| Groups earned 11 letters for each day they made a "10" they formed the word I s l a n d R e a d s Then they chose their Celebration.   |
Group 1 Earned Sundaes!  |
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| Group 4 Earned Fudgsicles! |
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
Groups Earn Points
18 Reading Facts about Drifting
The map shows where Oomoo and Oolak live.
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| Take a look at the map, do you notice the similarities to the book? You'll read the information passage. It gives some facts about drifting. 
The story title is "Drifting on an Ice Chunk"
From the text, The sun felt very warm as Oomoo and Oolak stood on the drifting chunk of ice. The flies and mosquitoes were thick near the shore, but when the ice drifted into the open water, the insects were not as thick.
In the story it said, " Her father and the other men of the village had told many stories of the green clouds and how they brought winds that could sweep a boat into the ocean. The men of the village told that anybody going into the ocean should look at the sky ~ always look at the sky."
Were discussing this portion of the story . . .
"Oomoo remembered those things. But as she looked up at the great cloud that had covered the sun, she realized that she and Oolak had been careless. They hadn't followed the rule about watching the sky."
AK Standards: Determine
author’s purpose; compare and contrast a firsthand and secondhand account
of the
same
event or topic; describe
the differences in focus
and
the information provided.
 
Students used the following open-ended sentence samples.
Now I know . . . This proves . . . 
Skill Items
Find part D in your textbook
Number your paper from 1-19
Review Items
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| Independent Workbook 18
Check your work. Remember, if you got an item wrong, mark an x next to your answer. Fix any items you got wrong with a colored pen.
Students working together.
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Readers are Challenging Themselves
After School Reading Club
First Published 2/13/17
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| He checked out these books and chose, Afternoon on the Amazon as his next book. |
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| 4/18/17 Finished his first chapter book! Dinosaurs Before Dark 2.6 Reading Level When asked, What helped With My Reading. He responded, “You!” I can figure out the words and I can sound them out." |
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After School Reading Club ~ He read 900 words!
 His hard work is paying off and reading a chapter in each session.
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Monday, April 10, 2017
17 The Ice Floe
(Call on individuals to read the story, each student reading tow or three sentences at a time. Ask the specified questions as students read)
- What is the story going to tell about?
- Everybody, do ice floes cover the land or the ocean?
- Everybody, how thick does the ice floe get in some places during the winter?
- Why can you walk out on the ocean in the winter?
- How big are the very big chunks of ice that break off?
- The next part tells about the sounds. Imagine those sounds as we read about them.
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Pairing the story with the following article, Building Relationships out on the Ice in Kotzebue, Alaska (Story setting)
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
Map That Shows Alaska and Canada
In chapter 15, we learn where Oomoo and Oolak live.
You can see the route that goes from Big Trout Lake to where Oomoo and Oolak live.
- Touch the place where Oomoo and Oolak live.
- That place is in the United States. What state of the United States?
Kotzebue, AK
Ice Floe Kotzebue Ice Floe
Mentor Texts
What's a Memory?
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| Wilfred Gorden McDonald Partridge read aloud |
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| Download the Activity Guide http://www.storylineonline.net/wilfrid-gordon-mcdonald-partridge/ |
Island Living
April is Poetry Month
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| Island Poem Island Poem |
If you ever lived on an island
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| Word Mover Interactive Poems |
Word Mover allows children and teens to create “found poetry” by choosing from word banks and existing famous works; additionally, users can add new words to create a piece of poetry by moving/manipulating the text.
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