tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18783251557892710782024-03-19T04:00:42.650-07:00Mr. Salsich's ClassJonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-50506404970314254492018-10-09T12:16:00.000-07:002018-10-09T12:16:04.978-07:00We Have Moved Sites!<div style="text-align: center;">
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Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-87814661798148510982018-03-26T10:34:00.000-07:002018-03-26T10:34:04.637-07:00Art Challenge 2018 - Vote For Your Favorite!We had 15 impressive entries in this year's art challenge. Last week the students in both homerooms voted for their five favorite pieces. We had a tie for 5th place, so there are six finalists to choose from.<br />
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Check out the slideshow below and then use the poll to vote your favorite of the six finalists.<br />
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Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-84858863754419540772018-03-20T17:32:00.001-07:002018-03-26T13:19:03.702-07:00Our Virtual Tour of Machu Picchu<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>Written by Blake M. and Sophia M.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Virtual reality is a great way to learn (and travel). In class, we have been reading persuasive texts about Machu Picchu and what it could have been built for (a royal retreat or an astronomical observatory). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mrs. Limberakis brought in virtual reality goggles to our classroom so we could tour Machu Picchu. We traveled all around Machu Picchu and saw many of the prominent sights around the area. It was breathtaking. Most of the time, we felt as if we were on the edge of a cliff and were about to fall down it. It was frightening! But we were amazed at the same time because none of us had been to Machu Picchu and we had an amazing view of the breathtaking sights (and the tourists). </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The tour also gave us a better understanding of how the site could have been used as an observatory (because it was so high!) or as a royal retreat (because it was so remote and beautiful.)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In summary, the virtual tour of Machu Picchu was simply awe-inspiring.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span> <span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-21976027371742797482018-02-12T10:24:00.002-08:002021-09-30T10:01:04.866-07:00Art Challenge - 2018<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then, those 5 finalists will be featured in a blog post with a poll for voting. Voting will be open to students, parents, teachers, and friends. The winning artist will receive a $15 gift certificate to Michael's Arts and Crafts.</span><br />
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<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">Below is a slideshow of a few of the entries from past years.</span></div>
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Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-11252531637541963962017-11-19T08:40:00.000-08:002017-11-19T08:44:21.533-08:00The Silk Road<b>Written by Sam L.</b><br />
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Today, many people exchange things through mail, texts, and talking on a phone. But things weren’t always that way. For hundreds of years, between about the year 500 and the 1500’s, the Silk Road was the main trading route of Europe, Asia, India, and many other countries and major cities.<br />
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Many goods were traded throughout the Silk Road. Some of the main ones being silk, spices, gold, tea, salt, wines and furs, and ceramics.<br />
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Learning about the Silk Road is important because it teaches us about our history and how cultures were connected in the ancient world.<br />
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It also taught us about where most of the trade went along in Asia and Europe. Most of the trade routes passed through Constantinople which for most of the time the Silk Road existed was controlled by the Byzantine empire. Constantinople was later conquered by the Ottoman Empire in 1453.<br />
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Going along the Silk Road the entire way would be a very hard and laborious challenge. The Silk Road was mainly made up out of different parts and sections of smaller trade routes that eventually came together and formed the Silk Road.<br />
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The way the Silk Road worked is that one merchant or seller would take their product along the Silk Road and drop it off at a city on the Silk Road. Let’s say it was a shipment of silk. The silk could be carried from China to India and the merchant would sell it there. Then another merchant would take that silk and perhaps transfer it to Persia and from there to Arabia. From Arabia to Constantinople, and from Constantinople to cities in Europe.<br />
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So items didn’t necessarily have to go all the way along the Silk Road with the same merchant. It would connect through a series of different merchants and trading routes.<br />
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By learning about the Silk Road, we learned about the history of contact and trade between many different people, including the exchange of ideas, technology, and germs.<br />
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As Palmer said, <i>"I have learned many things, including world history, how you make silk, geography, and what countries made which things. The learning goal was to teach us about what life was like and what happened hundreds of years ago." </i><br />
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In a future blog post, we will explore what happened at Constantinople in the year 1453 and how that affected trade along the Silk Road and led to a "discovery" that changed the history of the whole world...<br />
<br />Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-22121239677878069132017-11-14T18:46:00.000-08:002017-11-15T02:58:51.078-08:00Genius Hour!<b>Written by Blake</b><br />
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Have you ever wondered what it would feel like to have an hour a day to do whatever you wanted in school? Well, for Genius Hour (GH), we get to experience that. GH is 45 minutes to an hour of “free time.” We can work on any project that we want, as long as it is not illegal, inappropriate, or dangerous. Some examples of what some projects could be are taking apart a computer, cooking, and/or coding. There are so many possibilities!<br />
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During Genius Hour, students can get the chance to do something that they could not do before, either because people have stopped them, or they have not had the time. In GH, we are learning to use the Habits of Mind (cooperation, reflection, curiosity, creativity, self-awareness, adaptability, and persistence) to work out our ideas. Those traits are important because you need them throughout life.<br />
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This activity was a field trip to the Mashantucket Pequot Museum. It was very fun, and it had a real-life scale model of a Native American village from around 1500. In social studies, we were learning about all different tribes and who were the first people to come to the new world. We are also learning about how the Native Americans of this area lived before Europeans came.<br />
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There were also tons of artifacts. There was another part when you take an escalader down to a different floor about the Ice Age, and all around you there was ice and water running down the ice.<br />
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Here is a slideshow with pictures from the exhibit of the Pequot village and captions written by us!<br />
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We are learning about different sentences to make our writing sound more fluent. Instead of just writing the simple sentences, “The dog jumped. The cat jumped.” we can that into a compound sentence. These sentences are important, but sometimes they can be tricky!<br />
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I think this learning is important. We will probably use these sentences in our everyday life. If you are writing to someone, and you don’t use proper grammar, they may be confused. This is why we are learning this and what we are learning from it.<br />
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These sentences are a little challenging, but <b>as Maxwell said</b>, <i>“If you use these sentences, it will help your writing. If you don’t include the proper grammar in your writing, no one will know what you're talking about.”</i><br />
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Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-46704229047616298732017-10-27T08:10:00.003-07:002017-10-27T08:10:48.381-07:00Pumpkin Carving ChallengeHalloween is Tuesday, October 31st. Many people in the United States celebrate the holiday, but not everyone. Whether or not you celebrate Halloween, carving pumpkins in the fall can be a very fun (and slimy) activity.<br />
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If you carve a pumpkin (with adult supervision, of course), please consider sending me a picture of your creation (either through Google Drive or email) so we can make a slideshow and post it on our blog.<br />
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Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-908898480690066842017-10-26T10:40:00.000-07:002017-10-28T11:27:24.580-07:00"Habits of Mind" Team Challenge<b><i>Written by Sam L.</i></b><br />
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Today we’ll be talking about our Habits of Mind Team Challenge. In our challenge, we had five challenges. The first challenge was to build a human pyramid with our group, the second was to write a group narrative on what would happen if Mr. Keith sat down in one of our classroom beach chairs (heh, heh, heh), the third challenge was to teach someone or master our class handshake, the fourth was to identify and sequence the plot events in a narrative, and the fifth was to watch and record notes of a <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vSp01uW20h9Pi5JNtziCm6UT4ZcOZsRPJLzgc1IOFkhszTWtf1O0Z-qF11gziAN0RSZRNtlVM5sOwwO/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.g2727991752_0_0" target="_blank">“Habits of Mind" video</a>.<br />
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Here are what some students from both classes thought about the Habits of Mind challenge:<br />
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I think this challenge was really important for all of us because it taught us the Habits of Mind and how to work as a team and cooperate, while at the same time still having fun. I think my favorite was when we built the human pyramid because it let us interact with some sixth-grade students.<br />
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Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-83983766133735413562017-10-23T17:05:00.002-07:002017-11-04T08:03:26.793-07:00"Yum!" - Optional Cooking Challenge<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<li>You can <u>only bring in one serving</u> (the judges will share - too many plates of desserts cause chaos in a 5th-grade classroom...)</li>
<li>It needs to be made primarily by the student (assistance can be provided, but the majority of the work should be done independently.)</li>
<li>Adult supervision is required.</li>
<li>It doesn't have to be made entirely "from scratch," but it cannot be made from a single box kit.</li>
<li>The process must be documented through either photographs or videos shared to Mr. <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="589f377d-91c8-475e-b869-442cccd51062" id="9841e56b-167b-47aa-aa97-2cbf54243796"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e0951e72-f96f-4fac-bfca-b565af1663a4" id="c836738a-1495-4239-a96c-1f27ffd8bfc3"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="05a1ebf2-907a-4698-9d0b-70308b1ff9d1" id="6ac47312-d1d4-4f9a-9574-fe05cc7fc7eb"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="c04b9acd-ac33-4cc7-b39d-0bc1cf06ede3" id="a5615228-e3e1-4d1c-833f-296620cc5b4c"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="316278a7-99b6-45cc-8f82-1288b59a9a87" id="d0faaac2-4975-4cd5-bca0-999d0a32aafe">Salsich</gs></gs></gs></gs></gs> through Google Drive. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(Here is a tutorial for uploading and <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7qUI9lonfdzMVVZX1BWR3Judk0" target="_blank">sharing media on Google Drive from a desktop</a> and here is one for <a href="https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B7qUI9lonfdzd0FCTDZQenFSTVU" target="_blank">uploading and sharing through a mobile device</a>.) </span></li>
<li>It must be delicious!</li>
<li>Please include an index card or similarly sized slip of paper with the name of your dessert on it. (But not your name.)</li>
<li>Presentation will be factored into the judging</li>
<li>Entries are <b>due Monday, November 6th</b></li>
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The entries will be judged (anonymously) by Mr. Keith, Mrs. Brucoli, and/or Ms. Selinger. They will determine a winning dessert and a runner-up based on presentation and taste.<br />
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The winner will get to pick one of these boxes of "food" from Japan and the runner-up will receive the other box.<br />
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Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-90795465842736382672017-10-22T11:57:00.000-07:002017-10-26T12:59:33.868-07:00The Hershey Bar Challenge (written by Blake and Sophia)<span id="docs-internal-guid-1c6f6876-30f7-b35f-a47a-86c30f1ebee4"></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We did this activity to enhance our knowledge of where the ingredients in our food come from. We also did this project to learn persistence and to be able to reflect on the multiple parts of the project.</span></span></div>
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Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-56714531560982810092017-09-12T17:27:00.001-07:002017-09-12T17:27:43.834-07:00Welcome to The 2017-2018 School Year!Welcome to Mr. <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5d8f2b24-5c6a-48b6-adf4-1a3494b4d77b" id="5c3331db-67cd-4486-9c2c-c10c09681e42"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fe8a440b-dabc-4a72-a7cd-8b4368674001" id="5a6d8d1e-1d69-4765-92d4-d65b0c0dcd34"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6c66909c-0614-4337-b0a1-b6ba91ef6321" id="189f91ad-04f7-4ae5-becb-27c29ad3104b"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e9bfffdd-0b83-444c-85ab-38fa4f422d0e" id="cc102225-7b74-416c-9243-eacf66b2040a"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="306b3c99-68fd-43ca-b486-6ea14f6ec3e3" id="2290754a-8870-4f42-961f-34def0b3a0ef">Salsich's</gs></gs></gs></gs></span> class blog for the year 2016-2017! This site will be devoted to highlighting student learning, ideas, and activities in language arts and social studies throughout the year. We will be posting class videos, pictures, and projects that the students have completed, as well as various optional learning challenges that they can choose to undertake.<br />
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Thanks for checking out our blog, and feel free to leave comments if something grabs your attention or gets you thinking!Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-87946077593307102342017-03-14T12:53:00.000-07:002017-03-14T12:53:05.419-07:00Art Challenge Entries - Vote Here!<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are the 15 entries in our </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">optional art</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">challenge</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> View them using the slideshow below, and then vote for your favorite piece of artwork on the poll. <i>(Voting is limited to students with a school Google account.)</i></span></span><br />
