Field Day Fun

Ms. Tomassi and I ran the library station for Field Day ... here are kids from grades K-5 having fun playing games (including many that were donated on Family Game Night - thank you again!).

Room 12 Paraphrasing Practice

The sixth graders are learning about how to avoid plagiarism. After we discussed the skill of paraphrasing (and the need for a good vocabulary ... or at least a thesaurus!), the students wrote original sentences and then paraphrased each other. Here is some of their work:

Original: I went to the basement and felt like someone was watching me.
Paraphrase: I felt like someone was stalking me when I was in my basement.

Original: One time I downloaded an app that detects ghosts. When I opened the app, it detected a ghost in my house.
Paraphrase: I downloaded an app and found a ghost.

Original: I like to see turtles.
Paraphrase: Watching turtles is enjoyable.

Original: The tiger pounced onto a nearby gazelle. The gazelle then attempted to escape the tiger's strength, but it was too weak.
Paraphrase: The tiger crushed the gazelle with its weight.

Original: The zoo animals were roaming around their pens.
Paraphrase: The zoo animals were walking in their enclosure.

Catalog Shopping with Room 8

The third graders are making suggestions for next year's purchases too:

Catalog Shopping with Room 6

I'm starting to put together my orders for next year, and I want to make sure that we're getting books the kids will actually want to read ... especially next year's 6th graders. There's always a big dropoff in checkout activity between 5th and 6th. To that end, I had them go through my stack of book catalogs and make purchase recommendations. Here they are shopping: