Art, and Theatre Students may enter as many categories as they would like, with one entry allowed per category (for a total of up to eight entries)

Today:  Bring a favorite child's book to share.


Scribble:  Colby C. 






Picture Prompt:   Picture Prompts -- Children's Books




Fieldtrip to Legacy on next Thursday, October 2. 

Create these two charts in your composition book -- under Scribbles: 

A Few Books We Remembered Enjoying When We Were Younger List as many as you can.

Brynlee -- So Many Bunnies -- liked bunnies, ABC's, rhyme Willow -- Icky, Sticky Chameleon -- sticky, eyes move, rhyme, silly words Nicole - Ruby the Copycat  -- funny, Manuel  --- Kids Vrs. Ants  -- Manuel likes ants Alyssa -- Fancy Nancy Kaitlyn -- If You. . .  Give a Mouse a Cookie Five Chinese Brothers Haley -- Froggy Pinkalicious You are Special Amelia Bedelia Hungry Caterpillar Diary of a Spider   ---worm   -- fly Teacher From The Black Lagoon One Little Monster Berenstein Bears Quick as a Cricket Green Eggs and Ham Frog and Toad Horton Hears a Who Llama, llama One Fish, Two Fish Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day

Qualities of Children's Books That Make Them Enjoyable

a happy ending funny words adventurous easy to read funny pictures -- big -- funny -- colorful entertaining!!! Rhyme Rhythm Refrain Repetition hidden faces hidden pictures repeating picture to seek short sometimes scary, but not horribly so some have a moral -- teaching something -- life lessons teach -- parts of speech

http://time.com/3422868/40-classic-childrens-books-even-adults-love/

Favorite Little Golden Books from the Golden Age

Share a couple of me-bag stories.

Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Announcement:  On October 2 we will be going to Legacy to interview first graders.

Next time:  Bring a favorite child's book to share.

The due date for the Reflections Contest is October 22, but if you enter by  October  15, there is a bonus prize! Don't forget that extra credit is available for entering the PTSA Reflections Contest! 2014 PTSA Reflections Contest  -- The theme is The deadline for entries is  The World Would Be A Better Place If ... Watch the school website for more information, and/or check the front office for entry forms. You can also go here:  http://utahpta.org/reflections  and scroll down for rules and entry forms. Submissions due October 22, but there is a bonus prize if the entry is turned in to the front office before Fall Break!  The categories are Visual Arts, Dance Choreography, Photography, Musical Composition, Film Production, Literature, 3D Art, and Theatre Students may enter as many categories as they would like, with one entry allowed per category (for a total of up to eight entries)

Today:  

Pick up composition books.

Scribble:  You are walking down the hall and you see him.

Utah Writers for Children and Young Adults

Picture Prompt

http://www.art.com/gallery/id--a4304/rene-magritte-posters.htm?rfid=658214

Share Me-Bag Stories
Prepare: 
Name on board
Could have one person read it, or take turns
Present:



Bring  a children's book on Friday:  

Punctuation Marks We Should Be Using

I didn't know that September 24 is National Punctuation Day! 

Utah Writers for Children and Young Adults

Here are a whole bunch of them who recently got together.

Rock Canyon members at their first all-day conference in the Provo area on September 19. Top row (from l.): Rick Walton, Clint Johnson, Shawna Tenney, Manelle Oliphant, Shannon Hale, Sara B. Larson, Courtney Alameda, Matthew Kirby, Julie Olsen, and Randal Wright. Middle row (from l.): Amy Finnegan, Kristyn Crow, Guy Francis, Mark Pett, David P. King, Rahul Kanakia, Ann Dee Ellis, Ally Condie, Sharlee Glenn, and Kate Coombs. Bottom row (from l.): Dene Low, Sara Zarr, Jessica Day George, Mette Ivie Harrison, Valynne Maetani, and Kristen Chandler. Photo: Debbie Palethorpe

Monday, September 22, 2014

Happy Birthday (September 22) to Frodo and to Bilbo!

Don't forget that extra credit is available for entering the PTSA Reflections Contest!

2014 PTSA Reflections Contest  -- The theme is
The deadline for entries is  The World Would Be A Better Place If ...
Watch the school website for more information, and/or check the front office for entry forms.
You can also go here:  http://utahpta.org/reflections  and scroll down for rules and entry forms.

Submissions due October 22, but there is a bonus prize if the entry is turned in to the front office before Fall Break! 

The categories are Visual Arts, Dance Choreography, Photography, Musical Composition, Film Production, Literature, 3D Art, and Theatre

Students may enter as many categories as they would like, with one entry allowed per category (for a total of up to eight entries)

Today:
Pick up composition books.

Scribble by Willow

You're about to blow out your birthday candle and there's a knock on the door. You go to the door and there is a boy who says he is your son, but you don't have any children, and he says to follow him. 

Share:
Those who share will be chosen by spinner, but not if you shared last time.
You have one "pass."


Picture Prompt:

Share Me-Bag Stories
Prepare:
Name on board
Could have one person read it, or take turns
Present:

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Scribble:  Kaitlyn Little
"Where is he?  We're running out of time."

Short Story Check
Is the lead the most effective it can be?
Is my main character well-enough developed?
Is there an interesting conflict?
Is the setting clear and well-described?
Did I include suspense?
Is the ending effective? (Does it feel like an ending, and does it leave the reading thinking or feeling or both?)

Have I checked for complete and effective sentences?
Have I divided my story into paragraphs?
Have I used the best words I could?
Have I used vivid action verbs?
Have I checked spelling?
Have I checked punctuation?

Strong Words

Computer Lab:
Finish and print Me-Bag Story
Copy to a word document and print.

Parent-Teacher Conference is      

today, 

September 18 from 3:30 to 7:30

Attendance is not required, but is 

encouraged!

This is the link to our Kidblog.

Nature

"I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in." ~ John Muir

Talk about Creative!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZND9dApFKU&list=UUdcemy56JtVTrsFIOoqvV8g

Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Important Note from Ms. Dorsey:  When you have finished writing or correcting one of your pieces, and have published it on your blog, you must notify Ms. Dorsey that it needs to be regraded.  Make sure you have completed  and carefully revised and edited the assignment before you notify Ms. Dorsey.  See the clipboard at the front of the classroom or send an email.
I did recheck all of the Favorite Words posts on Monday, September 8. 

Parent-Teacher Conference is      Thursday,  September 18 from 3:30 to 7:30

1. Scribble from Jacob Leatham 
  
Tiny Hamster Eating Tiny Burritos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOCtdw9FG-s


You could also try Tiny Hamster in a Tiny Mansion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoJVGFGhuVM



Plot

Before it's really ready --

 Revise and Edit it yourself.

  

Enlist other eyes to look closely at your work.

2. How much more time do you need to finish your me-bag stories?

Lab 201

Work on your Me-Bag Story.

Story Based on Me-Bag Notes

This is the link to our 

Kidblog.