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Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-25164949840114971182017-03-14T10:35:00.000-07:002017-03-14T10:35:44.429-07:00Opinion Essay Challenge - Tie Breaker!The essay challenge was supposed to have ended yesterday. However, after a total of 73 votes, there was a three-way tie in Mr. Salsich's homeroom!<br />
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Therefore, we are going to have another vote, this time with just the three top essays. This time, voting will also be limited to students within our district.<br />
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Below are the three final essays, followed by a new poll for selecting your favorite.<br />
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Our most recent blog post assignment was to write an opinion essay about a topic that interested us.<br />
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We needed to write a <b>clear introduction</b>, include <b>three supporting reasons in separate sentences</b>, use <b>transitional phrases</b> to link ideas together, and end with <b>a concluding paragraph</b>.<br />
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Mr. Salsich selected five essays from each homeroom as finalists for a challenge to see which essays would earn the writers a tin of controversial putty!<br />
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Please take a few minutes to read the essays below and then vote for the one you like the best.<br />
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<b>These are the finalists from Mrs. McGowan's homeroom:</b><br />
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<b>And these are the finalists from Mr. Salsich's homeroom:</b> <i>(If it's easier to read them in a separate tab, click the expand arrow in the right corner.)</i><br />
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Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-75069225723953980362017-02-13T17:26:00.000-08:002018-02-12T10:25:43.980-08:00Art Challenge! - 2017<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then, those 3 finalists will be featured in a blog post with a poll for voting. Voting will be open to students, parents, teachers, and friends. The winning artist will receive a $15 gift certificate to Michael's Arts and Crafts.</span></div>
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Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-11502626220272901172016-11-10T13:23:00.003-08:002016-11-10T13:26:18.683-08:00Grammar Scavenger Hunt With QR CodesA few weeks ago, we did a school-wide scavenger hunt to reinforce the grammar skills we have been learning. Our classmate Caitlyn shares her thoughts about the activity below, followed by a fun video with highlights, but first I'll give an overview of what it entailed.<br />
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Once the students found the QR code, they had to scan it using an app on the iPad. The code would then give them a message with a passcode to join a Google Classroom group.</div>
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In the Google Classroom group, the students found a slideshow with certain grammar questions that they had to solve. Once they completed the task, they had to share the slideshow with me on Google Drive and wait for my feedback through a comment on the slideshow.<br />
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If they still needed to make corrections to the slideshow, I would comment back with some tips. Once everything was correct, I'd reply with the clue to the next location.</div>
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There were four clues to four different locations and four grammar tasks to complete. The first team to successfully complete all of the tasks got to unlock a small steel box back in the room with a prize inside...</div>
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Here is Caitlyn's review of the activity:</div>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><i><b>How to use <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="af1011ca-2af8-4152-a2a0-36b0bbce743d" id="8d2ea537-46f5-41b8-9f21-787279d07846">their</gs>, there, and they’re in a sentence </b></i></span></li>
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Here is a video with highlights from the scavenger hunt. (Special thanks to Luke, Meg, and Mrs. Slocum for filming!)</div>
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Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-69349521677948527712016-11-07T06:48:00.000-08:002016-11-07T14:10:39.332-08:00Personalized Spelling ListsIn an effort to make spelling activities meaningful for each student, every student has their own personal spelling words to work on.<br />
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We start by having a weekly pretest based on certain spelling patterns and phonics rules. Any words the student gets incorrect goes into their word list of ten words for that week. If students get more than ten words incorrect, they pick the ten words they would like to focus on. If students only get three words incorrect, they fill in the rest of their list with words from their daily writing, daily reading, or from a list of <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1af4LwmK1c6MXh3VFk4WWdrXzA/view" target="_blank">commonly misspelled 5th grade appropriate words</a>.<br />
