After reading "Escape From Alcatraz" in Scholastic Scope and writing a text dependent analysis essay, students tried their hands at improvising a digging tool out of everyday classroom materials such as paperclips, string, paper, and straws. They tested their tools today and made their escape to Brazil. 61 out of 104 students were successful! Those are some pretty good odds and some great digging tools! *Update* After tweeting to the editor of Scholastic Scope magazine, we were featured in the online Scope Idea Book. We're small time celebrities here at Rommelt! scopeideabook.scholastic.com/2018/01/i-love-how-these-teachers-are-using-scope-and-you-will-too
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How did students at Rommelt celebrate the National Day on Writing? By writing stories of course! In the Innovative Learning Lab, students from fifth and sixth grade came together to participate in a round robin writing event. After each student received a story starter and was given time to write, they had to pass their story on to the next person to continue writing. Things get a little wacky and crazy when four or five people write the same story! Mrs. McGlensey and I would like to thank the students for a great day full of entertaining stories. We encourage you to try this activity at home with family and friends!
We were officially the first group of students to use the new MILL (Mountie Innovated Learning Lab) at Rommelt! Students were broken into groups and given the task of discovering what correlative conjunctions are and what function they have in a sentence. The class then came together as a larger group, so that each smaller group could present their findings and teach the class.
To kick off our descriptive writing unit, students in fifth grade language arts got to answer the following question: Can you describe a banana well enough that your classmates can pick it out of a lineup of six other bananas? The task sounds easy but is actually quite difficult. Students had to look for identifying marks and accurately describe them, as well as their location, so that another group of students could correctly pick out the banana. Most classes were able to correctly identify one or two bananas out of six, but fifth period correctly identified five! Way to go!
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