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That way, every student has a list of ten words that fit their needs as readers and writers.<br />
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During the week, students work with a <a href="http://www.readingquest.org/strat/clock_buddies.html" target="_blank">clock buddy</a> to practice their words in any way that works for them. They have a <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1af4LwmK1c6V1NQYkVoN3ktUjA/view?usp=sharing" target="_blank">menu of options</a>, but can also come up with alternative ways to study. (<gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="b6213107-44a6-486b-a315-0d5814be326a" id="9bce7b98-04d8-48aa-81a2-401b456b5e3b">Partners</gs> stay with the same clock buddy for each list, so they can get a sense of which words their partner has down cold, and which ones are a bit of a challenge.)<br />
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After five or so days of word work, the clock buddy partners assess each other to see which words have been mastered and which still need some attention. Any words that are missed go right into the next list of words until they are mastered.<br />
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So far, this has been a fun, effective way for students to work on words that fit their needs.<br />
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<br />Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-75562530914558470682016-10-08T15:20:00.002-07:002016-10-08T15:25:47.370-07:00Student Blogs and Commenting Skills<div data-mce-style="text-align: center;" style="color: #333333; line-height: 21px; margin-bottom: 1.3em;">
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="9e20b308-23f5-4a94-b951-6ab92a744f28" id="053a15b6-1e9f-42f8-a7dd-662b8a5dc7e1">We talked a lot about how to leave a quality comment.</gs></span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="font-size: medium;" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Instead, we want to write <span data-mce-style="font-family: 'Cherry Cream Soda', cursive;"><strong>"highway" comments</strong></span> that keep the conversation going and maybe take the post in new directions. Highway comments may have questions, connections, or suggestions in them. And they definitely have specific details and clear, correct writing.</span></div>
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is a link to a <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S4dAAoe13ephfjmC2DvcZGVJp9fkW2RL3XJ_-hy7Flc/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">document with more tips (and expectations) for leaving a great comment</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mr. <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="df7e6d29-699d-4148-86de-ac89b053f62a" id="c5dc86d1-1271-4ecd-b7b1-eca024492052"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="1a9dac65-993c-4ee2-8603-1b9576ac7617" id="161fb69a-5bbc-44ee-9f20-bb7ba0a90fd8">Salsich's</gs></gs> Class:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mrs. McGowan's Class:</span><br />
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<span data-mce-style="color: #333333; font-size: medium;" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Please check out the </span>student blogs<span style="background-color: white;"> and leave one of the bloggers <gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="d74b841e-a5eb-40b4-a373-f18f37ef5eb6" id="6a361016-669b-4202-bc54-9086506cde59"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="50ac7441-54cb-400c-b22b-2676f44fe604" id="22eb3266-9a34-4806-860e-71f8537adedc"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="50ac7441-54cb-400c-b22b-2676f44fe604" id="22eb3266-9a34-4806-860e-71f8537adedc"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6374196a-d441-4285-b3b8-337b58a33f5f" id="969f6da7-d48d-41a9-8e58-384607da9d83">a</gs></gs></gs></gs> "highway" comment! We will be sure to reply back!</span></span></div>
Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1878325155789271078.post-49727017279574970202016-08-30T19:23:00.000-07:002016-08-30T10:18:20.757-07:00Welcome!Welcome to Mr. <span class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="5d8f2b24-5c6a-48b6-adf4-1a3494b4d77b" id="5c3331db-67cd-4486-9c2c-c10c09681e42"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="fe8a440b-dabc-4a72-a7cd-8b4368674001" id="5a6d8d1e-1d69-4765-92d4-d65b0c0dcd34"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="6c66909c-0614-4337-b0a1-b6ba91ef6321" id="189f91ad-04f7-4ae5-becb-27c29ad3104b"><gs class="GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark" ginger_software_uiphraseguid="e9bfffdd-0b83-444c-85ab-38fa4f422d0e" id="cc102225-7b74-416c-9243-eacf66b2040a">Salsich's</gs></gs></gs></span> class blog for the year 2016-2017! This site will be devoted to highlighting my Language Arts and Social Studies students' learning, ideas, and activities throughout the year. I will be posting class videos, pictures, and projects that the students have completed.<br />
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In addition, students will also have their own personal blogs to share their unique ideas and interests. Links to the student blogs can (soon!) be found on the sidebar.<br />
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Thanks for checking out our blog, and feel free to leave comments if something grabs your attention or gets you thinking!Jonah Salsichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09782271487281651187noreply@blogger.com0